{"id":54230,"date":"2022-11-20T11:04:24","date_gmt":"2022-11-20T16:04:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/acprimetime.com\/?p=54230"},"modified":"2023-05-31T05:56:32","modified_gmt":"2023-05-31T09:56:32","slug":"njea-convention-in-atlantic-city-features-drag-queen-lgbtq-training","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acprimetime.com\/njea-convention-in-atlantic-city-features-drag-queen-lgbtq-training\/","title":{"rendered":"NJEA Convention in Atlantic City Features Drag Queen & LGBTQ Training"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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A publicly funded state teachers union\u00a0hosted<\/a>\u00a0a drag queen story hour for children at its convention last week. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The New Jersey Educators Association (NJEA), which\u00a0skims<\/a>\u00a0millions of dollars directly from property taxes and \u201cis by far the\u00a0biggest political spender<\/a>\u00a0in New Jersey,\u201d directly promoted woke political topics for the classroom at its 2022 convention. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In addition to featuring \u201cDrag Queen Entertainment\u201d for elementary school children, the convention also\u00a0featured<\/a>\u00a0professional development sessions on \u201cLGBTQ inclusive lessons: planning for change\u201d and \u201ccreating a safe and brave anti-racist classroom.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The NJEA has used their political clout to influence New Jersey\u2019s \u201cTransgender Student Guidance for School Districts<\/a>.\u201d Under the guidance, \u201cA school district shall accept a student\u2019s asserted gender identity; parental consent is not required.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is no affirmative duty for any school district personnel to notify a student\u2019s parent or guardian of the student\u2019s gender identity or expression.\u201d They specified that students need not \u201cmeet any threshold diagnosis or treatment requirements\u201d or have a \u201clegal or court-ordered name change\u201d for school districts to indulge the student\u2019s fantasy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAll school districts\u201d were required to \u201creview and update their existing policies and procedures\u201d to comply with the new guidelines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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New Jersey parents in Lawrence Township raised their concerns about the implementation of this policy during an October 19 school board meeting. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c[The transgender] policy overrides parents\u2019 judgments about whether or not gender transition is in their child\u2019s best interests and takes this decision away from parents without even an attempt to prove that parents are unfit to make that decision,\u201d\u00a0said<\/a>\u00a0one parent. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis is blatantly against the constitutional rights of parents.\u201d Another parent\u00a0said<\/a>\u00a0the \u201csuper woke progressive agenda\u201d was \u201cso saturated with race and sex. \u2026 Can we just get back to teaching?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In response, a lawyer for the school board defended<\/a> the district\u2019s gender curriculum, which includes lessons about a \u201cgender snowperson\u201d and books normalizing children who identify as LGBT. Parents don\u2019t have the right \u201cto dictate what their children are taught,\u201d said the school district\u2019s lawyer John Comegno. \u201cIf your students attend these awesome schools, they\u2019re going to be instructed in this curriculum, which is consistent with state learning standards.\u201d Comegno said that parents who didn\u2019t like the curriculum could take their children elsewhere. In a state like New Jersey that lacks school choice provisions, not every family can afford to pay for their children\u2019s education twice \u2014 once through property taxes and again for private school tuition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

New Jersey is not the only state or local government that officially sanctions teacher-led efforts to expose children in primary school to LGBT and other inappropriate sexual content. Drag Story Hour NYC has organized<\/a> 49 drag programs in 34 public elementary, middle, and high schools since January, and has earned $207,000 in city contracts since 2018 for events specifically targeting children as young as three. Center City Philadelphia also imported<\/a> drag performers to a first-grade classroom. In Colorado, a teacher invited<\/a> a 12-year-old girl to an \u201cart\u201d club, the Genders & Sexualities Alliance (GSA) club, where she was informed \u201cthat if she is not 100% comfortable in her female body, then she\u2019s transgender\u201d and advised to keep the club a secret from her parents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But some state legislators recognize this sexualization of children for the civilization crisis that it is. Tennessee Senate Majority Leader Jack Johnson (R) has introduced a bill, SB 0003<\/a>, to criminalize drag show performances for children. According to the bill, anyone who \u201cengages in an adult cabaret performance on public property or in a location where the adult cabaret performance could be viewed by a person who is not an adult\u201d would face a misdemeanor charge for a first offense and a felony charge, punishable by up to six years in prison, for a repeat offense.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Other states are responding to alarming incidents, too. In Texas, Representative Bryan Slaton (R) announced<\/a> plans to file \u201clegislation to defend kids from being subjected to drag shows and other inappropriate events\u201d after a Dallas drag event advertised as family-friendly featured suggestive dancing and explicit music. Arizona Senate Republicans have also pledged<\/a> to work on \u201clegislation that prohibit minors from attending drag shows\u201d after a similar incident where children attended a \u201cfamily-friendly\u201d drag event that turned out to be risqu\u00e9.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two sets of states are going in polar opposite directions on sexualizing children. Some states are working to prevent children from being exposed to harmful sexual content at an early age. But other states not only permit it; they are using public funds to import gender-bending sexual performers into classrooms, as if such exposure is an essential part of an elementary school education. For such obviously problematic presentations to impressionable young minds, its clear that the LGBT ideology, and its radical agenda, has displaced every other sound policy consideration in some states. Parents must let those who make education policy in these jurisdictions know there will be consequences. \u201cWhoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him if a great millstone were hung around his neck and he were thrown into the sea,\u201d said Jesus (Mark 9:42).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the same time, those legislators who are willing to stand up and take the LGBT lobby\u2019s fire to protect children must be commended and encouraged for the good work they are doing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Joshua Arnold is a staff writer at The Washington Stand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A publicly funded state teachers union\u00a0hosted\u00a0a drag queen story hour for children at its convention last week. The New Jersey Educators Association (NJEA), which\u00a0skims\u00a0millions of dollars directly from property taxes and \u201cis by far the\u00a0biggest political spender\u00a0in New Jersey,\u201d directly promoted woke political topics for the classroom at its 2022 convention. 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