Students in a Tampa middle school
were instructed to fill out a form designed to measure how much privilege they have.
The children were given a form in their Spanish class at Monroe Middle School by teacher Yoselis Ramos titled "How much privilege do you have?"
The different categories included, "Race", "Skin Color", "Religion", "Sex", "Gender", Sexual Orientation", and "Disability."
Parents were not happy about the assignment.
Regina Stiles has a daughter who revealed she had ADHD on the "privilege" form.
"She has ADHD and apparently the teacher said there are some kids in this class that have ADHD, and ADHD is a mental illness, and that's why she circled that. To me ADHD is not a mental disability. It's something she has," said Stiles.
Other questions on the survey broached controversial subjects for middle-schoolers. Children were asked to identify if they were "Cisgender," "Transgender" or "GenderQueer."
"She's 12. Some of these things should be taught at home," said Stiles.
Stiles along with other angry parents approached the school principal, who began an investigation. It turns out the "privilege" form was not part of any official curricula or authorized by the principal.
"This is not a district form, this is a teacher-generated form and it was without principal consent and at the district level we do not collect that information," said Hillsborough County School Spokesperson Tanya Arja. She also pointed out that students were not required to turn in the form.
According to Arja, the teacher said the goal was to teach the students about inequality through literature they had been reading.
In Indiana, infantile tactics driven by over-inflated self-importance is
keeping the Governor's phone ringing:
Last month, governor Mike Pence signed into law House Enrolled Act 1337, which added new provisions to Indiana’s existing abortion laws. Among other things, the new law prohibits abortions obtained on the basis of “race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, or diagnosis or potential diagnosis of the fetus having Down syndrome or any other disability”; it augments the “informed consent” provisions currently on the books by adding new information to that which a facility must provide to a woman seeking an abortion; and it adds a requirement that fetal remains from a miscarriage or abortion be cremated or interred.
It’s primarily that last measure that has prompted “Periods for Pence,” which is swamping the governor’s office with phone calls informing him about each caller’s reproductive cycle. The creator of the “Periods for Pence” Facebook page has been transcribing her calls:
Me: “I need to get a message to the Governor that I am on day three of my period. My flow seems abnormally heavy, but my cramps are much better to–”
Them: (seriously annoyed and trying to keep their voice down, but not quite succeeding) MA’AM, WHAT IS IT THAT I CAN HELP YOU WITH?
Me: Oh, I don’t need your help, I just wanted to keep Governor Pence informed of my reproductive cycle, since he seems so concerned.
The Facebook page explains that “fertilized eggs can be expelled during a woman’s period without a woman even knowing that she might have had the potential blastocyst in her. Therefore, any period could potentially be a miscarriage without knowledge.” Their solution is to give the governor’s office regular updates on their periods, to make sure they won’t be prosecuted. Another example:
Me: “Good morning. I just wanted to inform the Governor that things seem to be drying up today. No babies seem to be up in there. Okay?”
Them: (sounding strangely horrified and chipper at the same time) “Ma’am, can we have your name?”
Me: “Sure. It’s Sue.”
Them: “And your last name?”
Me: “Magina. That’s M-A-G-I-N-A. It rhymes with–”
Them: “I’ve got it.”
The Facebook page has 40,000 “Likes.” Vox calls it an “epic trolling effort.” The New York Times did a write-up. Apparently, this is what passes for wit on the pro-abortion Left.
And The Boss engages in
a gesture of solidarity with the badly confused:
Bruce Springsteen canceled a planned concert in North Carolina to protest the state’s recent passage of the Public Facilities Privacy and Security Act, also known as the LGBT “bathroom” law.
In a
statement on his official website, the 66-year-old rocker and leader of the E Street Band said that the “fight against prejudice and bigotry” is more important than any rock concert on Friday.
HB 2, signed into law late last month, makes it illegal for transgender men who identify as women to use women’s restrooms in North Carolina.
The bill further prevents local municipalities from enacting their own anti-discrimination statutes.
“Just as important, the law also attacks the rights of LGBT citizens to sue when their human rights are violated in the workplace. No other group of North Carolinians faces such a burden,” Springsteen wrote. “To my mind, it’s an attempt by people who cannot stand the progress our country has made in recognizing the human rights of all of our citizens to overturn that progress.”
There's more out there, but if your stomach is like mine, that's about enough for now if you want to keep down your breakfast.
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