It seems that every few days another story emerges showing that progressives are lying when they claim sexuality and gender identity are not being taught to young children without their parents’ knowledge. This one, coming from a California school, further demonstrates why Florida’s Parental Rights in Education law is necessary.
Glendale Unified Schools District (GUSD), parents became furious when they discovered that a third grade teacher had been working with the district to teach eight-year olds about gender identity and sexuality. These parents are seen berating school officials at an April 19 meeting.
They filed a public records demand. This turned up emails that revealed the teacher had been showing their children videos and making unsuitable comments about nudity. Tammy Tiber was identified by the parents.
According to the parents and a blog post published by the Gender Identity K-12 Team on Substack, the educator reached out to Glendale Unified School District’s Teaching and Learning Department, after a parent removed her child from a lesson being taught via Zoom on LGBTQ Pride Month.
“Today I talked to my class about LGBTQ pride month and played 2 short videos from YouTube that were geared towards kids,” Tiber’s email read. “A parent who heard the lesson and discussion made her daughter leave Zoom and texted me asking me when I was done discussing sexual orientation so that she could let her kids back into Zoom. I was planning on doing more lessons tomorrow and Wednesday, but now I’m afraid to.”
Teacher provided YouTube links for teaching children sexuality. The response from the district was “[d]o not be concerned or afraid,” and “[t]hank you for your bravery!”
At the school board meeting, one of the parents laid out the issue with Tiber’s choice of teaching. She stated:
“Instead of this teacher being concerned of what she did wrong, she goes to a district employee and asks for ways of how she can continue to teach sexual orientation to her third grade class. You guys want us to believe that this isn’t a propaganda, that no agenda is being held? This wasn’t just any sexuality class. It was designed for three days per week. She taught LGBTQ curriculum in her class.”
She continued to highlight the disrespect Tiber displayed for parents and children of her class. She added:
“It raises the question, how many of those students are excelling in that classroom? Is everybody in that class getting A’s in math, English, grammar, social studies that we can dedicate three days a week to teach eight-year-olds about sexual orientation? I don’t care what kind of sex is being discussed. The word ‘sexuality,’ ‘nudity’ does not belong in the ears in a classroom of eight-year-old kids. The teacher does what if the parent expresses concern? Completely disregards and goes behind the parents back trying to find ways of how to continue these lesson plans.”
The teacher taught LGBTQ subjects in class three days per week. https://t.co/i5G6nNcYzB pic.twitter.com/xtlj13A0qV
— Inside The Classroom (@InsideTheClass_) April 21, 2022
One mother complained to Tiber about the way she responded to her request for help in continuing teaching her class sexuality. She replied:
“This district staffer goes even further and gives more media recommendations to the teacher, but says to steer clear of content that says sexual or coming out, since it may raise red flags. Coaching the teacher in proven ways to advance your agenda while keeping it low-profile. Immediately after the release of this email chain, the parents at Jefferson Elementary who have or have had Ms. Tiber as their child’s teacher reached out to the principal and demanded answers.”
The mother added: “Why is gender and sexuality issues being taught to eight-year-olds to begin with?”
She was the teacher of LGBTQ topics and she taught it in her class every day for three days. https://t.co/i5G6nNcYzB pic.twitter.com/xtlj13A0qV
— Inside The Classroom (@InsideTheClass_) April 21, 2022
As if this weren’t already horrific enough, it gets even worse.
According to the Gender Identity K-12 Team’s Substack post, a group of parents met with GUSD’s administration a week before the email exchange occurred. “The group met regarding the topic of exposing children to topics of gender identity and sexual orientation during elementary school, which parents were concerned was too early for their children,” the authors wrote. The authors continued:
“The parents were told that their concerns would be taken into consideration and that their voices were heard. One week later, we see in this email that GUSD administrators doubled down on exposing 3rd graders to a very specific gender ideology, even after a parent asked that her child be opted out of the ‘lessons.’”
California’s ban on parents opting out their children from lessons about gender identity or sexual orientation is more outrageous. This is right. These topics can be presented to small children by schools. Parents are not allowed to stop them.
Even worse, California’s public schools are not even required to inform parents ahead of time when they plan to teach these lessons. After seeing their child learn on Zoom during the COVID-19 epidemic, the parents learned about it.
Instead of supporting the teaching of such material, the far right has decided to lie about it. These people ridicule those who suggest that these subjects are being taught to children. This is an attempt to make parents feel stupid for being concerned about the teachings of teachers to their children.
As more lies are revealed, progressives will find it more challenging to lie about the matter. They will need to confront the problem and stop lying about it. Now the question is, how will they defend what’s not possible?
You can view two videos of teacher that she showed or intended to show her students.
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