According to a recent report, parents at Pleasant Grove Elementary School in Elk Grove, CA were shocked earlier this month to discover teachers created a secret LGBTQ+ club that 3rd-grade students could join without the permission of their parents.
From The California Family Council:
Parents at a California elementary school were alarmed in January after discovering a 3rd-grade teacher was allowed to personally invite all the 3rd through 6th-grade classes to a new LGBTQ club he was starting. The “UBU Club” as he called it, was for “boys who crush on boys” and “girls who crush on girls,” but anyone could come, the kids were told. Yet parents weren’t told anything about the club. No notification in the school newsletter and no permission slips were required for attendance, despite one being necessary to belong to the school’s garden club.
Within days of finding out, 30 upset parents crowded into a meeting room with the principal of Elk Grove’s Pleasant Grove Elementary School and a district administrator to get some answers. They were told LGBTQ clubs had already been started in 5 to 10 other elementary schools. They also discovered school officials weren’t sure students needed parent permission to attend an LGBTQ club. But the UBU club was put on hold until the school officials got legal advice. That was on January 29. Tired of waiting for answers, parents took their complaints and questions to the Elk Grove Unified School Board at this week’s school board meeting.
One of those parents who spoke was Mary Congdon. She found out about the club from her 4th-grade son, who came home confused and full of questions after hearing 3rd Grade Teacher Daniel Bishop talk about same-sex attraction. “I immediately reached out to his teacher bewildered why we the parents had no recollection of hearing about this new club,” Congdon recalled. “Her response was that it was because ‘it’s a safe place for students to go and discuss their sexuality without having to come out to their parents.’”
Watch the clip below:
BREAKING: Elk Grove, California parents are furious after learning that a teacher created secret LGBTQ+ clubs for third graders at Pleasant Grove Elementary
All other clubs at the school (for example, gardening) require permission slips.
This club did not require permission &… pic.twitter.com/6TjzECWPS1
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