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According to Katherine Timpf at NRO, a Nebraska school district has instructed its teachers to quit using expressions like "boys and girls" because they're too "gendered" and instead, they need to use "gender inclusive" ones, like "purple penguins."
I'm not even making this up.
There's a whole training guide which was distributed to middle school teachers at a Lincoln Public School which discourages the use of phrases like "ladies and gentlemen." This is the level of insanity our country has reached. The guide suggests, "Create classroom names and then ask all of the ‘purple penguins’ to meet on the rug.”
That's just one suggestion out of several proposed by Gender Spectrum, which is apparently an organization that "provides education, training and support to help create a gender sensitive and inclusive environment for children of all ages.” Apparently, this is a big enough issue that we need to DISRUPT OUR ENTIRE WAY OF LIFE AND LANGUAGE to make sure the itsy bitsy teeny weeny fraction of children who can't decide whether they're girls or boys feel accepted.
Gender Spectrum's training guide advises teachers to ask themselves, "Will this configuration create a gendered space?" when they're having kids line up for recess or lunch or whatever other activity they're about to engage in. Instead of lining up according to gender, they should line up according to whether they like dogs or cats. FOR REAL. They also suggest having the teachers decorate their classrooms with "all genders are welcome" signs.
But it doesn't end with teachers, because teachers are also instructed to "interfere and interrupt" if they catch kids referring to each other as boys or girls, because those crazy kids need to learn themselves a lesson about gender fluidity. HOW DARE they refer to each other in ways that have made sense for centuries? It's 2014, y'all. Get your preferred gender pronoun handbooks out!
If you're wondering whether or not this much attention is given to topics like – oh I don't know – math and writing and reading and whatnot, I would bet the answer is no. Because progressive bullsh*t nonsense like this seems to trump an Actual Education or any valuable classroom instruction these days. It's simply another sign of the times.
GAWD.
