A historical past trainer at a Seattle high school who beforehand got here underneath hearth for classes on sexual orientation and gender id allegedly instructed college students that figuring out as “straight” is offensive.
Ian Golash, who’s the social research division chair at Chief Sealth Worldwide Excessive Faculty, additionally instructed some male college students they’re a “product of the patriarchy that teaches young boys not to care,” in accordance with a mum or dad who filed a grievance with faculty officers.
The mom, who requested anonymity, offered a replica of a “Social Identity Wheel” worksheet Golash assigned to his tenth grade class to “The Jason Rantz Show” on KTTH. The worksheet asks college students to self-reflect on their numerous identities, together with racial, ethnic, gender, socio-economic standing, bodily, emotional or developmental disabilities, and sexual orientation.
The mum or dad mentioned her 15-year-old son labeled himself “straight.” Golash then allegedly instructed the boy that he wanted to select a time period that was much less offensive.
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Ian Golash, Social Research Division Chair at Chief Sealth Worldwide Excessive Faculty. (Superior Court docket of Washington for King County)
E mail communications obtained by Fox Information Digital present the mom elevating her considerations with Golash and Chief Sealth Principal Ray Garcia-Morales.
“When filling out a Social Identity Wheel, he [her son] was told that if he identifies as straight that he needed to pick a term that was less offensive. It is completely inappropriate to dictate what terms a student can and cannot use to identify themselves with,” the mother wrote in a Sept. 24, 2023 electronic mail.
In an electronic mail response thanking the mom for her suggestions, Golash denied that he particularly focused her son.
“I did not tell anyone what words they should use to identify themselves. In fact, I stated explicitly that I was not going to tell them how they should identify except to explain the difference between race, ethnicity and nationality,” Golash wrote.
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Nevertheless, he did admit to telling the whole class why he prefers to not use the time period “straight.”
“Because I think language has power and that it shapes the culture that we live in, I did say to the class, in response to a student, that I do not use the term ‘straight’ because it implies that to not be straight is to be ‘crooked’ which could have a negative connotation,” the trainer wrote.
“Straight” is a noncontroversial and accepted time period for heterosexuals, and LGBT individuals usually use the time period “straight ally” to explain those that help their political causes.
A “Social Identity Wheel” worksheet assigned to college students at Chief Sealth Worldwide Excessive Faculty asks kids to mirror on their numerous identities. (“The Jason Rantz Show” on KTTH)
The mom additionally claimed in her electronic mail that Golash singled out her son throughout a classroom dialogue on Florida “banning ethnic studies” — doubtless a reference to Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ new African-American research requirements, which have been criticized by the left. The mother mentioned her son had missed class the day earlier than and when Golash requested for his ideas, he replied that he didn’t know.
“I’m instructed that quite than converse concerning the matter and supply him with data and an precise reply, he was instructed that he was a ‘product of the patriarchy that teaches young boys not to care,'” the mom wrote in the email. “You missed an opportunity here to teach your student about current events and instead shamed him for being a male. To assume that he’s being raised in a patriarchal family is a really mistaken one.”
Golash disputed that characterization of what occurred however didn’t deny that he instructed kids they have been a “product of the patriarchy.”
“My response about patriarchy was not directed at one student, it was connected to discussions of systems of power that we had been having in the previous few days and the behavior of several boys in the class,” he wrote within the electronic mail.
“I certainly wasn’t making any implications about your household,” he wrote. “I was referring to a system of power that we all live in.”
Fox Information Digital reached out to Golash for extra remark however didn’t obtain a response in time for publication.
The Seattle highschool’s scholar’s quiz was marked incorrect when he mentioned that it was “true” that “all men have penises.” (“The Jason Rantz Show” on KTTH)
This was not the primary time topics broached in his classroom have stirred controversy. Final month, dad and mom of scholars in Golash’s class complained after he allegedly gave a scholar a failing quiz grade after he answered that solely ladies can get pregnant and solely males can have penises.
“The Jason Rantz Show” on KTTH additionally reported that Seattle Public Faculties (SPS) is investigating two separate complaints in opposition to Golash, one for the quiz and one other for an incident when an antisemitic curriculum was allegedly taught to college students.
“Mr. Golash has introduced many controversial topics into the classroom and instead of inviting open, constructive and truthful conversations, he provides biased resources that only aid in pushing his own ideological agendas,” the mother instructed KTTH host Jason Rantz, creator of “What’s Killing America.”
“In this particular instance, he tried to persuade the language the students used in an attempt to censor them. Mr. Golash instructs his students what to think and not how to think. This in no way provides identity-safe classrooms that allow students to feel visible and valued,” she mentioned.
The mom claims her son has began to “self-censor … due to Mr. Golash’s “illiberal instructing techniques.”
She also previously claimed that teachers have called her son “f—d and racist.”
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In a statement to Fox News Digital, the school denied that such name-calling occurred.
“Claims that the scholar was known as names haven’t been reported to SPS. We’ve got confirmed with the college’s principal that that is the primary reference to any name-calling,” a spokesperson mentioned.
Nevertheless, Rantz reported a Feb. 2, 2023 electronic mail wherein the mom’s husband emailed a trainer and the college principal concerning the alleged name-calling incident, which seems to contradict the college’s assertion.
SPS didn’t reply to a request for clarification.
