We are just days away from Pride Month — a fact some of us might have forgotten about in the high that comes from being in the cultural ascendency. Unfortunately, America’s school children haven’t had that luxury.
In a recent op-ed for the Wall Street Journal, Daniel Buck noted that middle America — Midwestern, middle-income, neither incredibly Republican nor Democrat — is infested with progressive-inspired teaching methods when it comes to public education.
“In 2022 the Wauwatosa [Wisconsin] school board approved a new sex-education curriculum. Among other things, it expects sixth-graders to define different types of sexual intercourse. Kindergartners learn about genitalia with the help of cartoon drawings and third-graders are informed that, no matter their body parts, they may feel like another ‘gender,’” Buck writes.
Woke education, of course, is more than just gender identity and sex education — Buck reports that at least 37 percent of American students learn about that in school — it includes “restorative-justice” approaches to discipline (dialoguing with delinquent students and games instead of detention) and slashing advanced curricular offerings.
While a good number of businesses have felt the cultural and political winds shifting (and have responded appropriately, if not a little slowly), school boards and teachers have not. Take, for instance, Blasco Memorial Library, which sits just off Lake Erie’s Presque Isle Bay in Erie, Pennsylvania. The library plans to host an “all-ages” Pride event in late June to read, among other things, Heather Has Two Mommies and Pride Puppy.
The latter is a book for students in pre-K and “depicts a family whose puppy gets lost amidst a LGBTQ-pride parade, with each page focused on a letter of the alphabet. The three- and four-year-old audience is invited to look for items such as ‘[drag] king,’ ‘leather,’ ‘lip ring’ ‘[drag] queen,’ and ‘underwear.’” That description, of course, comes from a case the Supreme Court heard in April after parents from Montgomery County, Maryland, asked that their children be exempt from reading it as part of the school curricula.
Meanwhile, a public school in Kansas placed a graphic in its yearbook advertising the existence of an LGBTQ+ club, while promising to keep students’ gender identities a secret if their parents aren’t amenable to the idea.
Of course, none of this is a surprise to us; after all, there’s a reason President Donald Trump is trying to abolish the Department of Education. We’ve known that schools are indoctrinating our children in progressive ideology, and no one really expected that to change overnight.
But we’ve been in the midst of a common-sense revolution for the last several months, and it’s been intoxicating. Diversity, equity, and inclusion departments have been slashed in government programs, higher education, and big businesses at a mind-boggling rate, and pro-Palestinian protests are no longer a vibe (admittedly, some college students are still a bit late in getting that memo).
These, unfortunately, are just surface victories. They’ll mean nothing if we don’t change the way our youth are being educated. This isn’t news to anyone — of course — but it’s worth the reminder.
In the past, Americans with a modicum of common sense have taken an ignore-what’s-happening attention-just-makes-it-worse approach to Pride Month. I don’t blame them. In the past, treating the LGBTQ+ crowd like a petulant toddler was effective. But now that we’re in a revolution, we should be treating wokeness like cancer, especially when it pertains to our kids. We should spend the next month highlighting, condemning, and taking action to stop it.
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