Mandated Grooming: Burlington Vermont used a checklist to track if elementary school classrooms have enough LGBTQ+ flags.
Mandated Grooming: Burlington Vermont used a checklist to track if elementary school classrooms have enough LGBTQ+ flags.
44% of district students surveyed identify as LGBTQ+ or gender non-conforming.
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The Burlington Vermont School District is back with a new fresh hell.
There’s nothing wrong with providing an environment for LGBT students. Of course, they should feel safe and welcome in their school.
But when does a school cross the line from providing a welcoming environment to straight-up grooming kids by sending the message that it’s cool to identify as gender non-conforming?
The last time we visited Burlington Vermont - home of the most woke school district in America - they were grooming children 12-year-old middle school students live on the internet. Remember this clip of one of those children discussing how they came out as trans in the 5th grade with the help of the guidance counselor?
After the media picked up the story, Burlington removed those webinars from their YouTube channel but you can watch those full webinars on The Burlington Project, where we will track the woke insanity in the first American city run on equity.
It seems as though the Burlington Schools learned nothing from the experience of having their grooming escapes exposed on national media because they doubled-down.
In June 2022, the school district released the report of the LGBTQ+ task force, including the work of some of the same individuals we saw in the grooming webinars, including Assistant Principal Nikki Ellis and Choral Director Billy Ray Poli. Elementary school counselors were also included on the task force:
According to an internal survey in the report, 35% say they are either LGBTQ+, and another 9% say they are not sure.
Tracking teacher virtue signals with a checklist
One of the recommendations in that report was that the district “develop and pilot a walkthrough observational tool that assesses the extent to which classroom, hallway, and other public spaces are gender/sexuality affirming and liberating.”
They are also piloting a Gender Sexuality Alliance in one of their elementary schools, the Sustainability Academy, which only serves grades PK-5.
They developed a tool to use for their walkthrough, and piloted it at the Sustainability Academy:
The proposed walkthrough tool asks the user to walk through classrooms and hallways and keep track of if there are enough pins, buttons, stickers, pride flags, posters, books, safe space signs, and all-gender restrooms to sufficiently convince the elementary school students attending that the teachers really really love gay and trans people.
Let’s see how their first walkthrough went:
The following appeared in an addendum to Burlington Vermont School District’s LGBTQ+ task force report, showing the school district does plan to keep track of which teachers display (or don’t display) LGBTQ+ symbols in their classrooms.
This effectively sets the standard for staff that these types of virtue signals are a requirement for teachers in the district.
Mandating LGBTQ+ content in curriculum and staff training
The task force report also made other recommendations regarding work the school district needed to do. Many of these recommendations were based on what the students told them they wanted.
Included in the recommendations was guidance to ensure that LGBTQ+ content was integrated into the curriculum throughout the district, beginning in kindergarten, and implementing mandatory training on gender and sexuality for staff and teachers.
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