Mother and father at Manhattan’s tony Columbia Grammar & Preparatory Faculty are up in arms over the elementary college librarian — who was suspended from Twitter briefly this month for having tweeted, “Burn White Straight Male Librarianship to the Floor.”
Ingrid Conley-Abrams, 43, wrote the tweet in 2015 however was apparently suspended for it lately after the message was deemed hate speech.
One mom on the $59,000-per-year college mentioned she has been involved concerning the outspoken philosophies of Conley-Abrams — who additionally often comes into school rooms to show, in accordance with three moms who spoke to The Put up — for a number of years.
“How can I really feel snug sending my white 9-year-old son into her library or classroom?” the mom mentioned. “What if my son needs to be a librarian? How secure and nurtured are my children going to be by this individual?
“If a pupil posted that they wish to burn down or shoot up a library they'd be expelled,” the mom continued. “As well as she’s claiming that gender is pretend and he or she [tweeted] that she needs to maintain college students from matriculating within the Ivy League. Are mother and father conscious that is what they're paying nearly $60,000 a 12 months for?”
“Sadly, the scholars at my college solely go on to Ivy League schools so I’ve actually failed them with my queer, free-wheeling godless radical hotbed of a library. :(” Conley-Abrams tweeted in 2020.
Conley-Abrams’ Twitter bio contains the phrase “Gender is pretend.” The librarian, who has tweeted each about being non-binary and that “I'm not a girl,” has additionally tweeted about husband Timothy Conley — whose LinkedIn signifies that he's a librarian himself, at Manhattanville Faculty in Queens.
After the account was reinstated, Conley-Abrams tweeted on Aug 15: “White cishet male librarians, I’m sorry. You probably did it. You made the unhealthy one go away. However I’m again + love white man librarians greater than ever! Thanks for the whole lot you do!”
One other mom mentioned Conley-Abrams first confirmed up on her radar when mother and father at Columbia heard a couple of college panel, “Speaking to Kids about Anatomy, Gender, Sexuality, Puberty and Being pregnant,” for pre-kindergarten, kindergarten and first-grade college students in 2020.
“Ingrid was launched as a ‘gender professional’ on the panel, which was bizarre sufficient to start with however is typical of what’s happening at New York Metropolis personal faculties,” mentioned the second mom. “Why is a librarian additionally a ‘gender professional’? And why is there a panel about speaking about gender and intercourse and being pregnant to 4 and 5-year-olds?”
Conley-Abrams didn't reply to an e mail from The Put up however instantly took the Twitter account personal. The college’s headmaster, William Donohue, additionally didn't reply to The Put up.
“It's actually tough for fogeys,” one mom at Columbia informed The Put up. “They don’t need any of this. They need a faculty aligned with their household values. However for those who converse up about this publicly your child is prone to get kicked out of college and also you and your husband might lose your job. It’s not honest.”
A 3rd mom who spoke to The Put up mentioned her little one’s expertise with Abrams-Conley was that the library was “ceaselessly pushing” stylish woke books about gender identification, like “It Feels Good to be Your self” or Ibraham Kendi’s “Stamped (For Children): Racism, Anti-Racism and You.”
“Folks like Ingrid within the faculties are so self-important,” she mentioned. “They suppose their approach is the one approach: ‘That is what I imagine and that is what the youngsters in my classroom are going to imagine and that’s the top of it.’ There’s no questioning of it and no debate. It’s terrifying.”
In Could 2021, Columbia mother and father tipped off The Put up a couple of workshop known as “Pornography Literacy: An intersectional concentrate on mainstream porn,” taught by Justine Ang Fonte, who was then a well being educator at one other elite prep college, Dalton.
The usually-explicit slide presentation and lecture by Fonte to 120 youngsters included classes on how porn takes care of “three large male vulnerabilities”; statistics on the “orgasm hole” exhibiting straight ladies have far fewer orgasms with their companions than homosexual males or ladies; and pictures of partially nude ladies, some in bondage, to research “what's porn and what's artwork.”
Fonte’s presentation, a few of which was seen by The Put up, included an inventory of essentially the most searched pornographic phrases of 2019, together with “creampie,” “anal,” “gangbang,” “stepmom” and extra.
In June 2021, Columbia mother and father who complained that the college had inserted crucial race idea into the curriculum laid out their case in a prolonged video.
The 38-minute clip about Columbia Grammar & Prep contains an e mail from the college to oldsters asserting an “anti-racism” assertion and audio of a purported interview with a “range, fairness and inclusion” coach consulted by the college.
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