
A leaked audio recording revealed California teachers mocking parents over concerns about homosexual and transgender indoctrination at school, said a source who attended a recent teachers union conference in Palm Springs.
The recording, obtained by The Epoch Times, captured two seventh-grade teachers, Kelly Baraki and Lori Caldeira from Buena Vista Middle School in Salinas, Calif., telling other teachers how to recruit students into LGBTQ clubs, also known as โGay-Straight Allianceโ (GSA) clubs, at school.
โIt was horrifying to listen to not just one teacher but really all of the teachers in all of these seminars, excoriating parents,โ said the source, who goes by the pseudonym Rebecca Murphy.
Murphy attended the California Teachers Association (CTA) conference in late October. She told The Epoch Times the teachers โmockedโ parents for their concerns, and suggested they know better than parents about whatโs best for their children.
โThey laughed at the parents,โ Murphy said.
The sold-out CTA conference, billed as the โ2021 LGBTQ+ Issues Conference, Beyond the Binary: Identity & Imagining Possibilities,โ was held Oct. 29 to 31.
The CTA has hosted similar โSexual Orientation and Gender Identityโ (SOGI) professional development training for at least the last two years, according to an event notice posted on the United Teachers of Los Angeles (UTLA) website, which asks teachers: โDo you have the courage to create a safe environment that fosters bravery to explore sexual orientation, gender identity and expression?โ
However, according to Murphy, the purpose of conference in Palm Springs appeared to be about teachers showing other teachers how to undermine the authority of parents and school administrators and conceal activities related to gender inclusion and sexual orientation from them.
The three classes Murphy attended were designed to recruit middle school students to GSA clubs, she said.
โThe overarching theme of the classes that I attended were California Teachers instructing other teachers on how to sneak in the LGBTQ+ curriculum in a manner that does not alert parents,โ Murphy said.
Caldeira and Baraki led a workshop called โHow we run a โGSAโ in Conservative Communities,โ and they described the obstacles they faced as activist teachers in concealing the activities of these clubs from parents.
In the audio clip, Caldeira advised teachers who lead LGBTQ clubs to maintain an air of plausible deniability so they can play dumb if they are questioned by parents.
โBecause we are not official, we have no club rosters. We keep no records,โ said Caldeira, who is also an LGBTQ club leader. โIn fact, sometimes we donโt really want to keep records because if parents get upset that their kids are coming? Weโre like, โYeah, I donโt know. Maybe they came?โ You know, we would never want a kid to get in trouble for attending if their parents are upset.โ
Baraki backed up Caldeiraโs advice, suggesting activist teachers to disguise the nature of GSA clubs by calling them something less obvious. Baraki provided an example of this deception, pointing out she avoided naming her LGBTQ club a GSA. Instead, she called it the โEquity Clubโ and later changed the name to the โYou Be Youโ club.
By Brad Jones
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