Insulted mom yanks kids from school after Pride video shown without notice: No trust in leadership
A Washington mother says she is withdrawing her children from an elementary school after learning a Pride-themed lesson had been presented during music class without advance notice to parents or an opportunity to opt out, raising questions about district policies governing classroom instruction.“I assumed I had probably missed an email asking for consent, but there was nothing,” Maria Varchetto said in communications with school administrators, which she shared with Fox News Digital on Monday.“No advanced notice, no opportunity to review the lesson, no information letting parents know this topic would be discussed.
No option to request that our kids be allowed to opt out and participate in an alternative activity.There was nothing.”Varchetto alleged the lesson was presented to elementary school students, including her daughter, on June 15 at Martha Lake Elementary School in the Edmonds School District as part of a music class and that parents were not informed beforehand.Varchetto said that a video entitled “Why is Pride in June,” from the YouTube account “Queer Kid Stuff,” which, according to the account, “imagines a kinder and more equal future through highly-accessible education and entertainment for kids ages 3+,” was shown to her fourth-grade daughter.The YouTube channel describes itself as an “LGBTQ+ educational webseries for children ages 3+ hosted by a tie-wearing queer lady, Lindsay, and her non-binary best-stuffed friend, Teddy.
Gender Studies 101 meets Mr.Rodgers’ Neighborhood!”Varchetto said the incident prompted her to remove her children from the school.“We are 100 percent removing our kids from this school as I have no trust in the leadership,” Varchetto said.Other materials Varchetto said were included were a list of videos by musicians in the LGBTQ+ community, such as Freddie Mercury of Queen, Lil Nas X and Billy Porter dancing in a ballgown on “Sesame Street.”Varchetto told school officials that her daug...