From Raw Story:
Watch three minutes of parent testimony at Hamilton Co. School Board Meeting:
https://www.rawstory.com/moms-for-liberty-2660238007/
Carolyn Mickey, a school librarian at Alpine Crest Elementary School in
the Chattanooga, Tennessee area, was shocked when a far-right group targeted her over a Mother's Day lesson that they claimed was "Leninist" indoctrination and an attack on Western civilization.
The lesson, designed to be inclusive to kids with nontraditional
families, included two books: "Stella Brings the Family" about a girl
with two dads, and "Mother Bruce," about a male bear who adopts a brood
of goslings who call him their mother. Mickey even notified parents
beforehand and allowed them to opt out, but that wasn't good enough for Moms for Liberty, who successfully pressured the school to cancel the lesson.
But according to footage
obtained by the progressive group The Tennessee Holler, parents in the
area were having none of it, and slammed the school board for caving to
fringe anti-LGBTQ extremists.
The lesson, designed to be inclusive to kids with nontraditional
families, included two books: "Stella Brings the Family" about a girl
with two dads, and "Mother Bruce," about a male bear who adopts a brood
of goslings who call him their mother. Mickey even notified parents
beforehand and allowed them to opt out, but that wasn't good enough for Moms for Liberty, who successfully pressured the school to cancel the lesson.
But according to footage
obtained by the progressive group The Tennessee Holler, parents in the
area were having none of it, and slammed the school board for caving to
fringe anti-LGBTQ extremists.
"My kids' librarian has been
vilified," said one woman. "I knew there would be pushback from a few
loud bullies, but I'm enraged that the administration sided with them. A
majority of families have been denied an important lesson in our
increasingly diversified world, and a platform was given to a group of
fearmongering extremists ... they're the only ones that brought sex into
it."
One man said of Moms for Liberty, "I've never seen them there
shoveling mulch, putting up swingsets, hanging door frames. We're here
in the trenches, we're with these children. I'm a Christian man married
to a woman, but I think everybody should be represented fairly ... If
you want to raise your kids in a closet and just shelter them from
everybody, homeschool them, send them to Christian school. This is a
public school for everybody."
"Instead of backing Mrs. Mickey up,
you let the bullies win,” said another woman. "When you let the bullies
win, they're going to keep bullying."
