Primary School Cancels Reading Of Controversial Book, ‘I Am Jazz’

If “transgender elementary education” is part of the “progress” liberals keep talking about, I’m not interested.

According to this, I’m not the only one.

Officials at Mount Horeb Primary Center in southern Wisconsin were scheduled to read the controversial book, “I Am Jazz” to students. It’s based off of the real life situation of transgender teen, Jazz Jennings. If you recall, Jazz is the teen who’s sad because boys in his/her class don’t flirt with him/her the same way they flirt with his/her biologically female friends.

The school decided to schedule the reading to help other students understand another very confused student, who identifies as a girl but is biologically a boy.

To be fair, the school sent parents a letter, notifying them of the scheduled reading. It was signed by the principal, school counselor and psychologist.

“We believe all students deserve respect and support regardless of their gender identity and expression, and the best way to foster that respect and support is through educating students about the issue of being transgender,” the note read.

“It is our primary responsibility to provide a safe and nurturing environment for all of our students,” the note continued. “Please let us know if you have concerns about your child participating in this discussion; we respect the beliefs and convictions of all families.”

Many parents weren’t happy and promptly contacted the Liberty Counsel, which is a “non-profit litigation, education and policy organization with an emphasis on religious liberty issues.” The group said the scheduled reading would be “a violation of parental rights” and threatened to sue the school district.

The Liberty Counsel also pointed out that the school gave parents the letter just one business day in advance.

The letter notifies parents that Principal Rachel Johnson, School Psychologist Nicole Tepe, and School Counselor Emily McKee plan to subject Primary School students to a discussion of gender confusion and sexuality, under the guise of “anti- bullying,” “diversity,” and building a “safe and nurturing environment,” by means of reading to First Graders this coming Monday, November 23, “transgender” activist book “I AM JAZZ”. The letter was sent with one business days’ notice and appears designed to catch parents off-guard, to prevent them from opting their children out of this reading and subsequent discussion.

 

The November 19 letter requests, disingenuously, given the lack of notice, that parents “please let us know if you have concerns about your child participating in this discussion; we respect the beliefs and convictions of all families.”

 

Please allow this letter to set forth some of those “concerns,” and serve as an official objection to this decision as a violation of fundamental parental constitutional rights. The decision ignores the District’s obligation to support the vast majority of students who are not gender-confused, and creates the potential of gender confusion and resulting harms in these other students, who are currently happily living as normal, well-adjusted First, Second, and Third Graders.

You can read the full letter here.

The school district responded by canceling the scheduled reading. They chose “not to proceed as originally planned and allow the Board of Education the opportunity to review the needs of all involved, and address a situation for which the District has no current policy.”

“As we seek to address the specific needs of the individual student, the District will also be mindful of the needs of other District students and families, and will strive to keep all of the families whose children may be affected apprised of future actions by the District. Please know that our continuing goal is to protect all students from any bullying, harassing or intimidating behavior at school so that all of our students may learn together in a safe and caring environment.”

LGBT activists are super mad. Some groups are even calling Liberty Counsel “a legal organization advocating for anti-LGBT discrimination under the guise of religious liberty.”

But keep in mind, this isn’t the first time school administrators thought it’d be a fabulous idea to educate children on the complexities of living a transgender life.

And we wonder why our students suck at the basics– math, science, English and history. Critical LGBT thinking. That’s what schools want to focus on.