Parents kept in dark about elemenary school's LGBTQ club 'because there will be parents that say no'

Parents marginalized as school LGBTQ clubs kept secret

In the US and other countries, parents are finding themselves purposely circumvented by schools that promote LGBTQ agendas to their students. The most recent incident involves a California elementary school where a third-grade teacher opened the LGBTQ “UBU Club” for third- to sixth-grade students promoting it as a club for “boys who crush on boys” and “girls who crush on girls,” though all students are welcome. Students were incentivized to come with an offer of fun games for participating children.

Greg Burt wrote about this latest infringement on parental rights for the California Family Council. He explained that UBU was a secret LGBTQ club about which parents were not notified, nor were permission slips required for students to attend. Yet, Burt noted, a permission slip was necessary for attending the school’s garden club.

Why were no permission slips needed?

[I]t’s a safe place for students to go and discuss their sexuality without having to come out to their parents …
That was the answer that parent Mary Congdon got when she called her son’s 4th-grade teacher to find out why she never heard about the club. Her son returned home confused and full of questions after hearing about same-sex attraction from Daniel Bishop, the 3rd-grade teacher who started the club.

Because we fear there will be parents that say no,
responded principal Deidra Wood when Congdon called her to find out why they hadn’t required permission slips for the UBU Club. “You don’t say?!” she remarked about Wood's response. “That is beyond disrespectful to us parents. I’ve lost my trust in the school.”

Teachers taught to respond to parents’ resistance
Upset Pleasant Grove parents who met with the principal and a district administrator discovered that LGBTQ clubs had already been started in 5 to 10 other elementary schools and that officials weren’t sure the children needed permission to attend the club. However, the officials did say that they would put the club on hold while obtaining legal advice.

Education activist Heidi Moore, a mother of four and candidate for Elk Grove Unified School Board, Area 7, said school staff betrayed their trust. She was particularly alarmed that while the district hadn't responded for weeks to the parents' concerns, “it recently sent a flier to all district teachers, inviting them to a training on how to respond to resistance from parents against LGBTQ Clubs.”

The flier Moore mentioned, Burt explained, was “about resistance training and was emailed to elementary school teachers in their weekly bulletin a few weeks ago. The virtual course “Responding to Resistance" was lead [sic] by Oakland Unified School District LGBTQ Programming Specialist Schemain Evans.”

Burt wrote previously about the California Department of Education’s (CDE) ruling against a school district that wanted to notify parents if their child started publicly identifying as the opposite gender. They ignored an earlier federal court ruling that enjoined the CDE and another school district from hiding students’ gender identity from parents.

Colorado teachers encouraged students to change genders
In another such occurrence, in Colorado, Daily Caller writer Reagan Reese explained that two families are suing the school district because staff allegedly encouraged their daughters to

join a “secret” club aiming to transition students and conceal the club’s activities from parents.

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