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Pro-LGBT teacher suspended after teaching 11-year-olds about ‘genital reconstruction surgery’

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A New York school teacher was suspended on Tuesday after parents took to social media to complain about the teacher handing out graphic reading material on homosexuality and transgenderism to 11-year-old students.  Not only was health teacher Jacqueline Hall of Cambridge Central High School suspended (with pay), but a second day of lectures by an employee of the Pride Centre of the Capital Region was cancelled,  according  to  The Post-Star . Parent Sirell Fiel was so distressed by the material his son brought home that he took to social media on Monday and made a video to warn other parents. The video went viral , being viewed more than 350,000 times as of this writing.   In the video presentation, Fiel says that when he asked his 11-year-old son what had happened at school that day, the child replied that his class had been visited by a person with no gender. Fiel sat down with his son to help him with his homework and found the handouts on ...

Australia: Melbourne teacher refuses to teach ‘lewd’ safe schools and respectful relationships program

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A MELBOURNE high school teacher says she would refuse to teach “lewd” material in the Victorian government ’s mandatory respectful relationships program to be introduced in all state schools next year. Moira Deeming, a teacher and mother-of-three, said she was shocked by the content and would rather be fired from her job than teach such “sleazy, unnecessary drivel” to her students. Ms Deeming, 33, said educating children as young as 12 about porn and getting them to have classroom discussions about masturbation and sex was not appropriate and would not help to stop gender-based violence and discrimination as the program intended. Under the program, children as young as prep are also being introduced to same-sex relationships through children’s books, including Tango Makes Three, a tale about two male penguins who adopt a baby penguin. The book has been banned in Singapore and after parent outrage was scrapped from some school libraries in the UK and the US . It also featured in ...