Posted on 08/06/2022 9:39:45 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
How young is too young to learn about gender identity and expression? Second grade? First grade? Not for the Wauwatosa School District which is proposing such lessons for kindergarten students in the upcoming school year.
The district sent a letter to parents and guardians this week informing them of proposed changes to its Human Growth and Development curriculum that include classes on gender identity, sexual orientation, and other sex-themed topics from kindergarten straight through to high school.
The series of five lessons for kindergarteners, who are typically five or six years old, starts innocuously enough with a discussion of students’ family structures and helping them “identify different kinds of family structures.” By Lesson 2, however, the children should be able to “understand gender role stereotypes and define gender.”
To aid in this, teachers will read “Sparkle Boy,” a 2017 children’s book described on its Amazon page as “a sweet, heartwarming story about acceptance, respect, and the freedom to be yourself in a world where any gender expression should be celebrated.”
By Lesson 3, kindergarteners will be able to “identify the medically accurate names of external body parts including the genitals.” Teachers will implement the Understanding Our Bodies lesson plan, whose goal is to have students “be able to correctly identify at least three body parts of a female-assigned person, namely the nipples, vulva, and anus” and “at least three body parts of the male-assigned person, namely the nipples, penis and anus.”
A Power Point presentation that accompanies this lesson even features drawings of a naked boy and girl with arrows pointing to the penis, nipples, vulva, and anus that the kindergarteners can use as a handy reference point.
If they don’t quite understand yet, the exact same diagram is used in very similar lessons that are repeated in both first and second grade, raising the question of just how much sex-ed children really need before their eighth birthday.
In third grade, when children typically eight or nine years old, the Wauwatosa School District is proposing an extensive lesson in “gender identity and expression” and “sexual orientation and identity” in which students will be able to “define gender identity and understand the use of pronouns around gender identity,” “define sexual orientation,” and understand the difference between sexual orientation and gender identity.”
Perhaps even more troubling than this is the slide show on human anatomy, which features an extreme close-up image of a woman’s vagina. The same slide show will be shown to fourth graders, who are typically nine or 10 years old, and they will also receive a more intensive lesson on gender identity and expression. In it, they will learn how “some people may or may not differ between biological sex at birth and gender identity,” “define cisgender, transgender, gender non-binary, gender expansive, and gender identity,” and will understand “that some people may question their gender.”
In fifth grade, students will be able to “explain that gender expression and gender identity exist along a spectrum” and “understand the use of pronouns around gender identity” after attending the “What is Love Anyway?” lesson.
Traditionally, fifth grade has been the year that students were first exposed to lessons on things of a sexual nature, but the Wauwatosa School District is proposing that this curriculum begin as soon as children first reach school age. Likely sensing the controversy that this will stir up, the district gave just a few days’ notice to parents that this radicalism will be presented to the Wauwatosa School Board “for initial overview” during Monday night’s board meeting.
In addition, the district’s letter instructs outraged parents to “not email Board members directly regarding Human Growth and Development curriculum” and instead use an attached online form to provide (presumably negative) feedback.
Such feedback provided directly to the Wauwatosa School Board (whose members email addresses and phone numbers can be found on the District’s website here) is in reality the only way for such hyper-sexualized curriculum to be stopped. Always be respectful, but call a Board member, send an email, and attend Monday night’s meeting to give members a sense of what the Wauwatosa community really thinks about this.
Parents have a right to have a say in how much class time is going to be spent this year on learning pronouns, especially since fewer than half of Wauwatosa’s students are proficient in core subject matter. According to the most recent Department of Public Instruction standardized testing data, just 38.4 percent of Wauwatosa students are proficient in English Language Arts (meaning that they are at grade level), and just 35.1 percent are proficient in Mathematics.
Parents can, and should, demand better from their School District, and demand that valuable class time is spent on teaching math and language arts, not kindergarten sex-ed.
Home schooling is the only defense.
Each of my kids knew pretty much nothing about sex until they reached puberty. I remember their kind of shock when we had the talk. Spouse and I wanted to protect their innocence for as long as possible. They are very healthy and successful young adults now.
Keep the little ones home! No reason to teach this stuff to kids barely out of diapers.
Every parent worthy of that title needs to be calling and melting down every board member’s phone this weekend so the moment the gavel bangs to call the meeting to order there is no doubt this is going down to a flaming defeat.
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This is sexual abuse.
These 5 year old children cannot even read and write yet but the first thing queers want to teach them about is homosexual sex. These acts are going to be the beginning of the end for the homo agenda and left-wingers in general. Just you watch.
...it’s the Laboratory work, and the independent study portions I think may be a tad “early.”
Here’s one test:
Give all the kids some firecrackers and a Zippo. See wgat happens.
Oh. I thought so. Darn!
Make it a Criminal Act and immediate termination and revocation of all retirement and pension benefits for any Public Employee that does NOT send their children to the public school system.
Watch how fast this ends
So end times.
Agreed...This IS Sexual abuse of children
The school district asked parents not to contact school board members about this.
Here is there phone numbers.
https://www.wauwatosa.k12.wi.us/Page/68
I like my mom’s approach to sex ed. Give ‘em a dog or cat, and they’ll figure it out. Of course, Ma’s a boomer and they had pets outdoors everywhere. And then there was that revolution thing.
Sex ed should happen at home, like basic hygiene and tying shoes.
Speaking of hygiene, the emphasis should be on fastidious avoidance of bad education. Keep the kids from public ed, cut the cable, supervise their activities. If that’s too hard, why have kids?
These little ones may still have potty accidents and wet their beds at night.
They are too little and too small, and this is the reason these perverted adults are going after them.
It is past time for decent men and women to take these perverted creeps and pornographic nonsense to the curb.
“Wauwatosa Proposes Sex Ed Curriculum for Kindergarteners”
Luckily that only happens in the Northeast and the West Coast. But since I live in Middle America, my kids can go to public school without me having to worry about them.
You know, I teach high school and I have my reservations about homeschooling. But I have friends who swear this isn’t happening and then turn around tell me that they teach about “different kinds of families” in Kindergarten (which includes normalizing LGBT behavior). IDK if it’s in the state standards- and I haven’t looked in up to be frank. But last year we had a “training” from an out of state California “non-profit” (taking ~$10-25K in “donations) about kids being able to feel free to express themselves and “biases”. Inevitably the conversation turned to sexual issues and I was very uncomfortable with it. When I confronted other teachers and complained about it, many (but not all!) got the liberal “glossy-eyed” look.
When I was asked about how to implement these policies and drop my biases, I stated frankly that it was a 42 USC 1983 issue and I wasn’t going to do it (thank the Lord for my attending Law School). Everyone looked at me like I was crazy for bringing up that the woke policies they wanted us to enact in our classroom and bring about equity were discriminatory, potentially illegal, and in some cases (in my mind) looked like grooming.
Every day I hear people say, “teachers aren’t doing this” and then I hear about a lesson and say to myself, “yes they are”.
NOT ALL, and many quite frankly don’t agree with this crap, atleast where I am. Many teachers I work with are Christian. But the Administrators are not, and they do not care about your kids. There are a lot of things going on in schools, some the public is wrong about, some right. This is one that really concerns me. Take your kids out of school.
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