The Patriot Post® · Groomer Month at Scholastic
Scholastic isn’t even hiding it anymore. The children’s book publishing company has decided to go full groomer for the Rainbow Mafia.
Scholastic recently released its 2024 resource guide for grades K-12. Titled “Read with Pride,” it claims to provide “educator, caregiver, and advocate resources for supporting LGBTQIA+ youth and books.”
The guide is designed as a workaround for woke educators and against school districts and parents who have sought to prevent the spread of sexually graphic material in their schools. “As a teacher, librarian, educator, or caregiver,” the guide states, “how you interact with all children and teens around queerness matters. What literature you provide them with, and how you talk about both literature and identity, can have an immense, life-changing impact on the young people in your life. Everyone benefits from books with authentic representation of queer identities, whether that representation is a window, mirror, or sliding glass door.”
Furthermore, it dismisses the opposition to the grooming of children with this sexualized literature: “Unfortunately, many communities are experiencing significant pushback to supporting the rights and needs of queer youth and the inclusion of queer literature in classrooms and libraries. If you or anyone you know needs them, make sure to utilize the links to mental health and censorship hotlines included in this guide.” Of course, that last sentence seeks to reinforce the false claim that failure to affirm gender confusion will lead children to higher rates of suicide.
Scholastic knows exactly what it’s doing. As the guide reads, “Books and literature are never neutral; by engaging with queer literature for children and young adults, you are disrupting the status quo that implies being cisgender, heterosexual, and allosexual are the default. You are showing children an expanded way of thinking and being that validates all children and all people.” Translation: You are grooming children into a sexually deviant lifestyle.
If there were any doubt about the publisher’s motives, Scholastic executive vice president Ellie Berger clarifies it, stating, “We will find an alternate way to get a greater range of books into the hands of children.” She adds, “We remain committed to the books in this collection and support their sale throughout our distribution channels.” The publisher’s agenda is thus to groom the kids, irrespective of what parents want.
Furthermore, the list of books from the guide includes the likes of My Moms Love Me, for pre-K children; Melissa, a book targeting children ages 8-12 that promotes “transgender” identity; MoonFlower, a story about a “nonbinary” kid who is “afraid that their mom hates them”; and The Feeling of Falling in Love, a book for kids 14 and up that promotes the idea of a “friend with benefits.”
And these are just a few of the books. Shame on Scholastic.
Gone are the good old days when Scholastic’s primary concern was helping kids develop a love of reading. The publisher is now motivated to help spread a socially toxic ideology that debases and sexualizes America’s youth.