Pride week in elementary school?

[Anonymous]

This is my first year in MCPS and my child’s elementary school, Bayard Rustin ES, celebrates Pride month with an entire spirit week. Is this happening at other elementary schools in MCPS? This seems more appropriate for middle or high school. Here is a snippet from the Principal’s weekly message:

Monday is Love is Love Day, where students are encouraged to wear red and lots of hearts to celebrate the fact that Love is Love and that everyone deserves love and kindness.
• Tuesday, June 4th is Trans Day of Acceptance, where students are encouraged to wear pink, light blue, and white to celebrate the bravery of the Trans Community.
• Wednesday, June 5th is The Golden Rule Day, where students are encouraged to wear yellow and gold to remind each other that at Bayard Rustin Elementary School, we follow The Golden Rule and treat others the way we want to be treated.
• Thursday, June 6th is Redfox Spirit Day, where students are encouraged to wear orange and Redfox Spirit Wear to celebrate our school Pride and everything we stand for!
• Friday, June 7th is Rainbow Day, where students are encouraged to wear rainbows, bright colors, and tie dye to celebrate the diversity within our school and within the LGBTQ+ Community. Our Rainbow Club will host a Pride Dance Party at recess.

[Anonymous]

We have spirit week this week but no mention of Pride month.

[Anonymous]

Ummm. You do know who Bayard Rustin is, right?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayard_Rustin

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ummm. You do know who Bayard Rustin is, right?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayard_Rustin

Very well versed in who Bayard Rustin was. He was a Black man, first and foremost, and no other month, including Black history month, was celebrated with a spirt week.

[Anonymous]

That’s nuts. I have never heard of a es doing this. Actually not even in ms or hs devote a whole week to this.

[Anonymous]

It's very common to have a spirit week towards the end of the year, but usually it is more frivolously themed. Things like Pajama Day, or Wear Your Clothing Backwards Day.

[Anonymous]

This seems like a perfectly fine spirit week for ES in celebration of Pride month. It highlights many of the ideals that are taught in ES like kindness, do unto others, confidence, community .

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is my first year in MCPS and my child’s elementary school, Bayard Rustin ES, celebrates Pride month with an entire spirit week. Is this happening at other elementary schools in MCPS? This seems more appropriate for middle or high school. Here is a snippet from the Principal’s weekly message:

Monday is Love is Love Day, where students are encouraged to wear red and lots of hearts to celebrate the fact that Love is Love and that everyone deserves love and kindness.
• Tuesday, June 4th is Trans Day of Acceptance, where students are encouraged to wear pink, light blue, and white to celebrate the bravery of the Trans Community.
• Wednesday, June 5th is The Golden Rule Day, where students are encouraged to wear yellow and gold to remind each other that at Bayard Rustin Elementary School, we follow The Golden Rule and treat others the way we want to be treated.
• Thursday, June 6th is Redfox Spirit Day, where students are encouraged to wear orange and Redfox Spirit Wear to celebrate our school Pride and everything we stand for!
• Friday, June 7th is Rainbow Day, where students are encouraged to wear rainbows, bright colors, and tie dye to celebrate the diversity within our school and within the LGBTQ+ Community. Our Rainbow Club will host a Pride Dance Party at recess.

WOW!!! I am really surprised! We are only doing spirit week. We don’t even have that at the HS level .

[Anonymous]

This seems fine. Don’t have your kid follow spirit week if you don’t want them to.

[Anonymous]

That seems like a lot for elementary. I like the themes but do we really need to discuss being trans with kindergartners?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This seems like a perfectly fine spirit week for ES in celebration of Pride month. It highlights many of the ideals that are taught in ES like kindness, do unto others, confidence, community .

agreed

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This seems like a perfectly fine spirit week for ES in celebration of Pride month. It highlights many of the ideals that are taught in ES like kindness, do unto others, confidence, community .

Love is love.
John Vigna’s defense.

[Anonymous]

What's your concern? I don't see any content inappropriate for elementary school... nothing about intercourse or anything like that. Feels like bog-standard "let's learn about and celebrate diversity" stuff, which is generally a great fit for elementary-school kids who might otherwise end up drawing some flawed conclusions that things that aren't "typical"/"normal" are bad. Not sure why people would be opposed to this unless you're anti-LGBTQ+?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What's your concern? I don't see any content inappropriate for elementary school... nothing about intercourse or anything like that. Feels like bog-standard "let's learn about and celebrate diversity" stuff, which is generally a great fit for elementary-school kids who might otherwise end up drawing some flawed conclusions that things that aren't "typical"/"normal" are bad. Not sure why people would be opposed to this unless you're anti-LGBTQ+?

This is obvious, not sure why you added a question mark as if this is an absurdity or impossibility. Some think homosexual activity is immoral.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:That seems like a lot for elementary. I like the themes but do we really need to discuss being trans with kindergartners?

Will they be defining and explaining LGBTQ+ and trans to the kids so they know what they are celebrating?