re: You walk into your sons/daughters classroom the first day of school and see this....

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slight hijack..but what kinda research do you do? I'm assuming a google search of "does [name of school] employ trannies" doesn't help so how do you go about figuring out which schools allow this kinda thing? I'm a few years away from it but I'm curious to know.

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Obviously it's a lot of inferences. And to be candid, it's extremely hard to find high performing public or private schools that don't have some of the woke virtue signaling in their public presence. My goal has mainly been to try and ID the ones where it's taking a central role and the ones where it seems like it's just thrown in to pacify a small contingent so they can get on with it. Obviously not a science.

FWIW, as of today, we're pretty close to scratching our neighborhood public school, which is a very, very good school in a very questionable school district (Fulton). As you probably know, Fulton is a mixed bag that tends to cater to the community it's in, so in north Fulton with north Fulton sensibilities you get a far better product than elsewhere, etc. Nonetheless, I just don't trust the system even if the local elementary is by all accounts GTG. Moreover, I still have the issue of where they go after, and the schools after the elementary are solid academically but nothing to get excited about. And my understanding is waiting to do the private jump until later can cost you.

So, it's a lot of reading about curriculum and some teacher bios/syllabus stuff whenever I can find it. Talking to parents casually as I meet them. It's going through the DEI pages on the website and then clicking every link and seeing where it takes me. One local private that I thought would be less prone to this stuff has, best I can tell, made an emphasis of it and isn't at all shying away from it. That was a surprise/disappointment. On the other hand, a bigger, more notable private with a religious affiliation that I thought would make it more likely to pose issues appears to be merely going through the motions, has minimal DEI signaling, doesn't insert it throughout their literature/videos/social media, etc. So that's more encouraging.

There are some straight up conservative Christian schools where I think we'd have an easier time, but they're probably too far away for it to be sensible. As an aside, in GA at least, you're not going to find much on gender issues from these schools, at least publicly. So I'm largely drawing inferences based on race-related messaging.

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also how in the frick do you pronounce "Mx."?

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Duh. Motocross. His name is Motocross Jax.

Which means, if he was bi-sexual, he would be BMX. Or Bicycle Motocross Jax.

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You do it in every one of these threads. Because, you support the sexualization of children.

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No, I don't. And no, I don't.

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The world is changing. I'm not going to teach my child to dislike others because of who they want to be. I may not agree with it, but it is what it is.

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Nobody is asking if you would teach your child to "dislike others because of who they want to be." They are asking if you as a parent would voluntarily be fine with a mentally ill person with a clearly made public agenda getting to spend 8 hours a day with your elementary school child.

You can "like" the freak shows out there all you want as a grown adult, but you can and should still protect your child's interests which, in this case, is to put them in a learning environment where the teachers are focused on teaching rather than whatever this thing is doing with its appearance and social media posts. That thing is so proud that it is finally "out" as school, you really don't think it's going to be letting its freak flag fly for your kid to see 8 hours a day, 5 days a week, for 10 months?

gotcha thanks. School is one of the reasons we left atlanta, so I'm hoping I don't have too tough a time in alabama with this kinda thing.

Theres a thing like that at my local grocery store. Dude trying to be a female in every way possible EXCEPT it rocks a full beard. So obvious its just trying to geta reaction from people.

My question is why do you HAVE to be out at work. I'm sure I had plenty of lesbian teachers growing up...but they didn't have to inject that into thier lesson plan. I didn't even know which of my teachers were married or not...I didn't care...noone cared. Just go to work and live your fricking life...damn

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gotcha thanks. School is one of the reasons we left atlanta, so I'm hoping I don't have too tough a time in alabama with this kinda thing.

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I would highly suspect that you won't. But education is an increasingly woke field, so while I doubt you'll encounter many zealots, you might well encounter some seemingly normal teachers who nonetheless have been trained to subtly feed your kids a diet of equity/whiteness/gender themes. They don't think of it that way, they just think of it as modern education. Honestly, that sometimes seems worse, because you're less likely to catch it vs. the radical advocate posing as a teacher.

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I immediately discredit anyone that uses they/them as someone with a mental illness and multiple personalities.

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When someone says they want to be referred to as "they/them," they get to be an "it" from me. I refuse to knowingly use improper subject/verb agreement just to make someone feel better. If we just starting ignoring the rules of grammar, the collapse of civilization can't be far behind.