[EveningStar]

So it’s not a mandate, just a suggestion (rolling eyes)

[Pining_4_TX]

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.

[cardinal4]

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..

[ex91B10]

...Joel said the handouts were suggestions and strategies, not mandates,...

Only because your BS was exposed. Don't think otherwise for a minute.

[Cowboy Bob]

The B*stard got caught and is now in CYA mode.

Liberals don't like it when their progroms are made public.

[Timber Rattler]

Oh yea, so teachers are completely free to ignore the helpful suggestions and strategies handed down from the boss.

Righhhhhht.

[muir_redwoods]

If you say something and the majority of people hear or read it and it sounds crazy, you said something crazy.

[all the best]

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.

[G Larry]

They have a policy for looking in your pants?

[cva66snipe]

Sister Mary Elephant: Class, Class, Class, SHUT UP!!!! Thank you.

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.

[Adder]

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.

[Dilbert San Diego]

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.

[AppyPappy]

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.

[wolfpat]

It's my understanding that the goal was to make sure they were including everyone.

So......after you've identified boys and girls, what's left out?

[Irish Queen]

In a gender neutral classroom all staff needs to be addressed in a gender neutral manner too. Examples: Mrs. Lopez = Comrade Ellis Mr. Ellis = Amigo Lopez Ms. Noble-French = Teacher Noble-French

[DoughtyOne]

Definitely worth repeating!

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.

So because of a very few people outside the norm, the massive numbers of children who fit the norm, will be refused to hear themselves identified or addressed properly from her on out.

Yes, the public was sure misinformed.  </sarcasm>

The public is on to them.  Now watch them squirm!


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[Awgie]

Public schools are a waste land where capable bright young human beings go to have their lives ruined by progressive propagandists.

[I want the USA back]

There are two: boys and girls.

[DemforBush]

“Joel said the handouts were suggestions and strategies, not mandates”

Ah-huh. And of course, there won’t be ANY repercussions for teachers who don’t follow that “advice”, no siree bob.

Oh wait, is “no siree bob” gender exclusive? I’m sorry. I meant to say “no siree purple penguins.”

Wait, I can’t say “siree”, either. People of the intersex persuasion might find that evidence of patriarchy or something. Gosh, being gender inclusive is hard!

/This country has lost its dang mind.

[Drango]

Educators are nut jobs for the most part.