{"id":2343272,"date":"2024-09-19T08:45:55","date_gmt":"2024-09-19T12:45:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tax-funded-org-sends-pro-trans-board-books-to-300-daycares\/"},"modified":"2024-09-19T08:52:28","modified_gmt":"2024-09-19T12:52:28","slug":"tax-funded-org-sends-pro-trans-board-books-to-300-daycares","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tax-funded-org-sends-pro-trans-board-books-to-300-daycares\/","title":{"rendered":"Tax-Funded Org Sends Pro-Trans Board Books To 300 Daycares"},"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\">18<\/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%2Ftax-funded-org-sends-pro-trans-board-books-to-300-daycares%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=2343272&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>In Wisconsin, a tax-funded organization, the Wisconsin Early\u2064 Childhood Association \u2063(WECA), distributed &#8220;Diversity, Equity, and \u2064Inclusion Belonging\u2062 Kits&#8221; \u2064to 300 daycares, sparking controversy \u200bover their content. The kits, valued\u2063 at approximately $600 each,\u2064 included books and materials\u2063 that some \u200bparents\u2063 and daycare providers deemed inappropriate for very young children. Among the items were identity politics books \u2062for toddlers, multicultural play dough, and\u200d posters depicting diverse family structures,\u2064 including homosexual \u2063couples.<\/p>\n<p>One book, *Being \u200dYou: A First Conversation about Gender*, discusses\u2064 various gender identities and suggests that some children may grow up as a different gender from what adults assigned them. Another book, *Our Skin*,\u2062 describes the historical concept of race and\u2064 implies that racism has been \u200dinstitutionalized, while *Together:\u200c A\u200b First Conversation about Love*\u2063 portrays LGBTQ relationships and challenges \u200dtraditional family structures.<\/p>\n<p>Feedback from\u200c daycare providers, such as Elise Wiegert of Little Rainbows \u200cDay Care, revealed shock and concern regarding the appropriateness of the materials\u200d for babies and toddlers. Wiegert expressed that the content\u2062 might expose children to complex \u200bissues of sexuality and race \u2063that\u2064 they are too young to comprehend.<\/p>\n<p>The distribution of these kits\u2063 raised legal and ethical\u200b questions,\u2062 as some critics argue they may violate federal \u2064and state civil rights laws prohibiting discrimination based on religion and speech. Wiegert, a licensed daycare provider, noted her responsibility as a mandated reporter regarding inappropriate content \u2062and stated her intent to report the kits to the Department of Children and Families (DCF). However, she claimed the DCF had not \u2062taken action regarding her concerns.<\/p>\n<p>The\u2062 kits were criticized for promoting\u200b a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/diversity-and-academic-freedom-are-just-left-wing-buzzwords\/\" title=\"Diversity&#039; and &#039;academic freedom&#039; are leftist catchphrases\">specific ideological perspective<\/a> without parental input,\u2062 alarming many families who prefer\u2062 a more traditional approach \u2063to child-rearing. The controversy continues amid discussions on the role\u2063 of public funding in promoting \u2063ideological material in childcare settings.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>A tax-funded organization sent &ldquo;Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Belonging Kits&rdquo; to 300 daycares in Wisconsin this year that push leftist activism and expose very young children to racial hatred and queer relationships. The kits <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/document\/768813678\/Weca-Dei-Kit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">included <\/a>nearly two dozen identity politics books for toddlers, &ldquo;multicultural&rdquo; play dough in six skin tones, a &ldquo;Chilean rain stick,&rdquo; and 12 &ldquo;Diverse Family Structures&rdquo; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kaplanco.com\/product\/63717\/diverse-family-structures-classroom-posters-set-of-12\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">posters<\/a> from Kaplan Early Learning Company that depict homosexual couples with children.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s okay to wonder: Am I a girl? Am I a boy? Am I both? Am I neither?&rdquo; says one page of <em>Being You: A First Conversation about Gender<\/em>, a board book in the kit sent to daycares that parent children as young as four weeks old. &ldquo;Today I feel like a boy!&rdquo; exclaims one character in the book by Megan Madison, Jessica Ralli, and Anne\/Andy [sic] Passchier, a &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/andypasschier.gay\/about\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">nonbinary<\/a>&rdquo; illustrator who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.etsy.com\/shop\/andyrogyny\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">describes herself<\/a> as &ldquo;very queer.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The kit worth approximately $600 came from the Wisconsin Early Childhood Association (WECA), according to a daycare owner who received one, Elise Wiegert, co-owner of Little Rainbows Day Care in Sheboygan, Wisconsin.<\/p>\n<p>At first, she was excited to receive the kit, Weigert told The Federalist in a phone call during the naptime of the eight small children she and her husband tend. It came to her house in a heavy box approximately three feet square. She was thrilled to open and share it with the children, Weigert said &mdash; until she previewed the books.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;m gonna tell you, it was shocking,&rdquo; she said. &ldquo;&hellip; They were not appropriate for children.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<h2>Animosity Against Christians, White People, and Sexual Reality<\/h2>\n<p><em>Being You<\/em> further tells babies: &ldquo;Some babies grow into a different gender than the one that grown-ups called them &hellip; Some people are girls. Some people are boys. Some people are neither. Some people are both.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>It also tells tiny children, &ldquo;For a long time, many people have said and believed untrue things like: &lsquo;You are either a boy or a girl&rsquo; &hellip; People who work together to change unfair rules about gender are called feminists.&rdquo; The board book approvingly depicts an activist child changing a sign on a girl&rsquo;s bathroom to say &ldquo;All gender&rdquo; instead of &ldquo;Girls.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Amazon reviewers say they&rsquo;ve used the book to teach three-year-olds about &ldquo;in-betweeners&rdquo; and shore up gender dysphoria in their autistic transgender toddlers.<\/p>\n<div>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Another book in the kit, by Madison, Ralli, and illustrator Isabel Roxas, is titled <em>Our Skin<\/em>. It tells babies and toddlers, &ldquo;A long time ago, way before you were born, a group of white people made up an idea called race. They sorted people by skin color and said that white people were better, smarter, prettier, and that they deserve more than everybody else.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<div>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Later, it tells small children, &ldquo;Racism can be a way we&rsquo;ve done things for a long time, like how there aren&rsquo;t as many books written about people of color.&rdquo; It positively depicts people participating in a Black Lives Matter protest.<\/p>\n<p>A third book in the kit, also by Madison, Ralli, and Passchier, is <em>Together: A First Conversation about Love<\/em>. It shows a man wearing a princess mermaid costume holding a little girl&rsquo;s hand, a gay wedding, and multiple homosexual couples. It tells children, &ldquo;not every family is loving &hellip; If someone hurts you, and anyone says it&rsquo;s because that person loves you, they&rsquo;re wrong.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<div>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>The book does not note any exception for loving actions children may wrongly think &ldquo;hurt&rdquo; them, such as when adults put unwilling children to bed, discipline a child for biting, or deny a child soda.<\/p>\n<div>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>This book&rsquo;s section for adults claims, &ldquo;Ideas about the superiority of the nuclear family are deeply connected to the origins of white supremacy, Christian hegemony, and settler colonialism.&rdquo; The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/ideas\/archive\/2020\/02\/nuclear-family-still-indispensable\/606841\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">superiority of the nuclear family<\/a> for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aecf.org\/blog\/child-well-being-in-single-parent-families\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reducing just about every life risk<\/a> for children <a href=\"https:\/\/ifstudies.org\/reports\/stronger-families-safer-streets\/2023\/executive-summary\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">is one<\/a> of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Why-Marriage-Matters-Third-Conclusions\/dp\/1931764247\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">best-documented realities<\/a> of social science.<\/p>\n<p><em>Together<\/em> could also give babies and toddlers the idea that boys who love their uncles and grandfathers are &ldquo;gay.&rdquo; It tells babies, &ldquo;I&rsquo;m a man who loves other men. I&rsquo;m gay.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<p>&ldquo;Anybody can love anybody,&rdquo; it says. &ldquo;And there are lots of different words you might use to talk about who you are and who you love romantically when you get older.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>In its section for adults, the book says, &ldquo;Patriarchy, cissexism, transphobia, homophobia, and the gender binary are baked into the culture of the United States and have manifestations around the world. In order to undo these systems, we must actively participate in movements for gender justice.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<h2>Race and Religion Discrimination Is Illegal<\/h2>\n<p>Taxpayer-funded entities might violate the Civil Rights Act of 1964 by promoting racially divisive claims like these, said attorney Dan Lennington. Amendments to that law plus the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.findlaw.com\/civilrights\/discrimination\/federal-laws-against-religious-discrimination.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">prohibit <\/a>governments and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/oklahoma-high-court-weighs-first-publicly-funded-religious-charter-school\/\" title=\"Oklahoma Supreme Court considers the legality of the state&#039;s first publicly funded religious charter school\">publicly funded entities<\/a> from discriminating against Americans based on their religion and speech. <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.legis.wisconsin.gov\/statutes\/statutes\/948\/11#:~:text=(a)%20Whoever%2C%20with%20knowledge,1.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">State law<\/a> also allows charging with a crime anyone who exposes children to &ldquo;sexually explicit&rdquo; material, noted Lennington, deputy counsel at the nonprofit law firm Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;WECA funded these optional toolkits using non-governmental (private) funding sources,&rdquo; said Jamie Keehn, a spokeswoman for the Wisconsin Department of Children and Families who puts pronouns in her bio, in a statement to The Federalist. &ldquo;Most child care centers are independently owned small businesses operated by licensed providers, who determine their own curriculum and materials.&rdquo; DCF is Wisconsin&rsquo;s daycare licensing agency, and it contracts with WECA to the tune of <a href=\"https:\/\/75cc071c.flowpaper.com\/WECAannualReport2023ENGfinl\/#page=12\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">millions of dollars<\/a> a year.<\/p>\n<p>Even if the kits were not tax-funded, as federal funds recipients WECA and DCF are subject to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-left-embraces-separate-but-equal\/\" title=\"The Left supports &#039;Separate But Equal\">federal antidiscrimination laws<\/a> across their programs, said Lennington. Not only WECA but also many Wisconsin daycares <a href=\"https:\/\/wisconsinearlychildhood.org\/programs\/food-program\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">receive federal funds through<\/a> the Child and Adult Care Food Program.<\/p>\n<figure><figcaption>\n<div>\n<p>Poster provided to Wisconsin daycares by WECA.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure><figcaption>\n<div>\n<p>Another poster provided to daycares by WECA.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Weigert, 71, pointed out that, as licensed daycare providers, she and her husband are mandated reporters. That means, Weigart said, if she knew a person had introduced babies or toddlers to sexual information like that in some of these books, she would be legally and morally obligated to report it to authorities as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/republicans-in-texas-cast-millions-of-votes-for-conservative-propositions-during-state-primary\/\" title=\"Republicans In Texas Cast Millions Of Votes For Conservative Propositions During State Primary\">potential child abuse<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Children don&rsquo;t think of sex in terms of adult realities, not at all. That is why we call them innocent,&rdquo; Weigert explained. &ldquo;They are sheltered from war and sexuality and all those complex issues. We protect them &mdash; or so I thought.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>After she received the kit and thought it over for some time, Weigert said, she contacted DCF. Despite a lengthy conversation with a supervisor and a follow-up email, Weigert said, as far as she knows the department hasn&rsquo;t taken any action on the kits. <\/p>\n<p>DCF&rsquo;s Keehn did not respond to The Federalist&rsquo;s questions about whether it had gotten complaints about the kit, what it had done about those complaints, whether DCF funds or consults with WECA&rsquo;s DEI personnel, and whether DCF policy allows funding organizations that urge partisan political activity.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Big Corporations Pushing Identity Hatred<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>The <em>First Conversations<\/em> series that includes the three books quoted above is <a href=\"https:\/\/1792exchange.com\/spotlight-reports\/corporate-bias-ratings\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">published<\/a> by Penguin Random House. The company has sued Florida for refusing to use taxpayer dollars to purchase its queer sex books for children, endangering a major revenue stream for every publisher: school and public libraries.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Penguin Random House provides &lsquo;antiracism&rsquo; training for employees and hosted a company-wide book discussion based upon the writings of the leftist author Ibram X. Kendi. The company opposed various state and local legislation intended to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hawley-advocates-of-critical-race-theory-live-in-an-alternate-universe-alternate-america\/\" title=\"Hawley: Advocates of Critical Race Theory Live in an Alternate Universe, Alternate America\">protect parental rights<\/a>, girls&rsquo; sports, bathroom facilities, and gendered spaces,&rdquo; notes the 1792 Exchange&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/1792exchange.com\/company\/penguin-random-house\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Corporate Bias Ratings<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>First Conversations<\/em> illustrator Passchier, whose Etsy site says she is &ldquo;very queer&rdquo; and whose website is AndyPasschier.gay, <a href=\"https:\/\/andypasschier.gay\/about\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">claims<\/a> numerous large corporate clients such as Disney on her &ldquo;about&rdquo; page. The large activist organization Human Rights Corporation <a href=\"https:\/\/reports.hrc.org\/corporate-equality-index-2023#criteria-3-support-inclusive-culture\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">requires<\/a> corporations to contract with queer individuals and feature transsexuality in their advertising to gain top marks on their leftist shakedown tool, the Corporate Equality Index.<\/p>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<p>A nonprofit organization, WECA functions essentially as a private arm of government. To be licensed for business in Wisconsin, daycare providers in certain parts of the state must take <a href=\"https:\/\/wisconsinearlychildhood.org\/programs\/pre-licensing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">a pre-licensing class<\/a> with WECA. WECA also provides continuing education for daycare providers, who must take at least 15 hours of such training every year to maintain their state license.<\/p>\n<p>WECA also distributes taxpayer-provided grants and administers food welfare. For example, its <a href=\"https:\/\/projects.propublica.org\/nonprofits\/organizations\/391345572\/202421909349300932\/full\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">2022 IRS 990 form says<\/a> the organization distributes funding to those pursuing an early childhood career via a contract with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services&rsquo;s Child Care and Development Fund. It also administers a daycare food program funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.<\/p>\n<p>According to WECA&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/75cc071c.flowpaper.com\/WECAannualReport2023ENGfinl\/#page=18\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">latest annual report<\/a>, 95 percent of its $32 million in annual income in 2023 came from taxpayers via state and federal grants. According to federal tax records, Executive Director Ruth Schmidt earned $149,444 in compensation from WECA in 2022, a 52 percent increase from her $98,127 in compensation from the organization <a href=\"https:\/\/pdf.guidestar.org\/PDF_Images\/2019\/391\/345\/2019-391345572-17408345-9.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">in 2018<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Schmidt and WECA DEIB coordinator Tanya Johnson did not respond to multiple Federalist requests for comment.<\/p>\n<h2>Nobody Asked the Parents<\/h2>\n<p>When she showed the kit to the parents of the children she cares for, Weigert said, they were also shocked. The Weigerts&rsquo; is the only five-star-rated daycare in their ZIP code, she told The Federalist, and they&rsquo;ve been running it for 29 years. <\/p>\n<p>The Weigerts feed the children they care for local, grass-fed beef, lamb, and bison, raw-milk cheese made by local farmers, and wild-caught salmon, Elise said. They&rsquo;ve cared for children with cancer and other high-risk conditions, so their home has all-wood cabinets and flooring, no microwave, no cell phones, and no Wi-Fi.<\/p>\n<p>Their openings are booked out to 2027, Elise said. Some of their families even conceive babies based on when the Weigerts will have an opening. Elise, 71, has now cared for two generations of children from the same families. She and her husband wake each morning at 5 a.m. to make the children fresh bread, Elise said. Some days she gets five to six calls asking if they have an opening.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      Joy Pullmann is executive editor of The Federalist. Her new book with Regnery is &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/p\/books\/false-colors-the-flag-of-our-occupation-joy-pullmann\/20707173?ean=9781684515875\">False Flag: Why Queer Politics Mean the End of America<\/a>.&#8221;  A happy wife and the mother of six children, her ebooks include &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/payhip.com\/b\/R1JL\">Classic Books For Young Children<\/a>,&#8221; and &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/payhip.com\/b\/a2Jzp\">101 Strategies For Living Well Amid Inflation<\/a>.&#8221;      An 18-year education and politics reporter, Joy has testified before nearly two dozen legislatures on education policy and appeared on major media including Tucker Carlson, CNN, Fox News, OANN, NewsMax, Ben Shapiro, and Dennis Prager. Joy is a grateful graduate of the Hillsdale College honors and journalism programs who identifies as native American and gender natural.  Joy is also the cofounder of a high-performing Christian classical school and the author and coauthor of classical curricula.    Her traditionally published books also include &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Education-Invasion-Parents-Control-American\/dp\/1594038813\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1486730068&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=education+invasion\">The Education Invasion: How Common Core Fights Parents for Control of American Kids<\/a>,&#8221; from Encounter Books.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A tax-funded organization distributed &#8220;Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Belonging Kits&#8221; to 300 daycares in Wisconsin this year, promoting leftist activism and introducing very young children to concepts of racial bias and queer relationships. The kits contained nearly twenty identity politics books aimed at toddlers, &#8220;multicultural&#8221; play dough in six different skin tones, a &#8220;Chilean rain stick,&#8221; and twelve posters from Kaplan Early Learning Company showcasing diverse family structures that include same-sex couples with children. One book included in the kit, *Being You: A First Conversation about Gender*, poses questions like \u201cAm I a girl? Am I a boy? Am I both? Am I neither?\u201d for children as young as four weeks old. Another character in the book expresses feelings of being a boy one day.<\/p>\n<p>The kit is valued at around $600 and was provided by the Wisconsin Early Childhood Association (WECA), according to Elise Wiegert, co-owner of Little Rainbows Day Care in Sheboygan. Initially excited about receiving the kit, Wiegert&#8217;s enthusiasm waned after she reviewed its contents. She described her reaction as \u201cshocking\u201d and deemed the materials inappropriate for young children.<\/p>\n<p>The book *Being You* informs infants that some may grow into a different gender than what adults assigned them at birth and challenges traditional notions of gender binary by stating that some people are neither boys nor girls. It also promotes feminist ideas regarding changing societal norms around gender.<\/p>\n<p>Another title included is *Our Skin*, which explains to toddlers that race is a social construct created by white people who believed they were superior based on skin color. It discusses racism&#8217;s historical context while depicting participation in Black Lives Matter protests positively.<\/p>\n<p>A third book titled *Together: A First Conversation about Love* illustrates various family structures including same-sex couples and discusses love without boundaries or restrictions based on gender or sexual orientation.<\/p>\n<p>Concerns have been raised regarding potential violations of civil rights laws due to these materials promoting divisive ideologies based on race or religion. Attorney Dan Lennington noted that taxpayer-funded organizations could be infringing upon federal anti-discrimination laws if they endorse such content.<\/p>\n<p>Despite WECA claiming their funding comes from private sources rather than direct taxpayer dollars for these kits, many daycare centers receive federal funds through programs like the Child and Adult Care Food Program which subjects them to federal regulations against discrimination.<\/p>\n<p>Wiegert expressed her concerns over being mandated reporters; she feels obligated to report any exposure of sexual content to very young children as potential abuse since they lack understanding of adult concepts related to sexuality. After contacting state authorities regarding her concerns over the kits&#8217; contents, she reported no action had been taken thus far.<\/p>\n<p>The organization WECA operates similarly to an extension of government services; it provides training for daycare providers who must meet certain educational requirements annually while also distributing grants funded by taxpayers through various programs related to early childhood education.<\/p>\n<p>When Wiegert shared details about the kit with parents whose children attend her daycare\u2014one highly rated facility\u2014they were equally taken aback by its contents. The Weigerts have built their reputation over 29 years providing wholesome meals sourced locally while maintaining strict standards within their care environment<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":519,"featured_media":2343273,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/IMG_6729-Copy.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[41212,41211,23850],"class_list":["post-2343272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist","tag-daycare-education","tag-tax-funded","tag-trans-rights"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/IMG_6729-Copy.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2343272","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\/519"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2343272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2343272\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2343273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2343272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2343272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2343272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}