Global Courant 2023-05-24 22:52:19
Outraged conservative parents at an LA elementary school say they plan to keep their kids home on the school’s Pride Day to protest the school teaching students about gay parents.
A group of parents from North Hollywood’s Saticoy Elementary School from kindergarten through fifth grade launched an Instagram page about a week ago calling out the school administration and urging other parents to keep their kids home on June 2, the day the school plans to hold its Gay Pride and Rainbow Day gathering, according to the page.
“Keep your kids home and innocent,” says a flyer posted by the group, Saticoy Elementary Parents. “Videos will be shown to the students, including one that says ‘some kids have 2 mommies, some have 2 daddies’. This has led to outrage among parents.”
“We said no to COVID-19 vaccines and it’s over now. It was a hard fought battle and we won! Now it’s time to say stop taking care of our kids,” the group wrote in another Instagram post.
It is not clear how many parents will be allowed to participate in the boycott, but a protest is scheduled at the school for 8 a.m. on June 2.
The school’s headmistress, Maria Awakian, who was the target of parental anger, declined to comment when reached by The Times on Wednesday.
In a statement, the Los Angeles Unified School District said it remains committed to “creating a safe and inclusive learning environment that embraces the diversity of the communities we serve.”
“As part of our commitment to school communities, our schools regularly discuss the diversity of the families we serve and the importance of inclusion,” the statement said. “This continues to be an active discussion with our school communities and we remain committed to continuing to engage with families on this important topic.”
The protests come as part of a national conservative movement against discussing sexuality in primary school. Some parents are concerned about trans students using bathrooms that don’t conform to their birth gender.
The parental backlash at Saticoy Elementary comes at the same time as the Dodgers are facing objections from conservative Catholics over the baseball team’s decision to invite a drag group known as the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence to their LGBTQ+ Pride Night .
The Dodgers did not invite the group and reinvited them when the decision outraged pro-drag Angelenos.
