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Transgender In Our Schools

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Below is a guest post from Ray Waldbusser,  Vice-Chairman of the Craven Country God and Country Christian Alliance. The interesting part of this article is that Fox News has taken down the articles on gender affirming care for toddlers–if you search for it, a link comes up, but when you click on the link, it is not there. However, The Education First Alliance has a similar article (link here) that illustrates what is happening in our schools.

Guest article:

According to The Epoch Times, gender clinics affiliated with three North Carolina medical schools are seeing patients as young as two years old for gender dysphoria. The medical schools at Duke University, the University of North Carolina (UNC), and East Carolina University (ECU) referenced providing “treatment” for toddlers and grade-school-age children with gender dysphoria on organization websites, in documents, and in news articles. In 2022, ECU’s Brody School of Medicine developed the ECU LGBTQ+ Health Clinic. Watch EdFirstAlliance (Sloan and Nancy), who were interviewed by Fox News on May 3rd for their exposé on gender affirming medical schools and programs at Duke, UNC and ECU.

Gender dysphoria eventually resolves itself in 87 percent of those who experience it, according to Dr. Stanley Goldfarb, M.D., board chairman of the Do No Harm medical watchdog group. A new report released by the Heritage Foundation found that easing access to cross-sex treatments without parental consent significantly increases suicide rates. The report went on to recommend that state and federal governments should reverse the push to make puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones more widely and readily available to minors and that facilitating access to these treatments without parental consent is particularly dangerous. NC HB 808, which passed the House 74-44, would make it “unlawful for any physician or other health care provider to provide surgical gender transition procedures to any individual under 18 years of age,” with limited exceptions. The bill would also prohibit health care providers, including physicians, from referring minors to other providers for “surgical gender transition procedures”. According to the NC Family Policy Council, the original version of HB 808 also would have prohibited the administration of puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones to minors, but those provisions were removed from the bill during consideration by the House Health Committee. Please encourage your State Senator to amend this bill to reinsert the prohibition of the administration of puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones to minors, move it out of committee, and vote for it on the floor.

The Money Behind What Is Being Taught In Our Schools

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Education First posted an article on November 16th about some of the money funding what is being taught in our schools.

The article reports:

Last week, it emerged that North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein is threatening to transfer $1.7 billion of taxpayer dollars from the state’s general fund to the Department of Public Instruction. The money would go to implement reccomendations from a report drafted by consultants.

People wondered where the $2 million to fund the report came from. In analyzing all the details, it became evident that the Leftist agenda and Critical Race Theory (CRT) were at the core of this development.

WestEd, a San Francisco-based educational consulting company, produced the Leandro report to suggest ways the state could comform to Supreme Court ruling in Leandro v. State. WestEd claims to be a nonpartisan organization, however it trains schools and districts on ways to implement CRT and SEL programs. The group has a cooperative agreement with the U.S. Department of Education and CASEL to promote SEL in schools across America.

Some of the recommendations are reasonable. However, here is a list of some of the more questionable recommendations:

  • Comprehensive staffing for learning that go beyond classroom instruction to address — social and emotional development, physical and psychological health

  • Massive resource allocation for social-emotional learning (SEL)

  • Offering social and emotional support to students (psychiatric services, in-school therapy)

  • Brokering student-support services (healthcare) with community partners

  • Government-funded Pre-K (the Biden plan)

The article notes the source of the funding for the report:

WRAL reports that the far-left Belk Foundation and Z. Smith Reynolds helped fund the WestEd report, but that the Goodnight Foundation was the largest private donor.

Jim Goodnight is the founder and CEO of SAS, a global analytics software company based in Cary. Goodnight is a billionaire with an oversized influence in the state’s education policy, because of his equally oversized donations to politicians.

The article also mentions the campaign donations made by Mr. Goodnight. It seems as if Mr. Goodnight is working hard to buy his seat at the table rather than have the ideas he espouses stand on their own merit.

Please follow the link above to read the entire article. The recommendations on the study named are not things we want to add to our education system in North Carolina.

Watchdogs In Education In North Carolina

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On Monday, The Washington Free Beacon posted an article reporting some good news about education in North Carolina.

The article reports:

A North Carolina education advocacy group launched a website this week to help whistleblowers expose radicalism in K-12 schools.

Education First Alliance launched its Schoolhouse Shock watchdog site on Monday to help parents and teachers call attention to radicalism in the classroom. Users can anonymously upload videos, photos, and documents from their child’s class to catalog critical race theory-based lessons being taught in schools.

“Our new statewide whistleblower program, Schoolhouse Shock, will add to our toolbox in the fight against the onslaught of racially inflammatory and sexualized curriculums that children are being immersed in all over North Carolina,” Sloan Rachmuth, Education First Alliance president, said in a statement.

The North Carolina Board of Education in February adopted radical curriculum standards built around critical race theory—the idea that American economic and political systems are inherently racist. Critics including the Education First Alliance and North Carolina lieutenant governor Mark Robinson (R.) say the politically charged standards undermine students’ education.

Rachmuth, an investigative reporter, established Education First Alliance in January. The nonprofit opposes the use of anti-American ideologies like critical race theory and antiracism in classrooms and pushes “for the equality of dignity and of opportunity for all K-12 students.”

Although remote learning has been a problem for many children, in many cases it has allowed parents to pay closer attention to what their children are being taught. I believe that the Education First Alliance provides a way for parents to put their concerns into action.

The article notes:

Education First Alliance charts the rise of critical race theory in education on its blog. The group reported on a nine-week-long “Culturally Responsive Teaching” training that instructed teachers to “disrupt” the education system with critical race theory. The group also documented a series of tweets in which James Ford—a North Carolina state education board member who was hand-selected by Democratic governor Roy Cooper—lauded anti-Semitic preacher Jeremiah Wright.

The organization uncovered documents that instructed North Carolina public school teachers to ask students about their sexual orientations and more. Middle school students in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg school district were asked about their sexual preferences. Sixth graders at Innovation Academy, a school south of Raleigh, were given a survey that asked students to count the number of genders and sexual orientations they believe exist, as well as whether they believe the gay community deserves rights.

Grassroots opposition to leftist indoctrination is on the rise. In North Carolina, Robinson in March created the F.A.C.T.S. Task Force, which provides parents another way to share radical education materials and other examples of “indoctrination” in schools. The national, nonpartisan Parents Defending Education launched in March to provide resources—including a tip-line and instructions for filing public records requests—to parents who want to protect their child’s education from “activists promoting harmful agendas.”

North Carolina’s education board began revising the state’s K-12 history curriculum in 2019. Early drafts of the standards called for teaching students as young as kindergarten terms like “systemic racism” and “gender identity.”

What we teach out children about America will determine the future of America. Parents need to be paying attention.