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November 5, 2007
Middle School Cross-Dressing Day Canceled
Another incident the mainstream media found unfit to print was the "gender switch" day planned at Adams Middle School in Brentwood, California. Fortunately, it has now been canceled, apparently due to the efforts of a horrified parent and the Pacific Justice Institute:
The mother of a seventh-grade student at Adams Middle School was alarmed when she heard that on the last day of the school's "Spirit Week," students were being encouraged to dress like the opposite sex. Perhaps even more disturbingly, parents were given virtually no advance notice from the school and found out about the event after flyers were posted throughout the campus. When this parent met with the principal to express her concerns, she was told the event would continue this Friday as planned, and she could keep her son home from school if he did not want to participate. The parent contacted Pacific Justice Institute on Monday, which advised her on enlisting other parents' support and communicating with the school. PJI also began laying the groundwork to hold the school accountable to the public if it did not reverse course by Tuesday.
In a 180-degree turnaround, the flyers posted about the gender switch day had disappeared by Tuesday morning, and the school confirmed that the event had been canceled. The school is now encouraging students to wear school colors on Friday. Parents expressed relief that their middle-school students would not be pressured to cross-dress or be subjected to a sexually-charged school environment.
Middle school means sixth through eighth grade (ages ∼11–13) — just the right time for government authorities to help kids discover their inner transvestite, unless parents raise a big enough stink.
Hat tip: NewsBusters, on a tip from Cheetah.
Posted by Van Helsing at November 5, 2007 7:45 AM
Comments
At one time, schools could do this sort of thing and it would just be fun. My high school had an opposite-sex day during spirit week, and some of the jocks swapped uniforms with the cheerleaders.
But now, society has become so hyper-sexualized it's impossible to do this. The gay/transgender types have so warped America that it's impossible to just do this sort of thing for fun.
One thing the closet had that contemporary gay culture has not: a sense of dignity.
Posted by: V the K at November 5, 2007 8:02 AM
Back in the 80s during highschool we did the same thing. Now with all the perversion of society they cant do it anymore because of the perverts on the Left coast have sexualized it. Damn you RuPaul!
Posted by: Anonymous at November 5, 2007 9:35 AM
ours do inside out day, backwards day...but then again, this is arkansas...
perhaps when they get older, they'll have a "hey, everybody knock your teeth out sit on the front porch with some moonshine next to your favorite dog (or wife) howling at the moon day!"
you just cannot trust dayz anymore.
Posted by: nanc at November 5, 2007 12:35 PM
Everybody beat me to the post.
We too had such days. Only ours was "Slave Day" (Oooo! How EEEVIL!) and some of the "slaves" wore clothes of the other gender.
I agree with the others, "sexual awarness" has taken the FUN out of a lot of things, even if they are not remotely about SEX!
Posted by: KHarn at November 5, 2007 1:34 PM
