{"id":1433984,"date":"2022-04-12T18:59:36","date_gmt":"2022-04-12T22:59:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1433984"},"modified":"2022-04-12T18:59:47","modified_gmt":"2022-04-12T22:59:47","slug":"watch-high-schoolers-assembled-to-watch-french-teachers-drag-performance-for-fine-arts-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-high-schoolers-assembled-to-watch-french-teachers-drag-performance-for-fine-arts-week\/","title":{"rendered":"WATCH: High Schoolers Assembled To Watch French Teacher\u2019s Drag Performance For \u2018Fine Arts Week\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/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%2Fwatch-high-schoolers-assembled-to-watch-french-teachers-drag-performance-for-fine-arts-week%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=1433984&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:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/04\/GettyImages-200371990-006.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Last week, high schoolers in a Wisconsin town not far from Madison had to endure a sing and dance routine by a French teacher from the school, who was dressed in drag. Shannon Valladolid, the district\u2019s director of Information and Public Relations, reportedly admitted that staff performances are vetted by the high school\u2019s teaching faculty.<\/p>\n<p>French teacher Matthew Kashdan, whose\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/matthew-kashdan\">LinkedIn page<\/a> states he is \u201clooking to shift away from K-12 public education and into higher education study abroad programming and advising,\u201d performed for the students during Middleton High School\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcpasd.k12.wi.us\/o\/mhs\/events\">Fine Arts Week<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKashdan strutted onto the auditorium stage in a high-cut, blue sequinned dress, red boots and blond wig, lip-syncing and dancing to \u2018Rain on Me\u2019 by pop divas Lady Gaga and Ariana Grande,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/empowerwisconsin.org\/middleton-highs-fine-arts-week-kind-of-a-drag\/\">Empower Wisconsin<\/a> reported, adding, \u201cIt was all a surprise to the assembled students.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;Most of you know me as the French teacher, but now you will know me as the drag teacher!&#8221; Middleton students treated to this performance as part of &#8220;Fine Arts Week.&#8221; (Middleton students are 47% proficient in math and 49% in language arts.) <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/bEFMIUxXmo\">pic.twitter.com\/bEFMIUxXmo<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Dan Lennington (@DanLennington) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DanLennington\/status\/1513910321060188160?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 12, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>A Middleton-Cross Plains Area Schools parent alerted radio host Vicki McKenna in an email, writing:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>I send my children to school and entrust them to teachers that I have to believe are professionals who won\u2019t destroy their innocence for their own pleasure. If MATTHEW KASHDAN makes a decision to perform his drag show at school, what else does he do in his classroom with a roomful of children? What kind of educators thought this was appropriate? Drag shows are \u201cfine arts\u201d?\u00a0 If a teacher is a pole dancer or stripper, can they also perform for my children? \u2026 I don\u2019t care what MATTHEW KASHDAN does outside of school. I DO CARE what he does at Middleton High School.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Valladolid declared in an email to Empower Wisconsin, \u201cThe week is full of performances that are enjoyed by students and staff alike. Performances range from music to dance to martial arts, culinary arts, visual arts, language arts, and other arts that fit our extensive definition of The Arts.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Efforts to make children more aware of drag queens have included Lego\u2019s offering an LGBTQ+ set called \u201cEveryone Is Awesome\u201d that consisted of 11 figures, all but one of which had no gender assigned, while the only one with a specific gender represented \u201cthe fabulous drag queens out there,\u201d according to the designer, Matthew Ashton, who also happened to be the vice president of design at the toymaker.<\/p>\n<p>Ashton said of the purple drag queen figure that it was \u201ca clear nod to all the fabulous drag queens out there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ashton told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/may\/20\/everyone-is-awesome-lego-launch-first-lgbtq-set\">The Guardian<\/a>, \u201cGrowing up as an LGBTQ+ kid \u2013 being told what I should play with, how I should walk, how I should talk, what I should wear \u2013 the message I always got was that somehow I was \u2018wrong.\u2019 Trying to be someone I wasn\u2019t was exhausting. I wish, as a kid, I had looked at the world and thought: \u2018This is going to be OK, there\u2019s a place for me.\u2019 I wish I\u2019d seen an inclusive statement that said \u2018everyone is awesome.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wanted to create a model that symbolizes inclusivity and celebrates everyone, no matter how they identify or who they love,\u201d he continued. \u201cEveryone is unique, and with a little more love, acceptance and understanding in the world, we can all feel more free to be our true AWESOME selves! This model shows that we care, and that we truly believe \u2018Everyone is awesome!\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest growing conservative media companies for breaking news, investigative reporting, sports, podcasts, in-depth analysis, books, and entertainment for a reason: because we believe in what we do. We believe in our country, in the value of truth and the freedom to speak it, and in the right to challenge tyranny wherever we see it. 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