Elementary Students Paint LGBTQ+ Crosswalk at Lewiston School
3rd Day of Welcome celebrated across Maine Elementary schools with focus on LGBTQ+ Rights
For the past 3 years, November 5th has been marked as “Day of Welcome” across Maine schools. In 2021, more than 200 schools participated, including 41 elementary schools.
According to the Maine Department of Education (ME DOE) website, The Civil Rights Team Project is organized with the support of the Maine Office of the Attorney General. “The Project, now in its 26th year, is a school-based preventative program that aims to increase the safety of students by reducing bias-motivated behaviors and harassment in schools.”
The Project’s mission seems well intentioned, offering an opportunity for Maine students to appreciate diversity and work towards a safer environment. With a growing population of immigrants in Maine’s largest cities, this effort should be welcomed and aid in the development of understanding and encouraging friendship across lines of difference.
The Project has organized a Day of Welcome, inviting public schools to celebrate by making a sign, banner of display that states what can only be described as a religious-style creed: We welcome everyone. All races and skin colors, all national origins and ancestries, all religions, all disabilities, all genders (identity and expression), and all sexual orientations.
Here’s what that looked like Ames Elementary in Searsmont, ME in 2021.
2022 Androscoggin Teacher of the Year Leads LGBTQ+ Crosswalk Project at Elementary School
Kelsey Boucher, an art teacher at Conners Elementary in Lewiston took the “Day of Welcome” to the next level. In May of this year, Kelsey Boucher was named Androscoggin Teacher of the Year. The Sun Journal took the time to highlight the teacher who “celebrates her students.” According to the article, the Lewiston native is an art teacher that knows the names of all 700 students and “has a talent for creating deep, genuine connections with her students, no matter their background or artistic ability.” Boucher co-sponsors the school’s Civil Rights Team, which consists of 4th, 5th and 6th graders.
She sounds wonderful. Given the school districts diverse racial and economic demographics, her efforts are to be commended.
It’s not her in-classroom work or desire to “welcome” everyone that is of concern. What should concern all parents, is the ideological push for gender affirmation propaganda on 4th, 5th and 6th graders within a Maine Department of Education sponsored club.
For the 3rd “Day of Welcome,” the teacher of the year lead students in painting a crosswalk at the main entrance to Conners Elementary that included the message, “Conners Community Welcomes All.” Each line of the cross walk was painted as well, using the LGBTQ+ rainbow colors as well as additional colors to represent racial diversity.
The messaging of this crosswalk is consistent with the “Day of Welcome.” Who wouldn’t want to be welcoming to all - especially in a public school setting?
Before we get to what may really be going on here, it’s important note that the message is not actually true. When LD 798 went into law, philosophical and religious exemptions were removed from the required vaccine schedule. Any student who did not have all of the required doses of vaccines were no longer welcome in Maine schools - public or private. So Conners Community does not - in fact - welcome all.
I wonder if that is being discussed in the Civil Rights Team gatherings?
I digress.
In addition to the crosswalk, Conners Elementary Civil Rights Team also created a video, featuring each student involved in the project walking across the “welcome”crosswalk, then reciting the “Welcome Day” message: We welcome everyone. All races and skin colors, all national origins and ancestries, all religions, all disabilities, all genders (identity and expression), and all sexual orientations.
Lewiston High School Superintendent, Jake Langlais, shared the video via his twitter feed, stating that the message was “…priceless. Welcome to all!”.
This is followed up by teachers and other school workers giving a brief “welcome” message, and ends with a full frame shot of the entire Civil Rights Team and the ‘22 Androscoggin County Teacher of the Year, ending with another, “Welcome.” The group is surrounded by streamers featuring LGBTQ+ pride colors in the foreground and large Black Lives Matter and the Updated LGBTQ+ Flag above the students.
The Updated LGBTQ+ flag above the students,“includes both black and brown stripes to acknowledge queer people of color, as well as pink, white, and blue (the colors of the transgender pride flag) (Source: Oprah Daily).”
The use of the word “Welcome” in being used to intentionally obfuscate the true intentions of the ME DOE. Indoctrinating Maine elementary students (as young as 9yrs old) with the myth of a “gender spectrum” is clearly a goal of the the Civil Rights Team project.
Necessary Questions
No student should feel unwelcome in a public school - that is not up for debate. However, no child should be exposed to any material promoting gender transition.
Why are children being exposed to the concept of sexual dysphoria in Maine Public Schools?
What other kinds of education is leading up to these projects? How is gender being presented to 9, 10 and 11 year olds?
Are parents aware that the “gender spectrum” is being promoted in their child’s after school programing? Many of these students are from immigrant families. What steps have been taken to properly gain permission from parents to expose their children to this ideology?
Potential for Serious Harm to Children
A 9 year old lacks the critical skills to determine truth and should not have a concept for sexual identity. If they do, it’s because someone has planted the idea through some other means. This type of programing is unnecessarily exposing children to sexual education. More than that - it’s promoting a “belief” not a fact. The idea that a man can be come a woman or visa versa is simply that - an idea. It is not now - nor has it ever been - a reality.
Promoting this type of “belief” in schools can have dyer consequences on children and teens. Libs of TikTok shared this horrific story from a mother in Pennsylvania.
And in Connecticut, 2nd grade teacher has included “gender affirmation” book as classroom material, reading it aloud to all students. This concerned mother makes the obvious statement, “Education on changing gender for 2nd graders should be completely off limits” and asks “Why would an adult approach this subject with children?”
And in Maine
Shawn McBreairity, a Parent Rights Activist in Hermon, Maine has been involved in a fight with the local school board to remove books like “Gender Queer” from school libraries. Epoch Times reporter Jackson Elliot, covered the story in a recent article that you can view here.
It’s clear that the ME Department of Education is intending to promote the radical idea of a gender spectrum in Maine’s elementary schools. It’s being promoted in the classroom and through school sponsored events. It is - by definition - the norm for students.
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