Over the past few years, parental rights organization Parents Defending Education has exposed school districts across the country for policies and curriculum meant to indoctrinate students. This ranges from curriculum on Critical Race Theory (CRT) to keeping parents in the dark about their children’s names and pronouns at school.
In some cases, these programs and lessons occur unbeknownst to parents. In one state, PDE discovered, LGBTQ+ indoctrination behind parents' backs is rampant.
Nine school districts in North Carolina have policies providing training to staff promoting LGBTQ ideologies in the classroom and policies designed to keep gender identities of students hidden from parents.
According to PDE, these school districts are Davidson County Schools, Buncombe County Schools, Brunswick County Schools, Rockingham County Schools, Durham Public Schools, Chapel-Hill Carrboro City Schools, Pitt County Schools, New Hanover County Schools, and Cabarrus County Schools.
Davidson County Schools, Buncombe County Schools, Brunswick County Schools, Durham Public Schools, New Hanover County Schools, and Cabarrus County Schools provide guidance or training that helps staff keep students’ so-called “gender identity” hidden from their parents. This would mean that a student who is a male and thinks he is a female could “identify” as a female at school, going by a chosen name and female pronouns, completely unbeknownst to his parents. The school would be in on it.
At Durham Public Schools, specifically, the Board of Education approved a proclamation in observance of LGBTQIA+ Pride Month that attacks states that have passed legislation banning males participating in female sports and gender transitioning procedures for minors, including laws in North Carolina meant to protect kids from these irreversible, experimental surgeries and “treatments.”
At Pitt County Schools, schools give students who want to “transition” a “Gender Support Plan.” The plan does state that parents or legal guardians must be part of it. The plan also appears to state that “transgender” students can use facilities, like restrooms, that align with their gender identity instead of their biological sex.
“Every school district in America that insists on hiding information from parents needs to be called out and exposed. These parental exclusion policies are deteriorating the trust parents should have in their children's school staff,” Michele Exner, senior adviser at PDE told Townhall.
“They are sending the message ‘we know better than you’ and it is an insult to every parent in that school district. Parents will not stand for it and will continue to push back against these nonsense policies,” she added.
