NY elementary school blamed for teaching ‘gender identity’ curriculum to kindergartners

An elementary school in the New York City suburbs is being called out for teaching a gender identity class to kindergartners after a copy of the curriculum circulated on social media.

Hillside Elementary School, part of the Hastings-on-Hudson Union Free District, is teaching a “gender curriculum” to elementary-level children in an effort to promote “inclusion” at the school, according to curriculum details reviewed by Fox News. digital.

The curriculum involves showing kindergarten students pictures of other children, which are used to “introduce vocabulary to describe characters of different identities”, including teaching them the terms “cisgender, transgender, and non-binary”. It also includes teaching about, as stated in a message to parents. Syllabus.

“Our gender curriculum focuses on Hillside’s core value of respect and aims to center the discussion on gender identity. Students will learn and discuss that you can’t tell a lot about a person just by looking at them,” the kindergarten level curriculum description reads.

“Students will look at pictures of children and talk about what they see and what they think they know about the children from the pictures. Using their comments, we will take the opportunity to introduce terminology to describe characters of different identities,” the school writes.

“Identity” taught to children includes discussing “gender and the pronouns you use,” and “as we learn and grow, the words we use to describe our gender identity.” use they can also grow,” as described by the school.

When asked about the curriculum by Fox News Digital, the Hastings-on-Hudson Union Free District communications team said the lessons have been in place for several years and “follow Hillside’s core values ​​of promoting respect and dignity for all students.” are contained in.

“A 30-minute gender lesson is taught once per year in each class. “Classes are led by a certified teacher who follows a specific set of lessons designed to help students value the full diversity of their classmates,” said Superintendent William S. McKersie said in a message to faculty and parents. “The lessons are tailored to the NYS Culturally Responsive-Sustainable Learning Framework,” they wrote. The school noted that the lessons do not address sex education or sexuality.

The school district said that although they usually have curriculum posted publicly online, the gender lesson description was removed from the website after it went viral.

LibsofTikTok, a social media account known for posting content aimed at voicing the far left, Posted a copy of the message to parentsWhich immediately got millions of views.

“Our children cannot read or write or have even a basic understanding of history, yet the indoctrination of gender communism into kindergartners continues unabated,” New York City Councilwoman Vicki Paladino said in a repost of the curriculum. “This will not stop until these people face real consequences.”

Kimberly Kaye, managing editor of Critical Race Training in Education, a database that allows viewers to see which schools are practicing Critical Race Theory teaching, responded on Twitter, “Getting your kids out of public schools. Remove.”