LGBTQ Curriculum Coming To A School Near You
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Yesterday Garden State Equality proudly announced they were “kicking off LGBTQ-inclusive curriculum in twelve New Jersey public schools who are participating in our new curriculum pilot program.”
The new classes are meant to teach middle and high school students about the contributions of LGBTQ individuals to society and will be required next school year thanks to a law signed by Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy in January 2019.
"We want students to see themselves in the stories that are told," Ashley Chiappano, safe schools and community education manager for Garden State Equality, the advocacy group leading the pilot project, told NorthJersey.com.
“We want students to see themselves in the stories that are told” sounds like a nice statement, but what about straight students. Does anyone want them to see themselves in the stories that are told?
I don’t know, maybe part of the new curriculum will be showing the movie Milk, the story of Harvey Milk, the first openly gay man elected to public office. Honestly, it was a good movie and I remember when I was in school I always liked when a teacher would show a movie.
Here’s the thing, Garden State Equality states:
Over the last year, our team has been hard at work developing a robust set of lesson plans that will teach the next generation of youth about the political, social, and economic contributions of LGBTQ people. And this isn’t just history class: we’ve developed lessons that promote inclusion across all relevant subject areas.
All relevant subject areas! I decided to take a look at what “all relevant subject areas” are.
Fascinating! What exactly is the LGBTQ way to teach math? 2+2=4, doesn’t matter, straight, gay, whatever, it’s the same answer.
The same question for science, what’s the LGBTQ way to teach science?
Then there’s this gem from the US News & World Report article:
Among the topics that will be woven into the students' curriculum will be the treatment of gay victims of the Holocaust. These victims were forced to wear pink triangles. Other lessons include grammar lessons to learn the proper use of pronouns relating to individuals' identities, and a lesson detailing the experiences of an individual forced to undergo conversion therapy.
“Grammar lessons to learn the proper use of pronouns relating to individuals’ identities?” That’s just nuts! There aren’t pronouns relating to individuals’ identities.
I’ll make it simple, here is a list of singular pronouns for each of the types of pronouns:
Subject Pronouns - I, you, he, she, it, they
Object Pronouns - me, you, him, her, it
Possessive Pronouns - my, mine, your, yours, his, her, hers, its
Interrogative Pronouns - who, whom, whose, what, which
Indefinite Pronouns - another, each, everything, nobody, either, someone
Relative Pronouns - who, whom, whose, that, which
Reflexive and Intensive Pronouns - myself, yourself, himself, herself, itself
Demonstrative Pronouns - this, that
Please spare me the “you’re gay bashing” stuff, because I’m not. Frankly, I don’t care who is gay and who isn’t. I just think trying to teach math and science in an LGBTQ way is ridiculous. I think changing pronouns because someone wants to identify in a particular way is stupid.
Unfortunately, what I think doesn’t matter because we’re stuck with this stuff now for at least as long as whacky Phil Murphy is governor.
The only thing I know for sure is this new LGBTQ curriculum is going to be what saves Catholic schools in New Jersey. In fact, now that I’m a grandfather I think it’s time to start an education account for my granddaughter to go to Catholic school.
