Joanne Jacobs
I am a rockgender, I am an autismgender
When Simon and Garfunkel sang "I am a rock, I am an island," they weren't thinking about gender or sexuality. But, nowadays, rock can be...
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Joanne Jacobs
- Sep 18
- 2 min
It's normal for parents to object to graphic sex in kids' books
Aymann Ismail thought book-banners were prudish hysterics, he writes on Slate. Then a librarian gave him a copy of one of the...
Joanne Jacobs
- Sep 3
- 1 min
Fourth-graders are finding PornHub
Online porn is easily available to kids, addictive and destructive, writes Isabel Hogben, a runner-up in The Free Press's high school...
Joanne Jacobs
- Aug 25
- 2 min
Death wish: Contempt for parents will destroy public ed
Public schools are trouble. Trust is low. Enrollment is falling. Parents are embracing new alternatives. Is transgender policy the hill...
Joanne Jacobs
- Aug 14
- 2 min
Shakespeare's smut: 'Out, out, gosh-darned spot'
There's no need to edit the dirty jokes out of Shakespeare's plays to comply with Florida's new law, according to the state Education...
Joanne Jacobs
- Aug 9
- 1 min
Kerfuffle's climax: AP Psych is OK in Florida
Florida high schools can teach Advanced Placement Psychology -- including the unit on gender and sexuality -- says the state education...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jul 17
- 3 min
If Moms for Liberty ain't happy, ain't nobody happy
The slogan "We don't co-parent with the government" has mobilized "an enormous and growing" number of Americans, writes Robert Pondiscio,...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jul 8
- 2 min
It's time to say, 'Whoa, Bob' on sex books in the school library
The "most banned book in the country," a graphic novel called Gender Queer, includes a page that depicts "a moment in which the...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jul 1
- 2 min
NJ sues school district for 'outing' students to their parents
If Ella wants to be called Elliot or Elliot goes from "he" to "they," teachers in three New Jersey districts are supposed to tell the...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jun 12
- 2 min
Rightward Ho: Americans are more likely to be social conservatives
Are there two sexes? Americans in 2023 are slightly more likely to say that gender is binary than they were in 2021, according to a new...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jun 11
- 2 min
Conservative moms are hate-filled 'extremists,' says SPLC
Moms for Liberty, conservatives who "do not co-parent with the government" and oppose gender-identity lessons in schools, made the...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jun 8
- 2 min
Public is divided on public schools
Most Democrats say the public schools positive effect on the U.S. Most Republicans disagree. The partisan divide on the value of public...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jun 6
- 1 min
No sex shows for kids in Texas: Why is this controversial?
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is expected to sign a bill that would ban staging "sexually explicit shows in front of children," reports William...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jun 3
- 1 min
Parents against Pride: 'Leave our kids alone'
Parents -- many of them Armenian immigrants -- protested a Pride assembly at a Los Angeles elementary school, reports Clara Harter for...
Joanne Jacobs
- May 28
- 2 min
If Mia becomes Mike, parents want to know
If Jayden was cutting school, failing classes and getting in fights, he might not want his parents to know. But his teacher wouldn't keep...
Joanne Jacobs
- May 24
- 2 min
Surgeon General: Social media is hazardous for your kids' health
Social media is endangering the mental health and well-being of children and adolescents, warns Surgeon General Vivek Murthy in a 19-page...
Joanne Jacobs
- May 3
- 2 min
Guns, gays, suicide, smoking ... The show may not go on after all
Can a high school put on Oklahoma without guns? The Theatre Guild at an Ann Arbor (MI) high school revised the classical musical days...
Joanne Jacobs
- Apr 28
- 1 min
Teach about gender identity -- but just the facts, person who produces eggs
Florida banned teaching about sexuality and gender in K-3 last year, and authorized only age "appropriate" lessons in higher grades. Now...
Joanne Jacobs
- Apr 13
- 2 min
Was Anne Frank bisexual? Graphic novel -- with breasts! -- is out of school library
The Diary of Anne Frank remains in the Vero Beach High School library, but the Florida school has removed a retelling of the story, Anne...
Joanne Jacobs
- Dec 27, 2022
- 2 min
It's just kiddie sex, not pedophilia, so no worries
Jonathan Evison's Lawn Boy, doesn't belong in school libraries, say angry parents, because the graphic novel depicts an adult man having...
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