This week, a couple of teachers at Central Park School for Children in Durham, North Carolina, decided to enlist the help of some local drag queens to celebrate the unique differences between the school's students -- queer or not.Taylor Schmidt, an eighth-grade teacher at the school, and his colleague, Schara Brooks, saw the impact bullying and other negative behavior was having on students in their school who identify as LBGTQ+.
"Visibility matters, and seeing a queer person of color on stage saying 'this is me' has an impact that no one can really measure." Stormie said she hoped the children would take the event to heart."You hope that the children listen to this," she said,"so that they know we didn't have this when we were growing up. We weren't seeing people like us being celebrated.
Source: Education Headlines (educationheadlines.net)
So many life lessons to share with kids, but this isn't one....🤦🏿♀️
Pretty sure they don't need this kind of encouragement. Public school is one big 'be yourself' class churning out mediocrity.
fuck is going on
Be yourselves by pretending to be someone else. Nice!
kind of an oxymoron there huh
Has the middle school invited pro-life advocates to encourage children to be chaste and virtuous boys and girls?
Unless being yourself means you are right wing, in which case DIE NAZI!! Right?
I AM VOMIT
Nooo womder their are so many school shootings happening. Kids are trying to be themselves and schools push this on them. Schools should know there are other ways to promote being yourself.
At that point, you just delete the whole school
No
Eh sure kids can use good role models, that's not one I would want my kid to look up to.
Disgusting
If he were “being himself” he wouldn’t be masquerading as a hideous woman...possibly a monster. Not absolutely sure.
so they have people who like to play dress-up, try to convince the kids that its OK to be yourself? not ironic at all....
“Middle School invites drag queens to encourage students to become sexualized and confused as young as possible.” There. Fixed the headline for you.
Fuck that.
Coming soon... Field trips to gay bars...
Ideologues always target kids. Pure evil.
Hmmm... when I want to be myself I take off my makeup and put my hair in a messy bun....glammedmakeup wigs fake - not being yourself -clothes and makeup don’t make the woMAN
All while the drag queens aren’t really being themselves. Demonic
'Being Yourself' *Wears tons of makeup & weird ass clothes*
Why?
In drag queens own words, 'Mental illness and queer go hand in hand.' Not one, but numerous DQ have talked about their mental illness and this format is what they want to teach these kids? DQ were reading to kids in libraries, 2 were convicted pedophiles. I'll pushback for kids.
Ok here’s the deal..... if you are a man, then acting like a woman is definitely not “being yourself”. Your a man, so act like it.
Moronic
Let's see if we can't COMPLETELY DESTROY ANY TRULY WORTHY OR ADMIRABLE representation of society for a MORE SELF CENTERED useless group who will grow up w/out the balls to be real men with a respectable purpose in society.Sheer liberal stupidity.
!:%*£&?!:÷!? Efing kidding me! Let's not invite firemen,policemen, first responders,or physical therapists who work with disabled stroke victims or vets!!!
Salaam. Guest what Ma..?Today workshop just dress up as a drag gueen for a booty call ..waaw that's was cool..awsommm..mdr..
Schools these days are engaging something akin to grooming.
Why would you invite a Man that is trying to be a Woman. What are you trying to teach the Children? How to be Disobedient to God and accept it? I mean how Stupid and Weak can you be. I definitely wouldn't want you to Teach my Children. You're a bunch of Gutless Cowards like Trump
What if they just want to be middle school students?
Be yourself by hiding your actual sex and trying to deceive people. What a great message for the children, eh CNN?
Oxymoron
Warping the minds of young children. Be yourself by dressing in drag? Wtf?
This for middle schoolers! Why? It's just more confusion.
Beats learning math, I guess...
Wasn't there cases of these dudes being pedos and or sex offenders ?
I hate CNN..
Nope, no LGBTQ++ agenda here, none whatsoever.
Sick
Who even thinks of this stuff? Cant we let kids be kids without subjecting them to stereotypes. This is not making them more aware it makes them more confused.
Why?
Great reporting CNN. Trash reporting on trash!
drag queen /ˈdraɡ ˌkwēn/ nounINFORMAL a man who dresses up in women's clothes, typically for the purposes of entertainment.
This is pushing trans life on children period.
Drag Queens: Be yourself while pretending to be someone else!
Yeah that’s the reason
Critical that middle school teaches kids that there are all kinds of people and that it is fine to be different. Reduces angst and suicide rates and makes all kids more aware. Sends clear message to accept people. However, is it necessary to incorporate drag queens? Too woke!
I remember when teachers were talented enough to foster individuality and confidence in their students without having to use a creepy dude dressed like Bette Middler as inspiration.
To be themselves? Told by someone who doesn’t know who HE is? He is a MAN dressed as a woman!!!
Pretty sure being a drag queen is the opposite of being yourself...
How someone that couldn't accept themselves as they were born could possibly encourage others to ?
Ugh
Wut stinks
Why is this even necessary? Something is truly going wrong in western civilisation
How about an athelete a doctor a nurse a teacher a fireman our military a policeman. No offense, to each there own but do you really want a young kid to inspire to be a drag queen?
Next in line, a stripper to teach them body positivity and confidence. 😂😂😂
Not news
That schools administrators should all be fired
Reasons to not let your kids go to public schools....
The entire school administration should be relieved.
Stupid idea
No!!!! This is wrong!!!! Stop indoctrination of homosexual sin!!! Transgender is mocking God's creation of male and female
Insanity!!!
This isn’t education. This is sick.
Honk honk
Such bullshit
Not my model. Dumbest idea.
I’d rather be speaking German😔😟😠😡🤬
Not at my kid's school would this happen.
Narrator: this was said with zero irony
Stop sexualizing children
HONK HONK
Wow the negativity astounds me. One young person said she felt like her space was safer now and before she felt like she didn’t belong, but now she feels better. Kids don’t care... adults teach hatred.
Are they showing how to commit suicide and jump from the school building as over 40% of transgender mentally ill people commit suicide? Are the parents ok with these indoctrination’s of false “life” lessons by liberal lunatics?
How is being a drag queen being yourself?
This creature takes huge amounts of synthetic hormones, has undergone surgery to cut off parts of its body, and wears an inch of makeup to conceal its features. HOW is that promoting 'be yourself'
Homeschool
Other ways they could've gone about it but their heart was in right place at least. More than can be said for some teachers who turn a blind eye to bullying both willing and unwilling. If we're going to give the teachers flak, we should separate their method from their intention.
This is the word the left wants. Fruitcakes
Imagine reporting on this instead of the fact that we might be going to war with Iran.
And it’s so fitting for to report this...
I frankly don’t care and this isn’t news.
Huh?
Yes, be yourself by mimicking something you're not. This pathological ideology gets more outlandish every year. Small wonder they keep coming out of the school system less & less capable of entering & functioning in the adult world.
Excuse me?! Drag queens are NOT themselves. They are mentally ill people. Let’s call it what it is.
With all the stupid requirements & time pressure put on kids in schools they have time for drag queen read along. WTAF? 🙄It’s time for the meteor.
“Can I be sick that day, mom?!?”
Taxpayer funded cretins invite mentally ill people to speak to children.
and we wonder why our education sucks
Wat
Bye bye West
Send them to Dearborn Michigan, and see how all the Muslim parents take it. Then it will be time for the left to choose to support the Islamic community or the LGBT community. It would be very interesting
How dare children be taught that it’s ok to be themselves. Lol bunch of skittish Nazis afraid of a dude in a dress 😂
Is that Don Lemon?
Disgusting. Are these drag queens the role models of our future ?
Our country is going to Hell faster and faster every day. Why don’t we have responsible people running our schools. You don’t promote perverts
Left wing trying to program our youth. Be themselves? Certainly. Bad choice of role models.
Isn’t it a little ironic that this school invites people who live their lives pretending to be something they’re not, to encourage students to be themselves?
The most watered-down, unoriginal, uninspired message that everyone’s preaches
I fought for gay marriage from my political awakening in high-school... but this sure as hell looks like the 'gay agenda' conservatives warned about.
Thank God they’re not letting any straight white males do this! 🙄
Be yourself?... okaaaayyy, then drags are not being themselves!!!! They’re men trying to act like women! I would pull my kid out of school if they allowed this to happen. Smh 🤦♂️
This shit is horrifying
Liberalism is a mental illness.
How is putting gobs of makeup on, a wig, fake everything, encouraging anyone to 'be themselves'?
'Scary'
Tell me when the school invites sewernugget to speak and I will believe they are serious about individuality. This is just more attempts to proselytize and normalize things to destroy traditional families.
So why bring In someone that doesn't want to be themselves, to teach kids how to be themselves?
But an American flag or a Make America Great Again cap is simply too much.
Why is adult entertainment being pushed on children?
In this demand to be “yourself” kids are not taught to live up to expectations for societal health. The individual is not more important than the group. This selfishness is destroying society. Identity politics is destroying society.
Be themselves? Aren’t they already?
OMG.Was there not another alternative? What school official would encourage this.Come on Folks.Were Parents aware of this before it occurred? Hopefully they were asked permission.This to me is a long trip from Point A. Let’s encourage them to Point B No idea what school thinking.
Ew. That’s all I need to say.
How many kids of employees go to this school?
Want to grow the far-right? Bc this is how you do that.
The school administrators should all be fired and their pensions denied. It’s totally inappropriate to expose children of this age to this. They are paid our taxpayer money to teach our children, which by test scores, they’re failing miserably at as well. Absolutely disgusting.
you dont need to be a drag queen to tell somwone to be themselves...
Hey Cable Nonsense Network. When r u going to merge with TMZ? Your just trash anymore.
For those of us who are educated & well traveled & live in cities, this is yawn worthy. Gay people (whether you like it or not) are everywhere & you interact with them all the time. What you backward homophobes are missing is the kids in class this inspires and gives comfort to.
This is disgusting, naturally CNN and leftists support it.
The best way to be yourself is to dress up as someone else
Everything about them is fake = being themselves There is nothing positive about that message. Please stop, you're embarrassing yourself.
It might be a little confusing to the kids saying be yourself coming from people who literally change everything about themselves.
Again the ‘Enemy’ on the rise of futur destruction! LordJesus, please stay with these young minds, don’t let them be hypnotized in believing the wrong is right!
Liberals ruin everything smh
Argument for Homeschooling
I always assumed 'being yourself' meant NOT having to pretend you were someone (or something) else.
My my my isn’t that special
Gen Z:
VOMITING
Drag queens teaching kids to 'be themselves '. Your headline suggests you support it. Just another reason cnn is considered the enemy of the people.
Very disturbing.
We have officially lost our minds
Disgusting
Home school or private school. Those are the two options for education.
Then you wonder where all these 'nazis' are coming from.
Yeah because at the ripe old age of fucking 13 I know what sexual preference I have. When I've only just hit puberty and have more hormones in me than the all the Kardashians menstruating together
Gross
We should homeschool our children if able.
This is the epitome of “Asking for it” Soon to be an “I told you so” Followed by the “what’d you think was going to happen?”
As if we are all closet drag queens... seriously how much are they % of population I know transgender is 0.6. How much longer do we need to hear about them in the news? I don’t care!
How can someone in a costume convince people the be themselves? 🤦🏻♂️
God help our world!!!! What have we come to?
To encourage mental illness*
Wtf
emmy600 Irony
Be gone, degenerates.
Aren't kids already who they are?
Whatever it takes to make the school hip & trendy. 🤦🏻♂️
Damn these people
No wonder NC is so f’d up
Unless being themselves is being a gay conservative Trump supporter
The jewish agenda for a nations destruction marches on unabated
So sad!! They are theatrical performers. How does that say anything? They are faking being Dolly Parton then the make up comes off. How about people living life to the fullest as they want to? Did they also bring in pro sports personalities, evangelist, policemen, etc?
Our over funded school systems just plain suck.
The irony here is they’re being told to”be themselves“ by someone dressed up as someone else. 🤔
'Be yourself kids!' says the man pretending to be a woman 🤔
They won't do sex Ed in school but will bring in a drag queen. This world is going to shit.
WHAT NONSENSE !!! You liberals think ANY behaviour is normal, ITS NOT
What agenda? Gross
Why?
How is being a drag queen being yourself. Aren't you playing a role. I don't know the answer.
Why are pedophiles running this school, only perverts would see this as ok.
Thats great! This shouldn't be national news anymore though
No sodomy on my Christian Minecraft server
I used to think homeschooling was out of the question for our family. I’m seriously rethinking that opinion.
Middle school or management/teachers middle school
Guess I'll be homeschooling when the time comes
Aren’t drag queens being anything BUT themselves?
But they're not themselves, dummies. Nothing more fake than a man in women's clothing.
This is good.
Being yourself should not include a drag queen. Can’t boys be boys and girls be girls anymore? It’s insane o do know maybe I’m old fashioned
Lord have mercy on us all . This bs gets better and better every day . Although this is Pedo Anderson & Co 🙄 wtf. Are the parents
These are the same confused kids that end up shooting up schools
Thank God I'm homeschooled.
More like be someone else....
Hail Satan, Lord of Lies!
Men pretending to be women telling students to be themselves. Yes, not ironic at all.🙄
Reality break. Middle school invites drag queens so drag queens can promote drag queens. This is not a good thing.
i wonder on what pedagogical ground this would be a good idea other than making feel smug and superior parents who follow that trend for whatever reason
The state of North Carolina should hide their face in shame. People are carded to check if their adults to get into places where these people perform, BUT NOT IN NORTH CAROLINA, THE MIDDLE SCHOOL'S BRING THEM TO KIDS. WHY ARE THE CHURCH'S PUTTING UP WITH THIS PORNO?
disgraceful
Perfect day to play hookey.
All drag queens are fake.
Everyday we stray further from god...
I would take my child out of that school immediately. Why is this more important than teaching math, science, laguage, etc? Social engineering in middle school must stop.
Perverse
Is that necessary?
Seems like a good idea
What is wrong with Americans and this 'be yourself' stuff? Isn't that obvious? Ridiculous using a man who dresses up as someone else (a woman). He doesn't know who he is!
Home school your children. The globohomo will never stop pursuing your kids. Protect them.
Um....hmm.🤔
Dear God help us!
How a drag queen is what kids need to learn this is beyond me. Stay woke, be a joke.
This is why we can’t have nice things.
Police should be called if these degenerates set foot inside that school. Parents and local veterans should stand guard outside to prevent these perverts from getting inside to molest anyone.
Hahaha oh the irony
WRONG!!! 😡
In other words let guys like guys and girls like girls. Your own provocative. I love females
Not where I live.
🤮🤮🤮
They don't need a drag queen for that.
LiberalismIsAMentalDisorder
I don't suppose they could have also chosen LGBT(n) people who are successful in more typical professional-type roles? Nothing says 'be yourself' like drag queens. At least a panel discussion among varying careers/professions? I'm stumped.
,CN🤡..
No, no, no. This is not right. Stop tbis insanity.
Cuz Dem districts drag queen story time w/ convicted sex predators gyrating on the floor &having kids put $ in their pants worked out so well 🤦🏻♀️ Dems sexualize &endanger children, exploit identity politics for corrupt power, push anti science agenda w/ health risks,high suicide
Example of more things schools shouldn’t be doing instead of actually teaching.
Want them to be themselves but yet religion is frowned upon and can’t be discussed or subject in school. Sounds like a bigger agenda at hand. Oh how far we’ve come....right .
Stupid.
House of Coxx?!? Really? You people have lost your damn minds. demexit brexit BLEXIT totheleft totheleft
Complete disregard for the parents. Parents want to instill their own beliefs and teach them to their child. When u do this, you SHOVING your own belief into the child. Why don’t you just go back to teaching science and English ETC ETC. That is what we send our kids to school for
Ah yes, Vivica C Coxx. Nothing tongue in cheek for the middle schoolers
I have nothing against drag queens. In fact I’ve taken my daughter to DragCon and we enjoy the art and entertainment. However, I think there may be other, more appropriate models of “being yourself” for middle schoolers.
Disgusting!!!
What a disgrace!!!
LOL people up in arms. Little Timmy is safe.
Define irony.
Thats ludicrous. Teach these kids to stop bullying and how to hold meaningful conversations.
Wellllll.....isn't that special?
The crap 💩 you people publish is absolute evil
Hope they remember, some of theses schools have armed teachers...
What does this have to do with Public Education? Hope the parents were given an option.
☹️
...by attending an event where a man pretends to be a woman CNNisFakeNews
Dude...you're a guy. Be a guy.
We. Are. Doomed.
How can that be possible
I think Mike Rowe would be much better than that, but that's just me...
PARENTS...........march straight to your school board and raise hell about this shit!!!!!!!!! This is pushing an agenda!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Holy shit!!!!!! Did the parents know about this WRONG to be pushing and agenda on kids!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Taught to be themselves by a person who pretends to NOT be themself. Good grief are liberals a twisted lot.
Be yourself! Unless you’re a straight, white Christian male on the right wing
The left is coming after the souls of the children.
drug queen
GREAT let’s have a whole generation of sicko’s!!!
House of Coxx coming to a middle school near you! 🍆
Instead of math science and proper grammar we get this. Lord help us all
I love drag queens that shit don't bother me im jus,saying u don't need them to tell kids this
WTF is wrong w/this New Democrat Party ideology? 95% of kids who have identity questions balance themselves out after puberty & there are no issues. This crap being pushed by the left is child abuse, especially these new gender clinics that are nothing less than experimental labs
You got to be kidding. is obviously rule by the prince of this world for showing this stuff daily.
Stop glorifying kinky adult behavior to children.
With all that’s on television and parents using more profanity around their children than ever before in American society there’s no wonder why stupidity is taking place today. You are ruining children simply by allowing Hollywood to raise them and by not teaching them God’s word
And now the transgender males can compete in women’s sports, which will destroy them. Dems never get to use the plaform of women equality again. On the other hand, the millennials will now wake up and vote for POTUS. Thanks!
Skip Day!
Yes, because building your identity off dressing up as someone else is totally being yourself.
Be yourself by pretending to be someone else.
World continues to slide into the Abyss...
My kid would be absent that day
Abomination
This is what the Democrats have creative pretty damn disgusting to me
CPSCNC this is downright frightening. youre bringing in mentally ill people to guide children? If my kid were at that school, there would be hell to pay. I hope the parents are all over this and let you people know how insane this. Who thought this was a good idea?
If they're not screwed up enough....this should do it.
Anything to undermine the family.
Middle school eh? I remember middle school & creepy Mr Marcus, cleavage peeker & gross. Oh those memorable moments you won't ever forget for all the wrong reasons.
Sickening
Are we not suppose to except this in society? Says alot when people feel the need to prey on the non-adults
Democrats have lost their minds ...
If men want to tuck in their wieners and dress like women and priss around that’s none of my business. When someone involves my children without my consent, WE. HAVE. A. PROBLEM. Crap like this is exactly why realDonaldTrump won and will sweep 2020.
And we wonder why there are mass shooting in schools.
I love love this!!
They needed drag queens to help them be themselves?
that_groyper Apparently this middle school now teaches perversion.
Celebrating Depravity. God help us.
This is child abuse
That’s disgusting and should be ilegal to make children to see such choices in life.
Sweet Jesus!!!
Message, is good, not sure if the drag queens were really necessary though, unless it was part of a wider 'picture '.
I like the idea, but middle school
Sickening. My kid would change schools.
If you want to be retarded, do it. Just, do it.
The left needs to STOP forcing all their liberal agendas on our children!!
Be yourself while dressing up like someone else.... Right....
DrAg QuEeNs ArEn'T SeXuAlIzEd YoU FrEaK ItS aN ArT FoRm
So bringing in someone who's pretending to be someone else is encouraging kids to be themselves? Crazy times we live in.
CNN news! What a waste of space.
Or be like him? Thats bull . . .
Weird. What day does the dominatrix show up?
Drag queens / shows, much like thong underwear, should be reserved for the socially and physically mature. Anything else is indoctrination.
Edgy.
This would never be tolerated in my community. Let the Freaks do what the Freaks do. I blame the Parents. KAG
Bullshit
that_groyper Can you just leave the little black boys alone, do they not have enough problems yet?
that_groyper Be yourself...by dressing up as someone else?
Who cares
Public schools are a dang travesty right now. There are some parents that dont want alternative lifestyles forced on their children.
🤮
Liberals ruin everything
Isn't the entire point of drag NOT being yourself? Just sayin
See how sick this world has become . God created Adam and Eve. Not Adam and Steve !!!got it 🙏
Did they teach them how to lip sync on stage?
Dufooq?
WTF is wrong you people?
Fire everone
Hey, remember when schools were about teaching math, reading and writing? Sigh.
It's getting sicker.
Could we please just leave kids alone!
If they were being themselves, they wouldn’t be drag queens.
Liberals are a cancer to America
Really.....first they arm the teachers with guns and now this!!!😳
Wake up parents this is Not educating your kids this is indoctrinating them . This is called dumbing down our future generations . It’s not to late to take Your schools back !
🤣🤣🤣🤣
I don’t see this backfiring.
What in the hell is this foolishness?!
How sick
Makeup and wigs...be yourself.
Why can’t schools go back to real teaching? Young people are graduating and going to college barely able to read. They know almost nothing about history. If they don’t have a calculator they can’t do math
The LGBTQWXYZOMG are such a small % of America, yet they keep forcing their beliefs and the way people should think on everybody. I'm gay and I am sick and tired of all that whining saying they have no rights. Hell you are American citizens and have all of the rights you need!🖖
Because only drag queens can inspire middle schoolers to “be themselves” 🙄 epic fail
Stop Gender Appropriation!
I mean, it just seems like parents and teachers could encourage children to be themselves.
oh no I'd rather die
KKaiser32 look at all this bigotry against drag lol
Disgusting. This happened in Austin texas and one of the turned out to be a convicted child molester.
This is a bigger threat to kids than global warming AOC save our kids
Kay.
Disgusting.
When did children get rights? Human rights and common sense rights , sure but to make decisions about gender, sexuality... etc? I didn’t begin to think about these things until college... just don’t get it ... old I guess
So wait, if an eighth grader calls a girl hot, it’s sexual harassment, but if a bunch of men with mental illnesses come in calling themselves “the House of Coxxx”, suddenly that’s healthy and empowering?
disgusting. parading mental illness to kids like that, how sad LowIQ
Seriously why is tge lwft so obsessed with grooming children? First they want to kill babies and the ones that survive they want to groom for their sexual perversions
Stop pushing sexuality and religion on kids they can figure it out for themselves. No wonder the younger generation is so confused. These “Adults” should be ashamed of themselves.
My kid will be absent from school that day
😂🙄
Lol the irony, as they are caked in make up, wigs,and flamboyant acting
'encourage students to be themselves' To think the same way they do, otherwise they're bigots amirite?
How would this not lead to MORE bullying of those kids
Remember that one drag queen reading to kindergartners who was arrested for molesting a child? That. That right there. And who worse to teach any1 about 'being yourself' than clowns who hide themselves underneath gaudy, grotesque, insulting representations of stereotypes
When I was in middle school, the only thing I was dragging was that rod between my legs.
Yeah this is disturbing.
Why don't they encourage them to be better students, citizens and professionals instead of this shittie example
I will have to be removed by police if this shit spreads to my area
LGBTQ in 2000: 'We would never come for your kids. That's rediculous!' 2019: 'Hi kids! Today we're going to learn to tuck ourselves into women's undies! After, we'll answer any questions you have about hormone therapy. Then, Desmond will appear to take tips in his panties.'
Vile.
I see this leading to more bullying than before for the LGTBQ kids.
reading riting rithmetic
disgusting
That is amazing and wonderful! I wish I could go too!! ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜💗
How absolutely disgusting.
But being a drag queen isn’t “being yourself”. It’s dressing up and trying to be someone you’re not.
Seriously? To benefit a micro minority of our children that may or may not have proclivities toward such a lifestyle is in earnest exploitation for its own purpose!
disgusting
This is brainwashing propaganda and if my child were in this class I would keep them home.
Trump2020Landslide
Homeschool your kids, because publicly funded government schools will turn them into brainless zombies if you dont.
Home school your kids.
This week my students learned about opportunity cost, supply/demand, and inflation with the silver content of Roman coins. I guess some other teachers have more free time to mess around than I do.
Not surprising as schools nowdays spend more time confusing the students rather than teach than basic writing and English skills used in the real world.
Why you send your kids to Christian schools
Abuse.
That's insane. What an oxymoron!!
Fire whoever authorized that bullshit.
well at the job fair these kids might go to they should have porn stars to encourage them to get a job
Home school your kids
WTF?
Waaaaay too young! I can see a case for high school, but middle school
If I were gay I would be offensed that a drag queen is being used as an example
cnn msm selling drama and noise as opposed to inward discipline, focus and voice of reason. Offending classmates owing to sexual preference is negative behavior reinforcement is far from teaching tolerance. Nobody cares!
Freaks they are. Americans shouldn’t put up with this crap.
It's ironic that the people fighting against representatives helping student gain emotion strength are the people who so obviously need it.
That’s wonderful! Drag Queens are awesome. At the end of the day they are performers with a message of inclusivity...and fun fact it has nothing to do with Trans and you can be straight too - If you take away your hate and sing along it can be fun.
indoctrination camps.
narrator: Ironically, they showed up in drag...
bernie_mcg this is close to the epicenter
What in the name of San Francisco is this?
Drag Queen: 'Be yourselves' Drag Queen: 'Who you are is worthy of love and care' Drag Queen: 'Let yourself be happy and authentic' Ignorant ppl: 'you're trying to change them and make them like you!'
You can’t spell ‘vile’ without e-v-i-l.
Disgusting.
Good use of our tax dollars🤦♀️
Important CNN post. Worthless.
🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣🖕😎🇺🇸☝️
so very sad, our children have enough to deal with without adding this
Middle school encourages child abuse
Shouldn’t they invite parents and encourage them to encourage their children to be themselves ? Unless they are going assign drag queens to go home with those kids cause middle school aged kid’s attention span... not that great
Kind of a wrong message but them themselves are not themselves..
in other words, wake up one day to 'discover' they're gay or trans, in other words, change their orientation according to whichever hole is nearest
CNN ⬇️
not ok.
I’d rather have drag queens in a school than a gun.
LOL...If they were being themselves they would be men.
🤦🏽♀️
meredth24 Be the best degenerate you can be...
I think that is good for the shy students. You are yourself, you can become a king.
How about inviting Christians,Jews to speak also if you don’t your being discriminatory against them?
Gross and Wrong
Hey why not invite a few religious nutcases and a couple of Nazis, you know to explore the full range of deviancies.
WTF? WHY? Time to pull your kids out of these schools. Or better yet, sue the school system that allows this to happen.
Pathetic
I’d like to know ... statistics on... reading scores... math scores..are they still teaching...cursive writing? You don’t need a drag queen to teach a child...to be themselves...when taught the basics..along with praise & “you can do & be anything you want” that’s all it takes...
Being straight is also allowed right? Or is pollitical incorrect?
To be themselves o to be like them?
Look at all these moronic bigots saying a drag queen is the same as being trans 🤣
That’s beyond sane
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🧐Now how is this educational and progressive in a classroom setting Teaching our youth this bs!
Studies show that, when compared with the general population, gay, bisexual, lesbian, and transgender individuals are more likely to: Use alcohol and drugs, Have higher rates of substance abuse, Not withhold from alcohol and drug use, and Continue heavy drinking into later life.
Disgusting. Seek help for your screwed up mental state
At least I hope this one was properly screened for sexual abuse charges prior to interacting with children. 😒😒😒😒
Ohhh heck no!!! 😡
There is a reason drag is done in nightclubs, it is entertainment for adults!
This is literally the dumbest thing I've seen today. It's nothing against drag queens, middle schoolers or encouraging students. It's simply a dumb, unintelligible idea.
Seems like a great idea.
Are the folks criticizing this the same folks who think more guns in schools is a good idea?
This is inappropriate on every level for any school. Kids need to be taught life skills; how to balance a checkbook, how car loans work, how to plan for the future, choosing a career, college options, not this crap. Our country is ridiculous. The inmates are running the asylum.
GeorgiaTrumpett Beyond inappropriate.
My child would have missed school that day.
There are better ways to encourage youth to be themselves than dressing up like a drag queen, that's disguising your true self🤔
You don’t have to be a drag queen or use them as examples towards middle schoolers to be themselves. 🤦🏻♂️
Should we teach kids how to balance a checkbook? Should we teach them how important credit scores are & how to maintain them? Should we bring in a guest speaker to talk about trade schools & careers? NO! Let’s bring in grown ass men dressed as women to dance around!
My child home schooled just got confirmed !! This is nuts 🤦🏻♂️
Yep.. liberalism truly is a mental illness.
This stinks to high heaven.
That’s gay
What do drag queens have to do with middle schoolers 'being themselves'
What the hell?
Esa es Lizmarie Quintana?
I've seen people complaining about sexualizing. Just stop. There is nothing about people encouraging kids to be themselves & respect other people being themselves that is sexualized. Just because you cannot see past your own prejudices, doesn't mean the same for rest of us.
Really. How?
So the kids' immature brains are exposed to this in the name of acceptance...got it. Screw up some.kids in the name.of the 0.01% of the school that need their parents more than anything.
It's crap like this that makes me home school.
I remember when people trusted cnn, the ratings should tell you those days are gone.
Lovely
Horrible example
So if your just a mass murderer come to school and be yourself
Lemme guess who is behind it...
Thats
I could give dozens of asinine situations student that are placed/forced into in American schools.. This is not even at the top..
You don’t have to to cut your penis off and look like a weirdo just to be yourself.
Wait...aside from the actual absurdity of the substance, did CNN just use the slur “queer” in the article?
Maybe the schools should start bringing in smokers, drinkers, gamblers, to encourage the young minds to be themselves.... aren’t we all born the way we are...
These comments are a huge part of the problem. Nothing more annoying than a Christian passing judgement....again.
So they chose a drag queen? Absolutely no one else was available? Poor kids. Good thing they had biology right after that. To clear up any confusion.
Excuse me I need to go throw up. Sickening.
The pictured queen is ... A. RepSwalwell B. RepAdamSchiff C. RepJerryNadler D. RepMaxineWaters
Love this. Open discussion only brings about more understanding and acceptance of each other’s uniqueness.
Stupid
LMAO. Because being a man who alters his appearance to look like a women is “being himself”. 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Be themselves by pretending to be someone else ?
So they brought people who aren't themselves to teach kids to be themselves no wonder our country is failing at educating our kids
Thats messed up. Kids should be learning not saying what they want to do in their bedrooms
How about you DON’T encourage sexuality in middle school and just worry about teaching kids.
You don't see too many women dressed up as guys. Just men dressed as women. And they always want to be around kids. Why is that?
So sad. I'm so glad I was a kid in the early 2000s, where everything wasnt a political statement.
Corrupt them while they're young. Show them all the perversions in life and you got them hooked forever.
Teach children about the birds and the bees before throwing a tired drag queen before them. We need a course called life lessons. Kids should learn how about housework, child care, balancing a check book, cooking, gardening, taking care of the environment, etc.
Inappropriate
Alternate headline: Middle School Promotes Mental Disorders.
Of course CNN must make me this a story. The morals of this country has become sad. This is not a subject for middle school students. If I was a parent I would sue the school.
Who runs these schools? They would be fired in a heart beat in my town.
Yeah if there are any demographics who are 100% certain about who they are in life it sure is middle schoolers
This isn't about the kids. It's about validating aberrant behavior and it's ludicrous.
I think children nowadays have no restrictions on being themselves. I guess they could also be encouraged by scientists to talk about the importance of the planet they’ll inherit or doctors who can explain why & what they could do to thrive to become successful people
Why are you reporting this as a positive?
What the heck is this country coming to!!!!!
smh
My kids would be pulled from that school so fast.
Sorry my child would have stay at home that day. I explained stuff like this when I felt they were ready. This is not what schools should be worried about!! 😡
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I love it.
Are you kidding me!!? 😡
Lol!👌😂
How dumb!
Liberals ruin everything they touch. They’re like a swarm of locusts.
Shame on them
Celebrating individuality is great and all, but sexualizing middle school is not.
That’s so wrong 😞
Hell yeah!
This should piss off the Conservatives and Republicans all at once!!
WTF
Troll much?
it was nice when schools existed to teach
Yep, and NY has 11yr olds dancing in bars while grown men throw dollars at him...totally normal behavior.
Children should not be exposed to this! What are we becoming?!
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and who would come up with such an idea? Lets guess.
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