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[Eddie_T]

I wouldn't even approve of a normal lady reading to my my kids dressed as the drag queen in the pic. In NC public libraries were used but taxes pay for public libraries so citizens should step up. There's a whole 'nother thing going on with the scenario and some people fail to see it. They may be trolling for queers.

Drag Story Hour, formed in 2015, encourages children to read and to be their authentic selves by giving them queer role models, according to the organization. Typically a drag queen or king leads creative activities, reads a book to the children and may perform songs and dances.​

 

[Flyover]

I wouldn't even approve of a normal lady teaching my kids dressed as the drag queen in the pic. Probably the school board wouldn't either. There's a whole 'nother thing going on with that scenario and some people fail to see it.

I didn't see a picture; DDG blocked the thing Spicoli shared unless I consented to be tracked by Facebook, which I don't.

By coincidence, I had a discussion elsewhere a while back in which someone was trying to convince me that activist teachers could introduce an explicitly pro-trans curriculum, designed to convert kids to being trans, without parents knowing. I found my local school district's handbook and read the relevant parts of it. Nothing I found suggested it would be possible to do what this person said could happen, and everything I found suggested a teacher would be suspended if they tried. (This person fell back on "Well it happened in this one place one time.")

By another coincidence, I was at my kids' school twice this week: the first time as a volunteer helping out with a classroom activity and the second time watching my oldest's promotion ceremony. Teachers generally were dressed conservatively; about the raciest thing any teacher had on was a T-shirt that was tighter than "baggy". While there are always parts of dress codes that go unenforced, I suspect dress code violations in the category "sexual suggestiveness" are enforced strictly.

If someone is telling you to be worried about something, and can't substantiate it, take note of who signs that person's checks.

 

[Eddie_T]

I edited my post above since public libraries were the venue, at least in NC. It's not just some obscure other side of the country occurrence.

 

[Eddie_T]

There's apparently a chapter in Tulsa if you want to take your kids;

A national movement in which drag queens read stories to children at schools, libraries, and bookstores.​

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This will be the first event at Magic City Books for the Tulsa chapter.​

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Featuring:​

Vivian Fontaine Deveroux, Anita Richards, and Keisha Kye.​

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Free and open to all.​

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Bring the kids. Have a blast!​

 

[Flyover]

OK I just found the Wikipedia page. Drag Queen Story Hour - Wikipedia

It's about what you'd expect. It takes places in libraries, not public schools. They read classic kids' books as well as stuff like biographies of the person who created the rainbow flag. (I'd consider that uninteresting and unworthy of my kids' time, but not inappropriate.)

I don't think I'd want to go to such an event, but I also don't see any evidence that any kids have been harmed by it.

Once again, if someone is telling you to be worried but they can't show you what exactly you're supposed to be worried about, take a look at who signs their checks.

 

[Eddie_T]

The clip said schools so I guess they are in the game plan, maybe not as accessible. Not sure why you're trying to downplay it‽

 

[Flyover]

Not sure why you're trying to downplay it‽

Eddie, as a parent I'm constantly bombarded by people telling me about stuff I'm supposed to worry about. When I look closer, 99% of the time this stuff turns out to be nothing. Meanwhile the world around me is (evidently) in hysterics over it. I refuse to take part. The boy has cried wolf too many times. I don't find drag queens reading to kids appealing or necessary, but so far nobody can tell me how it has actually harmed a single kid.

At my kids' school they aren't allowed to play in the snow at recess. I suspect at least in that case this ridiculous policy began because someone somewhere got hurt. As far as I can see, drag queens reading to kids fails to rise even to that standard.

Edited to add: another reason I'm suspicious about this, and what I meant by "take a look at who signs their checks", is that these kinds of outrage nothingburger stories are typically amplified by people with an agenda, whether they're trying to get money, votes, or whatever. I am opposed to helping them.

 

[Flyover]

To the thread, I hope I'll get the dresser drawers and vertical dresser pieces done today, in little breaks in my actual work and stuff. The kids are out of school and I've been sick all week though, so we'll see...

 

[Snoonyb]

Eddie, as a parent I'm constantly bombarded by people telling me about stuff I'm supposed to worry about. When I look closer, 99% of the time this stuff turns out to be nothing. Meanwhile the world around me is (evidently) in hysterics over it. I refuse to take part. The boy has cried wolf too many times. I don't find drag queens reading to kids appealing or necessary, but so far nobody can tell me how it has actually harmed a single kid.

At my kids' school they aren't allowed to play in the snow at recess. I suspect at least in that case this ridiculous policy began because someone somewhere got hurt. As far as I can see, drag queens reading to kids fails to rise even to that standard.

Edited to add: another reason I'm suspicious about this, and what I meant by "take a look at who signs their checks", is that these kinds of outrage nothingburger stories are typically amplified by people with an agenda, whether they're trying to get money, votes, or whatever. I am opposed to helping them

Interestingly, I didn't, in your remarks, notice any mention of you having a discussion with your children about whether or not those subjects had been broached at their schools, or what the discussion would have been, as well as your parental, response, had they been.

Or, are you so disinterested, as to have summarily dismissed those subjects, as beneath the realm of possible influence, on a young, fertile and impressionable mind?

 

[Flyover]

Interestingly, I didn't, in your remarks, notice any mention of you having a discussion with your children about whether or not those subjects had been broached at their schools, or what the discussion would have been, as well as your parental, response, had they been.

Or, are you so disinterested, as to have summarily dismissed those subjects, as beneath the realm of possible influence, on a young, fertile and impressionable mind?

I get weekly emails about my kids' curricula, which are set and discussed a year in advance by the school board. If there was a plan to bring in drag queens to read the kids books intended to influence them in a negative way, it would be well-known.

Do people imagine that public school teachers are deciding on a whim what material to teach students, and who to bring into the schools, without oversight?

 

[Spicoli43]

I mean, like what books? Can you give examples? Titles? You said "gay tranny switcheroo crap" -- are there books matching this description, and if so, what effect do they have on kids that parents should be worried about? If you'd been read such a book when you were a kid, what effect do you think it'd have had on you?


Drag queens is a whole subculture thing within gay culture. I don't know much about it, but I don't have any reason to think drag queens would be more likely attracted to little kids than average. If you have some conclusive data or something on that, maybe I can be persuaded otherwise.

As a parent you have to decide what is worth your time and energy to worry about. There's always gonna be stuff that journalists and activists get paid to tell you to worry about. If it's not drag queens, it's heavy metal or rap music, or violent video games, or too many skinny women on TV, or whatever. The common denominator might either be people who think kids are helpless blobs, or maybe people who get off on worrying.

If Drag Queens weren't attracted to little kids, they would be hanging out in their gay bars where (so far) kids aren't allowed in most States.

https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/c...book-found-fl-elementary-regular-oral-gay-sex

 

[Spicoli43]

I didn't see a picture; DDG blocked the thing Spicoli shared unless I consented to be tracked by Facebook, which I don't.

By coincidence, I had a discussion elsewhere a while back in which someone was trying to convince me that activist teachers could introduce an explicitly pro-trans curriculum, designed to convert kids to being trans, without parents knowing. I found my local school district's handbook and read the relevant parts of it. Nothing I found suggested it would be possible to do what this person said could happen, and everything I found suggested a teacher would be suspended if they tried. (This person fell back on "Well it happened in this one place one time.")

By another coincidence, I was at my kids' school twice this week: the first time as a volunteer helping out with a classroom activity and the second time watching my oldest's promotion ceremony. Teachers generally were dressed conservatively; about the raciest thing any teacher had on was a T-shirt that was tighter than "baggy". While there are always parts of dress codes that go unenforced, I suspect dress code violations in the category "sexual suggestiveness" are enforced strictly.

If someone is telling you to be worried about something, and can't substantiate it, take note of who signs that person's checks.

They aren't going to do anything when non faculty is present. In some areas, they have passed / are trying to pass laws in which the kids can be taught whatever gay stuff the Demonic cult wants to teach them without parental approval, including that they can change their sex, which normal people know is impossible.

Here's your pic you missed...

https://texasscorecard.com/metrople...vent-features-explicit-performances-for-kids/

 

[Spicoli43]

I get weekly emails about my kids' curricula, which are set and discussed a year in advance by the school board. If there was a plan to bring in drag queens to read the kids books intended to influence them in a negative way, it would be well-known.

Do people imagine that public school teachers are deciding on a whim what material to teach students, and who to bring into the schools, without oversight?

If you THINK that you know what goes on in the school, you're probably wrong. You haven't demonstrated that you would care if they were taught about gay sex though, and since your constant overall thinking of "It doesn't matter to me because nothing is happening to me right now", you probably won't investigate it.

 

[Snoonyb]

I get weekly emails about my kids' curricula, which are set and discussed a year in advance by the school board. If there was a plan to bring in drag queens to read the kids books intended to influence them in a negative way, it would be well-known.

Do people imagine that public school teachers are deciding on a whim what material to teach students, and who to bring into the schools, without oversight?

It's not that they have decided on a whim, a subject, however, had the subject been broached, in class, as simply a question or an opinion upon, a particular social subject, in the news.

Teachers are not restricted from asking question, which can lead to an eventual broadening of a discussion, of which they assume the position of arbiter, IE, agenda driver.

 

[Flyover]

If Drag Queens weren't attracted to little kids, they would be hanging out in their gay bars where (so far) kids aren't allowed in most States.

By that logic, schoolteachers, principles, lunch ladies, and janitors must be attracted to little kids too. And yes, in reality, some tiny fraction of them are! Should I pull my kids out of school, quit my job, and home school them because I'm afraid of this possibility?

they have passed / are trying to pass laws in which the kids can be taught whatever gay stuff the Demonic cult wants to teach them without parental approval

Read the details and I'm certain you will find you are wrong. All three school districts I've lived in while having kids have explicit policies about what is taught and that parents have a say in it. In every case, the curriculum is communicated in advance for review, and then after it is approved parents can still opt to have their kids pulled out of class for any non-core (reading/math) subjects they are uncomfortable with their children learning. That's true for basic health class, let alone sex ed.

If you THINK that you know what goes on in the school, you're probably wrong.

Oh, so I should instead hallucinate that the school is teaching my kids stuff I don't approve of behind my back, and waste my life worrying about that, so at least I can not be "probably wrong". Got it.

You haven't demonstrated that you would care if they were taught about gay sex though

Each of my kids started asking me around age 5 "where do babies come from" and I explained it to them. By the time they get to 4th grade, which is when their school has a week of sex ed classes, they already realize there are gay people in the world. I don't think I've told my kids the details of exactly how gay people have sex, but it isn't because I'm afraid to, they just haven't asked and it wasn't on my mind. If that topic gets brought up in 4th grade sex ed class and the teacher explains it, then no I don't really care.

America was founded by puritans so it's not surprising that Americans are typically very prudish about this stuff.

 

[Snoonyb]

If Drag Queens weren't attracted to little kids, they would be hanging out in their gay bars where (so far) kids aren't allowed in most States.

https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/c...book-found-fl-elementary-regular-oral-gay-sex

Take the lgtbq alphabet soup crowd, who after months of promotion, while demanding social legitimacy, were in fact, legitimized by "Chucky".

Which road we travel.

 

[Flyover]

It's not that they have decided on a whim, a subject, however, had the subject been broached, in class, as simply a question or an opinion upon, a particular social subject, in the news.

Teachers are not restricted from asking question, which can lead to an eventual broadening of a discussion, of which they assume the position of arbiter, IE, agenda driver.

Should I be worried about any offhand comment a teacher might make that might lead to a discussion whose content would make some people squeamish then? Maybe we should replace teachers with robots who can only teach what they are programmed to and will not entertain questions brought forth by curious youngsters?

 

[Snoonyb]

"Oh, so I should instead hallucinate that the school is teaching my kids stuff I don't approve of behind my back, and waste my life worrying about that, so at least I can not be "probably wrong". Got it."

However, you haven't asked, if.

 

[Snoonyb]

Should I be worried about any offhand comment a teacher might make that might lead to a discussion whose content would make some people squeamish then? Maybe we should replace teachers with robots who can only teach what they are programmed to and will not entertain questions brought forth by curious youngsters?

The teacher, is there to instruct, in the subject at hand, however, and I have pages of denial, proven false, where the head of the national teachers union has promoted questionable materials as well as denouncing, detractors of hers.

 

[Spicoli43]

By that logic, schoolteachers, principles, lunch ladies, and janitors must be attracted to little kids too. And yes, in reality, some tiny fraction of them are! Should I pull my kids out of school, quit my job, and home school them because I'm afraid of this possibility?


Read the details and I'm certain you will find you are wrong. All three school districts I've lived in while having kids have explicit policies about what is taught and that parents have a say in it. In every case, the curriculum is communicated in advance for review, and then after it is approved parents can still opt to have their kids pulled out of class for any non-core (reading/math) subjects they are uncomfortable with their children learning. That's true for basic health class, let alone sex ed.


Oh, so I should instead hallucinate that the school is teaching my kids stuff I don't approve of behind my back, and waste my life worrying about that, so at least I can not be "probably wrong". Got it.


Each of my kids started asking me around age 5 "where do babies come from" and I explained it to them. By the time they get to 4th grade, which is when their school has a week of sex ed classes, they already realize there are gay people in the world. I don't think I've told my kids the details of exactly how gay people have sex, but it isn't because I'm afraid to, they just haven't asked and it wasn't on my mind. If that topic gets brought up in 4th grade sex ed class and the teacher explains it, then no I don't really care.

America was founded by puritans so it's not surprising that Americans are typically very prudish about this stuff.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=schools+teaching+gay+behind+parents+backs&t=brave&ia=web