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Oregon Elementary School Hosts ‘Queer and Sexuality Alliance’ Club for Nine-Year-Olds – Opinion

By Pluralist / January 25, 2022

Can you recall what sexuality club your nine year old self was in?

If so, you’re likely a just-turned ten-year-old at Raleigh Hills Elementary School.

As relayed by The Daily Wire, the Beaverton education institution is offering its fourth graders something — as they sang on The Love Boat —Exciting and innovative

And speaking of love, it’s about romance: The QSA (Queer & Sexuality Alliance) club, as purportedly described in an early January slideshow, will “explore LGBTQ+ history and activism.”

That’s…

  • Lesbian romance
  • Gay love
  • Bisexual love

These are just a few of the many issues that will be studied by the group.

The grade-schoolers will get versed in ways to “advocate for change in [their] community;” they’ll “have conversations about identity, gender, equal rights, and social issues.”

Fifth graders will have the opportunity to join the club.

Nowadays, young people often combine sexuality with youth.

Nebraska plans to teach kindergarteners about gender identity in March and eleven-year-olds pansexuality, demigenderism and pansexuality last March.

Vermont handed condoms out to 11-year olds in November.

One month earlier, the Florida School Board member was in news for inviting elementary school children to visit a gay bar/grill.

Back to Oregon, I reference romance because sexuality — of course — concerns sex.

Is that something the nine-year old today would be interested in? Does maturity seem so far advanced?

In generations past, had such young children been spoken to about sex, they would likely have been confused, bored, or grossed out — or some combination of the three.

Minus the gross part, the same goes for “social issues.”

Regardless of the kids’ engagement, some Beaverton School District (BSD) parents aren’t amused.

Bambi Russell from one parent claims her daughter was forced to sign up without their permission.

“I wanted the opportunity to opt-out of that. So she could go to school, I sent her. … That’s not the place for that,” she told the TDW.

Arlene KoePal was another mother who had to be rescued:

“I lost it. … Why would the school target fourth and fifth graders?”

BSD Superintendent Don Grotting, and teachers from the Beaverton Education Association stand by their support.

The Wire reports that Jessica Pierce (representative) championed dignity.

“We have a moral and ethical responsibility to move beyond vague statements of tolerance and take direct actions that show we embrace ALL of who our children are, including their gender and sexuality identities. It is never too soon [to]Do this. Never. The elementary level QSA offers ALL RHS 4th and 5th grade kids the voluntary opportunity to connect with each other from positions of dignity and respect.”

At a January school board meeting in New York, several parents supported the club and some dads lashed out at it.

Following the assembly — in response to the pro-QSA commenter — one union member wrote, “That was beautiful. All children thrive when queer children thrive Amen to that.”

Educators talking with children about their sexuality may have been arrested decades ago.

We’ve come a long way since then.

Even so, surely many Americans would agree: Sex is a strange arena in which to place nine-year-olds…so they can “thrive.”

-ALEX

 

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