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Dead Constitution See other Dead Constitution Articles Title: California teachers say they ‘stalked’ kids, pushed them to join LGBT clubs California teachers say they ‘stalked’ kids, pushed them to join LGBT clubs Speakers at a California Teachers Association conference ‘went so far as to tout their surveillance of students’ Google searches, internet activity, and hallway conversations,’ Abigail Shrier said. Featured Image Shutterstock by Raymond Wolfe Mon Nov 22, 2021 - 11:15 am EST SALINAS, California (LifeSiteNews) — Members of California’s largest teacher’s union discussed how they “stalked” children to get them to join LGBT clubs and mocked parents who complained about pro-LGBT content in their classrooms, according to leaked files obtained by author Abigail Shrier. Shrier reported that speakers at a conference of the California Teachers Association (CTA) last month “went so far as to tout their surveillance of students’ Google searches, internet activity, and hallway conversations in order to target sixth graders for personal invitations to LGBTQ clubs, while actively concealing these clubs’ membership rolls from participants’ parents.” She said three participants sent her files from the CTA’s “2021 LGBTQ+ Issues Conference, Beyond the Binary: Identity & Imagining Possibilities.” One middle school teacher, Kelly Baraki, reportedly said during a seminar titled “Queering in the Middle” that she “stalked” students’ online activity and monitored their conversations before inviting them to her “Gay-Straight Alliance” (GSA) group. “When we were doing our virtual learning — we totally stalked what they were doing on Google, when they weren’t doing school work,” Baraki said. “One of them was googling ‘Trans Day of Visibility.’ And we’re like ‘check.’ We’re going to invite that kid when we get back on campus.” “Whenever they follow the Google Doodle links or whatever, right, we make note of those kids and the things that they bring up with each other in chats or email or whatever.” “We use our observations of kids in the classroom — conversations that we hear — to personally invite students,” she added. “Because that’s really the way we kinda get the bodies in the door. Right? They need sort of a little bit of an invitation.” Another teacher, Lori Caldeira, who works with Baraki at Buena Vista Middle School, told participants that not keeping a record of children who attended her pro-LGBT group helped deflect questions from parents. “Sometimes we don’t really want to keep records because if parents get upset that their kids are coming, we’re like, ‘Yeah, I don’t know. Maybe they came?’” she said. “You know, we would never want a kid to get in trouble for attending if their parents are upset.” Calderia, an LGBT club adviser for the Spreckels Union School District, explained in a podcast last year that her group “deal[s] a lot with sexual orientation and gender identity.” “What happens in this room, stays in this room,” she said. Calderia’s name was notably included in a 2018 letter signed by “parents of transgender children” who criticized the Trump administration’s pro-family policies. “The advice to those who run middle school LGBTQ clubs is: keep no records, so you can plead ignorance of the membership with the members’ parents,” Shrier said. “In fact … Baraki can be heard in the same session describing having named her club ‘the Equity Club,’ and then, ‘You be You,’ rather than the more ubiquitous ‘GSA.’” ‘A little mind-trick on our sixth-graders’ In another workshop, “How we run a ‘GSA’ in Conservative Communities,” Caldeira noted that she and Baraki became motivated to pursue “LGBTQ kids” because they “miss[ed] them.” “We have LGBTQ kids who come to us, and they come and spend a year with us,” Caldeira said. But then, they “go hang with their friends at lunch.” “And they do their things. And we love them for that, but we miss them when they don’t join us. So we saw our membership numbers start to decline,” she continued. At another point, Baraki mocked parents who objected to an “anti- bullying” presentation that discussed homosexuality. One parent complained, saying that she “had not intended to have a conversation with her middle schooler about sexual orientation and gender identity, but the school presentation forced her hand,” according to Shrier. “I know, so sad, right? Sorry for you, you had to do something hard!” Baraki said. “Honestly, your twelve-year-old probably knew all that, right?” “I have tenure! You can’t fire me for running a GSA,” Caldeira later added. “And so, you can be mad, but you can’t fire me for it.” “CTA has made it very clear that they are devoted to human rights and equity. They provide us with these sources, these resources and tools.” In response to parental backlash, Baraki proposed doing “a little mind-trick on our sixth-graders” next year: “They were last to go through this presentation and the gender stuff was the last thing we talked about. So next year, they’ll be going first with this presentation and the gender stuff will be the first thing they are about. Hopefully to mitigate, you know, these kind of responses, right?” School district responds Poster Comment: More news from the land of fruits and nuts. Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest
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“Many of the comments and themes stated in the article are alarming, concerning, disappointing..." First rule: When caught, feign how shocked, concerned, and disappointed they are. "...and do not in any way reflect the District or Board of Education’s policies and practices,” district officials said. Then deny, deny, deny. Any future student clubs will be required to submit an outline of all activities and materials before being allowed to meet. Student sign-in sheets will be maintained... "Scouts', er, teachers' honor. Here is a rough [cough] outline, and all the students are responsible for signing in." All messaging shared in the morning announcements will now be controlled and distributed by the site principal. This practice will be in place permanently. Got to control the public narrative, lest they get exposed again. Any presentation or assembly involving sensitive themes such as sexuality will be created in line with state-approved standards and curriculum, and under the supervision of site and district administration. Kick it upstairs. Let's see you lousy parents control the CEA. Materials of any sensitive themes will be shared with parents/guardians prior to being shown to students. "Here's some watered down materials. No electronic recording devices allowed. What is said in class, stays in class." Teachers are prohibited from monitoring students’ online activity for any non-academic purposes. Riiiiiight. Regarding Baraki and Caldeira, the email also revealed that “appropriate personnel steps are being taken to make sure such activities and comments will not be repeated.” "We told them to shut the f___ up."
"It does not take a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brush fires of freedom in the minds of men." -- Samuel Adams (1722-1803)‡ "Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God." -- Thomas Jefferson
That is despicable -- they should be skinned alive. Kelly Baraka and Lori Caldeira -- notice how often it's minority women subverting ejukashun. Maybe Baraka’s a fake Muslim like junk playwright LeRoi Jones.
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When we worked for Illinois State Highways and got caught doing something we were not supposed to be doing, you went to State Plan A, admit nothing and deny everything. If that didn't work you would go to State Plan B, which was refer to State Plan A. LOL "When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one." Edmund Burke
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