The acronym QSA stands for Queer Straight Alliance or Queer & Sexuality Alliance. It seems that the LGBTQ has invaded elementary schools motivating LGBTQ students to start QSA Clubs.

A slide presentation with an invitation to join the QSA Club was presented to all 4th and 5th graders at Raleigh Hills Elementary School in Beaverton School District.

Parents are just finding out about the invitation to 4th and 5th graders and asking why they weren’t informed of clubs. A public records request revealed predatory behavior on the part of the social worker, district personnel, and principal pressuring kids into joining this club by signing a contact form without parental knowledge or consent.

The record shows district leadership, Pat McCreery, sought district counsel’s guidance on permission slips trying to not tell parents. The district’s legal counsel responded: ”In summary, it looks like the permission part is needed for student transportation, not general participation, and to answer the question of who is in the building before/after hours, not why they are there.”

For a club to be able to occur on a school campus,a teacher or other school staff has to be the sponsor and it has to get administration approval.

The administrator approved Amanda Cook, Raleigh Hills Elementary Social Worker, as the school faculty advisor for the QSA Club.

Her request states, “We have a small group of students now asking and advocating to start a QSA, and I’m hopeful we can start after winter break.” Did students contact her, or did she instigate the contact? Cook organized the material for the club invitation and used classroom hours for the presentation. Her office is the meeting place during lunch to avoid contacting parents.

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The club is intended to be student run. However, the presentation and goals are beyond elementary levels. One slide said QSA is a community where everyone belongs; students who identify as LGBTQ+, their allies, and those who want to learn more. Another slide addressed: What will we do?

• Have conversations about identity, gender, equal rights and social issues that are important to you
• Explore LGBTQ+ history and activism
• Discuss personal struggles and successes in a supportive space
• Advocate for change in our school and community

Representative E Werner Reschke (R-Klamath/Lake Counties) responded to the situation, “This is shocking. It is grooming at best; evil at worst. Sexualizing children is wrong, period, full stop. It is child abuse, no matter whether done by a pedophile or by the state.”

Jeanette Schade, educator for 24 years, stated in public testimony, “It is absolutely appalling that school teachers and officials are partaking in this type of behavior who are supposed to be ‘safe’ adults. These are 9- and 10-year-olds. Keep the personal and social politics out of the schools. Stop this predatory behavior and get back to teaching reading, writing and arithmetic without indoctrination.”


--Donna Bleiler

Post Date: 2022-01-19 19:24:09

Last Update: 2022-01-19 19:37:46