Posted on 10/13/2014 11:17:25 AM PDT by EveningStar
Lincoln Public Schools Superintendent Steve Joel pushed back Thursday against what he said was misinformed reaction to the district’s gender identity training by national commentators and news outlets...
“Never once has anyone inside our system mandated that a teacher take (the words) ‘boys’ and ‘girls’ or ‘ladies’ and ‘gentlemen’ out of their interactions with children or interaction with adults. There’s no policy, there’s no procedure, there’s no changes being made to bathrooms in schools.” ...
Among the advice in the handout was to avoid gendered terms like "girls" and "boys" and opt for gender neutral terms such as “campers” or come up with group names like “purple penguins,” a term on which national media outlets have focused.
Joel said the handouts were suggestions and strategies, not mandates, about how teachers could reach all students in their classrooms...
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So it’s not a mandate, just a suggestion (rolling eyes)
What a lying POS. Using the term “gender identity training” shows exactly what this is all about.
Get government out of education at all levels before this country is completely destroyed.
The genie is out of the bottle, dope. You wanted to suck up to the Left, now you look stupid and its your own damn fault..
Only because your BS was exposed. Don't think otherwise for a minute.
Liberals don't like it when their progroms are made public.
So, I would like to identify myself as a girl, age 17, and use their locker room at the local high school. Why wouldn’t that be OK?
Righhhhhht.
If you say something and the majority of people hear or read it and it sounds crazy, you said something crazy.
The majority of government school teachers/ administrators have totally bought into the “progressive” la-la land idiocy. They tend to be the dumbest people who have bamboozled all too many people into thinking that they are the best and brightest.
They have a policy for looking in your pants?
There's the accepted gender neutral method used for two centuries in the USA. But no Mr Enlightened PC Education never thought of using "class" LOL.
about how teachers could reach all students in their classrooms
Really??? My teachers never had much trouble. At worst it was “Attention, class.” And “boys and girls”...that covers everyone,...no matter what they think they are.
What a huge sack of bull patties this guy is passing out.
Why do schools need gender identity training in the first place????
Seems to me that all this “gay” and “trans” whatever stuff, if it troubles young people, should be dealt with after they are adults and out of school. I see no need for schools to have any policy at all on this.
I know its a cliche but back in my day schools didn’t bend over backwards to accomodate and teach about homosexuality and sexual problems.
Bottom line: We don’t want a freak to feel like a freak.
Very soon, we’ll be helping teenagers to commit suicide so they don’t feel badly about it.
That was my thinking, keyword = MANDATE.
I read an article on FR about how Facebook has 47 (??IIRC) different ways of identifying gender.
Made me glad that I don't use Facebook.
Facebook actually identifies 51 separate ways of ID'ing gender.
My bad.
(shaking head sadly) Actually, I wish that I didn't know this.
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