Good news: North Carolina will no longer insist that first-grade boys learn to dress like girls

Good news: North Carolina will no longer insist that first-grade boys learn to dress like girls
4-year-old Logan Symmonds of Gloucester, England, wears dresses and plays with dolls (Image: Daily Mail video screen grab)

There used to be a common phrase teachers and parents would use when school-aged boys acted up: “Boys will be boys.” Recently, a North Carolina school district tried to erase that useful bit of pocket wisdom by teaching first graders that some boys should actually be girls.

Without first notifying parents, the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools system planned to read young students a picture book called “Jacob’s New Dress.” In the book, a schoolboy, Jacob, wants to wear a pink dress. Instead of teaching their son that dresses are for girls, Jacob’s parents decide to sacrifice their son’s mental health; they even make the boy a new dress and send him to school adorned in the garb of the opposite sex.

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Should you have an interest in seeing how the book handled this topic, you can obtain a copy through Kindle for $5.99, though you can also watch this video for free:

As for Charlotte-Mecklenburg, a rebellious teacher tipped off the North Carolina Values Coalition, a pro-family group, which helped put an end to this madness. Now, the school district will be reading the first graders “Red: A Crayon’s Story” instead.

Children’s stories should have happy endings. From where I sit, this one now does.

This report, by Jack Kocsis, was cross-posted by arrangement with the Daily Caller News Foundation.

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