When Katie Thoms learned that Fern Hill Elementary School teachers had undergone training to instruct K-5 students about gender identity, she felt disheartened.
“It’s inappropriate,” she said. “This subject matter is sensitive, and it should be discussed with children and their families. It’s also a distraction from the focus on education and what the school’s mission is really supposed to be.”
Thoms, who lives in West Goshen Township, is the mother of a 10-year-old boy named David in the 4th grade at Fern Hill Elementary School. She monitors his schoolwork for signs of LGBT influences.
“My husband and I ask him direct questions about whether or not there have been uncomfortable situations or conversations, and so far it has not been brought up in the classroom,” Thoms told the Epoch Times. “We will be putting in a request to have him excluded from these portions of classroom activities.”…