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School & Public Policies
“Toolkit” Opposition Mounting! Take Action!
The Minnesota Department of Education (MDE) has distributed a state directive to ALL Minnesota schools to allow boys and girls to share bathrooms, locker rooms, and showers according to their perceived gender identity. Called Toolkit to Ensure Safe and Supportive Schools for Transgender and Gender Nonconforming Students, it even goes so far as to direct schools to house students according to how they identify for overnight accommodations when sports teams travel! And no parents or students are required to be notified in advance!
Take Action!
The School Safety Technical Assistance Council (SSTAC) will meet next week to decide whether or not to accept this document in Minnesota. You are invited to join others at that meeting to show your opposition.
Wednesday, July 19, 2017
Minnesota Department of Education
1500 MN-36, Roseville, MN
Conference Center B, Room 15
46 State Representatives and 21 State Senators Sign Letter to Commissioner
May 12, 2017
46 State Representatives and 21 State Senators signed a letter to education commissioner Brenda Cassellius opposing the planned “Toolkit” for dealing with gender identity issues in schools. “Gender identity is a very personal topic and should be left to parents, not government schools. Additionally, finite resources would better be used for our children in other areas rather than advancing a progressive social agenda which many experts consider harmful.” [Download Letter PDF]
TAKE ACTION NOW! Click here for details!
Hidden Agenda: Review of a new guidebook designed for educators and administrators to use with school-aged children
Read this critical review that exposes the biased, inaccurate and dangerous recommendations of this guidebook (PDF). Radical gender activist groups such as the National Center for Lesbian Rights, Gender Spectrum, and the LGBT & HIV Project have published this guidebook for schools across the country to use in setting school policies that endorse, affirm, and promote transgender ideology.
As a Minnesota parent, you need to know that the Minnesota Department of Education (MDE) recommends the guidebook as a credible resource to schools, educators, students, families and the community. Any state or school relying on this guidebook as a policy guiding document is thoroughly undermining its credibility and perpetrating a dangerous disservice to children and to the public.
Links to some of the Anoka Hennepin School Board meeting testimonies and resources
[The numbers in parentheses after each testimony indicate where their testimonies may also be viewed in the embedded link at the end.]
- Child Protection League testimony, Michele Lentz (14:15)
- Parents Action League testimony, Barb Anderson (12:57)
- Letter from Liberty Council, Mary McAlister (submitted in writing)
- Letter from Alliance Defending Freedom, Doug Wardlow (20:10)
- North Star Law & Policy Center, Renee Carlson, Esq, (1:10:47)
- Dr. Olson Testimony (50:33)
- Hands Across the Aisle, Emily Zinos (17:30)
- MN School Board Association, Guidance on Transgender Issue, March 7, 2017 (resource included here by CPL)
- American College of Pediatricians letter to New London-Spicer School Board (resource included here by CPL)
- Gender Dysphoria in Children, Michelle Cretella, MD (resource included here by CPL)
All of the testimony may be viewed on the school district’s website. (March 20th, “Communications, Delegations & Petitions.”)
Here is a sample letter to opt-out of the curriculum. [PDF download]
A sample letter to the principal regarding any allegations of bullying against your child. [PDF download]
It’s Time to OPT OUT of the Minnesota Student Survey!
Take action! It’s time to opt your children out of the Minnesota Student Survey (MSS). The MSS—run by a partnership of four state agencies: the Minnesota Departments of Education, Health, Public Safety, and Human Services—is administered every three years to students in grades 5, 8, 9 and 11. [Read More]
Minnesota Students Survey Questions
School Boards are the Front Lines
Learn how the federal directive on transgenders in school bathrooms does not carry the force of law, and what you can do. Learn how the Minnesota Department of Education is falsely teaching that Gender Fluid Ideology must be taught in K-12 classrooms. [Read more…]
MODEL STUDENT PHYSICAL PRIVACY POLICY
This model policy may serve as a model for school district policies regarding the physical privacy of students. [Download PDF]
Dear School Board
Here is a letter you can send to your school board officials telling them about the recent court decision on transgender policies and the need to stop the implementation of any policies based on the erroneous interpretation of Title IX by the Obama Administration. Thanks to the The FamilyLeader.com for the original version (modified for Minnesota).
MODEL STUDENT PHYSICAL PRIVACY POLICY
This model policy may serve as a model for school district policies regarding the physical privacy of students. [Download PDF]
“The Church and Politics: What Ministers and Churches Can Do to Affect Public Policy”
Church leaders who want to educate their members about civic issues, particular legislation and viewpoints may be receiving false information from activist groups who are attempting to silence them with threats of losing tax-exempt status. Equip your church leaders with this important legal background from The Pacific Justice Insitute. [Download PDF]
Questions for Schools About Transgender Policies & Practices
Below are questions that every taxpayer should ask their local school administrators, including the administrators of elementary and middle schools, and then they should hightail it to the next school board meeting to request that policy be written mandating that restrooms and locker rooms correspond to objective biological sex. The specificity of the questions is necessary in order to ensure that accurate information is obtained, to make explicit the assumptions embedded in Leftist restroom/locker room practices, and to prevent administrators from obfuscating. [Read More]
Target Boycott
FlushTarget.com
Target has decided to invest $20 million to build a single stall bathroom at each Target location in response to a massive national backlash over its transgender restroom policy. Target’s public announcement last April to allow men who say they are transgender to freely use women’s restrooms and changing rooms resulted in a 1st quarter revenue crash of almost $1 billion.
But the new Target single stall restrooms are not for their transgender customers. They are for everybody else! And men who identify as women continue to be allowed to freely use the women’s restrooms and changing rooms. Just say NO to Target. The Target boycott currently has 1.2 million signatures. [Click for more about FlushTarget campaign.]
50 Shades of Grey
Seeing the movie, 50 Shades of Grey or its sequels is harmful to your health and dangerous for your children. Learn more:
Books
Eleanor & Park on Summer Reading List Not Fit for Kids. Beware!
Parents of a 15 year old high school girl were astounded to read through the book Eleanor & Park, a book their daughter was given as part of her high school’s summer reading program. “The amount of vile profanity used throughout this publication was absolutely astounding! Never in our 43 years have either of us ever read anything more profane.”
Read this extensive review of Eleanor & Park to help you learn what the schools are using for young adult reading. The New York Times calls it a “beautiful, haunting love story” for young adults. The parents say the book is “pornographic and sexually explicit.” Be advised. Eleanor & Park Review (PDF)
Equally astounding is the decision of the Anoka High School Review Committee even after reading this exhaustive study and critique of this offensive book. [Anoka High School Letter (PDF)]