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Parents Push Back Against Explicit Books
Posted on 11/15/19 at 3:18 pm
Posted on 11/15/19 at 3:18 pm
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Parents in Loudoun County, Virginia, are fighting for the removal of books that promote the LGBTQ agenda as early as kindergarten and that contain increasingly explicit material in later grades.
The books, which are part of an initiative begun this school year, have been placed in classrooms but are not required reading. Still, even children in kindergarten are now exposed to books such as “My Princess Boy,” which talks about a young boy who likes to dress as a girl, and “Prince & Knight,” the story of a prince who marries a knight after being unable to find a suitable woman to marry.
Angry parents have spoken out at recent school board meetings. Natassia Grover, co-founder of a group called Parent and Child Loudoun, has repeatedly called for the school board to remove the books. At a September school board meeting, Grover cited “Weird Girl and What’s His Name,” a book placed in seventh-grade classrooms. It features a 17-year-old boy who is having a sexual relationship with his 40-something male employer.
“Students are being deliberately exposed to this stuff,” Grover told the school board, according to the Loudoun Times. “You have a duty to remove it.”
One father said at the board’s Oct. 22 meeting: “We entrust the schools to be partners with us when it comes to educating our children. … I am calling on you to be guardians of our children—my most precious possession.”
Resident Lisa Sinclair, in an email posted on the website of Reston Bible Church, said: “Loudoun County Public Schools have a responsibility to maintain neutrality towards religious beliefs, and therefore should not impose ideologies onto children such as secular humanism and Queer Theory as the ‘right’ underlying foundational beliefs for sexual morals, because this is openly hostile to many religious beliefs and cultural traditions. It puts the school in conflict with students, parents and clergy, which only serves to destroy parental and community trust in the public schools.”
Supporters of the books, including the American Civil Liberties Union, characterized calls for removing the books as “censorship.” To date, the school board has not removed the objectionable books.
Parents in Loudoun County, Virginia, are fighting for the removal of books that promote the LGBTQ agenda as early as kindergarten and that contain increasingly explicit material in later grades.
The books, which are part of an initiative begun this school year, have been placed in classrooms but are not required reading. Still, even children in kindergarten are now exposed to books such as “My Princess Boy,” which talks about a young boy who likes to dress as a girl, and “Prince & Knight,” the story of a prince who marries a knight after being unable to find a suitable woman to marry.
Angry parents have spoken out at recent school board meetings. Natassia Grover, co-founder of a group called Parent and Child Loudoun, has repeatedly called for the school board to remove the books. At a September school board meeting, Grover cited “Weird Girl and What’s His Name,” a book placed in seventh-grade classrooms. It features a 17-year-old boy who is having a sexual relationship with his 40-something male employer.
“Students are being deliberately exposed to this stuff,” Grover told the school board, according to the Loudoun Times. “You have a duty to remove it.”
One father said at the board’s Oct. 22 meeting: “We entrust the schools to be partners with us when it comes to educating our children. … I am calling on you to be guardians of our children—my most precious possession.”
Resident Lisa Sinclair, in an email posted on the website of Reston Bible Church, said: “Loudoun County Public Schools have a responsibility to maintain neutrality towards religious beliefs, and therefore should not impose ideologies onto children such as secular humanism and Queer Theory as the ‘right’ underlying foundational beliefs for sexual morals, because this is openly hostile to many religious beliefs and cultural traditions. It puts the school in conflict with students, parents and clergy, which only serves to destroy parental and community trust in the public schools.”
Supporters of the books, including the American Civil Liberties Union, characterized calls for removing the books as “censorship.” To date, the school board has not removed the objectionable books.
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Posted on 11/15/19 at 3:24 pm to Crimson Wraith
Posted on 11/15/19 at 3:25 pm to Crimson Wraith
I’m surprised the ACLU isn’t trying to reenact the South Park episode on Sex Ed where Mr Garrison is teaching the kindergarteners about it, complete with teaching them different positions like the rusty trombone and Cleveland steamer.
Posted on 11/15/19 at 3:26 pm to Crimson Wraith
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the story of a prince who marries a knight after being unable to find a suitable woman to marry.
So it's a choice?
Posted on 11/15/19 at 3:27 pm to Crimson Wraith
This is why send your kids to private school if you can
Posted on 11/15/19 at 3:30 pm to Crimson Wraith
good sign but where were they 15 years ago when these books were brought in and books about real history and things like mark twain were removed for not being inclusive and filled with sterotyped toxic masculinity?
Posted on 11/15/19 at 3:30 pm to HempHead
Its past time that we, as Americans, stand up against this blatant attack on our morals.
Posted on 11/15/19 at 3:32 pm to TigerMan79
What is there to do?
We are fat and content. No serious civil unrest has come in a time where people can eat, be entertained, and go about their lives in a relatively normal way. It is only when the moral decay leads to times of economic pain and scarcity that anything will be done, IMO.
ETA: It is entirely possible for a paradigm shift to come from the top-down, via disaffected elite, but I don't see much from our elite that would indicate they would like things to change.
We are fat and content. No serious civil unrest has come in a time where people can eat, be entertained, and go about their lives in a relatively normal way. It is only when the moral decay leads to times of economic pain and scarcity that anything will be done, IMO.
ETA: It is entirely possible for a paradigm shift to come from the top-down, via disaffected elite, but I don't see much from our elite that would indicate they would like things to change.
This post was edited on 11/15/19 at 3:34 pm
Posted on 11/15/19 at 3:54 pm to keakar
quote:
good sign but where were they 15 years ago when these books were brought in and books about real history and things like mark twain were removed for not being inclusive and filled with sterotyped toxic masculinity?
It was imperceptible, and it started more like 40+ years back.
That is how incrementalism works and why it is inevitable.
The changes are seemingly so minor that one would seem like an extremist to make a big deal out of it. Once that change is the new norm, nudge it over a little bit more. 40+ years later and we have men in dresses showering with your daughter and you're a racist.
Posted on 11/15/19 at 3:56 pm to Crimson Wraith
With recent elections taking N VA even further to the left, these concerned parents have no chance of seeing these books removed or their concerns heard by regressives demagogues.
Posted on 11/15/19 at 4:01 pm to Crimson Wraith
Someone should add a book that tells all about how boys that stick their wang in other boys get the poo all over themselves quickly followed by the HIV. The teacher should ask all the kids that want to get another boys poo all over themselves to stand up 
Posted on 11/15/19 at 4:40 pm to Crimson Wraith
Didn't an election in NVA recently have a sex offender that won?
Filth support all of this. This will go nowhere there. In fact, it will just get worse.
Filth: If they can't abort your kids, they want to frick them. If they can't frick them, they will brainwash them.
Filth support all of this. This will go nowhere there. In fact, it will just get worse.
Filth: If they can't abort your kids, they want to frick them. If they can't frick them, they will brainwash them.
Posted on 11/15/19 at 4:49 pm to HempHead
"I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery."
-Thomas Jefferson
HempHead you are right. My only hope is that the current hard push by the left oversteps the line that most are willing to accept. To be honest it goes both ways. "But how's your 401k?" is a testament to your point. While I agree that it's very nice to watch my 401k skyrocket, it's not the great indicator that everything is right in the world. If everything goes to hell in a handbasket, that big ole 401k can and will be taxed beyond what was promised.
-Thomas Jefferson
HempHead you are right. My only hope is that the current hard push by the left oversteps the line that most are willing to accept. To be honest it goes both ways. "But how's your 401k?" is a testament to your point. While I agree that it's very nice to watch my 401k skyrocket, it's not the great indicator that everything is right in the world. If everything goes to hell in a handbasket, that big ole 401k can and will be taxed beyond what was promised.
Posted on 11/15/19 at 4:53 pm to Crimson Wraith
A few more election cycles up there, and these parents will be lucky to hold jobs after going public with such talk. In a generation they might be sent to mandatory counseling, similar to anger management class.
Posted on 11/15/19 at 5:25 pm to Crimson Wraith
While I certainly sympathize with them, this is what they get for electing Democrats.
As a man soweth, so shall he reap. Galatians 6:7
As a man soweth, so shall he reap. Galatians 6:7
Posted on 11/15/19 at 5:31 pm to Crimson Wraith
Remember when liberals lied and said they would never push this stuff on kids?
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