'Protect Trans Rights': Queer Infected School Districts Celebrate Pride Month With Drag Shows, LGBTQ Assemblies

[Liberal pedophiles]

Just start killing all these fucks. Every last one of them.

School districts in Washington, Michigan, Oregon, California and New
Hampshire are using drag shows, parades, assemblies and proclamations to
celebrate the LGBTQ community during Pride month.
A school district in New Hampshire used $4,000 in COVID-19 relief funds to
pay for “drag performers” and “Pride decorations and swag” at its high
school Pride event.
“Public schools have pushed very unpopular ideas about sex and gender
under the guise of ‘inclusion,’ when in reality, public schools have
become less open to diversity of thought. These Pride celebrations are,
unfortunately, not about treating people with respect or dignity. Rather,
they signal to kids and families that only one narrative or viewpoint on
sex and gender is welcome in schools,” Alex Nester, research fellow at
Parents Defending Education, an organization focused on parental rights,
told the Daily Caller News Foundation.
School districts across the country are using drag shows, parades,
assemblies and proclamations to celebrate LGBTQ Pride month.

Some school districts that are promoting the events throughout the month
of June are located in Washington, Oregon, California and New Hampshire.
The Pride celebrations are a part of the growing push to expand lessons on
gender identity and sexual orientation into the classroom, education
advocates told the Daily Caller News Foundation.

“Public schools have pushed very unpopular ideas about sex and gender
under the guise of ‘inclusion,’ when in reality, public schools have
become less open to diversity of thought,” Alex Nester, research fellow at
Parents Defending Education, an organization focused on parental rights,
told the Daily Caller News Foundation. “These Pride celebrations are,
unfortunately, not about treating people with respect or dignity. Rather,
they signal to kids and families that only one narrative or viewpoint on
sex and gender is welcome in schools.”

In Oregon, Eugene School District 4J hosted a “Pride Fest” on June 2 that
included several activities such as a drag show and a clothing swap,
according to a social media post. The event was sponsored by several
groups including Planned Parenthood, HIV Alliance and Queer Eugene, a
local non-profit group working to support “queer folks,” the school
district calendar reads.

“Enjoy some free and purchasable goodies, participate in activities hosted
by 4J GSAs [Gay Straight Alliance club] and affinity groups, receive
LGBTQIA+ resources from community organizations, watch some amazing queer
performances by students and community members, and so much more,” the
district calendar reads. “The first 1,000 students will receive a rainbow
goodie bag with some fun rainbow swag!”

Manchester School District in New Hampshire received $4,000 in COVID-19
relief funds to pay for “drag performers” and “Pride decorations and swag”
at its June 2 high school Pride event. The event featured food, music,
LGBTQ+ affirming organizations and a photo booth.

Student members of GSA clubs at Muskegon High School, Ravenna High School
and Oakridge High School, located in Michigan, decorated a float for the
town’s June 3 Pride festival that includes drag performances and
children’s activities, according to ABC 13 News. Students painted posters
that read “protect trans rights” and “love is love” while being surrounded
with mini Pride flags.

The “Grand Marshall” of the Pride festival is a “drag warrior and queer
member icon,” ABC 13 News reported.

“We are preparing decorations for the Pride Parade,” Ethan Brewer, a
Muskegon sophomore, told the outlet. “We have a bunch of pins and flags.
I’m really excited for the Pride Parade and how it’s going to look. It’s
really exciting. I’ve never been to a Pride Parade before.”

“Those fighting to keep drag shows as part of a K-12 public school
curriculum further underscores what the fight in education is really about
today,” Tiffany Justice and Tina Descovich, co-founders of Moms for
Liberty, a coalition of parents fighting for transparency in education,
told the DCNF. “It comes down to this: Are parents in charge of what their
kids are exposed to and taught? Or is that something for a government
employee to decide for them? We believe parents are in the driver’s seat
of their child’s education – especially as minors in a taxpayer funded
public school system. And parents want schools focused on reading, writing
and arithmetic – not divisive social issues like transgenderism.”

A girl waves a flag as people gather in front of the Minneapolis First
Precinct during a Pride march on June 28, 2020 in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
(Photo by Brandon Bell/Getty Images)

Seattle Public Schools, the largest school system in the state of
Washington, is joining other organizations such as Seattle Pride, a group
that promotes “LGBTQIA+ pride events,” to march in an annual “family
friendly” Pride parade on June 25, the district told the DCNF. Only staff
members used to march in the parade, but now students, families and school
board members participate as well, the district website reads.

A group of parents within the Los Angeles Unified School District planned
a protest in response to a Pride assembly held June 2 at Saticoy
Elementary school that included the reading of “The Great Big Book of
Families,” which discusses different family dynamics including same-sex
parents, according to the Los Angeles Daily News. The parents alleged in a
social media post that the assembly was set to include a video explaining
to elementary students that “some kids have two mommies, some kids have
two daddies.”

“Los Angeles Unified remains committed to maintaining a safe, inclusive
and supportive environment for all students,” a Los Angeles Unified School
District spokesperson told the DCNF. “We are also committed to ensuring
diversity and inclusivity, in accordance with California’s
nondiscrimination laws, so that all students feel empowered to realize
their greatest potential. This includes the recognition of the diverse
communities that we serve. We remain steadfast in our mission to educate
and prepare our students to thrive with the skills and knowledge to be
ready for the world.”

In another California school district, Elk Grove Unified School Board
voted to adopt a proclamation that deemed June as Pride month district-
wide, according to CBS News. The adopted resolution notes that students
who transition genders “have the right to have their names, pronouns,
facility needs and participation in school athletics and activities be
affirmed in their schools.”

The Chula Vista Elementary School Board of Directors in California voted
to fly a Pride flag in front of its headquarters throughout the month in
an effort to “inspire equity, create alliances, celebrate diversity and
establish a safe environment in our schools and community,” the San Diego
Union-Tribune reported. The flag will also fly in October, which has been
deemed LGBTQ history month.

“Our primary objective in this meeting is to bring forth a stronger item
that provides comprehensive support and protection for our LGBTQIA+ youth
in the Chula Vista School District,” Francisco Tamayo, vice president of
the board, said at the meeting, according to the Tribune.

Katonah-Lewisboro School District in New York announced that a rainbow
flag will be flown in recognition of Pride month outside of each of its
five schools, which includes one high school, one middle school and three
elementary schools.

“In June, you can expect to see Pride flags outside each of our schools,”
Andrew Selesnick, superintendent of Katonah-Lewisboro School District,
said in a statement to the families which was shared with the DCNF. “We
thank you in advance for joining in our efforts to assure that every
student and adult feels a strong sense of belonging, every day.”

In Rhode Island, Moses Brown School is promoting a Pride parade on June 5
led by the “Lower School Rainbow Families affinity group” to “show pride
and support for the LGBTQ+ community at [the] school,” an announcement
showed. Attendees of the parade will receive Pride buttons, stickers and
signs.

The parade begins at Moses Brown’s Lower School, which is for Pre-K-4
grade students, according to the announcement.

On May 20, Montgomery County Public Schools in Maryland held a “Pride Town
Hall” that featured “activities for elementary students and community
building for middle and high school students,” the school website read.
Different groups attended the event including “MoCo Pride Youth,” a group
of middle and high school students working for a more LGBTQ inclusive
environment, and “MoCo Reconnect,” an organization working to make LGBTQ
students feel safe, according to a school social media post.

Books displayed at the “Pride Town Hall” included “Growing up Trans,” a
collection of stories and poetry by transgender kids 11-18 years old, and
“Middle School’s A Drag, You Better Werk!,” a book about a 13-year-old who
signs on to a junior talent agency as an aspiring drag queen, the
district’s social media post showed.

“From teaching students ‘neopronouns’ like ‘xe/xir’ to displaying asexual
Pride flags, schools are signaling that they do not care about families
with traditional views,” Nester told the DCNF. “They do not care about
teaching kids to treat everyone with dignity. And clearly they’d rather
focus on these efforts than academic achievement.”

Eugene School District 4J, Muskegon High School, Elk Grove Unified School
District, Chula Vista Elementary School District, Katonah-Lewisboro School
District, Moses Brown School, Montgomery County Public Schools, Ravenna
High School and Oakridge High School did not immediately respond to the
DCNF’s request for comment.

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[Sulking Woke College]

To be expected. It's run by leftists and they hate truth.

Columbia University announced on Tuesday that its undergraduate schools
would no longer participate in the U.S. News & World Report college
rankings, the first major university to refuse to supply information to
the influential undergraduate guide for students and parents.

Columbia said it had become concerned about the “outsized influence” the
rankings played in the undergraduate admissions process. “Much is lost in
this approach,” the university said in an announcement signed by officials
including Mary C. Boyce, Columbia’s provost.

Columbia also noted that the expected U.S. Supreme Court decision to end
or curtail affirmative action “may well lead to a reassessment of
admissions policies in ways we can’t even contemplate at this point.”

Columbia’s move comes after it dropped in the rankings released in
September — to No. 18 from No. 2 — and after many prestigious law and
medical schools, including Columbia’s, decided to boycott the listings by
refusing to provide data to U.S. News. Calling the rankings unreliable and
unfair, the schools criticized them for skewing educational priorities.

On Tuesday, U.S. News defended its ranking system as an important guide
for students.

“Our critics tend to attribute every issue faced by academia — including
the impending Supreme Court case mentioned in Columbia’s announcement — to
our rankings,” Eric Gertler, the chief executive, said in a statement. “We
have consistently stated that our rankings should be one factor in that
decision-making process.”

U.S. News said it has listened to the critics. It announced in May that
new methodology for undergraduate programs would give increased weight to
a school’s success in graduating students from different backgrounds.

And in a move that suggested that it wanted to immunize itself against a
larger exodus, U.S. News said that it would no longer rely on data that
only colleges could provide. It also recently urged Miguel A. Cardona, the
U.S. secretary of education, to demand that schools provide open access to
their undergraduate and graduate school data.

Robert Kelchen, a professor of educational leadership and policy studies
at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, said that while U.S. News had
not fully described its new model, it could be an improvement, with better
data.

“I think there are also questions about the accuracy of the data that
colleges provide,” said Dr. Kelchen, who advises the Washington Monthly
magazine on its rankings, which are viewed as an alternative to those
produced by U.S. News.

Colleges and universities have been critical of the U.S. News ranking
system for decades, but every year virtually all submit their data for
judgment.

It was a math professor at Columbia, Michael Thaddeus, who set off at
least some of the backlash against the U.S. News rankings in early 2022
when he posted a 21-page analysis of the rankings, accusing his own school
of submitting statistics that were “inaccurate, dubious or highly
misleading.”

Dr. Thaddeus said he had found discrepancies in the data that Columbia
supplied to U.S. News, involving class size and percentage of faculty with
terminal degrees — two of the metrics that U.S. News announced it was
eliminating from its calculations.

The fallout from his accusations led Columbia to acknowledge that it had
provided misleading data, and the school did not submit new data last
year. Tuesday’s announcement makes that decision permanent.

In making the announcement, Columbia applauded the recent move by U.S.
News to focus on the success of colleges in graduating students from
different backgrounds. But Columbia also suggested that it was concerned
about the inclusion of data from students in its general studies program,
who tend to follow nontraditional academic paths.

Colorado College also withdrew from the rankings this year, along with
Bard College, Rhode Island School of Design and Stillman College, a
historically Black school in Alabama.

L. Song Richardson, the president of Colorado College, said in an
interview on Tuesday that providing data to “a ranking system that we say
does not accurately measure the educational experiences of our school, I
felt, would make me complicit.”

She added, “I didn’t want the cognitive dissonance of speaking out of both
sides of my mouth.”

She acknowledged that U.S. News had made some improvements, but said that
they had not gone far enough. She criticized the annual questionnaire that
U.S. News sends out asking schools to rank one another. “We call it the
beauty contest,” she said.

After Yale dropped out of the law school rankings last year, dozens of
other elite law and medical schools quickly followed — among them Harvard,
the University of Pennsylvania and Stanford — but most schools stayed in.

This time, with enrollment down, and many undergraduate schools hunting
for students, a mass defection seems unlikely.

U.S. News says that more than 35 million people have consulted its
rankings in the last 12 months, numbers that reflect its market dominance.

“U.S. News is going to keep producing these rankings,” Dr. Kelchen said.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/06/us/columbia-university-us-news-
rankings.html