MCPS elementary school principals signed an internal memo expressing concerns about LGBTQ curriculum last November

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Anonymous wrote:Teaching kids that some kids, like peppa, have two moms instead of a mom and a dad is hardly "indoctrinating" lol. No more so than when you see two het people walking down the street holding hands. Learning that people EXIST isnt shoving it down anyones throat.

Except that's not what they are teaching that different families look different and there are better books to teach that that he ones they choose.

When I send my kid to public school, I agree for my kid to be taught according to the curriculum duly chosen by the public school. I do not agree for my kid to be taught according to the curriculum randomly chosen by you, a random person commenting anonymously on an internet message board.

Cool, cool. Just so we are clear, if you lived in Florida, you would just go along with the Florida board of education's slavery as a jobs program, because that is what has been chosen by the public school system, right?

I'm the PP you're responding to. If I lived in Florida, I wouldn't send my child to public school. In fact, I wouldn't live in Florida, because if I did live in Florida, I wouldn't send my child to public school.

Just answer the question; yes or no. Would you decide that if they school boards decides it is ok, it must be! No push back or questioning, right?

Dude. I answered the question. When I send my kid to public school, I agree for my kid to be taught according to the curriculum duly chosen by the public school. If I lived in Florida and sent my kid to public school, I would be agreeing for my kid to be taught according to the curriculum duly chosen by the public school in Florida. But I would not want my kid taught according to this curriculum in Florida, and so therefore, if I lived in Florida, I would not send my child to public school - or, more fundamentally, I would not live in Florida.

Similarly, when you send your kid to MCPS, you agree for your kid to be taught according to the curriculum duly chosen by MCPS. Don't like the MCPS curriculum? Don't send your kid to MCPS.

Not a dude, but at least you are consistent. And incredibly out of touch and entitled. What about people that cannot afford private school?
Their kids should just learn lies because their parents aren't rich?
Or maybe they do the stand up thing and fight for what is right instead of turning a blind eye.
I know what I would do.

You have a right to choose whether or not to send your child to public school. You do not have a right to choose what the public school teaches your child.

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Anonymous wrote:There is no way MCPS published curriculum with instructions to “make a shaming comment” to a child. Either someone internal to the school put their own spin into instructions, or the principals are reframing.

Regardless of how these religious groups try to spin this, MCPS isn’t trying to indoctrinate elementary kids regarding LGBTQ topics. They are trying to give them context about the other kids sitting next to them in the classroom, because they sure aren’t learning about it at home.

Like it or not, in public school in MCPS there will be children of every possible diversity in the classrooms, including children who are transgender and who have family members in the LGBTQ community.

Is a preK kid sitting next to a drag queen? Why are three and four year olds being taught about drag queens?

As per the current trend, if the preK kid says that zhey are a drag queen then we affirm it, so it is quite possible that some of them are.

Except that’s not true, but I’m sure you know that.
One or two books featuring a drag Queen will not make your kid a drag Queen…

True, but I don’t want to have to explain what a drag queen is. How do you even begin? It’s a man that dresses like a girl, except dresses aren’t just for girls because gender doesn’t exist. We adults can’t figure it out so how can we explain it to a child.

It's a man who dresses up for fun in fancy clothes, like princess costumes.

There, now you don't have to be afraid of "Pride Puppy" anymore! Hooray!

This is okay so long as you add “often the men make fun of women when they are doing the dress-up and it’s not very nice.”

These are you issues. It's not hard to explain "drag queen" or "drag king" to a five-year-old. It's much harder, unfortunately, to solve the problems caused by people who define "liberty" as "my freedom to choose what your child can read."

If I ever find myself on the same side of an issue as people who use that definition of liberty, I'm going to immediately do a whole lot of self-examination. I would advise the MoCo CAIR people to do the same, if they asked me, which they haven't.

If you can’t see the overt misogyny in making fun of women’s physical appearances that they cannot change and specifically their secondary sexual characteristics, that’s a you problem.

Maybe you are okay with performers who mock people in wheelchairs too, idk. But I’m not okay with people who make performance art out of the bodies of other people.

Drag queens arent mocking women..they are celebrating them. Nice try at attempting to play the feminist card to get people on your side when you are just absolutely incorrect.

So you are okay with mocking people’s bodies for sport. Nice.

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Do you folks ever get tired of repeating the same things over and over? This is about the 10th thread on this topic that I've locked.