Hoboken Public School District LGBTQ Choice Board features lesson teaching K-2 graders that it is ‘arguable’ that science is ‘apolitical, gender-neutral, and color-blind.’

A Hoboken Public School District LGBTQ History Month resource for grades K-2 states that science being “apolitical, gender-neutral, and color-blind…focused on finding truth” is “arguable since LGBTQ+ is largely less represented in STEM.” The resource plan also includes students creating their own rainbow flag, studying the meaning of the colors of the rainbow flag, and allyship.

The K-2 lesson plan linked on the district’s Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Office website titled LGBTQ Choice Board includes an activity that states, “science prides itself on being apolitical, gender-neutral, and color-blind – open to all, focused on finding truth” but is “arguable since LGBTQ+ is largely less represented in STEM.”

Other plan activities include studying the rainbow flag and having students “design a flag of their own that represents the values of their family, community and/or classroom.” Other activities include having students “engage in an appropriate study about the rainbow symbolism for the LGBTQ+ community” and engaging students in a “study about the importance of allyship.”