A Michigan school district is defending teaching young students how to use new and gender-neutral pronouns.
Administrators at Schavey Road Elementary School in DeWitt, Michigan, sent a letter to parents on April 11 informing them about the school’s intention to educate students about pronouns. school’s plan to teach students about pronouns. The book used for the lesson will be They She He Me: Free to Be! by Maya Gonzalez, which includes cartoon images of individuals using different pronouns, according to Fox News.
The letter mentioned that the students would go through the book, practice “using the pronouns ‘they/them’ and what to do if we make a mistake with pronouns,” and “learn that it’s not okay to change someone’s pronouns on purpose and to always try to use the pronouns that people want to be called,” according to The Center Square.
Examples of new pronouns that are part of the lesson plan include “tree” and “zie,” according to Fox News.
“On the inside, you may not feel like a he or she at all,” the book reads. It also promotes the idea that students can feel both “she” and “he.” The book further instructs students to use “they” pronouns whenever they observe someone not using a pronoun. Students will also be taught how to create their own pronouns outside of “he” and “she” as a way to be addressed by people from the public.
“Call me old-fashioned, but I think First Graders should learn how to spell They/Them and use it in a sentence to describe multiple people,” Michigan mother and political consultant Tori Sachs posted online about the lesson plan, according to The Center Square. “They don’t need to be indoctrinated into woke-ism in public elementary school.”
The school district reportedly said that parents would be able to opt their children out of the lesson.
As previously reported by The Dallas Express, Dallas ISD faced public scrutiny earlier this year for publishing a resource guide for students seeking to “socially transition.”
DX contacted Dallas ISD to ask if it maintains a particular pronoun policy or pronoun lesson plan but did not hear back by publication.
