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Insisting Law School Students Respect 1st Amendment Is Akin to ‘McCarthyism,’ Bloomberg Columnist Claims

March 26, 2023 Amendment, Students, Respect, McCarthyism, Insisting, Akin, Columnist, Bloomberg, Claims, school0 comment

A Bloomberg Law columnist is upset that students at Yale Law School didn’t protest the First Amendment and shout down an invited speaker, James Ho, a Trump-appointed judge who sits on the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. On March 15, Ho spoke at Yale Law School, and according to Vivia Chen’s opinion essay, his commentary went uninterrupted by angry student protesters. Following closely on the heels of another Trump-appointed 5th Circuit judge, Kyle Duncan, being shouted down by Stanford Law students, the fact that Ho’s speech was able to…

CDC Urges Teachers, Administrators, School Nurses to Adopt LGBT Curriculum, Endorse Transgender Identity

January 1, 2023 LGBT, Transgender, identity, nurses, Teachers', Administrators, Curriculum, urges, school, endorse, Adopt0 comment

Just days after Christmas, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention republished a “self-assessment tool” urging teachers, administrators, school health staff, and others to become an “awesome ally” by advocating for LGBT causes in school. The document cites multiple LGBT activist groups, including a division of the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC). The CDC did not respond to The Daily Signal’s request for comment about the document, which it originally published in October 2020. “School administrators: Our LGBTQ inclusivity self-assessment tool can help you quickly gauge inclusivity at your school,”…

Cross-Dressing Book Given to Pre-K Pupils Forces School District to Revamp Vetting Process

December 12, 2022 Given, vetting, CrossDressing, PreK, Pupils, District, school, revamp, Book, Forces, Process0 comment

A school district that gave preschoolers a book on cross-dressing has changed its procedures for giving out books after news of the incident surfaced late last month. As first reported exclusively by The Lion and The Heartlander news sites, a 4-year-old preschooler in the Turner School District in Kansas City, Kansas, took home the book “Jacob’s New Dress.” It’s a picture book in which a little boy wears girls’ clothes and even competes with his friend Emily to be a princess. “I don’t think this should be, obviously, any kind of a subject for a…

Public School Fires Substitute Teacher for Raising Concerns Over Book Depicting Same-Sex Couples

October 9, 2022 SameSex, Substitute, Depicting, Over, Couples, Public, school, Book, Fires, concerns, Raising, teacher0 comment

Lindsey Barr was fired from her substitute teaching job after expressing concern over the content of a book in the school library. Barr is a mother of three boys. All her children attend public school in Bryan County, Georgia, about 30 miles southwest of Savannah, where she also works as a substitute teacher. In August, Barr learned that McAllister Elementary School, where her first- and third-grade sons attend and where she sometimes works, planned to have the book “All Are Welcome” read during a “read aloud” story time in the…

Apparent Victory Rings Hollow for Group Opposing School Choice

September 23, 2022 Rings, Hollow, victory, choice, apparent, group, school, Opposing0 comment

The effort to block a massive expansion of education choice in Arizona appears to be running out of steam. Beth Lewis, executive director of the anti-school choice group Save Our Schools Arizona, or SOS, put on her best game face Friday afternoon as she announced that her group has gathered enough signatures to put the recent expansion of Arizona’s Empowerment Scholarship Account program on the ballot for voters to decide. But it wasn’t hard to detect Lewis’ disappointment. Earlier this summer, Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey, a Republican, signed a bill…

By Inserting Gender Identity, Team Biden Muddies Title IX’s Protections for Girls, Women at School

June 23, 2022 Inserting, Muddies, Biden, IX’s, Women, school, gender, title, Girls, team, Protections, identity0 comment

On the 50th anniversary of Title IX protections for girls and women, the Biden administration proposed rule changes in enforcing the law that would have dramatic repercussions for publicly funded schools around the country. The Education Department released a 700-page document Thursday announcing the proposed changes to Title IX regulations. Perhaps most significantly, the changes would extend the prohibition of discrimination based on sex to include sexual orientation and gender identity. It’s amazing how at this stage in the history of our republic, sweeping national social and political changes increasingly…