Clubs to Be Aware Of
Below are articles, descriptions and documents that provide a deeper understanding of club activities and curriculum.
Gender Identity Camp
Unitown / Minitown Clubs & Camps
CLAIM: To promote leadership, diversity, & understanding between students through discussion, dialogue & activities.
REALITY: Promotes social justice activism and gender identity concepts including that gender is a spectrum and a choice; includes sexual orientation lessons/skits. Unitown camp attendees must relinquish their phones upon arrival, camp curriculum is not shared with parents ahead of time and teenage boys who claim to be girls sleep in the girls' cabins.
Unitown is available on some high school campuses; Minitown is the middle school version.
REVIEW Unitown curriculum documents:
EMAILS: PARENT CONCERNS & PLANNING:
SAN FRANCISCO CHRONNICAL INVESTIGATION OF CAMP EVERYTOWN / ANYTOWN / UNITOWN:
Sexuality Club
Gender Sexuality Aliance (GSA)
Previously known as Gay Straight Alliance, and sometimes Pride Coallition, the Gender Sexuality Club (GSA) has made headlines for allowing kids to secretly drop their deadnames (a.k.a. parent given names) at school in favor of alternate gender names.
GSA's are based on curriculum and ideas provided by GLSEN, an organization that promotes abolishing SROs and the police, anti-white concepts and establishing victimhood and oppressor groups based on skin color and sexual orientation (called intersectionality). The GLSEN website offers minors a "quick escape" option so they can more easily hide their visits from parents.
Cocopah Elementary school previously hosted a school wide GLSEN Day of Silence without notice to parents.
"Social" Justice Club
No Place for Hate
While this club promotes some ideas that most can agree are valuable, look deeper and you'll find that this is yet another social justice club that seeks to train student activists to fight for radical leftist causes aimed to dismantle the education system and society. Emphasis is placed on "misgendering" people, accepting pronouns and identifying a person's worth - or lack thereof - based on their skin color.
Scottsdale Unified's School Clubs
SUSD offers a variety of school clubs. While many clubs offer enriching experiences for students, below are a few that may warrant more research to ensure they are right for your family.
HOW TO: Find information about the clubs at your child's SUSD school campus.
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Visit susd.org
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Select a school from the "Our Schools" dropdown menu
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Select "Extracurriculars" from the top navigation
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Select "Clubs"
TO KNOW: About your child's club participation
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Parent permission is not required to join any club, including the sexuality focused clubs
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Club meeting minutes are not available for parent review
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Some club descriptions are misleading to hide gender and sexuality topics; always do your research
Know the Law
15-143. Educational records; rights of parents
A. In accordance with the rights secured under section 1-602, subsection A, paragraph 2, a parent shall have access to all written and electronic records of a school district or charter school or a school district or charter school employee concerning the parent's child and to all electronic accounts of the parent's child, including all of the following:
1. Attendance records.
2. Test scores of school-administered tests and statewide assessments.
3. Grades.
4. Extracurricular activities or club participation.
She's The First Club
This organization states that it is dedicated to helping girls achieve more and to attain leadership positions, however it teaches girls that they must accept that boys are allowed to join if they claim to be girls.
Equity and Inclusion Club
The biggest buzzword in public education is "equity," followed closely by "inclusion". Promoting an ideology that is in opposition to America's founding principle of equal opportunity, the concept of equity focuses on different treatment for students based on race for the goal of having equal outcomes, regardless of effort or merit. This club offers more progressive ideology during after-school hours, disguised as kindness and diversity training.