![]() In his newsletter, Proctor said the outcome was the result of a “radical, woke agenda.” Brandi Bond, library aide at David Brewer, said politics have no place in elementary schools. It is much more likely that they were coached or instructed to do that by the librarian.” It is highly unlikely that that was influenced by two gay parents. Though there are gay parents who have a child at the school, Proctor said “two entire classes produced artwork with pride flags and text about LGBTQ people. “Politics don’t belong in elementary schools,” Bond said. ![]() That’s just implausible in the extreme.”īrandi Bond, library aide at the school, said this was a fairly new issue, and had only begun hearing complaints about book displays and drawings in the library this school year. “I find it impossible to believe that was not the assignment and that they were not coached to do that by the teacher. “I find it impossible to believe that an entire grade of third graders and fourth graders, all on their own, decided to draw rainbow flags and talk about LGBTQ and spell those things out on their artwork,” Proctor said. While parents said the children were allowed to draw whatever they wanted, Proctor felt they had been coached into creating LGBTQ content, and didn’t think it was appropriate to teach this subject matter. “It was impossible to identify what students did what artworks, and nobody on the planet would know who had done that drawing if the kid’s mom hadn’t thrown a fit in the school board meeting,” Proctor said during a Tuesday interview with the Reflector. He said blacking out the students’ names gave them enough privacy. ![]() Proctor said there was more LGBTQ content put on the wall than the drawings mentioned in the newsletter and felt it was necessary to alert the Leavenworth community about the issue. Other drawings on the wall included stick figures, cats, a Japanese flag and what appeared to be a depiction of biracial friendship. The drawings were done on sheets of paper that had the words “My school library is for every student!” printed on top. The picture was one of several drawings done by third and fourth graders at David Brewer Elementary School put up in the library. Pat Proctor, a Leavenworth Republican, published the drawing in his February newsletter. “He bleeped out her name, which he thinks is acceptable, but you can’t go to an art museum and print out a picture of someone’s artwork without asking their permission.” “I found it and was irate, because he didn’t ask for permission,” Ricard said. LEAVENWORTH - A local parent was outraged when she opened up her representative’s February newsletter and found her daughter’s rainbow drawing published as an example of indoctrination in the school system.Ĭourtney Ricard said her fourth-grader drew the picture to show that everyone was welcome in the David Brewer Elementary library.
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