{"id":1492246,"date":"2022-05-25T18:44:50","date_gmt":"2022-05-25T22:44:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1492246"},"modified":"2022-05-25T18:45:01","modified_gmt":"2022-05-25T22:45:01","slug":"straight-kids-in-alabama-are-enrolling-in-an-lgbtq-charter-to-escape-failing-inner-city-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/straight-kids-in-alabama-are-enrolling-in-an-lgbtq-charter-to-escape-failing-inner-city-schools\/","title":{"rendered":"Straight Kids In Alabama Are Enrolling In An LGBTQ Charter To Escape Failing Inner-City Schools"},"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\">30<\/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%2Fstraight-kids-in-alabama-are-enrolling-in-an-lgbtq-charter-to-escape-failing-inner-city-schools%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=1492246&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>A new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/lgbtq\">LGBTQ<\/a> charter school in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/alabama\">Alabama<\/a> is attracting straight black kids whose families see it as a way for their kids to escape Birmingham\u2019s beleaguered regular public schools, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\">The Daily Wire<\/a> has learned.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.magiccityacceptanceacademy.org\">Magic City Acceptance Academy<\/a>, a grade 6-12 public school\u00a0designed to cater to LGBTQ students, boasts of\u00a0providing a \u201cbrave learning environment and LGBTQ affirming culture for all.\u201d But with Alabama\u2019s traditional public schools ranking among the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.al.com\/news\/2019\/10\/alabama-flunks-math-on-national-report-card.html\">worst<\/a> in the country, straight students are flocking to the school in the Birmingham suburb of Homewood.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome kids are not gay but they go there to get out of the inner city schools,\u201d a source inside the school who spoke on condition of anonymity told The Daily Wire.<\/p>\n<p>The source said most of the school\u2019s approximately 240 students are \u201cqueer,\u201d upper middle class white kids, but \u201cthen you see some kids who present more like inner city school traditional kids, probably there to get out of Birmingham schools.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Several teachers at the school use they\/them as their pronouns. A picture posted to the school\u2019s Facebook page shows teachers performing in drag, then conservative gubernatorial candidate Tim James to denounce the school in a campaign ad as a case of \u201cexploitation\u201d of children and \u201cnot education,\u201d and calling it a \u201ctransgender public school.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Magic City, which opened last fall, is one of only <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alabamaachieves.org\/charter-schools\/\">nine<\/a> charter schools in deep-red Alabama.<\/p>\n<p>The source said the\u00a0straight students\u2019 families don\u2019t like the sexual and gender indoctrination, but subject their kids to it, anyway.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot all of them are on board with the leftism, particularly the black parents,\u201d the source said.<\/p>\n<p>The situation underscores the need for more charter schools in the Yellowhammer State, said\u00a0Jason Bedrick, an education research fellow at the Heritage Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a great example of why we need more school choice,\u201d Bedrick said. \u201cThe current charter laws are too restrictive so we only end up with a small number of schools which are not necessarily all that the people want.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But parents looking to expose their children to academic rigor may be disappointed in Magic City, according to the source who spoke to The Daily Wire. The school has half-days every other Friday, and was closed to in-person learning in January and February due to COVID-19 fears even as traditional public schools remained open.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike other local charter schools like KIPP which have found academic success through rigor, Magic City uses purported trauma to make school a low-stakes affair, the source said. If students don\u2019t want to take a test, they can leave, a source said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEverything is shrouded in compassion: We have to be very kind to our kids because they\u2019ve experienced trauma,\u201d the source said. \u201cWhat does that mean? If there\u2019s a test, they can just remove themselves from the class, if they say they\u2019re \u2018triggered.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Attendance is abysmal \u2014 among students and staff, the source said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHalf the kids don\u2019t show up on any given day,\u201d the source said. \u201cThere are 12 seniors and there will be days where three to four seniors are present. A lot of the staff takes a lot of time off, because these are people that like to say they\u2019re \u2018taking care of themselves.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Magic City Principal Michael Wilson did not return a request from The Daily Wire for attendance or test score data.<\/p>\n<p>But in an interview with local press, Wilson blasted James\u2019s characterization of the school for \u201cscaring the hell out of our kids.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou are talking about kids who are four times more likely than their straight counterparts with suicide ideation,\u201d Wilson said, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.al.com\/news\/2022\/04\/lgbtq-affirming-magic-city-acceptance-academy-adds-security-after-tim-james-ad.html\">Alabama.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The controversy led to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/05\/08\/us\/lgbtq-alabama-charter-school.html\">New York Times<\/a> article, headlined \u201cA Haven for LGBTQ Students in the Heart of Alabama.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHallways at the academy are festooned with rainbows and affirmations. \u2018You are beautiful,\u2019 posters say. \u2018You are loved,\u2019\u201d the Times article gushed.<\/p>\n<p>The school is run by a group called Birmingham AIDS Outreach, which \u201calso runs a medical center that serves many LGBTQ patients, including some whose treatment involves hormone therapy,\u201d the Times reported.<\/p>\n<p>Wilson shrugged off the backlash prompted by the school\u2019s drag show.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI mean, I guess we learned a lesson that we don\u2019t post a lot of pictures anymore,\u201d he told the Times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new public charter school in Alabama caters to LGBTQ sixth-to-twelfth graders. Magic City Acceptance Academy says it provides a \u201cbrave learning environment and LGBTQ affirming culture for all.\u201d Families of straight inner-city youth are reluctantly enrolling in trans-heavy school to escape failing traditional schools, insider says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":128,"featured_media":1492291,"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-1492246","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\/1492246","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\/128"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1492246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1492246\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1492291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1492246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1492246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1492246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}