Wall Street Journal on Gender Storytime in Montgomery County

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Anonymous wrote:MCPS higher up has been highjacked by LGBTQ lobby.

Entire upper management should be fired for using elementary school kid for pushing their agenda and wasting tax payers money.

Cleaning MCPS upper management is necessary. Using education money for this should be unacceptable for anyone. It's really amazing that something like this went to supreme court.

Entire MCPS board and upper management is incompetent. They should be held accountable. Some one should lose thier job here.

Lists of people need to lose their jobs.

Lots

Unfortunately, Taylor is not in the business of firing people. He keeps the rot around and the BOE lets him get away with it.

No, he did fire people. And this was done by the prior super and Board.

5 out of the 6 people announced in this hiring held the same position before: https://mocoshow.com/2025/03/18/six-administrative-appointments-approved-by-board-of-education/

He is not firing deep enough or quickly enough to change MCPS in meaningful ways. He's shuffling the same players around within the system.

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Anonymous wrote:MCPS has gone overboard with the LGBTQ stuff. My middle school-aged daughter commented once that she felt they were trying to turn the kids gay. I'm being 100% real here.

It grooming , plain and simple.

You keep using that word. I don’t think it means what you think it means.

Fine, it’s indoctrination.

Forced indoctrination. DP

+1 it's disgusting.

I am an atheist so nothing to do with religion, but pushing LGBTQ agenda on elementary school kids is just sick.

So, treating all people with consideration and kindness like human beings is the LGBTQ agenda?

Treating people with kindness also means listening to people's concerns and views and striving to find compromise, which MCPS failed to do with the families and communities who filed suit.

Instead, Lynne Harris, the BOE and MCPS shunned, ostracized and silenced people who felt the abrupt removal of the opt-out was unfair to their values and beliefs.

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Anonymous wrote:MCPS has gone overboard with the LGBTQ stuff. My middle school-aged daughter commented once that she felt they were trying to turn the kids gay. I'm being 100% real here.

It grooming , plain and simple.

You keep using that word. I don’t think it means what you think it means.

Fine, it’s indoctrination.

Forced indoctrination. DP

+1 it's disgusting.

I am an atheist so nothing to do with religion, but pushing LGBTQ agenda on elementary school kids is just sick.

So, treating all people with consideration and kindness like human beings is the LGBTQ agenda?

Treating people with kindness also means listening to people's concerns and views and striving to find compromise, which MCPS failed to do with the families and communities who filed suit.

Instead, Lynne Harris, the BOE and MCPS shunned, ostracized and silenced people who felt the abrupt removal of the opt-out was unfair to their values and beliefs.

It's a yes-or-no question: "are parents allowed to opt their kids out of specific books"? What sort of compromise do you suggest?

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Anonymous wrote:MCPS has gone overboard with the LGBTQ stuff. My middle school-aged daughter commented once that she felt they were trying to turn the kids gay. I'm being 100% real here.

It grooming , plain and simple.

You keep using that word. I don’t think it means what you think it means.

Fine, it’s indoctrination.

Forced indoctrination. DP

+1 it's disgusting.

I am an atheist so nothing to do with religion, but pushing LGBTQ agenda on elementary school kids is just sick.

So, treating all people with consideration and kindness like human beings is the LGBTQ agenda?

Treating people with kindness also means listening to people's concerns and views and striving to find compromise, which MCPS failed to do with the families and communities who filed suit.

Instead, Lynne Harris, the BOE and MCPS shunned, ostracized and silenced people who felt the abrupt removal of the opt-out was unfair to their values and beliefs.

It's a yes-or-no question: "are parents allowed to opt their kids out of specific books"? What sort of compromise do you suggest?

The opt out WAS the compromise.

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Anonymous wrote:MCPS has gone overboard with the LGBTQ stuff. My middle school-aged daughter commented once that she felt they were trying to turn the kids gay. I'm being 100% real here.

It grooming , plain and simple.

You keep using that word. I don’t think it means what you think it means.

Fine, it’s indoctrination.

Forced indoctrination. DP

+1 it's disgusting.

I am an atheist so nothing to do with religion, but pushing LGBTQ agenda on elementary school kids is just sick.

So, treating all people with consideration and kindness like human beings is the LGBTQ agenda?

Treating people with kindness also means listening to people's concerns and views and striving to find compromise, which MCPS failed to do with the families and communities who filed suit.

Instead, Lynne Harris, the BOE and MCPS shunned, ostracized and silenced people who felt the abrupt removal of the opt-out was unfair to their values and beliefs.

It's a yes-or-no question: "are parents allowed to opt their kids out of specific books"? What sort of compromise do you suggest?

The opt out WAS the compromise.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:For those just taking comments that "Pride Puppy" is inappropriate at face value, take 3 minutes to watch this video of someone reading it and decide for yourselves. It's an ABC picture book about a family with two moms who go to a parade and their dog gets loose.

https://youtu.be/sisIwl07mc4?si=3veEJt4t2albvNGn

For young children? Yes. It’s inappropriate. As are pride parades.

There are family-friendly Pride events.

Would you object to a picture book about a family going to a Mardi Gras celebration on the assumption that all Mardi Gras celebrations inherently contain and therefore the book must depict people drinking and women flashing their boobs for beads?

DP. No. I don’t not mind anything about lent being taught to my children. I do NOT want the LGBQT message taught to my children. I do not want a perverse sexual lifestyle normalized in America.

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Anonymous wrote:MCPS has gone overboard with the LGBTQ stuff. My middle school-aged daughter commented once that she felt they were trying to turn the kids gay. I'm being 100% real here.

It grooming , plain and simple.

You keep using that word. I don’t think it means what you think it means.

Fine, it’s indoctrination.

Forced indoctrination. DP

+1 it's disgusting.

I am an atheist so nothing to do with religion, but pushing LGBTQ agenda on elementary school kids is just sick.

So, treating all people with consideration and kindness like human beings is the LGBTQ agenda?

Treating people with kindness also means listening to people's concerns and views and striving to find compromise, which MCPS failed to do with the families and communities who filed suit.

Instead, Lynne Harris, the BOE and MCPS shunned, ostracized and silenced people who felt the abrupt removal of the opt-out was unfair to their values and beliefs.

Exactly like tolerating and listening to the bigotry and hate of others rooted in their religious biases.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:MCPS has gone overboard with the LGBTQ stuff. My middle school-aged daughter commented once that she felt they were trying to turn the kids gay. I'm being 100% real here.

It grooming , plain and simple.

You keep using that word. I don’t think it means what you think it means.

Fine, it’s indoctrination.

Forced indoctrination. DP

+1 it's disgusting.

I am an atheist so nothing to do with religion, but pushing LGBTQ agenda on elementary school kids is just sick.

So, treating all people with consideration and kindness like human beings is the LGBTQ agenda?

The books and lesson guides go beyond inclusion and veer into proselytization. Why does a Pre-k alphabet book need to include drag queens and a Pride Parade? What purpose does it serve besides indoctrination?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:MCPS has gone overboard with the LGBTQ stuff. My middle school-aged daughter commented once that she felt they were trying to turn the kids gay. I'm being 100% real here.

It grooming , plain and simple.

You keep using that word. I don’t think it means what you think it means.

Fine, it’s indoctrination.

Forced indoctrination. DP

+1 it's disgusting.

I am an atheist so nothing to do with religion, but pushing LGBTQ agenda on elementary school kids is just sick.

So, treating all people with consideration and kindness like human beings is the LGBTQ agenda?

The books and lesson guides go beyond inclusion and veer into proselytization. Why does a Pre-k alphabet book need to include drag queens and a Pride Parade? What purpose does it serve besides indoctrination?

DP. It represents the diverse community MCPS students live in.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:MCPS has gone overboard with the LGBTQ stuff. My middle school-aged daughter commented once that she felt they were trying to turn the kids gay. I'm being 100% real here.

It grooming , plain and simple.

You keep using that word. I don’t think it means what you think it means.

Fine, it’s indoctrination.

Forced indoctrination. DP

+1 it's disgusting.

I am an atheist so nothing to do with religion, but pushing LGBTQ agenda on elementary school kids is just sick.

So, treating all people with consideration and kindness like human beings is the LGBTQ agenda?

Treating people with kindness also means listening to people's concerns and views and striving to find compromise, which MCPS failed to do with the families and communities who filed suit.

Instead, Lynne Harris, the BOE and MCPS shunned, ostracized and silenced people who felt the abrupt removal of the opt-out was unfair to their values and beliefs.

Exactly like tolerating and listening to the bigotry and hate of others rooted in their religious biases.

We hate you for not letting us indoctrinate your children. We aren't even going to pretend it's not indoctrination.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:MCPS has gone overboard with the LGBTQ stuff. My middle school-aged daughter commented once that she felt they were trying to turn the kids gay. I'm being 100% real here.

It grooming , plain and simple.

You keep using that word. I don’t think it means what you think it means.

Fine, it’s indoctrination.

Forced indoctrination. DP

+1 it's disgusting.

I am an atheist so nothing to do with religion, but pushing LGBTQ agenda on elementary school kids is just sick.

So, treating all people with consideration and kindness like human beings is the LGBTQ agenda?

Treating people with kindness also means listening to people's concerns and views and striving to find compromise, which MCPS failed to do with the families and communities who filed suit.

Instead, Lynne Harris, the BOE and MCPS shunned, ostracized and silenced people who felt the abrupt removal of the opt-out was unfair to their values and beliefs.

Exactly like tolerating and listening to the bigotry and hate of others rooted in their religious biases.

This attitude is precisely why MCPS is where it is and why it's going to lose this Supreme Court case. Your approach is not winning in the courts or the general public. And instead of pivoting, compromising or evolving, you rather double down on it.

How's that working out for you?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:MCPS has gone overboard with the LGBTQ stuff. My middle school-aged daughter commented once that she felt they were trying to turn the kids gay. I'm being 100% real here.

It grooming , plain and simple.

You keep using that word. I don’t think it means what you think it means.

Fine, it’s indoctrination.

Forced indoctrination. DP

+1 it's disgusting.

I am an atheist so nothing to do with religion, but pushing LGBTQ agenda on elementary school kids is just sick.

So, treating all people with consideration and kindness like human beings is the LGBTQ agenda?

The books and lesson guides go beyond inclusion and veer into proselytization. Why does a Pre-k alphabet book need to include drag queens and a Pride Parade? What purpose does it serve besides indoctrination?

DP. It represents the diverse community MCPS students live in.

It does more than just provide "representation." It is very clearly a propaganda tool with a political agenda. You would not be in support of a similar book with a POV you disagreed with being pushed on your kids and you know it.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:MCPS has gone overboard with the LGBTQ stuff. My middle school-aged daughter commented once that she felt they were trying to turn the kids gay. I'm being 100% real here.

It grooming , plain and simple.

You keep using that word. I don’t think it means what you think it means.

Fine, it’s indoctrination.

Forced indoctrination. DP

+1 it's disgusting.

I am an atheist so nothing to do with religion, but pushing LGBTQ agenda on elementary school kids is just sick.

So, treating all people with consideration and kindness like human beings is the LGBTQ agenda?

The books and lesson guides go beyond inclusion and veer into proselytization. Why does a Pre-k alphabet book need to include drag queens and a Pride Parade? What purpose does it serve besides indoctrination?

DP. It represents the diverse community MCPS students live in.

It does more than just provide "representation." It is very clearly a propaganda tool with a political agenda. You would not be in support of a similar book with a POV you disagreed with being pushed on your kids and you know it.

We live in Montgomery County, Maryland. Drag queens and pride parades are part of life in this area.

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Anonymous wrote:MCPS has gone overboard with the LGBTQ stuff. My middle school-aged daughter commented once that she felt they were trying to turn the kids gay. I'm being 100% real here.

It grooming , plain and simple.

You keep using that word. I don’t think it means what you think it means.

Fine, it’s indoctrination.

Forced indoctrination. DP

+1 it's disgusting.

I am an atheist so nothing to do with religion, but pushing LGBTQ agenda on elementary school kids is just sick.

So, treating all people with consideration and kindness like human beings is the LGBTQ agenda?

Treating people with kindness also means listening to people's concerns and views and striving to find compromise, which MCPS failed to do with the families and communities who filed suit.

Instead, Lynne Harris, the BOE and MCPS shunned, ostracized and silenced people who felt the abrupt removal of the opt-out was unfair to their values and beliefs.

Exactly like tolerating and listening to the bigotry and hate of others rooted in their religious biases.

This attitude is precisely why MCPS is where it is and why it's going to lose this Supreme Court case. Your approach is not winning in the courts or the general public. And instead of pivoting, compromising or evolving, you rather double down on it.

How's that working out for you?

MCPS's approach actually did win in all the courts thus far.

[Anonymous]

Why is MCPS and the county wasting huge amounts of money on this? This is exactly why they keep raising taxes. Just never ending progressive agenda junk that costs massive amounts of money while not improving education at all.

What happened to a normal curriculum? Reading, writing, math, history, language, and science. Done.

But nah, they need the alternative math where they first have to learn numbers are racist. They can't learn science because chemistry is sexist since reactions are named after men. They can't do any reading because Jack and Jill are oppressive, it has to be Jack and John. Good god, just total paralysis. Why can't parents who want drag reading hours and Pride Puppy do all of that stuff at home rather than trying to forcefeed it? No big deal. Where do you draw the line? What's next, demanding full blown Communist indoctrination curricula and America bad be taught with no opt out? At some point this stuff is indoctrination, not education.