Chicago Teachers Instructed to HIDE Gender Pronouns from Parents

everybody i was waiting for like the finger point saying you're live and then amela here said you're live i'm always here hi guys keeping the uh you know keeping the train on the track good morning everyone jill simonian from prageru kids and our prep membership program with amela hi good to be here you don't need a last name no you're just you're amelette i'm just honestly and i'm always happy to have you so we've got it's been a couple weeks since we've been on but we are moving and grooving at prageru kids we've got tons of new content new books we're going to talk about in a little bit but i want to jump into this first headline hot topic that caught my attention because at prageru kids and prep we always like to say hello to our parents and teachers and grandparents who follow us on facebook who might tune in on youtube we always like to say hello give you a shout bring you some up-to-date uh news happenings about what is happening in the world of education and although there are some positive things that have been happening there's still a lot of nonsense and garbage for lack of a better word um i smile with zero joy in my heart bringing this to you today but what's the first headline we have chicago schools tell teachers sex is socially constructed tell them to hide students gender pronouns from parents fantastic okay so you've got the article there i believe we're pulling it up everyone can go and read this article this one was pulled from daily signal and it explains exactly what the headline describes chicago public schools instructing teachers to say that gender is a social contra construct um in this article it's described that um students can discuss their transition process if they wish to transition from male to female or female to male that they're able to discuss this process with a teacher without the teacher informing their parent or guardian that they are in fact having these conversations uh and our you know potentially making life changing decisions that you cannot reverse later with uh with teachers and you know all of us most of us who are parents have a severe issue with the family unit and parental rights being compromised and and really you know have having a wedge driven between us on our children when it comes to personal issues like this um how what are your thoughts about this i know you don't are you ready for me to rant are you ready i want to hear a ramp here's my quick rant on on this uh this is devastating for not only parents but students and educators i don't know if many of you are aware of this but there's a particular video of a woman confronting her school board about her daughter expressing her transgenderism and having that being hidden from her by teachers when her daughter was experiencing mental health issues and suicidal ideation along with this now this is just anecdotal information this is happening all the time and there's a particular link between suicidal ideation and transgenderism so if you have kids in a classroom that are expressing this tendency and you do not go to parents there should be consequences for this you should be prosecuted for this it is quite literally child abuse and you are stopping parents from being able to intervene with these children and it is disgusting boom i love the tough talk i i have to on this one it's just it it infuriates me it really does it is like i said i'm sitting here laughing i find zero joy in this it is not funny by any means i'm really i really continue to be in shock as a parent um who has you know i i've always stood by the philosophy of everyone has freedom to do what they deem appropriate in their life we have freedoms to pursue life liberty and the pursuit of happiness here in this country we are free to choose our own life we have the liberty to do that but when you are dealing with children and minors and families and and and there are institutions educational institutions and frankly unions deliberately trying to drive a wedge between parents raising our own children that is a severe assault yes and you have to think on a moral level it really is and you have to think about how much time kids are spending in these institutions if you are not spending the same amount of time that your kid is spending at school with them your your kids getting raised by somebody else and they're getting raised with this ideology in chicago public schools it's true and unfortunately for a lot of us i mean we're here in california a lot of state laws actually you know do prohibit uh parents from intervening in decisions medical decisions that their children can make under laws of the state without their without parental consent so if your child is in a public school i say this from the bottom of my heart it sounds ridiculous that we even have to discuss this but if your child is in a public school you need to keep asking questions ask the school specifically what is under law what are teachers allowed to discuss with my child that i might need to be informed about find out what's happening in your state and county laws and and figure out really what what uh rights are protected um as a parent because unfortunately not a lot of laws are protecting parental rights these days okay any comments scott we're getting a lot of people asking you know what do we do outside of just pulling kids from school how can we come back oh um oh so many answers i'm almost hands i got some answers but i always like to hear from amelia yeah you go first because this is your wheelhouse what else can we do besides pulling kids out of schools okay so on a personal level i myself did pull my children out of our once beloved public school that used to be the most idyllic situation ever with parents and teachers in a partnership yeah no more that just you know crumbled down last year i pulled my children out um against all odds i have been advocating now pull your children out because i think the only way to really make an impact really to make an impact is to like you say vote with our feet if there's no children in the schools well then they don't get paid and schools and teachers are paid by our taxpayer dollars and so on and so on but the other way to really make an impact and i've been discussing this with a lot of different um aligned organizations uh particularly in our prep membership group you can become a member if you go to prageru.com prep we have a lot of discussions in there with different aligned organizations many many thought leaders are saying the best way to make change and to really combat it is to physically get back inside your children's classroom now i know that with certain mandates and restrictions now associated with covid and all you know all sorts of things masking vaccine requirements all sorts of mandates that i'm not going to get into but i know that it is very very difficult for parents to physically be on campus in many states to physically be inside of our children's classrooms but that is the only smartest way to effectively make a change because a lot of this garbage that is happening would not be happening if parents were physically in the classrooms seeing what's going on and also if parents refused to be fearful of sending an email of saying i want to make an appointment with the principal and the teacher and the superintendent and the school board to discuss what i saw firsthand in the classroom what i read firsthand that came home in my children's backpack i want to make an appointment i want to talk about this with you and our job right now as parents is to make it difficult for them to force feed our children this stuff without our consent yeah it's something that the walk left is really good at and it's sort of being a thorn in the side when they want something done and they're really good at grassroots organizing as parents the best thing that you can do is communicate not only with each other but with the people who are in the hierarchy at your school district and at your school boards your meetings are public and they have to allow public discussion that is a right that you will and hopefully always will have so show up and do that not only that but there's a brilliant movement that's happening right now for curriculum transparency across the nation and several states are leading the charge on this florida being one of them talk to your representatives call your congressman call your senator start asking them to push for curriculum transparency and if you can organize other parents to do the very same they won't be able to ignore that and there is legislation being passed for this so that you have the right to look at exactly what your child is being taught before they enter the next semester so do all those things again boom sure you don't have children you know i i wish i did at this point because i will be there you will when the time is right but boom she's got it i myself am glad that i will not be a teacher at omales children's future schools although your children you probably know too much to send them into lion's den i'm on the i'm on the homeschool train right now i will do everything i can to homeschool my case oh but curriculum transparency yes yes yes let's move on to our next headline because it does it's a great segue into curriculum transparency this week in schools folks january 31st through what's friday february 4th it is blm in schools week i believe this is the fifth annual blm in schools week where schools across the country many schools across the country country have embraced blm curriculum i mean literal blm curriculum inside of their classrooms uh there is an article and do we have it pulled up is it from education week i want to make sure yeah this is from educationweek.org yeah uh yeah here's the headline on it pride flags and black lives matter signs in the classroom supportive symbols or propaganda so they go on to act like they're going to discuss this in depth and actually give different opinions on it but they end by saying you know not allowing these flags and not allowing these symbols as a sign of tamping down freedom of speech so i'm a huge fan of freedom of speech if you follow me you know that i may not agree with what you have to say and i will think that you know certain viewpoints are morally wrong or corrupt or incorrect or not proven but i will always always always defend our rights as americans to say it and i do i really hold true to that and i tell my kids all the time i said listen even if someone doesn't agree with you they deserve dignity and respect as a human being because we have freedom of speech in this country and people flee to this country to be able to say what is on their mind for diversity of thought i get this article and i read this article with an open mind saying you know what i may not agree with what you have to say but i will defend your right and ability to say it as free speech in this country however we know as parents that we as parents we cannot be fooled and teachers do not be fooled and bullied into thinking you're suppressing free speech by questioning blm curriculums that are delivered in schools we know that blm is a political organization we know that it uh you know in in in in force feeding these narratives to our kids they are radicalized they are politicized they are not based in standards education teachers spend so much time hours delivering these agendas and narratives through compromise curriculum that the kids are now not reaching academic benchmarks that's a problem in education when you're dealing with minors you're dealing with children it's not appropriate and it's an assault on their ability to learn in an unbiased way yep it's not what school is for i cannot stress that enough and we are making school and public education into something that it was never intended to be and you're going to have a generation of uneducated children who can rant for hours about what it means to be a social justice warrior and who are going to go out of high school and pursue college degrees where they get the exact same doc indoctrination at a higher level you're essentially just breeding a generation of activists who know nothing about math science literature or writing and it's going to start to take effect in what our intellect looks like in the future and the the activism again is i don't know if anyone can hear that noise we got construction happening in the building right here you can hear that if you hear it please pardon us but um that activism quote unquote that activism that is being taught it is not based in the philosophy of equality for all under god it is based in dividing people into categories of color of sexual orientation into oppressor victim oppressed it's it's dividing children in in in a way that is destructive for their growth and development i mean literally for their growth and development and their ability to be able to see everyone as e pluribus unum out of many one as americans together through our differences in school in communities in our country it's damaging it's divisive um and we're not doing that at prager you kids no we're not no we're not we would never we don't do that at prageru kids and so you know here's one thing okay so it's time for the plug for what we are what we got going on this week okay amala i'm going to have you bring up oh let's do the episode first yes yes yes i'll play a short clip of this for you guys uh you want to introduce what this is okay so in response to the divisive curriculums being force-fed to our children most of you know teachers parents grandparents caregivers that we've got prageru kids and our mission with prageru kids is to educate our children youngest learners kindergarten through 12th grade about our shared american history what makes us unique what makes us free what makes us the most blessed country in the world um uniting us through the journey that our country has has has now become you know the journey of our country from 1776 to now and how far we've come and um and the leaders who have brought us there so um while february is black history month oh you've got opinions on black history month i do uh my general opinion is why and that's why why does it exist why are we consolidating people's uh uh racialized history to a singular month and and i feel the same way about hispanic heritage month which is now a thing across the united states it makes no sense teach history throughout the year and if it involves black people which it absolutely will you talk about it and you discuss it there is no need to consign people to people of a singular race and their history to a particular month and that's that's the summation of my thoughts on that and see it's fascinating to hear you say that um because i never i i really do i've never had an issue with oh okay black history month hispanic history month there's let there be times when we maybe focus on these figures that have not give gotten their historical due i never had an issue with it but yeah when you put it like that i can understand it is further divisive why not just include everything all year round instead of compartmentalizing and making those who might have uh you know have uh have have um uh why compartmentalize everything right right and the the underbelly and the undertone of it uh states that race is the most important thing about that person's accomplishments or about that historical figure and by and large it's not and of course that doesn't take away from you know slavery and jim crow where where blackness is really central to the narrative but we talk about those things outside of the month of february and you teach it and it promotes this narrative that we don't want to teach black history when in fact most states in this union in the united states actually legislate that black history and african-american studies are taught in schools it is a ridiculous false narrative so yeah just anti-black history month was it necessary when it was created in in 1970 maybe yeah just coming out of the civil rights movement we probably weren't talking about black history all that much and certainly not through an accurate lens but it's not necessary anymore so yeah let's get to this uh president's day all right president's day book here's a little clip of the story time for you guys when it looked like american freedom would disappear from history washington crossed the delaware and won a great victory when the war was done we americans had won but who would lead our new nation with all the british gone do you like george washington washington there we go guys so that's a little snip of our autos tales today is president's day episode and we've got the book here and i'm in a george washington costume and you know it's interesting because uh you know obviously february is pegged as quote black history month we start the month of february with the blm curriculum and in many cases in schools around the country presidents day the third february the third monday in every february is consistently overlooked because many teachers in elementary schools that i personally know of do not want to teach their students about george washington because he quote unquote owned slaves they refused to acknowledge that the founding fathers had uh you know redeeming qualities that that's that superseded the circumstance of their time many of them were slave owners we're not trying to lie about that we know that is wrong it was a circumstance of their time and uh we want to unite students with our shared american history and we do want to recognize that george washington and abraham lincoln whose president's day was specifically created for and made a national holiday those two men led our country like no other two men have led our country before i mean obviously lincoln's emancipation proclamation and george washington winning our freedom from great britain i mean these are things kids are kids aren't learning about this yeah and you can't learn about everything else until you have solidified a strong appreciation knowledge for the foundation of america and so that's what we're trying to do the book is available on amazon and um it talks about it talks about washington's contributions talks about lincoln's contributions and it talks about what president's day is so get this for your classrooms teachers it's not political we are not trying to uh you know inject any kind of a narrative it's literally an adorable history lesson about george washington the declaration of independence abraham lincoln the emancipation proclamation and how they created and the america they helped create the america that we know and love and appreciate today so um otto's tales today is president's day next time you get a note from your student's teacher saying we're going to do blm history month go ahead and offer them this book in their kindergarten classroom yep you do have a super chat here jill that i want to throw your way uh this is just a concern and it is a valid one so let's talk about it this is from kai sinclair thank you for the super chat by the way i'd like to at least draw attention to the second option shouldn't you think about your child's point of view and consider how they'll feel about their parents being a quote helicopter parent and disrupting their social environment i love the helicopter parent philosophy so disrupting their social environment i'm not quite sure what is meant like that with those words like mom why are you coming to my school to talk about my what my teacher's teaching me when i just want to be at school oh yes yes no this is a great question i've experienced this and my answer point blank is we are the parents we are raising children if children could eat chocolate cake for breakfast every single day they would but we the parents know that that's not going to feed their brain and equip them to uh to lead a healthy lifestyle in uh you know and so we don't feed them chocolate cake every day uh my personal experience it continues to uh my personal experience with this with my kids saying mom why are you doing this why are you doing this i absolutely understand it and as parents we always have to walk a fine line of not overreaching or you know also embarrassing them in class and not making their lives difficult but at the same time [Music] it is a delicate balance that we are responsible for raising our children for making sure that the environment that they are learning and growing in is a sound one it is a healthy one it's our responsibility and if we don't do it no one else is going to so uh we do have to pick our battles as parents um but we also need to communicate with our kids consistently and uh frequently reminding them i am your parent and uh it is my responsibility to make sure that you are growing up in a healthy way and and you know there's some things that you're not going to understand now but later on you will understand um and balance that with giving them space but also making sure that uh that they're that they're being that they're being raised by us and also by you know community and teachers because they are at school it's our responsibility to make sure that that all of those things are happening in a sound way yeah um that's a good question though i really appreciate it it's a great idea no i answered it no you did yeah i think going to the school board and saying this is inappropriate is far different than taking the door off the hinges and reading the diary yeah it's totally it's a totally different uh parental take i think yes yes yes yes and you do i mean i i personally you know as someone who has gone to school board meetings and has spoken up and who has been uh retaliated against in in certain ways publicly and also privately personally um that's a you know that it's it's something that's very real and very serious and you do have to keep uh your children's um your children's uh lives um in order and you do have to keep you you do have to respect uh we have to respect our children's lives and and and um you know the the their relationship with their friends in in in their school situation absolutely yeah all right all right so lesson of the day teach our children about presidents day our youngest learners check out prageru.com kids we've got uh dozens and dozens i think we're coming up on 100 prageru kids episodes very quickly it's all on prageru.com kids everything is free uh kindergarten through 12th grade and if you want to keep staying informed and getting information about what's happening in schools and comparing notes with parents and sharing talking points and issues and solutions we've got a prageru resources for educators met educators and parents membership program prageru.com prep for you to join it gives access uh gives access to a private discussion forum with parents and teachers across the country 20 000 of us um really trying to course correct our kids education and we're doing that through our kids shows here and our discussions as parents and teachers any questions or final comments good news bad news a lot of people are saying you know parents support the parents and you got to keep up the fight just like our our ancestors and those who came before us did that's true that gives me chills and it makes me want to cry in the most wonderful way yes yes amazing yes thank you thank you thank you have a good one guys see you next week bye