California Rewrites Education Curriculum To Impose LGBT Lifestyles

It was with great pride that California Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson announced a new framework that will impose lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered lifestyles into the curriculum as early as the second grade. 

Torlakson, a former Democratic Senator now in his second term managing California's curriculum, was quoted as calling the new framework a "big win for our students" in reference to LGBT content that will be inserted into science, history, finance, language arts and other subject areas in accordance with the Common Core Standards.

Cloaked in the language of inclusion and anti-discrimination, according to Superintendent Torlakson, the framework is purported to "improve the teaching and learning of history and social science. It will give our students access to the latest historical research and help them learn about the diversity of our state and the contributions of people and groups who may not have received the appropriate recognition in the past." 

Disguised in this way, who would be opposed to providing students with the access to the latest historical research? And who would support denying recognition to the appropriate contributions of historically significant groups? Examining the specifics of the new framework reveal much more however.

Before examining the framework, itself, it is important to understand its origins. On April 14th of 2011, the California State Senate voted along party lines to pass a bill that mandated the teaching of LGBT contributions in the social studies curriculum. 

At the time, this was opposed by conservative voices in the State government as an open promotion of homosexuality but it was also opposed by the Los Angeles Times Editorial Board who recognized that, whereas struggles against discrimination have a legitimate place in the curriculum, this bill went further, stating that "Legislators aren't improving education in the state by stuffing the curriculum with new politically correct requirements. 

If more is added...something else will have to be deleted or treated more shallowly." This new framework being introduced now is the implementation of the previous, broadly-stated legal requirement. The specifics of the new curriculum framework take indoctrination to another level.

Second grade students students will develop a sense of history by learning that the traditional family structure is no more proper or healthy than any other. To quote a passage from the standard, "Through studying the stories of a very diverse collection of families, such as immigrant families, families with lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender parents and their children, families of color, step and blended families, families headed by single parents, extended families...families with disabled members, families from different religious traditions, and adoptive families, students can both locate themselves and their own families in history and learn about the lives and historical struggles of their peers." 

Thus the concept of the traditional nuclear family with male and female parents raising children is undermined at an age when children are particularly vulnerable to indoctrination. 

Gender preferences are equated with race, a common tactic recently in which the push for trans-something privileges is equated with the very serious struggle against racism in the Civil Rights Movement.

Not wanting to be "on the wrong side of history" as they say, fourth grade students will celebrate the achievements of gay public officials such a Harvey Milk, who was elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in 1977. Of course this means omitting mention of something or someone else already in the curriculum, because with all of the mandated testing there cannot be time for everything.

Teachers already in the classroom are unprepared to infuse their teaching with gay oriented propaganda since the textbooks are still being rewritten and teacher training courses reworked to accommodate the new LGBT focus. 

Fear not, however, because the State Education Department is being 'advised' by the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN) which provides on its website a library of Kindergarten through grade 12 teaching resources for an LGBT oriented curriculum. 

These include celebration of LGBT history month in the classrooms and specific literary lessons for language arts classes and a new focus for science class as well. 

Kevin Jennings, the founder of GLSEN, has pointed out that teachers will need to be trained in the new methods of educating students in the importance of LGBT history and its value for society, according to an interview he gave to Education Week in September, 2015.

Some may question how a focus on the homosexuality of Alan Turing, father of the modern computer, teaches students anything more about how a computer functions. Or they may question spending valuable hours in the curriculum on the murder of Matthew Shephard (a lesson provided by GLSEN) rather than the thousands of historically significant events that will be neglected. 

Some may even go so far as to question why gender confusion is being promoted for second grade students. Those making these claims can now simply be labeled as regressive bigots and ignored. Just let the State determine what your children will believe about family, history, science and literature. After all, the new framework is Common Core aligned.

The national move to a set of Common Core Standards that are unified across every state in America is, in itself, a dangerous encroachment on the right to define educational standards locally.  The LGBT curriculum is being imposed now in California, in alignment with Common Core, but how long before such content is inserted into other State curricula under the guise of opposing discrimination and with the threat of denying billions in Federal funds? 

A precedent for this use of the Federal "power of the purse" in education was set this year in Texas with the debate over transgendered bathrooms. If California is any indication, an LGBT oriented educational curriculum may be the next national battleground.