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School stops enSchool stops enforcing Obama’s trans bathroom policy after parents pulled kids out

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A Michigan school district has stopped the practice of allowing members of one biological sex to use the restrooms of the opposite sex after parents pulled their two sons out of elementary school over the issue. Last week, Matt Stewart's nine-year-old son told him, "There was   a girl in the boys’ bathroom " with him and other male elementary kids.  When Stewart called the school, the principal told him the Obama administration's federal guidance on transgender students forced them to allow transgender students in the bathrooms, locker rooms, and showers of their chosen gender, and not their biological sex. Violating the policy means losing federal funding. Stewart talked it over with his wife, and they decided to take their sons out of Southwest Elementary School in Howell, Michigan . Now, after publicly complaining that parents should have been consulted, Stewart says, "over the last few days they have actually changed their positions.”  Howell

Australia: Safe schools become unsafe schools

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An architect of the school curriculum has demanded a stop to the “outsourcing’’ of religious instruction and sex education to “ideological interest groups’’. Ken Wiltshire , who reviewed the national curriculum for the Coalition government last year, said controversial subjects should be taught only with parent­al consent. He said the Safe Schools furore showed the danger of letting “ideological groups’’ devise lesson plans without Education Department input. “Governments should never outsource the development of curriculum content to interest groups, particularly those with an ideological purpose or agenda,’’ he told The Australian . “There is no quality assurance. No controversial material should be taught in schools without the agreement of parents, acting in concert with the school.’’ Emeritus Professor Wiltshire — a professor of public administration at the University of Queensland — said the furore over Safe Schools showed why education authorities shoul

Sex education? No, we’re witnessing the pursuit of ignorance on matters of sexuality

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A symbolic marriage cake in favor of allowing gay marriages in Italy not only to heterosexual couples but to lesbian and gay ones as well. Picture by Giovanni Dall'Orto, January 26 2008. (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) If you can trace your family tree back far enough, you'll probably encounter people who had no formal education , owned no books, perhaps couldn't read and write . But your uneducated ancestors knew what "marriage" meant-- which is more than you can say for the typical Ivy League professor today. Your "benighted" ancestors would be both absolutely astonished that the literati of the early 21st century cannot figure out what was so obvious to them, centuries ago, and utterly appalled by the bogus unions that our contemporaries accept as marriages.  (By the way, I am not just thinking only of same-sex unions . I also have in mind the "open" marriages and the deliberately barren unions, the Hollywood -style serial marriages, th

Gay activists ‘out’ complainant who opposed subway ads for gay sex in public

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