{"id":1247540,"date":"2022-01-27T13:38:42","date_gmt":"2022-01-27T18:38:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1247540"},"modified":"2022-01-27T13:38:52","modified_gmt":"2022-01-27T18:38:52","slug":"parents-outraged-4th-5th-graders-asked-to-join-queer-club-without-their-consent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/parents-outraged-4th-5th-graders-asked-to-join-queer-club-without-their-consent\/","title":{"rendered":"Parents Outraged: 4th-5th Graders Asked to Join Queer Club Without Their Consent"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fparents-outraged-4th-5th-graders-asked-to-join-queer-club-without-their-consent%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1247540&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/children-wave-gay-pride-lgbt-flags-stock-getty-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Parents of fourth and fifth graders in a Beaverton, Oregon, elementary school are outraged about the creation of a Queer Student Alliance (QSA) club they say their children were asked to join without their consent.<\/p>\n<p>At a January 18 virtual school board meeting, parents of children aged 9-11 years who attend <a href=\"https:\/\/raleighhills.beaverton.k12.or.us\/\">Raleigh Hills Elementary School<\/a> expressed concern about the appropriateness of the club, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reduxx.info\/post\/secretive-sexualities-club-at-elementary-school-raising-parent-concerns\">reported<\/a> Reduxx the following day.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n[embedded content]\n<p>Parent Bambi <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=U4YzmqZMRoU\">addressed<\/a> the school board (video begins at 56:18) regarding her experience with the school principal\u2019s alleged dismissal of her concerns:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>So, I\u2019m a parent of a fourth grader who had some fifth grade students come into her classroom and do a presentation on an LGBTQ club. My daughter was asked to sign up and she did because everybody was doing it and she thought that that\u2019s what she should do.<\/p>\n<p>I then became aware of email conversations back and forth between the principal and other school officials dating back to November of last year. The emails showed this club being planned out and how to go around needing parents\u2019 permission.<\/p>\n<p>These meetings are taking place during the school day and, per the emails, that was one of the ways to be able to get around parents needing to approve it. The emails instruct transparency, but only if a parent asks. Nothing came home with my daughter or was sent to me from the school explaining such a presentation was going to take place in the classroom. I was not given the opportunity to opt her out.<\/p>\n<p>Last year my daughter struggled a lot online and I asked the principal for help. After asking the teacher multiple times and was just being told to do the best we can. The principal said there really isn\u2019t anything that she could do for me and she emailed me a list of tutors that I could pay for.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m very disappointed that the request for my educational support was dismissed, yet I was left in the dark about her being exposed to a very inappropriate for her age presentation which feels more like her being groomed and recruited by older students.<\/p>\n<p>And I didn\u2019t send my daughter to school today and I didn\u2019t plan to until I had a conversation with the principal, and I did that today and, again, I was dismissed, and she downplayed the severity of the incident.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Democrats abuse children with mask mandates, COVID-19 fear-mongering, &#8220;critical race theory,&#8221; and &#8220;transgender&#8221; ideology, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RealBenCarson?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@RealBenCarson<\/a> said. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/plzNooKsMk\">https:\/\/t.co\/plzNooKsMk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartNews\/status\/1483834763622465539?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 19, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>More parents are discovering, and some taking legal action against, alleged \u201csecretive\u201d attempts on the part of activist teachers and school officials in indoctrinating young children in an LGBTQ agenda.<\/p>\n<p>As Breitbart News reported Tuesday, a California mother is now taking legal action against her school district, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/education\/2022\/01\/25\/california-moms-sues-school-district-claims-activist-teachers-gave-daughter-tips-on-how-to-bind-her-breasts\/\">claiming<\/a> two LGBTQ activist teachers \u201csecretly manipulated\u201d her 11-year-old daughter \u201cinto believing she was a transgender boy and gave tips on how to bind her breasts.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jessica Konen filed a legal claim against the Spreckles Union School District that states two teachers, Lori Caldeira and Kelly Baraki, from the Buena Vista Middle School, who headed the school\u2019s Equality Club, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/education\/2021\/12\/17\/parents-outraged-claim-teacher-coached-daughter-into-identifying-as-trans-fluid\/\">indoctrinated<\/a> her daughter into identifying as \u201ctrans fluid\u201d after encouraging her to join their lunchtime LGBTQ group they first called the \u201cEquality Club.<\/p>\n<p>Author and journalist Abigail Shrier&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/education\/2021\/11\/19\/abigail-shrier-activist-teachers-recruit-middle-schoolers-lgbtq-clubs-mock-parents\/\">revealed&nbsp;<\/a>in November that leaked authenticated documents showed the two middle school teachers touted a month earlier at a California Teachers Association (CTA) conference their \u201cbest practices for subverting parents, conservative communities and school principals on issues of gender identity and sexual orientation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Harmeet Dhillon, founder and CEO of the Center for American Liberty, filed the case on behalf of Konen and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-10428993\/Mother-teachers-manipulated-child-change-gender-identity.html\">told<\/a>&nbsp;DailyMail.com:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Parents are supposed to have access to all the educational records of their children.&nbsp;The concept that the schools have a right to be running secret, don\u2019t-tell-your-parents clubs and don\u2019t-tell-your-parents programs and actively coaching children how to mutilate themselves, which is you know, not growing your breasts, is certainly not consistent with California law.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Fairfax County Schools will survey students as young as 12 about sexual activity, transgender identity, and whether their parents bully them. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/peAYd6puUM\">https:\/\/t.co\/peAYd6puUM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartNews\/status\/1457335729877565447?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 7, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>According to Reduxx, Beaverton school board officials said their club was initiated, and is led by, two fifth-graders who claim to be transgender.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>But Jeanette Schade, a mother and former educator who runs a community organization called <a href=\"https:\/\/m.facebook.com\/permalink.php?id=104600124982364&amp;story_fbid=119562026819507\">Build Back Basics in Education<\/a>, challenged the school board officials\u2019 claim.<\/p>\n<p>Schade, who also spoke at the school board meeting, said she filed a public records request for information related to the club, and discovered that several teachers were involved and had planned to initiate it in November 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, she noted from the documents that teachers had been striving to keep the club a \u201csecret\u201d and to avoid parental knowledge of the club.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B4\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThey even inquired from district counsel,\u201d Schade told the school board. \u201cDistrict counsel also stated that, if it\u2019s held during the school day, non-instructional hours, not after school, parents do not need to be informed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor fourth and fifth grade students, this is absolutely appalling,\u201d she continued. \u201cParents should absolutely be informed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou cannot tell me \u2026 this club is being run by students,\u201d Schade asserted. \u201cThis club is very clearly directed by staff and it is clear which staff are directing this club. Just go look at the emails that I posted.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Dave Chappelle to transgender activists: &#8220;you will not summon me, I am not bending to anybody\u2019s demands.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/y9F1WMcEWw\">https:\/\/t.co\/y9F1WMcEWw<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartNews\/status\/1453143185111363589?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 26, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Erin Herrick, a member of <a href=\"https:\/\/saveoregonschools.org\/\">Save Oregon Schools<\/a>, said the Beaverton School District had failed to exhibit a \u201cculture of transparency,\u201d and had actually become a \u201cculture of secrecy\u201d with regard to the LGBTQ club.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy would this school, or this school district, purposely hide this from parents?\u201d she asked the school board. \u201cWhy would they have these elementary children sign contracts without parental knowledge or consent? What are the true motives behind the school hiding this club from the parents?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Raleigh Hills parents deserve to know all groups offered to students and give consent before having an adult lead a school-affiliated group,\u201d Herrick asserted.<\/p>\n<p>But Elessia Buddress, a parent who wore a rainbow-flag scarf, addressed the board and identified her daughter as being in a leadership role within the QSA club:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The word pride is a gross understatement for how I felt when I heard that the middle schoolers had started a QSA, a safe welcoming space for all in their community. My middle schooler has been an active participant in it all year. She found confidence in taking on a leadership role within the QSA while she typically does not feel comfortable talking in a larger group.<\/p>\n<p>Some folks in Beaverton and beyond are against such a club. If students came forward and asked to start a video game club or chess club would they be upset if they didn\u2019t get parental consent?<\/p>\n<p>I think it\u2019s that they\u2019re maybe homophobic, transphobic, queerphobic. I don\u2019t know what it is, but I do have to question their logic and morality.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">SHOCK: A Minnesota school district is using a sex ed program that asks straight students to role play gay and transgender relationships. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/90YgbSRTjH\">https:\/\/t.co\/90YgbSRTjH<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartNews\/status\/1442478388359405569?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 27, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>According to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/oregon-school-launches-lgbt-club-for-4th-and-5th-graders-no-parent-consent-needed\">report<\/a> at the Daily Wire:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Fourth graders at Raleigh Hills Elementary School, located in Beaverton, were presented with a slideshow in early January unveiling the formation of a QSA club \u2014 unbeknownst to parents. The presentation, which says the club will \u201chave conversations about identity, gender, equal rights, and social issues,\u201d \u201cexplore LGBTQ+ history and activism,\u201d as well as \u201cadvocate for change in our school and community,\u201d was presented by a social worker and a few fifth graders.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Social worker Amanda Cook allegedly distributed a sign-up sheet for students to join the QSA, the report continued.<\/p>\n<p>In one class, all but one boy signed up for the club. According to that boy\u2019s parents, Arlene KoePal and Zachary Beacock, their son insisted to Cook he could not sign up without his parents\u2019 permission.<\/p>\n<p>The parents said their son told him Cook said he did not need his parents\u2019 permission, and the fifth-graders who were presenting told him, in front of his entire class, that he would be \u201cmissing out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, the boy refused and said, according to his parents, \u201cI ain\u2019t signing no contract with the devil.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>KoePal, who described herself as \u201cliberal,\u201d told the Daily Wire she \u201clost it,\u201d and now does not believe the school district\u2019s claim the QSA was initiated by students.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not homophobic. But this just isn\u2019t right,\u201d she said. \u201cThis stuff needs to be taught at home. There is a bigger picture here. This isn\u2019t just a bunch of kids wanting to get together and start a club. Why would the school target fourth and fifth graders?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Since the club\u2019s start only several weeks ago, Reduxx reported it has apparently expanded to include over 40 students at the school \u2013 nearly eight percent of its total student body.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Another teammate of controversial transgender swimmer Lia Thomas has spoken out against the school and the NCAA for allowing the biological male to join the women\u2019s swim team. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Kf4vXXzZv9\">https:\/\/t.co\/Kf4vXXzZv9<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartNews\/status\/1485781232873058306?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 25, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The Daily Wire reported that Beaverton School District Superintendent Don Grotting gave his support to the QSA in a statement Friday:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>He slammed concerned parents who \u201cquestioned\u201d the club and its lack of transparency as using \u201ccharged and hurtful language,\u201d offering that \u201c[s]ome offered misinformation\u201d in a board meeting.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The report also observed members of the Beaverton Education Association (BEA), the local teachers\u2019 union, are in support of the QSA and applauded its creation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Parents of fourth and fifth graders in a Beaverton, Oregon, elementary school are outraged about the creation of a Queer Student Alliance (QSA) club they say their children were asked &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1247540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1247540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1247540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1247540\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1247540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1247540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1247540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}