While we have made some strides in getting rid of the vicious, vile wokeness from certain areas of public life, the schools are still a hot mess. New York City schools are, unsurprisingly, among the worst.
Imagine sending your child to public school where they have to take your kid because you pay taxes, but they use your tax dollars not to spend the day teaching your child about math and English and possibly learning a foreign language. Instead, they spend your tax dollars on crap like this when it comes to gender.
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We recently received a video that was taken outside a classroom at Wagner Middle School, which educates sixth, seventh, and eighth graders on the Upper East Side in Manhattan. We are told this was supposed to be a seventh grade Spanish class. Someone at the school heard the instruction, turned on a tape recorder, and sent it to us exclusively:
You can watch the entire clip in the video above, but I will give you a couple of highlights. The woman leading the class instructed that “when we’re born, the doctor, they looked at our bodies and said, ‘Congrats, it’s a boy or a girl.’ They put you on birth certificate. That’s your ‘gender assigned at birth.’ Everyone has one. But you’re absolutely right, people are transgender say, ‘That’s not who I am. That’s not how I feel. I identify as a different gender.’ So that can look a lot of different ways. That’s all it is to be transgender. But people can… transition. Some people might medically transition. They might take certain hormones. They might have certain surgical procedures so that their bodies match the way they feel.”
That’s all. It is just a little just a little surgery so you can match the way you feel.
“But not every trans person does that. Some people, you know, might not have the resources or the means to do that. It’s very expensive. I identify as something called ‘gender fluid.’ So for me, my gender just kind of shifts and changes. Sometimes I feel more masculine, sometimes more feminine, sometimes I feel more in between. And so I just use all these pronouns. I didn’t change my name.”
That is what is happening in the seventh grade at Wagner Middle School, a public school in New York City.
The School’s Response
So, we reached out to them to ask what happened. We said we’re producers at The Megyn Kelly Show. We are looking into this story. We understand there were some comments made during a seventh grade Spanish class at Wagner. Do you have any comment on the teacher telling the students the following…? Was the school aware of this? Can you confirm?
Principal Jennifer Rehn Losquadro was the first to get back to us with, “the New York City Public School Media Department will support a response to your inquiry.” Then, at 12:30pm, we got the initial response from Nicole Brownstein, first deputy press secretary for New York City Public Schools. She wrote:
“Thanks for reaching out. Wagner Middle School does not have a seventh grade Spanish class.”
Period. That is the entirety of her response.
So, we wrote back: “Are you aware of any Spanish class at Wagner Middle School? Have you received any information about any teachers or staff at this school making statements like this to students? And if so, is this appropriate?” At 1:04pm, Brownstein responded:
“There are two Spanish teachers at the school. Both identify as male and do not identify as gender fluid.”
Okay, Nicole, this isn’t going to work for us, sweetheart. You are going to have to be a little more forthcoming because we are on it like a dog with a bone.
We responded back: “We have been informed that there was some sort of presentation from a group called PFLAG at the school. Can you confirm if this is accurate? If so, was class time interrupted for this organization to speak to students? Can you confirm which classes got the presentation? Were parents informed about this? Were they able to opt in or opt out? Again, does New York City Public Schools believe this is an appropriate use of taxpayer funds classroom time?”
We just got their latest response, and here it is:
“PFLAG New York City is an independent organization that New York City Public Schools partners with under appropriate circumstances to teach students about inclusion and understanding of LGBTQ+ issues. No parents at this school have raised concerns about this programming, which was given as part of health class.”
So, it did happen. You did bring in a group. You did interrupt instruction of actual academics to shove this trans ideology down the throats of 12 year old. And though you tried to dodge and weave our repeated requests, we caught you.
‘Pernicious and Dangerous’
And let me tell you something: If you are so certain that no parents at your school have a problem with this and no one is complaining, how did we get the video? Ask yourself that, New York City Public Schools. Who do you think tape recorded and sent it to The Megyn Kelly Show? Do you think it was a really happy customer either employed by you, or paying tax dollars to send their kid there, or maybe even a kid who thought you were being inappropriate?
You will never know because you just assume everybody is on board with your radical ideology – which is pernicious and dangerous – suggesting you could just have the surgeries and it is really not that thing to worry about.
You can check out Megyn’s full analysis by tuning in to episode 959 on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you like to listen. And don’t forget that you can catch The Megyn Kelly Show live on SiriusXM’s Triumph (channel 111) weekdays from 12pm to 2pm ET.