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After parents in Glendale, California, protested a scheduled “Pride Day” at their local elementary school, the Southern California chapter of the violent extremist group Antifa called for progressives to stand up to “hate groups” at a school board meeting Tuesday night.
In late May, Glenoaks Elementary School planned and announced a “Pride Day” for students to study LGBTQ+ activists, celebrate the LGBTQ+ community, and sign LGBTQ+ “pledge cards.”
In response, dozens of parents kept their kids home from school last Friday. One Glenoaks Elementary teacher told The Epoch Times that over 60% of all students were absent.
Parents in the Glendale Unified School District also hung banners and signs with statements such as “Hey GUSD, Leave My Kids Alone” over freeways and outside homes in response to the elementary school’s celebration of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or “queer” individuals.
One parent of students at Glenoaks Elementary, asking to remain anonymous, told The Daily Signal:
Things have reached a boiling point. Parents have been raising objections for a long time now. We say, ‘We want to know what you’re teaching, we want transparency.’ We haven’t been getting that for a very long time. Parents have gone to school board meetings trying to get answers, and they didn’t get them. What we got was a bunch of opposition, labeling us. Continue reading…
