Minnesota School District Watchlist: Kindergartners Can Read What?!
May 30, 2023
Osseo Area Schools District in Minnesota has reportedly allowed a book, Call Me Max, to be available to Kindergarteners during independent reading time. Call Me Max is about a girl, who believes she is transgender and starts her transition to boyhood by changing her name, questioning what bathroom to use, and more. This book was brought to the school board’s attention when one parent raised concern over it at a meeting. The parent points out that these books are being used when children are learning to read, they should not be confusing children about their gender at the same time.
"First graders are busy enough trying to master phonics and trying to learn how to read, why would we allow authority figures to plant seeds of doubt in their existence simply as a boy or a girl, that it might be a mistake?" mother LaDawn Severin asked the board.
More News
October 11, 2024
Former teacher wins settlement against radical school board
Peter Vlaming, a former French teacher at West Point High School, just won a large settlement against the school board who wrongfully fired him. In 2018, Vlaming was fired from his…
October 09, 2024
REPORT: Homeschooling on the rise after teachers’ unions exposed during covid
A recent study from John Hopkins Institute for Education Policy showed that homeschooling is on the rise. Prior to the pandemic only a couple of states like Louisiana, South Carolina,…
September 30, 2024
Student stands up to school board over explicit reading material
On September 17, a young student raised her concerns to the Wake County Board of Education about sexually explicit and incestual material found in her required reading. Lorena Benson,…