education
NY Elementary School Found Teaching ‘Gender Identity’ Course to Kindergartners
An elementary school in the suburbs of New York City has been teaching a “gender curriculum” to kindergarten children in an effort to promote “inclusion” in the school. Hillside Elementary School, part of the Hastings-on-Hudson Union Free District, uses photos of children to introduce “different identities.”
The New York Post reports that the course includes showing kindergarten students photos of other children which are used to “introduce vocabulary to describe characters of different identities,” including teaching them about the terms “cisgender, transgender, and non-binary,” according to a message to parents regarding the curriculum.
“Our gender curriculum focuses on Hillside’s core value of respect and aims to center discussions on gender identity. The students will learn and discuss that there is a lot you can’t tell about a person by simply looking at them,” the kindergarten level course description reads.
“The students will look at pictures of children and talk about what they notice and what they think they know about the children just from the pictures. Using their observations, we will then take the opportunity to introduce vocabulary to describe characters of different identities,” the school writes.
The “identity” being taught to children includes discussing “gender and the pronouns that you use,” and that “as we learn and grow, the words we use to describe our gender identity can grow too,” as described by the school.
Fox News Digital reached out to the school about the curriculum, to which the Hastings-on-Hudson Union Free District communications team said that the lessons have been in place for several years and are rooted in “Hillside’s core values of respect and fostering dignity for all students.”
“One 30-minute gender lesson is taught in each class one time per year. The classes are led by a certified educator, following a specific set of lessons designed to help students value the full diversity of their classmates,” Superintendent William S. McKersie said in a message to faculty and parents.
“The lessons have been created in alignment with the NYS Culturally Responsive-Sustaining Education Framework,” he wrote. The school noted that the lessons do not address sex education or sexuality. The school district said that while they usually have the courses posted publicly online, the gender lesson description has been taken off the website since going viral.
President-elect Donald Trump has vowed to tackle antisemitism on college campuses by threatening to strip federal support and accreditation from universities that fail to adequately combat the issue. The Jerusalem Post reports on Trump’s speech at an anti-antisemitism rally in Washington, where he announced plans to inform university leaders that allowing antisemitic activities or propaganda on campus could cost them federal funding.
“To defeat antisemitism and defend Jewish citizens in America,” Trump said, “I will tell every college president that if they do not end antisemitic propaganda on their campuses, they will lose accreditation and federal support. We will not subsidize the creation of terrorist sympathizers – and we’re not going to do it, certainly not on American soil.”
Trump is committed to holding educational institutions accountable for creating safe environments, particularly for Jewish students. He stated that if colleges allow violence or harassment targeting Jewish individuals, they will be considered in violation of civil rights laws.
“It’s very important,” he continued. “Jewish Americans must have equal protection under the law, and they’re going to get it. At the same time, my administration will move swiftly to restore safety for Jewish students and Jewish people on American streets.”
Trump’s promise builds on actions taken during his first term, when he signed an executive order that added Jews to the list of protected minority groups under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act. The move extended federal civil rights protections to Jewish students facing discrimination in publicly funded institutions.
Alongside his pledges, Trump also confirmed plans to appoint Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. Stefanik, representing New York’s 21st district, has been vocal in her opposition to campus antisemitism and has supported legislation promoting accountability for schools that fail to protect Jewish students.
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Nathan C. Paris
November 29, 2024 at 6:40 pm
KINDERGARTENERS?????? Are you kidding me????????? My LORD!!!!!!! THIS IS SICK!!!!!!!!!
Patriot19
November 30, 2024 at 7:34 am
Thank you, Sara. I must add that it is most important to get somekind of response concerning this matter from the National Educators Assc. and the American Federation of Teachers. These teacher unions need more exposure of their immoral support for child abuse, that has included far worse than this situation.
This has NOTHING to do with basic education, which should be the focus for elementary aged children, and is easily described as brainwashing and criminal.