{"id":1466542,"date":"2022-05-06T12:45:27","date_gmt":"2022-05-06T16:45:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1466542"},"modified":"2022-05-06T12:45:40","modified_gmt":"2022-05-06T16:45:40","slug":"i-cant-believe-this-just-happened-parents-furious-after-drag-queen-dancers-hosted-at-pennsylvania-high-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/i-cant-believe-this-just-happened-parents-furious-after-drag-queen-dancers-hosted-at-pennsylvania-high-school\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I Can\u2019t Believe This Just Happened\u2019: Parents Furious After Drag Queen \u2018Dancers\u2019 Hosted At Pennsylvania High School"},"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\">34<\/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%2Fi-cant-believe-this-just-happened-parents-furious-after-drag-queen-dancers-hosted-at-pennsylvania-high-school%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=1466542&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--><p><span>Parents are furious with a Pennsylvania high school after they say a teacher hosted a drag queen show without their knowledge.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Footage shared with The Daily Wire shows multiple drag queens performing lewd dances in front of students. The after-school event at Hempfield High School was hosted by the Gay Sexuality Alliance (GSA) club \u2014 provoking shock from parents who were not aware of the event until after it had occurred.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">A Pennsylvania teacher hosted a drag show event for students as part of the GSA club. Parents were reportedly not notified. The district has confirmed this morning that the teacher is on leave. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/NSjkJELl6e\">pic.twitter.com\/NSjkJELl6e<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/libsoftiktok\/status\/1520152815972208640?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 29, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>\u201cOur concern is that grown men entered our high school with or without background checks,\u201d Meridith Hilt, a mother of two children in the school district, told The Daily Wire. \u201cThey were dressed scantily and performed in a provocative, sexualized manner for minor children.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>In one social media <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/libsoftiktok\/status\/1520161576447217664\">post<\/a>, Kelly Tyson, co-adviser of the GSA club,\u00a0<span>included pictures of the drag queens and appeared to say the event had been hosted twice before.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cI don\u2019t know how to explain the sheer joy I feel in my bones when these queens come take time out of their busy schedules to perform for us (year 3!) and to be with my students,\u201d the post said<\/span><span>. \u201cAs GSA co-advisor and a queer teacher, it makes me emotional to think of this space we have created. I would have loved nothing more than to have a space like they have, an opportunity to attend their own drag show.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Tyson also shared Instagram handles for the four drag queens \u2014 \u201cHexxa,\u201d \u201cMajestee,\u201d \u201cEnigma,\u201d and \u201cNebula\u201d \u2014 with her students via learning management system Schoology, thereby giving students a way to reach out privately to the performers, as confirmed by two separate Hempfield parents. All four accounts include sexually suggestive content.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_378499\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-378499\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Schoology post from Hempfield High School teacher Kelly Tyson.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span>Images of the April 25 drag event obtained by The Daily Wire also confirm the lewdness of the performance.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Hempfield School District did not immediately respond to a request for comment from The Daily Wire, but in a message to the community, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hempfieldsd.org\/site\/default.aspx?PageType=3&#038;DomainID=4&#038;ModuleInstanceID=21&#038;ViewID=6446EE88-D30C-497E-9316-3F8874B3E108&#038;RenderLoc=0&#038;FlexDataID=23664&#038;PageID=1&#038;fbclid=IwAR3nTORNelPK1OgduX5e8A3EsWnVb04v1BVgsQ1u_SiSglAUNmgzRYIwvSc\">apologized<\/a> for the event and confirmed that an individual was \u201cplaced on administrative league.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cWe are appalled at what took place and in no way condone this type of activity in our schools. Neither the dress of the invited guests nor the performance was appropriate in our school setting,\u201d the message said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cWe are taking the incident seriously in our ongoing investigation and follow-up actions. It is important to district administrators that the district has the trust and confidence of the community, and we realize that an incident such as this completely undermines that trust,\u201d the statement continued. \u201cWe commit to completing a thorough investigation and holding those involved accountable, up to and including disciplinary action that is commensurate with any findings.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Parents of children who attend Hempfield School District told The Daily Wire that administrators haven\u2019t been transparent.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Meridith Hilt \u2014 who previously started a parents\u2019 Facebook page called \u201cLet\u2019s Talk Hempfield\u201d \u2014 claimed that \u201cparental consent was not required\u201d for the event and said attendees \u201cdid not necessarily have to be members of the GSA club.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201c<\/span><span>Most parents are outraged and shocked,\u201d Hilt explained. \u201cParents filed a Right to Know request for details. We want to know who attended; allegedly, seventh and eighth grade children reported being present at the show. We asked for video surveillance footage and financial records for the club. The dancers were paid, and we would like to know if it was taxpayer money.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cWe have also asked administration if these people had clearances to allow them in the school,\u201d she added. \u201cNo answer yet.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Likewise, Stacy Hernandez \u2014 a parent with three children in Hempfield School District, including one son in the high school \u2014 told The Daily Wire that students initially thought the event \u201cwas a joke\u201d when it was announced over the loudspeaker. \u201cWhen he saw the videos of it that everybody was showing him, he was like, \u2018I can\u2019t believe this just happened in my school.\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cHempfield has a problem with spreading information out that should be going to people,\u201d Hernandez claimed. \u201cThere\u2019s been a pattern with a lot of things happening.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Though her son did not attend the drag event, one of his friends attended and said he could not \u201cbelieve what I just saw,\u201d Hernandez explained. She added that her middle schooler was shown video of the event from a classmate who was in attendance.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Meridith Hilt obtained footage of the event \u2014 originally recorded by a student attendee \u2014 through \u201cLet\u2019s Talk Hempfield.\u201d She cropped the video for the student\u2019s protection and posted the video on her social media page.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Hilt, however, said that \u201c<\/span><span>the outrage that parents are feeling is directly coming from the inappropriate nature of the performance.\u201d The parents do not \u201cwant to shut down the GSA club\u201d or \u201cwant the performers targeted personally.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Parents are furious with a Pennsylvania high school after they say a teacher hosted a drag queen show without their knowledge.\u00a0Footage shared with The Daily Wire shows multiple drag queens<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":1466545,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1466542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1466542","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\/99"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1466542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1466542\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1466545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1466542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1466542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1466542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}