Parents served by Cape Henlopen School District owe the Cape Gazette a debt of gratitude for revealing the district’s plan to further indoctrinate our children in intersectionality and radical gender ideology under the guise of an anti-bullying program.
Parents, you have a fundamental right to direct the education, medical care and moral upbringing of your children. Students also have a fundamental right not to be bullied at school.
Therefore, parents must insist that anti-bullying not be used as a Trojan horse for indoctrinating students in intersectionality and radical gender ideology. Parents must also demand that Cape stop promoting unscientific theories about human biology.
Cape’s gender ideologues claim bodily sex is irrelevant to human identity. Parents know better, and common sense says otherwise.
We all recall what it was like to relate to one another on the playground at elementary school. Children haven’t changed. Cape changed.
Parents entrust Cape with their three most cherished possessions: their children, their trust and their hard-earned money. Cape is failing them on all three scores by welcoming a radical LGBTQ+ activist organization into every district classroom, including kindergarten.
This year’s Annie E. Casey Foundation’s Kids Count Data Book shows that educational outcomes in Delaware continue to decrease. Students cannot read or write at grade level. Nor can they do arithmetic at grade level. But parents needn’t worry. Cape’s gender support liaison is working with students to develop gender support plans.
This is Cape’s first year implementing the Welcoming Schools approach, a program developed by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation, a well-funded LGBTQ+ activist organization in Washington, D.C.
Welcoming Schools is an anti-bullying program that introduces children to transgender ideology by teaching grade school students to understand that there are many ways to be a girl, boy, both or neither.
The foundation of a respectful school environment is individualism, not so-called gender inclusion policies that enable gender-confused children and help fuel social contagion, especially among adolescent girls who do not suffer from gender dysphoria.
A rising tide of ideologically diverse organizations, from The Heritage Foundation on the far right to Women’s Liberation Front on the far left, argue for a greater diversity of personalities without negating the importance of bodily sex, as the way forward in anti-bullying programs.
Cape is the first school district in Delaware to adopt the program. Parents must rally to make certain that Cape is also the first school district in Delaware to abandon the program.
Cape employees are paid by the people to educate, not indoctrinate, our children.
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