Lithonia Middle School in DeKalb County is being criticized by parents after a teacher quizzed a sixth grade class on different “gender identities.” The mother of one 12-year-old girl at the school, Octavia Parks, said her daughter informed her of the health class test when she recently arrived home from school.
The quiz, reports Fox5Atlanta WAGA-TV, shows students were reportedly asked to fill in the blanks for statements like: “A person who is attracted to men is,” “A person who is attracted to men and women is” and “A person who identifies as a woman is.”
Parks said she immediately signed a paper that would remove her daughter from the class.
“We’re talking about a sixth grader who still watches Nickelodeon. I’m not ready to explain what these words are nor what they mean,” Parks said, adding “Why are they teaching that in school? What does that have to do with life?”
The DeKalb County School District claims the teacher was following an “abstinence-based” program that met the standards of the Georgia Department of Education health education performance standards. InsiderAdvantage, however, is told that claim is in dispute.
In a related controversy, critics charge that the city of Decatur’s School Board in DeKalb County has a disturbing and radical transgender student policy being implemented by Superintendent David Dude. Teachers have reportedly been told that boys identifying as girls should be allowed to use the female restroom, boys identifying as girls should be allowed to use the female locker room, boys identifying as girls should be allowed to try out for female sports and boys identifying as girls should be allowed to room with females on field trips.
Already, one high-profile politician has addressed the controversy. Republican gubernatorial candidate and state Sen. Michael Williams asks: “Imagine your 12-year-old daughter sharing a hotel room with a male or using the same locker room showers?” And, he adds, “this is another activist bureaucrat putting children in dangerous situations for the sake of political correctness.”
Expect other politicians – along with parents and taxpayers– to weigh in on Dade’s policy in coming days. By the way, these guidelines were never submitted to parents for discussion or to the School Board for a public vote.
