If it can happen in Utah, it can happen in Darien. Oh, wait, it has

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Red State To Emphasize LGBTQ And Minority Communities In Middle School Social Studies Classes

John Arthur, a middle school teacher who helped draft the new guidelines spoke to the press to explain: “I hope that with the new standards, there’s a renewed commitment to actually teaching our kids the things that they need to know about the story of us,” Arthur told the outlet.

Darien school board approves transgender book for second-graders, over the opposition of (some) parents.

The Darien Public School District’s Curriculum Team said “Julian Is A Mermaid,” a book about a boy, who wants to be like the women he saw dressed up as mermaids and eventually reveals his change in gender identity to his grandmother, is appropriate and will remain in the school for second graders, according to an email obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation. Superintendent Alan Addley said the book is important to the school’s social and emotional learning curriculum, but parents told the DCNF they are displeased with the district’s handling of the situation.

Megan Watros, a parent of a second grade student in the district, told the DCNF. “Their attitudes towards the control over the curriculum, they think they own our children. It’s a very scary thing that’s going on. I don’t understand it. I hold strong to my point that this is inappropriate for my seven year old daughter. It’s not right.”

The book was first brought to the attention of the district’s Board of Education on Oct. 25 and the book was approved internally by the Darien Public School District’s Curriculum Team on Nov. 23, Watros told the DCNF. Watros said she first learned about the book in the district during a conversation with her daughter after school.

“We’re at the dinner table talking and she kept telling me about the story,” Watros told the DCNF. “She starts saying things to me that she’s never ever said before. The comment she made, it was clear there was a gender discussion. She asked her little brother questions about his [gender] and I just want to tell you my stomach just dropped. I could not believe my ears.”