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Montgomery County Public Schools “misled” parents and a federal court about the controversial introduction of LGBTQ-related reading materials for grades as young as pre-kindergarten, according to a Muslim civil rights group.
The Council on American-Islamic Relations said documents obtained from the school system via open records requests call into question the district’s claim that a program to allow families to opt students out of LGBTQ-related instruction would be too disruptive for county schools.
And when a Montgomery County-based media outlet asked MCPS to back up the disruption claim, the district could supply “not a single email, not a single chart, not a single number. Nothing at all, about the issue of too many kids opting out … being the reason the opt-out was canceled,” said Edward Ahmed Mitchell, CAIR’s deputy executive director, during a community webinar aired on social media Tuesday evening.
CAIR also claimed that officials encouraged teachers to “disrupt the either/or thinking” of pupils who voice traditional values in class.
www.washingtontimes.com
The Council on American-Islamic Relations said documents obtained from the school system via open records requests call into question the district’s claim that a program to allow families to opt students out of LGBTQ-related instruction would be too disruptive for county schools.
And when a Montgomery County-based media outlet asked MCPS to back up the disruption claim, the district could supply “not a single email, not a single chart, not a single number. Nothing at all, about the issue of too many kids opting out … being the reason the opt-out was canceled,” said Edward Ahmed Mitchell, CAIR’s deputy executive director, during a community webinar aired on social media Tuesday evening.
CAIR also claimed that officials encouraged teachers to “disrupt the either/or thinking” of pupils who voice traditional values in class.
CAIR says MoCo teachers told to ‘disrupt thinking’ of students with traditional gender views
Montgomery County Public Schools “misled” parents and a federal court about the controversial introduction of LGBTQ-related reading materials for grades as young as pre-kindergarten, according to a Muslim civil rights group.
www.washingtontimes.com
