{"id":1447932,"date":"2022-04-20T14:46:45","date_gmt":"2022-04-20T18:46:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1447932"},"modified":"2022-04-20T14:47:02","modified_gmt":"2022-04-20T18:47:02","slug":"french-instructor-who-performed-drag-show-before-students-pursuing-new-career","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/french-instructor-who-performed-drag-show-before-students-pursuing-new-career\/","title":{"rendered":"French Instructor Who Performed Drag Show Before Students Pursuing New Career"},"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\">22<\/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%2Ffrench-instructor-who-performed-drag-show-before-students-pursuing-new-career%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=1447932&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\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-531111888.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>A Wisconsin high school teacher who went viral and drew parental condemnation for dancing before students in drag \u2014 as part of the school\u2019s \u201cfine arts week\u201d \u2014 has reportedly resigned from his position to pursue a new career. His former employer claims that his change of jobs is unrelated to his risque performance.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, The Daily Mail <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-10730873\/High-School-French-teacher-resigns-furious-parents-slam-drag-performance.html\">reported<\/a> that Matt Kashdan, a French-language teacher at Middleton High School outside of Madison, Wisconsin, resigned from the job despite defending his dance routine to a local media outlet on Friday, April 17.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll this has done has just showed me the power of drag and how important it is for our community,\u201d he<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wkow.com\/news\/after-teachers-drag-performance-sparks-controversy-students-staff-show-abundance-of-support\/article_b877d63a-bea3-11ec-a127-ef985721b0e9.html\"> told<\/a> WKOW 27, Madison\u2019s ABC affiliate.<\/p>\n<p>The Daily Wire previously <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/watch-high-schoolers-assembled-to-watch-french-teachers-drag-performance-for-fine-arts-week\">reported<\/a> that during the skit, Kashdan had announced to the entire audience, including minors, \u201cMost of you know me as the French teacher, but now you will know me as the drag teacher!\u201d before strutting out in heavy make-up and female attire.<\/p>\n<p>Part of the performance can be seen here (warning: graphic language):<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Students in an <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mcpasd?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@mcpasd<\/a> school were treated to a drag queen performance by a \u201cdrag teacher\u201d during school hours. Imagine if they focused on teaching math, science, and history instead of drag. This is sickening. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/TvyoQ8pW6r\">pic.twitter.com\/TvyoQ8pW6r<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/libsoftiktok\/status\/1513932643494084609?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 12, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In a comment to WKOW, Kashdan added, \u201cThe coolest thing was that when I went back to school after all of this media stuff had happened, all around the school there were these signs posted saying we support you, LGBTQ rights matter.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Based on feedback, some parents and guardians obviously did not agree with Kashdan\u2019s assessment.<\/p>\n<p>In an email to Wisconsin radio host Vicki McKenna, one unnamed parent reportedly blasted the now-former teacher:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI 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,\u201d the parent reportedly wrote. \u201cIf 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 \u2018fine arts\u2019?\u00a0 If a teacher is a pole dancer or stripper, can they also perform for my children?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The district\u2019s Director of Information and Public Relations, Shannon Valladolid, reportedly admitted that staff performances are vetted by the high school\u2019s teaching faculty.<\/p>\n<p>In an email sent to Empower Wisconsin, Valladolid appeared to defend Kashdan\u2019s provocative dance, saying, \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>WKOW reported that \u201cthere wasn\u2019t any protocol in place for administrative approval\u201d of the drag performance, adding that \u201cKashdan had checked with an event organizer ahead of time to make sure his performance was okay.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The school also sent an email explaining, \u201cThe teacher involved in the controversial performance resigned his position weeks ago. His resignation is in no way connected to his performance. He will not be returning to our school next year in order to pursue other career paths outside of education.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Neither Kashdan nor Middleton-Cross School District responded to the Mail for comment.<\/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. Believe the same? <a class=\"in-cell-link\" href=\"https:\/\/utm.io\/ueuP8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Become a member now and join our mission<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Wisconsin high school teacher who went viral and drew parental condemnation for dancing before students in drag \u2014 as part of the school\u2019s \u201cfine arts week\u201d \u2014 has reportedly<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":326,"featured_media":1447981,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1447932","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\/1447932","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\/326"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1447932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1447932\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1447981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1447932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1447932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1447932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}