Transgender Book Read To Kindergartners
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Transgender book read to kindergartners. One of the kindergartners wanted to share the book with her. An instructor at rocklin academy gateway was presented the children s book i am jazz by one of her students. I have a girl brain but a boy body jazz says in the book.
I am jazz is a story about a girl named jazz jennings who is a transgender teen featured on a tlc reality show of the same name. A teacher at rocklin academy gateway read the book i am jazz to her class after one of her students who happens to be transgender brought it in. One california teacher learned the hard way that sharing a transgender story with a kindergarten class is a sure way to be black balled.
A teacher read a transgender book to kindergartners and some parents are outraged. Aug 26 2017 2. Officials at horace mitchell primary school in kittery point maine have come.
Unfortunately a group of california parents was outraged after a kindergarten teacher tried to do just that by reading a book about a transgender girl in class. School officials under fire for reading transgender children s book to kindergartners without telling their parents. The teacher defended her decision to read two children s books about transgenderism including one titled i am jazz she says the books were given to her by a transgender child going through a.
Swaney is the kindergarten teacher at rocklin academy gateway who made headlines last year when she read a book about a transgender child to her students before one of them left the class changed. The book was brought to the school by a kindergarten child with transgender status. Some books are only meant for enjoying at home apparently.
The story is about a transgender child named jazz who explains to their classmates what transgender is.