Glad MCPS is getting sued

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Anonymous wrote:Religious rights. The parents suing don’t want their kids exposed to sexual material for religious reasons.

Drag queen is not sexual material. It’s a term for a performer who dresses a certain way for their art. Do you consider nurse, firefighter, or clown to be sexual material?

Drag queens are typically raunchy, risque and not meant for children. They are adult entertainers for adult audiences.

Some are. Some aren't. Also, the issue here is not drag queens, but books.

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We've done away with all things Halloween for elementary children. Tons of families associate it with demonic things and it doesn't align with their religions and values. MCPS made it the autumn festival or harvest or whatever to make it inclusive and no more costumes. We adapted and decided that those who celebrate Halloween can do so after school. We do not make the kids who do not celebrate feel irrational, less than or that something is wrong with them; we just do not spend time on it in school.

Tons of families have issues with this LGBTQIA affirming curriculum for a variety of reasons--religious, feel it is not age appropriate, much of it is still being debated and understood....why are these families viewed as irrational, intolerant or less than? Pride parade away, change your gender, discuss ad nauseam how the inside doesn't match your outside....but do it outside of school.

BINGO! If Halloween (or Christmas for that matter) has become offensive and we need to neutralize it to be inclusive of others' sensibilities and sensitivities, then some of the stuff being shoved in the name of LGBTQ curriculum also falls into the same boat.

Yes, it's very important that we be inclusive of the bigot community.

If you want to call Muslims and their religious beliefs bigoted, then that's on you. You can fight that out with the Muslim community.

Don't generalize. Don't stereotype. "The Muslim community" is not party to this lawsuit. "The Christian community" is also not party to this lawsuit. The parties to this lawsuit are one Muslim couple, one Roman Catholic Christian/Ukrainian Orthodox Christian couple, and one Roman Catholic Christian couple. The legal complaint helpfully spells this out for everyone.

You're not paying attention. It's not just one Muslim couple.

CAIR, the association that represent Muslim family interests, is fully behind the opt-out option: https://action.cair.com/a/restore-parental-student-rights

Muslim parents and students testified in favor of opt out to the school board today:

It is NOT just one Muslim family. Is it EVERY Muslim family? No. But enough that they are organized, mobilized and taking political action.

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We've done away with all things Halloween for elementary children. Tons of families associate it with demonic things and it doesn't align with their religions and values. MCPS made it the autumn festival or harvest or whatever to make it inclusive and no more costumes. We adapted and decided that those who celebrate Halloween can do so after school. We do not make the kids who do not celebrate feel irrational, less than or that something is wrong with them; we just do not spend time on it in school.

Tons of families have issues with this LGBTQIA affirming curriculum for a variety of reasons--religious, feel it is not age appropriate, much of it is still being debated and understood....why are these families viewed as irrational, intolerant or less than? Pride parade away, change your gender, discuss ad nauseam how the inside doesn't match your outside....but do it outside of school.

BINGO! If Halloween (or Christmas for that matter) has become offensive and we need to neutralize it to be inclusive of others' sensibilities and sensitivities, then some of the stuff being shoved in the name of LGBTQ curriculum also falls into the same boat.

Yes, it's very important that we be inclusive of the bigot community.

If you want to call Muslims and their religious beliefs bigoted, then that's on you. You can fight that out with the Muslim community.

Don't generalize. Don't stereotype. "The Muslim community" is not party to this lawsuit. "The Christian community" is also not party to this lawsuit. The parties to this lawsuit are one Muslim couple, one Roman Catholic Christian/Ukrainian Orthodox Christian couple, and one Roman Catholic Christian couple. The legal complaint helpfully spells this out for everyone.

You're not paying attention. It's not just one Muslim couple.

CAIR, the association that represent Muslim family interests, is fully behind the opt-out option: https://action.cair.com/a/restore-parental-student-rights

Muslim parents and students testified in favor of opt out to the school board today:

It is NOT just one Muslim family. Is it EVERY Muslim family? No. But enough that they are organized, mobilized and taking political action.

Bigotry is an interfaith thing. Being LGBTQ is also an interfaith thing.

Imagine the implications of considering anything/everything related to families as "Family Life" and therefore subject to an opt-out.

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Personally, I couldn't care less what they say about LGBTQ+. I applaud their efforts to teach children to respect everyone's differences (except Asians, who seem to be invisible to them).

Of course, except for all of the parent meetings specifically for AAPI parents, and the fact that three of the six languages in which MCPS typically communicates are Asian languages. Invisible except for that.

I was talking about OUR school, who is making all these efforts to reach out to other groups, but never Asians. And I know why. There are no Asian staff or teachers. All the top students are Asians. It's a case of "well you guys do so well you don't need any help", which is not the point at all of making efforts to include various populations. On the contrary, it gives the vibe they're deliberately trying to downplay these kids' achievements.

Also, our school offer French and Spanish. Which last time I checked, are not Asian languages.

Dumbass.

So sick and tired of Asians carrying on like they are disadvantaged minorities

We are disadvantaged for college admissions. We were targeted during Covid - Asian-Americans were KILLED and INJURED because of hate against us. And your racist comment proves that people are willing to discriminate against an entire population merely because you see us as different.

Well guess what? We're not going to vote Democrat in the future if you insist on ignoring us and keep implementing "equity" regulations that end up hurting us. Democrats keep taking minorities, including us, for granted, and then don't do a single constructive thing for them. I am against affirmative action, for a start. From where I stand, it's just another way Asians can be pushed aside.

Okay, so your plan is to vote for the party whose elected leaders vilified Asians during COVID and got them killed because you're mad that your kids might learn some families have two moms?

Cool cool cool.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2021/05/20/politics/republicans-voted-no-asian-hate-crime-bill/index.html

https://americanindependent.com/republicans-congress-kn95-masks-anti-asian-china-covid-coronavirus/

https://www.google.com/amp/s/abcnews.go.com/amp/Health/trumps-chinese-virus-tweet-helped-lead-rise-racist/story%3fid=76530148

[Anonymous]

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Personally, I couldn't care less what they say about LGBTQ+. I applaud their efforts to teach children to respect everyone's differences (except Asians, who seem to be invisible to them).

Of course, except for all of the parent meetings specifically for AAPI parents, and the fact that three of the six languages in which MCPS typically communicates are Asian languages. Invisible except for that.

I was talking about OUR school, who is making all these efforts to reach out to other groups, but never Asians. And I know why. There are no Asian staff or teachers. All the top students are Asians. It's a case of "well you guys do so well you don't need any help", which is not the point at all of making efforts to include various populations. On the contrary, it gives the vibe they're deliberately trying to downplay these kids' achievements.

Also, our school offer French and Spanish. Which last time I checked, are not Asian languages.

Dumbass.

So sick and tired of Asians carrying on like they are disadvantaged minorities

We are disadvantaged for college admissions. We were targeted during Covid - Asian-Americans were KILLED and INJURED because of hate against us. And your racist comment proves that people are willing to discriminate against an entire population merely because you see us as different.

Well guess what? We're not going to vote Democrat in the future if you insist on ignoring us and keep implementing "equity" regulations that end up hurting us. Democrats keep taking minorities, including us, for granted, and then don't do a single constructive thing for them. I am against affirmative action, for a start. From where I stand, it's just another way Asians can be pushed aside.

Okay, so your plan is to vote for the party whose elected leaders vilified Asians during COVID and got them killed because you're mad that your kids might learn some families have two moms?

Cool cool cool.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2021/05/20/politics/republicans-voted-no-asian-hate-crime-bill/index.html

https://americanindependent.com/republicans-congress-kn95-masks-anti-asian-china-covid-coronavirus/

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Anonymous wrote:Parents should always have a say in what their kids are learning. Ideally, their day can be to leave this crazy system but not vv everyone can afford that. Parents should be able to opt out of having their two and three year olds use a word search to find words like drag in story books being read to them.

https://www.fox5dc.com/news/3-montgomery-county-families-sue-mcps-over-lbtq-books.amp

I want to opt out of the Elementary School module on (and I am not making this up) "Gender Roles in Colonial America"

What scares you about it?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Religious rights. The parents suing don’t want their kids exposed to sexual material for religious reasons.

Drag queen is not sexual material. It’s a term for a performer who dresses a certain way for their art. Do you consider nurse, firefighter, or clown to be sexual material?

Drag queens are typically raunchy, risque and not meant for children. They are adult entertainers for adult audiences.

If this is what you think happens at drag queen story hour, you are deluded. They dress up like princesses usually. Big poufy dress, sparkly shoes, tiara… Nothing risqué or raunchy.

[Anonymous]

This country is exhausting. Spending all of this time and money to "protect children" from things that aren't even the real threat. Weaponization of the bible and christian nationalism.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This country is exhausting. Spending all of this time and money to "protect children" from things that aren't even the real threat. Weaponization of the bible and christian nationalism.

Most any normal court will throw this nonsense out, but today's SCOTUS is another story. I think the majority now are Christian nationalists so they may be fine with practices that break our laws because of religion.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This country is exhausting. Spending all of this time and money to "protect children" from things that aren't even the real threat. Weaponization of the bible and christian nationalism.

Most any normal court will throw this nonsense out, but today's SCOTUS is another story. I think the majority now are Christian nationalists so they may be fine with practices that break our laws because of religion.

I'm looking forward to the Rastafarian case for smoking dope in public.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
We've done away with all things Halloween for elementary children. Tons of families associate it with demonic things and it doesn't align with their religions and values. MCPS made it the autumn festival or harvest or whatever to make it inclusive and no more costumes. We adapted and decided that those who celebrate Halloween can do so after school. We do not make the kids who do not celebrate feel irrational, less than or that something is wrong with them; we just do not spend time on it in school.

Tons of families have issues with this LGBTQIA affirming curriculum for a variety of reasons--religious, feel it is not age appropriate, much of it is still being debated and understood....why are these families viewed as irrational, intolerant or less than? Pride parade away, change your gender, discuss ad nauseam how the inside doesn't match your outside....but do it outside of school.

+1

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Anonymous wrote:This country is exhausting. Spending all of this time and money to "protect children" from things that aren't even the real threat. Weaponization of the bible and christian nationalism.

Compare number of kids groomed or aboard at drag queen story time to church and tell me why we’re worried about the former and not the latter

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Parents should always have a say in what their kids are learning. Ideally, their day can be to leave this crazy system but not vv everyone can afford that. Parents should be able to opt out of having their two and three year olds use a word search to find words like drag in story books being read to them.

https://www.fox5dc.com/news/3-montgomery-county-families-sue-mcps-over-lbtq-books.amp

I want to opt out of the Elementary School module on (and I am not making this up) "Gender Roles in Colonial America"

What scares you about it?

Facts and truth can be scary and threaten my prejudices.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:
We've done away with all things Halloween for elementary children. Tons of families associate it with demonic things and it doesn't align with their religions and values. MCPS made it the autumn festival or harvest or whatever to make it inclusive and no more costumes. We adapted and decided that those who celebrate Halloween can do so after school. We do not make the kids who do not celebrate feel irrational, less than or that something is wrong with them; we just do not spend time on it in school.

Tons of families have issues with this LGBTQIA affirming curriculum for a variety of reasons--religious, feel it is not age appropriate, much of it is still being debated and understood....why are these families viewed as irrational, intolerant or less than? Pride parade away, change your gender, discuss ad nauseam how the inside doesn't match your outside....but do it outside of school.

+1

-2 It Sounds like they need to learn tolerance.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
We've done away with all things Halloween for elementary children. Tons of families associate it with demonic things and it doesn't align with their religions and values. MCPS made it the autumn festival or harvest or whatever to make it inclusive and no more costumes. We adapted and decided that those who celebrate Halloween can do so after school. We do not make the kids who do not celebrate feel irrational, less than or that something is wrong with them; we just do not spend time on it in school.

Tons of families have issues with this LGBTQIA affirming curriculum for a variety of reasons--religious, feel it is not age appropriate, much of it is still being debated and understood....why are these families viewed as irrational, intolerant or less than? Pride parade away, change your gender, discuss ad nauseam how the inside doesn't match your outside....but do it outside of school.

BINGO! If Halloween (or Christmas for that matter) has become offensive and we need to neutralize it to be inclusive of others' sensibilities and sensitivities, then some of the stuff being shoved in the name of LGBTQ curriculum also falls into the same boat.

Yes, it's very important that we be inclusive of the bigot community.

So people who do not agree with you are bigots? This makes you what?