Uncommon Schools encourages staff to stop using words like “mother,” “father,” “boy” and “girl”
According to several staff members at Uncommon Schools, a charter network in Boston, teachers were required to take a class on “inclusive terms” that are “gender-neutral” to avoid “erasing women…
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THE WASHINGTON TIMES: Texas moms petition school board to remove 90 ‘pornographic books’
More than 1,500 parents have signed a petition by Texas mothers calling their school board to remove 90 “pornographic books” from children’s library shelves in the Keller Independent School District.
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TOWNHALL: Texas School Board Says Parents Should be Ashamed for Criticizing Sexually Explicit Library Books Online
A Texas school board has attributed the spread of sexually explicit material in books shelved at one of its school libraries to parents who have protested the books on social…
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West Hartford publishes “elementary social justice lessons standards and mentor texts;” transgender content introduced in Kindergarten
Parents from West Hartford contacted us at Parents Defending Education because of concern over the district’s focus on group identities in grades K through 5, including transgender content in kindergarten.
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DAILY CALLER: Texas School Board President Slams Parents For Protesting Pornographic Books
The president of the board of trustees of a Texas school district attacked parents who protested pornographic books that were available in school libraries.
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Las Cruces publishes policy draft in the name of being “gender inclusive”; includes changes to curriculum, student records and restroom access
Las Cruces Public Schools is following the national trend around the issue of gender identity and gender expansiveness in schools. They have published a draft of a policy titled, “Gender…
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Oshkosh Area Schools will now hide students’ gender identity changes from parents
The Director of Pupil Services in the Oshkosh Area Schools sent the following memo out to all school district staff on October 19, 2021.
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DAILY CALLER: Wisconsin School District Announces It Will Keep Parents In The Dark About Kids Declaring Themselves Transgender
A school district in Wisconsin has issued a memo telling employees to not inform parents about their children coming out as transgender.
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Milton Public Schools give intrusive survey to students, commit to affinity groups; parents express concern
In early 2021, parents from Milton, Massachusetts, reached out to Parents Defending Education, expressing concern about a 20-page survey given to their middle school and high school children, asking intrusive…
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