Burlington Vermont Schools doubles down, holds community groomer workshops in person at an elementary school.
Burlington Vermont Schools doubles down, holds community groomer workshops in person at an elementary school.
They outlawed video, but I've got their slides. Let's see what they're teaching.
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Last year, I worked with my community of volunteers to expose the public schools in Burlington Vermont were grooming 12-year-old children on the internet. The story gained national media attention.
Just a few months back, we learned that the schools doubled down, forming an LGBTQ+ task force that has (among other things) instituted a checklist in the K-12 public schools in the city to make sure they have enough LGBTQ+ flags and flare in their classrooms.
And now we have the next chapter in the ongoing dystopian soap opera that is the Burlington Vermont public schools: They are reviving their annual equity workshop series, except they’ve learned a thing or two from the last year and are now holding workshops in person and refusing to allow the public to record them (one might wonder what they are so afraid of us seeing).
However, they did do us a favor and put their slide decks online for the first two workshops that have already concluded. Another workshop is scheduled for March 8 at Flynn Elementary School. If you’re in the Burlington area and would like to drop by, please email me at activelyunwoke @ gmail.com and let me know.
Allow me to walk you through the highlights. You can find PDFs for the slidedecks (just in case they delete them from their website) over at The Burlington Project, a substack dedicated to documenting the first city in America built entirely on equity.
They want to be the national model for LGBTQ+ activism in schools
I’ve argued that the reason we all need to pay attention to Burlington Vermont is NOT that we can save them from the far-left ideology that has permeated their public life…but because we can’t save them. Burlington will be a city built entirely on equity, in public schooling, and in the community, because that is what the vast majority of people in the community want.
Our purpose is to understand what happens when a community organizes itself around these ideas. It will either grow into the utopia that all dream it will, or it will become a dystopian warning.
Burlington sees itself as a school system that will provide a national model for how to address LGBTQ+ activism in schools:
Teaching the language of woke
In the first presentation, the presenter notes in their slide deck tells us that they passed out pride flags at the event and had participants hold a discussion regarding what this acronym means:
(It means two spirit lesbian gay bi trans queer intersex asexual +, if you’re curious)
They also gave a long list of definitions. My favorite was “cissexism”, a new term I hadn't heard before that means
A biased belief system positioning cisgender experiences as normal and expected, and all other forms and expressions of gender as “other,” pathological, and devalued.
They also did an activity asking participants to define certain terms.
They also discussed how heteronormativity shows up in their school and community. It’s important to discuss this because they believe that heteronormativity leads to social problems like the patriarchy, homophobia, and transphobia.
Just like in last year’s presentations, the Gender Unicorn is being trotted out again, along with the Gender Bread Man:
They concluded the first presentation by looking at a website that is a poem about the virtues of using “the singular they” instead of gendered language like boy and girl.
One of the arguments this website makes is that using non-gendered pronouns like they is just so much easier than using gendered pronouns like he or she.
Ask the students
In the second workshop, they brought the online student panels that got them in trouble last year to an in-person setting (and, again, did not allow them to be recorded for what I think are obvious reasons).
I would also be very interested in the school’s definition of “hate speech” but they never seem to define that.
The staff in the Burlington School District is very proud that over 35% of the students in the high school identify as LGBTQ+, with another 9% not being sure, for a total of 44% of students potentially identifying as gender non-conforming.
As we learned when we looked at their task force report in December, Burlington does intend to integrate radical gender ideology throughout the curriculum in their schools. They also noted that they are striving for a “gender liberated” environment.
“Gender liberated” is a term that comes from queer marxism that means to free oneself from the gender binary. In other words, they want to abolish gender.
They start teaching these ideas to kids in elementary school.
We also learned that the Vermont Principal’s Association is generously donating money to make sure there are more LGBTQ books in the school libraries.
And they concluded with a student panel asking how they’re doing that seems to set the stage for struggle sessions to come:
The next in-person workshop that the Burlington School District will host is on March 8th and is all about gender and pronouns. If anyone in the area would like to address this presentation, please reach out to me at activelyunwoke @ gmail.com
It almost seems like the same presentation they gave last year that got them in trouble that has since been pulled off of their YouTube channel (don’t worry, I downloaded a copy for you):
What do you think?
Are they grooming kids?
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