PURPLE PENGUINS?? A World gone Krazy!

I'm on a soapbox! Yes, I am.  It's not the first time and I am certain ... it won't be the last.  I have never in my born days (and they are many), seen stupidity gone to seed as much as the kraziness happening in our society today!  

(The following excerpts are taken from an online article by Deena Winter, Nebraska Watchdog.org )

IN LINCOLN, NEBRASKA:
A Lincoln middle school staffer gave teachers training documents advising them not to use “gendered expressions” by calling students “boys and girls” or “ladies and gentlemen,” but to instead use more generic expressions like campers, readers, athletes or even purple penguins to be more “gender inclusive.”

Have you recovered from shock, or rolling in the floor laughing?  If so, let me continue!  

"A handout called “12 easy steps on the way to gender inclusiveness” advised teachers to avoid separating students by gender, but instead by birth dates or preferences. For example, they could ask students whether they prefer skateboards or bikes, milk or juice, dogs or cats, summer or winter."

 IT NEVER UPSET ME TO BE CALLED A GIRL, A LADY, OR A FEMALE!!  I never had the urge to black someone's eye because they referred to me as a girl!  I DOUBT our children are upset over being either a boy or a girl.   When parents have an ultra sound performed to find out if they are having a boy or a girl - how many of them have a breakdown if that baby is identified as a boy or a girl?  None!!  

THIS IS as·i·nine - ASININE defined: extremely stupid or foolish brainless, mindless, senseless, idiotic, imbecilic, ridiculous, ludicrous, absurd, nonsensical, fatuous, silly, inane, witless, empty-headed!

Yes!  All of the above!  What mindless, empty-headed, brainless PC human concocted this witless, absurd idea for our schools?? 

They are instructed NOT to instruct the boys and girls to gather on the rug - but they are told to ask the purple penguins to all sit on the rug!

For goodness sake, why can't our children be children?  Why can't they be girls and boys - and innocent ones, at that?  

There are those in our society whose minds have become twisted until they are absolutely imbecilic!  

Lincoln Supt. Steve Joel said he was "happy and "pleased" with the training materials because the school district wants all children to be successful and not feel like outcasts or be afraid to go to school... 

The training material:  "12 easy steps on the way to gender inclusiveness...can be viewed at the following website:

http://watchdog.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/2014/10/Gender-inclusive-training-handouts.pdf

There are only three pages.  You might want to print them.  Reread them; you probably won't be able to believe what you are reading the first time through, anyway.  

Here is step #3:  

Provide an opportunity for every student to identify a preferred name or pronoun. At the beginning of the year or at Back-to-School Night, invite students and parents to let you know if they have a preferred name and/or pronoun by which they wish to be referred.

I really must add #8.  It is too unbelievable to ignore:

Be intolerant of openly hostile attitudes or references towards others EVERYTIME you hear or observe them, but also use these as teachable moments. Take the opportunity to push the individual on their statements about gender. Being punitive may stop the behavior, at least in your presence. Being instructive may stop it entirely. 

Really???  Really???  

Supt. Joel also said: "As for teachers who may be offended by the training material, they should meet with their principal and talk through that."    

Gotta love real people who comment on these articles!  

1.  Jerry wrote:  "Yes, you will discuss it publicly, you will tell me if you intend to try to force my daughter to share intimate facilities with someone who is anatomically male, then, give your soul to God."

2.  Patrick: All we learned in Human Biology is false!  

Is your blood boiling yet?  This is happening in our schools and our children will suffer.  Honest, real, good folks ... must step up and say, enough is enough!

Oh yes ... one other instruction given is: Avoid using "normal" to define any behaviors.  And to think, I've worked hard to be considered "normal" all these many years.  

But, then... I still think I'm a female, so what do I know?

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