NJ first-graders to learn about gender identity in new sex-ed lessons

Planned sex education lessons for first-graders in New Jersey will include discussions of gender identity — outraging some parents and Republican politicians including potential presidential candidate and former Gov. Chris Christie.

A 30-minute lesson called “Pink, Blue and Purple” aims to teach the 6-year-olds to define “gender, gender identity and gender role stereotypes,” Fox News reported Friday.

It also includes instructions for teachers to tell students that their gender identity is up to them, according to materials reportedly distributed to parents at a Feb. 22 meeting of the Westfield Board of Education and posted online.

“You might feel like you’re a boy even if you have body parts that some people might tell you are ‘girl’ parts,” the lesson plan says.

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Canada is failing to teach its military history

The teaching of Canadian history in the nation’s universities is in trouble. Course enrolments have been and are continuing to fall dramatically and the numbers of history majors have collapsed. This, it is said, is true in all areas of historical study, not least in the history of Canada.

Why? First, there are few jobs for history graduates. A sensible student will opt for business or IT or law where they might even be able to make a living from their studies.

But there are likely many additional reasons and one surely is that historians have been working for decades to turn their discipline away from narrative and towards theory. Narrative tells a factual story while theory posits an abstruse rationale for what did or did not occur. The theorists prevail. Another reason is that the woke Canadian historians, now apparently the majority in the profession, have turned away from national history. The York University history calendar ungrammatically says it all: “Our courses focus on the thematic areas of indigeneity, culture, gender, social, political, environmental and sexuality.”

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Disturbing ‘gender inclusion’ workshop ripped online: ‘How to be an insane, terrible parent and teacher’

Footage has emerged of a California school district holding a training workshop seemingly designed to indoctrinate parents in radical gender ideology so that they can more successfully raise “gender-inclusive” children.

One video in the thread posted by the Libs of TikTok account shows a woman with the Napa Valley Unified School District describing to parents how young children sometimes identify themselves in non-biologically accurate ways like a “boy-girl/girl-boy,” “everything,” a “kid” or even a “gender smoothie.”

The woman in the video says children who describe themselves in such a manner “are trying to let us know who they are, how they feel about their identities, even if they don’t quite have that gender 101 vocabulary yet.”

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Disney CEO Bob Chapek vows to produce more gay content for kids – but gets slammed by parents

Disney employees walked out of the company’s headquarters on Tuesday to protest the slow response to Florida’s ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill as parents push back against the company’s last-minute attempts to shield itself from criticism that it’s not doing enough to support the LGBTQ community.

In a town hall meeting on Monday, CEO Bob Chapek said the entertainment behemoth would put together a task force to ensure that more LGBTQ-awareness content is available for children.

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Ontario high school teacher under investigation for opposing critical race theory

Former MonAvenir Catholic School Board (CSC) high school science teacher Chanel Pfahl is being investigated by the Ontario College of Teachers (OCT) for remarks and postings she made opposing critical race theory in schools.

“This is what teachers in Ontario are being investigated for nowadays,” said Pfahl in a tweet on Tuesday. “It looks like I will be needing a lawyer.”

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B.C. introducing Indigenous coursework requirement for secondary students

B.C. high school students will soon be required to complete Indigenous-focused coursework in order to graduate.

The requirement is scheduled to take effect in the 2023-24 school year, the provincial Ministry of Education said in a news release Friday.

The new graduation requirement is being implemented “in collaboration with the First Nations Education Steering Committee,” according to the province.

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Primer: Social Emotional Learning–The Delivery Mechanism For Critical Race Theory

“Every child in America entering school at the age of five is insane because he comes to school with certain allegiances to the Founding Fathers, towards his parents, towards our elected officials, toward a belief in a supernatural being, and toward the sovereignty of this nation as a separate entity. It’s up to you, teachers, to make all these sick children well by creating the international child of the future.”

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Massachusetts High School Pushes To Erase ‘Gendered Terms’ From Biology Class

In a lesson on human genetics, Needham High School biology students learned to use inclusive language when discussing sex. An accompanying slideshow, which Parents Defending Education released last week, defines gender as an individual’s “psychological sense of self” and asks students to research “gender fluidity” in nature.

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