groomers
Rebuttal to Daniel Mayer/Amber Bock/School Committee of 10/4/2023 school committee meeting by Boyd Conklin 10/6/2023
I would agree with you that you do not consider yourselves groomers. I am the one that considers you groomers, as is apparently presently my right, during citizens request period of a school committee meeting. Of course this is not our first rodeo. I am less than confident in your Daniel, Amber, school committees espousings on the subjects that are contained in the curriculum espoused by Westborough schools to their/our students and teachers. We have some history with DEI, SEL, CRT, anti-racism, grooming assurances of we don’t do that here, or just because we go to seminars on it does not mean we implement it, and then we get the update from Maeve on her implementation to staff and students. Mutilating adults is one thing, mutilating children is quite another.
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http://71.248.188.158/CablecastPublicSite/show/10227?channel=2 Westborough School Committee Meeting 2February2022
38:40 starts the EL Director Maeve Hitzenbuhler presentation, ELL: English Language Learners. ESL: English as a Second Language. EL: English Learner. 1:02:00 Maeve starts talking about courses for faculty and staff,
(1) "Diverse books" Maeve co-taught with Armstrong Elementary School (AES) librarian Laura D'Elia and (2) "Understanding Race and Racism" Maeve co-taught with Hastings ESL teacher Latisha Broomfield. "The district strategic plan is embedding diversity throughout what we do in our district." "Course: Understanding Race and Racism. This course delves into conscious and unconscious bias, history of explicit and implicit racism and its roots, structural racism, and lenses into mainstream and antiracist orthodoxy. Anti-racism as an action, not an emotion. Text include: "How to be an Antiracist" by Ibram X. Kendi, "White Fragility" by Robin Diangelo, "Why are all the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?" by Beverly Tatum (several times a Zoom guest speaker), "Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates, "Caste" by Isabel Wilkerson, Guest Speakers are included throughout the course. Including human rights and immigration attorneys, the Iman from the Worcester Mosque. We don't want our Black and Brown colleagues to have to explain what it is like to wake up not White in the United States or in Westborough. ... " Then the five minute film clip was shown 1:05:00 from the New York Times "A Conversation With my Black Son". 1:11:00 The course is really setup to get teachers and staff members to understand what it's like to be someone who is not part of a dominant culture and what that means when we have parents come in to our schools who are not of the dominant culture who may not speak English, who may be Black Americans who do not feel like they belong there, how do we change ourselves, we are not interested in changing our parents or students, how do we change ourselves so that people feel equally empowered that the school district belongs to them and that they have every right to be part of the community that we serve, not an easy course to teach, but a very gratifying course, because people do want to go on the journey, they do want to be better in terms of their understanding of privilege versus non-privilege and how we can kinda sorta go through our lives without thinking of the other and without thinking of you know, what is the most empathetic act we can give to our families and to our students who are not of a majority culture." "Hundreds of people have taken the second course: (1) Diverse Picture Books. Topics include: Identity, culture, own voices movement, Journey stories (immigration), research and use of the Diverse Book Finder, Bates University and how to connect diverse picture books to our curriculum. Books in our collections have been used in classrooms grades PK-12." "Who can tell a story, Can someone of a culture tell a story of another culture?..." Picture book library collection photo at 1:15:00 400 titles, anyone in the community can come in and take out a picture book, housed at Armstrong. Maeve gives a three year timeline of a students testimony through art and essay and ends at 1:20:00.
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https://www.reuters.com/world/us/desantis-signs-florida-ban-gender-affirming-treatment-transgender-minors-2023-05-17/
"In addition to Florida, at least 14 other states have banned treatments for transgender youth"
https://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/publications/bans-trans-youth-health-care/
"As of March 2023, 30 states have restricted access to gender-affirming care or are currently considering laws that would do so. The bills carry severe penalties for health care providers, and sometimes families, who provide or seek out gender-affirming care for minors."
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Here are a few recent (2022) Supreme Court cases that seem to me to pertain to government/schools treatment of secular and religious messaging. I would like the schools to get back to the way it was done when I was in school. Now, some would say, this is the new normal, I would say the pendulum swings.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kennedy_v._Bremerton_School_District
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shurtleff_v._City_of_Boston
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Here is current legislation at State House up for public comment this week:
https://advocacy.charityengine.net/Default.aspx?isid=1554
I am writing to ask that you oppose HB544/SB268, titled An Act Relative to Healthy Youth, by voting NO if this legislation makes it to the floor for a vote and by asking members of the Joint Committee on Education to send it to study or report it as ought not to pass.
The legislation in HB544/SB268 would allow the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) to mandate a controversial sex education framework for public schools across the state. Currently, local schools can decide for themselves what and when to teach the children in their community about sex, based on the unique needs of their student populations and the desires of their parents. This bill would eliminate that control.
Most concerning, the curriculum already approved by DESE would expose underage children to graphic content such as how to engage in high-risk sexual activities like anal and oral sex. It would also teach young students how to get an abortion without parental knowledge or consent.
It would also require classes to include “affirmative recognition that people have different sexual orientations, gender identities, and gender expressions.” Promoting homosexual and bisexual sexual acts as normal, natural, and healthy contradicts the religious teachings of many parents, and restricts their constitutional right to determine the moral upbringing of their children. Schools should also not be in the business of promoting the lie that children can change their still-developing bodies with synthetic hormones and the surgical removal of healthy reproductive organs to match a "gender identity."
Finally, this legislation would prohibit the general public from examining the sex ed curricula being taught in their community resulting in less transparency for taxpayers.
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https://www.mafamily.org/sexed/
Westborough
District Grade: 5
The sex education resources used in the Westborough school district have been found to contain all five of the harmful elements below:
1. Sexualizes children
2. Promotes diverse sexualities
3. Promotes transgenderism
4. Promotes abortion
5. Undermines parents or parental rights
Elementary(Grade 5)
The Puberty Workshop
Middle School
Amaze
Tools for Teaching Comprehensive Human Sexuality Education: Lessons and Teaching Strategies Utilizing the National Sexuality Education Standards
High School
www.loveisrespect.org
Rights, Respect, Responsibility (3Rs)
OUT MetroWest
Amaze
All Grades
Massachusetts Frameworks
National Health Education Standards
National Sex Education Standards
Read the District Analysis Report for more details.
https://www.mafamily.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Westborough_Analysis-of-Sex-Ed-Resources.pdf
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Another angle on this grooming subject:
"I sometimes get asked why I devote so much bandwidth to challenging the movement that I’ve described as gender cultism—a faddish ideology whose adherents (1) claim that all humans are infused with a soul-like ether known as gender identity; and (2) insist that the self-reported nature of this spirit trumps the objective reality of biological sex.
The most obvious answer is that this movement does real, observable harm, by forcing women to share prisons, rape-crisis centres, athletic leagues, locker rooms, and other vulnerable spaces with men. It also encourages children, many of them #gay,#autistic, or psychologically fragile due to bullying and underlying mental-health challenges, to indulge the gothic horror-movie delusion that they were “born in the wrong body,” and to embark on a lifetime regime of (dangerous and untested) drug treatments and body-disfiguring surgeries.
But there’s another factor at play, too: I don’t want to live in a society that gaslights its own citizens. The oft-repeated slogan that “#trans #women are women” simply isn’t true. Furthermore, everyone knows it isn’t true—including those who shout it the loudest. Like other slogans of this type, it’s an officially sanctioned lie. And once it becomes a matter of settled precedent that we can all be forced to submit to this kind of lie, many more of them are guaranteed to follow." #savewomensports #canada #sexmatters #trevornoah #veronicaivy #terf #radfem #gendercritical #terfsafe #radicalfeminism #feminism #lgbt #sexnotgender #lesbian Jon Kay Quillette editor
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I’ve toured Gibbons school (seventh and eighth graders 12 and 13 year olds) with Amber Bock, by the way, who says I am intimidating/scary, I guess everyone even the superintendent can seek sympathy in victim hood. Nothing new here, in multiple meetings with select board member Shelby Marshall the fragility repeats. Anyways, Amber did acknowledge that room 39 was a bit over the top. I’d include photos of room 39 if we were allowed during the tour to take them, but Amber forbid it, photos which apparently we have the right to take. https://www.aclusocal.org/en/photographers-rights In room 39 at Gibbons, where the troubled/problem/lost kids end up, also happens to be the meeting place for the lgbtxyz club. An indoctrination/grooming chamber like no other, replete with grooming library, please take Amber or Jack Foley Gibbons principal up on a visit to see for yourself. Do note the unitary saturation of lgbtxyz iconography/messaging also throughout the halls and classrooms at Gibbons, if I recall correctly, two out of three class room doors had at least one if not many of these icons/messages let alone the ones contained within the classrooms.
Moving on to the high school I’ve enclosed my public Flickr account link with 86 photos https://www.flickr.com/photos/34200761@N03 detailing the saturation of the hallways of that environment with lgbtxyz iconography and messaging. Are you groomers, yes you are. Love to present at the school committee meeting, given equal time to make my case as you do, to the citizens of Westborough. For the folks at home, send me an email, I'll send you the links boydconklin@gmail.com . All the best, Boyd