A public highschool in Fairfax County, Virginia, adorned its historical past hallway with a polarizing alphabetic show for Girls’s Historical past Month, starting with “A is for Abortion.”
West Springfield Excessive College lined the hallway with a show for every letter of the alphabet, representing what faculty officers imagine are vital elements of ladies’s historical past. The varsity informed Fox Information’ Laura Ingraham that “The ABCs to ME” show “is a student-led history project that is part of an elective Women’s History class.”
The “A is for Abortion” part of the show featured a picture of a coat hanger and a constructive being pregnant check, in addition to an outline of the challenge, which was first reported by The Every day Sign.
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In accordance with the challenge description, the show is for Girls’s Historical past Month, and the Girls’s Historical past class is “celebrating and bringing awareness to what it means to be a young woman today at West Springfield High School and in the world.”
“A” wasn’t the one letter that turned heads, with former Vice President Kamala Harris being the focus of the “H is for Hope” show.
The ‘A is for Abortion’ portion of the ‘ABCs to ME’ display can be seen here on the right side of the display. (Photo by: Stephanie Lundquist-Arora)
For the “J is for Justice” display, students were shown an image of the Statue of Liberty holding a female sign instead of a torch, surrounded by transgender, Ukrainian and Palestinian flags.
Prominent female Democratic Party members such as Kamala Harris, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., and Michelle Obama were featured in the “L is for Leadership” section of the alphabetic display.
The “ABCs to ME” display also had a spot reserved for men, seemingly criticizing them with “M is for Mansplain,” a reference to the derogatory term for a man explaining something to a woman in a condescending manner.
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“N is for NOW” highlights the progressive girls’s advocacy group, the Nationwide Group for Girls (NOW).
In a Could 2022 weblog publish on its web site, NOW railed in opposition to the selections made by a number of states to ban organic males from competing in opposition to females in sports activities. The publish asserted that it’s “simply dehumanizing and sexist to assume that because a person is AMAB* [assigned male at birth] they must have some sort of athletic advantage over cisgender women.”
‘T is for Trans Girls’ was included within the controversial show, seen right here within the prime proper nook of the picture, that includes a picture of a transgender flag contained in the circle of the feminine image. (Picture by: Stephanie Lundquist-Arora)
Two letters of the alphabet have been devoted to the LGBTQ group. “Q is for Queer” and “T is for Trans Women” have been proven within the show, with a transgender flag contained in the circle of the feminine image being the picture featured for “T.”
The mom of a male scholar attending West Springfield Excessive College, Stephanie Lundquist-Arora, spoke with “The Ingraham Angle” on March 18, sharing a narrative of one of many college students at the highschool who allegedly ripped down the “A is for Abortion” show.
“I just found out, a mom called me, and she told me that her son had actually ripped down the ‘A is for Abortion’ sign. He was upset, and he was brought into the principal’s office, and they counseled him, and they said, ‘Well, you had such a visceral reaction to this,’ and I think that’s just absurd. I mean, how could you not have an emotive reaction to this, even if the adults do? So I’m proud of the students who are stepping up and saying, ‘This isn’t right. This isn’t the kind of school we want to be in. This is indoctrination, it’s not education,'” Lundquist-Arora alleged.
A involved mom confronted the Fairfax County Public Colleges Superintendent through electronic mail, labeling the ‘ABCs to ME’ show as ‘obscene,’ and questioning why it is nonetheless up. (Picture by: Stephanie Lundquist-Arora)
An electronic mail alternate between the Superintendent of Fairfax County Public Colleges (FCPS), Dr. Michelle Reid, and Lundquist-Arora, was supplied to Fox Information Digital by the involved guardian.
Lundquist-Arora, a chapter chief for the conservative Unbiased Girls’s Community, requested Reid through electronic mail why the “obscene display” continued hanging within the faculty’s historical past hallway, although it appears to violate the district’s personal “controversial issues policy.” The involved mom additionally highlighted President Donald Trump’s Govt Order, “Ending Radical Indoctrination in K-12 Schooling,” which she felt was violated by the varsity’s “ABCs to ME” show.
Trump’s aforementioned government order seeks to take away federal funding for faculties that train Vital Race Concept (CRT).
When confronted with these issues, the superintendent made no concessions relating to the appropriateness of the show, and supported the varsity’s resolution to maintain the show up.
The county’s superintendent praised the show for encouraging ‘critical thinking,’ and supported the varsity’s resolution to maintain the show up regardless of the controversy surrounding it. (Picture by: Stephanie Lundquist-Arora)
“Often, women’s history is excluded from traditional history texts and instruction. I respect the right of our students to respectfully share their honest, comprehensive historical perspective that is relevant to them as young adults and in keeping with the assignment guidance and expectations. This is critical thinking — an integral part of our educational experience for our soon-to-be graduating high school students,” Dr. Reid asserted in her electronic mail.
The response continued, “Finally, let me be clear that our schools will remain focused on achieving a world class education for each and every student in a safe environment that values critical thinking, problem solving and creative thought provoking work. I see this student display as an example of student work that explores ideas and perspectives in a thoughtful manner and trust that this matter has been appropriately handled by school based staff – who have my full confidence.”
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When requested for remark by Fox Information Digital, Lundquist-Arora responded, “The ABCs to Me display is what happens at the intersection of politicized teaching and biased district leadership. The teacher and administrators are using students to amplify their own divisive political messages, while silencing other students’ voices. Such viewpoint discrimination is unprofessional, immoral, and violates students’ civil rights and their parents’ rights to direct their children’s upbringing and education.”
Fox Information Digital reached out to Fairfax County Public Colleges for remark and was directed to a press release beforehand supplied to Fox Information’ “The Ingraham Angle.”
