California law allows staff to sleep “in cabins they identify with.”
QUICK FACTS:
- A California elementary school allegedly allowed adult males who use “gender-neutral” pronouns to sleep in the same cabins with young girls during a school camping trip.
- All of this occurred without parents’ knowledge, according to MRC TV.
- Parents of young students at Weaver Elementary School in Los Alamitos, California were angered after finding out their fifth-grade daughters were made to sleep for three nights in cabins with adult men who use “they/them” pronouns in accordance with their gender “identity.”
- “I contacted the school and asked them if they were able to confirm that there was not a man actually sleeping in the same cabin as the girls. They were not able to confirm that,” parent Rachel Sandoval stated.
- “Per California law, we place staff in cabins they identify with,” Emmi Teige, assistant director of Camp Pali, said.
WHAT ELSE PARENTS SAID:
One mom said she never would have signed off on her daughter going on the trip if she’d known the school’s policy: “It’s awful that children had to even experience this in fifth-grade camp,” she said, ACCORDING TO KTLA. “If I was aware of it and I had initialed something saying this was going to be done at this outdoor science camp, I would have kept my children home.”
BACKGROUND:
- The district is currently investigating the matter, KTLA notes.
- The parents say they want others to be informed of the policy so that they can make decisions for their own families.
