This Week's MIP Digest
This Week's MIP Digest
Exposing Dangerous Curriculum in Mansfield Public Schools, Drag for Teens in MA Libraries, How TikTok is Destroying our Kids, and more.
It’s time for another edition of the MIP Digest!
The MIP Digest is a regular feature where we share the great information that has been posted to the MIP Facebook group during the previous week. The MIP Digest won’t capture all of the interesting comments and conversations that happen in the Facebook group, but it will include the highlights and provide a quick overview of the content, in case you missed it.
First, here are the posts from our Admins:
Fact check: True.
MA libraries are intentionally introducing and normalizing drag culture to kids.
Look at the screenshots below advertising drag queen events for kids at local libraries. Notice the messaging for the event with drag queen Giganta Smalls, “Teens ages 13 to 18 are welcome to join her as she dishes on what the life of a drag performer is like, and maybe pick up a few tips on getting started in the world of drag!”
Watch the video linked HERE from drag queen Kitty Demure who explains that drag culture includes lots of sex, nudity, and drugs and that kids should not be exposed to it.
Also linked HERE is a more in-depth article that explains the dark agenda behind drag queen events for youth.
It’s time to seek library and government positions in local municipalities and work to implement policies that safeguard minors from efforts to sexualize them.
Parents, do you know what is in your child's classroom?
An MIP member shared this photo with us, and we verified that it was taken inside a MA public middle school classroom. This photo provides a perfect illustration of how controversial and damaging ideology can be taught to kids in ways that wouldn't show up by perusing their Google Classroom or submitting a Public Records Request. If you are looking to protect your child from classroom indoctrination, here are some other things to think about and some questions you can ask.
Does your child's teacher keep a classroom library? A classroom library is a smaller collection, usually privately owned by the teacher. It is not part of the school's library database. How do you know what titles are available? Are there books in that library that you would not want your child to access?
What other types of posters, flags, icons or slogans are displayed in the classroom? Are these items related to the curriculum, or are they indicative of the teacher's personal ideology? If these items are political or sexual in nature, do they violate any district policies on controversial issues? If a slogan is presented (i.e.: "Hate Has No Home Here"), is that slogan also discussed in class? How is the topic of "hate" presented? How might a child whose personal or family beliefs disagree with a view presented be made to feel? Is a child permitted to bring in their own items bearing an opposing slogan and display them in the classroom as well?
And finally... how would you know if these items are in your child's classroom? Most teachers don't post pictures of their classroom on social media like this teacher did. That is why it is SO important that parents take every opportunity they can to physically go into their child's school (legally and respectfully, of course!). Insist on in-person conferences with your child's teacher (no Zoom!). If a Curriculum Night is offered, be there! Attend events or meetings held in your child's school, arriving a few minutes early so that you can check out the posters in the halls, or other items around the school. Volunteer to help with activities that take place within the building or classroom such as being a guest reader, attending PTO meetings, helping at scholastic book sales, etc. Finding ways to be physically involved in the school will give you opportunities to see what your child sees during the day, and if necessary, you can take action to protect them.
TikTok is a Cesspool Designed to Destroy Your Kids
(If you ever needed an excuse to keep your kids off of this time-sucking and soul-numbing app, here it is.)
Are your kids on TikTok, or do they want to be? If so, you won't want to miss this recent article from the Wall Street Journal: Tiktok Feeds Teens a Diet of Darkness by Julie Jargon.
From the article:
"A recent study found that when researchers created accounts belonging to fictitious 13-year-olds, they were quickly inundated with videos about eating disorders, body image, self-harm and suicide...
The Center for Countering Digital Hate, a nonprofit that works to stop the spread of online hate and disinformation, tested what teens see on TikTok. Last August, researchers set up eight TikTok accounts to look like they belonged to 13-year-olds in the U.S., the U.K., Canada and Australia. For 30 minutes, researchers behind the accounts paused briefly on any videos the platform’s For You page showed them about body image and mental health, and tapped the heart to like them.
TikTok almost immediately recommended videos about suicide and eating disorders, the researchers said. Videos about body image and mental health popped up on the accounts’ For You pages every 39 seconds, they added."
Read the whole article HERE (if you don't have a subscription, you can enter your email address to read this article for free)
We did our own search on TikTok and quickly found many examples of the types of material discussed in the article. Two of them are posted here. Would you want your vulnerable, impressionable, insecure child seeing this material? And once is bad enough - would you want them to view it over and over, for hours on end? This article recently reported that many kids spend almost two hours a day on TikTok.
And while the WSJ article doesn't mention the issue of sexuality, TikTok is also a known offender for spreading transgender social contagion and unscientific gender ideology to impressionable kids, teens, and young adults. You can read one source on this subject HERE, and there are countless others.
The bottom line is: TikTok thrives on user data. TikTok needs your kids. It needs them to be hooked on its algorithms. This is how it makes money.
But your kids don't need TikTok. Even if they insist that they do.
Parents, keep your kids off of TikTok. There is no truly safe way to engage with this app. Even under the most watchful eye and utilizing every parental control available, it is still a black hole of dangerous and damaging ideology. Be strong, mom and dad. You are not alone. If you take a firm stand, you can protect them from the devil in their pocket.
TikTok, your time is up.
Let's Talk About which MA schools are putting this shocking book in the hands of kids as young as 5!
A couple of weeks ago, we exposed Let's Talk About It by Erika Moen and Matthew Nolan on the MIP Substack. Let's Talk About It is THE most graphic, shocking book we have found in MA school libraries so far. To read the substack post, click HERE.
We asked parents to let us know if this book was in their child's school library, and we got (sadly!) many positive responses. It was even found in the catalogs of three ELEMENTARY school libraries! We couldn't believe this book was being made available to kindergarteners, but we double-checked those catalogs ourselves. It is definitely listed as available, either in ebook or physical format.
Can you imagine sending your 5 year old to school, and they come home with a book with graphic drawings of sexual intercourse and naked bodies with mixed-sex genitalia? What if your child was reading on their school-issued chromebook and, casually looking over their shoulder, you saw the disturbing illustration below (except with no red X's - we put those there!). What would you do? While this would no doubt motivate you to protect your kids, we think the best way to protect them is to keep them from being exposed in the first place.
Here are the school districts/schools reported by parents as carrying this unscientific, pornographic title. Check to see if your school is on the list:
Pembroke Elementary and Middle Schools
Shawsheen Valley Technical High School
Southeastern Regional Vocational Technical High School
North Attleboro High School
Danvers High School
Monomoy High School
Sudbury: Noyes Elementary and Sudbury Middle School
Goddard School of Science & Technology, Worcester (K-6)
Mashpee Middle School
Tri-County Regional Vocational High School
Georgetown Middle and High School
Barnstable High School
Parents also let us know if they found the book in their local public library. This is important because, even if you don't mind your local library having this book on the shelf for adult readers, you probably don't want your child to borrow it (which can happen even if your child doesn't go to the library because many public libraries provide books to schools for student use!).
The following libraries and/or library networks were reported as having this book available:
Wakefield
Reading
Nobel Libraries
Winchester
Longmeadow
Wilmington
CW Mars Library System
Merrimack Valley Consortium
SAILS Library System
Brockton
Quincy
Canton
Duxbury
Hingham
Holbrook
Marshfield Ventress
Norwell
Plymouth
Scituate
Sharon
Stoughton
Weymouth
Whitman
Worcester
Falmouth
Medford
Dracut
Westborough
Natick
Acton
Arlington
Bedford
Belmont
Brookline
Concord
Framingham
Lexington
Maynard
Cambridge
Medfield
Millis
Needham
Newton
Summerville
Sudbury
Waltham
Watertown
Wayland
Westwood
Winchester
Are these lists missing something? If your school or public library isn't listed, that might be good news, but it might also mean it has not yet been reported to MIP. Please check to see whether Let's Talk About It is available in your community (www.gofollett.com is the best place to start for school libraries). After you've checked, let us know if your district or public library needs to be added to the list.
Attention Mansfield Public School Parents: Your 7th Graders are Being Instructed to Visit Sex Websites During Class and Your 9th/11th Graders Are Being Told to Examine Their "Woman-ness" or "Man-ness"
The Analysis of Sex Education Resources used in the Mansfield School District has just been posted to the MFI Sex Ed Map, linked HERE. If you live in Mansfield, you are going to want to see what we found!
At Qualters Middle School, 7th and 8th graders are taught with selected lessons from the Rights, Respect and Responsibility curriculum (also known as the 3Rs) from Advocates for Youth. AfY is an activist organization known for promoting graphic sex ed, free and plentiful birth control for everyone, and abortion. Here is just one troubling lesson that we found being used in Mansfield:
"Sex Ed Sleuth": This lesson teaches 7th graders how to find "reliable, accurate" sex information on the internet. Rather than warning kids about the dangers of googling sex-related words or encouraging them to ask their parents when they have questions, it instructs them to go online. Under the guise of teaching them how to discern good websites from bad websites, kids are instructed to follow the curriculum writer's biases (including anti-religious bias) and are exposed to graphic websites that openly promote masturbation, gender ideology, and abortion. All of this happens IN CLASS.
Another example of disturbing content is the Genderbread Person being used at Mansfield High School. According to the information returned with our public records request, this lesson is being used in either 9th or 11th grade. The Genderbread Person is turning up with increasing frequency in MA schools, and the unscientific graphic is bad enough on its own. But in Mansfield they have a lesson plan that takes the confusion even deeper.
Students are asked to reflect on their "female-ness" or "male-ness" and whether they are attracted to "woman-ness" or "man-ness." They are then instructed to use their subjective analysis to place themselves on a gender continuum. It's difficult to understand why embracing regressive notions of gender stereotypes is now the vogue, but these nebulous categories are being taught as factual. It's no wonder kids today are confused!
To read MFI's full analysis of sex ed in the Mansfield school district, click HERE. This report also contains a link that will take you to all of the information provided by the district, plus the complete 7th and 8th grade lessons:
Parents, even if you're not from Mansfield, be aware. Resources like these have been found in districts across MA. To see what was found in your district, visit the MFI Sex Ed Map HERE.
Click the link and then scroll down until you find the map. Click on your town to see if your district report is ready! New reports are being uploaded to the map every week. If your district report isn't posted and you want to help MFI get information on what sex ed curriculum is being used in your district, email us at massinformedparents@gmail.com.
And finally, remember that per MA law you can OPT YOUR CHILD OUT of sex ed. Click HERE for more information on your rights and a link to a sample out-out form.
Other helpful links shared by MIP members this week:
Milford Mom Holds School Committee Accountable (Video)
Download this FREE comprehensive toolkit form Capitol Resource:
Looking for an out-of-state summer conference for your teens? Check out City on the Hill.
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