Parents in Pennsylvania have uncovered documents through a public records request that expose how school employees have been pushing gender ideology to middle school students as young as 11 years old through a “Gender & Sexuality Alliance” (GSA) club without the knowledge or consent of parents.
According to the GSA Network website, “Genders & Sexualities Alliances, or GSAs for short, are student-run organizations that unite LGBTQ+ and allied youth to build community and organize around issues impacting them in their schools and communities.”
However, what the parents had discovered was that during the 2021-2022 school year, two Charles F. Patton Middle School (CFPMS) employees—sixth-grade school counselor Cara Malone and seventh-grade English teacher Colleen O’Neill—aggressively advertised a Gender Sexuality Alliance (GSA) club to students, soliciting kids as young as 11 to join. This was done without the knowledge or consent of parents but with the approval of the school district. CFPMS is part of the Unionville-Chadds Ford School District (UCFSD) in Chester County, Pennsylvania.
In an email exchange (pdf) dated Dec. 10, 2020, and obtained by district parents via the Pennsylvania Right to Know Law, O’Neill shares an email she received from teacher Marcia DiGregorio with counselor Cara Malone.
DiGregorio said one of her students had answered a question on an assignment and mentioned her sexuality.
According to DiGregorio, the student wrote, “I want a boyfriend or girlfriend when I am older. I am pansexual meaning I have the ability to like all genders.” DiGregorio wrote that she wanted to make sure the necessary supports were in place for the student, and also asked if there was “anything else I should do other than thank them for their honesty and helping me to get to know them better.” (The email did not indicate the question on the assignment that prompted this answer.)
DiGregorio wants to start a GSA club at CFPMS or make it possible for middle school students to attend the high school GSA club meetings. Malone also indicates she had “spoken with Steve and he would like the need to be student-generated.” So, she said she planned to attend the next Unionville High School (UHS) GSA meeting to “get some feedback from the high school students” they already solicited to join the club they had created on their own. ent Jeff Hellrung, as well as Saletta, Davis, Smith, Lyles, O’Neill, and Dissinger.
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