1. A newly-formed right-wing group is launching a brazen plan to remake Michigan public schools โ€” using hyper-aggressive legal action to effectively mandate the erasure of LGBTQ people

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Inside the audacious new scheme to erase LGBTQ people from Michigan schools

A newly-formed conservative group is launching a brazen plan to remake Michigan public schools โ€” using aggressive legal action to effectively mandate the erasure of LGBTQ people. The effort, organized by the Great Schools Initiative (GSI), seeks to exploit a

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2. In Michigan, parents have the right to opt-out of sex education courses

The new group, called the Great Schools Initiative, has created their own form

In addition to sex education classes, the GSI form demands students are excluded from "ROGUE SEX ED"

3. What is ROGUE SEX ED?

According to GSI, it includes anything that acknowledges the existence of an LGBTQ person.

A teacher wearing a flag pin.

A school marking LGTBQ pride month.

A gender neutral bathroom.

Any book with an LGBTQ character.

4. The intent is not for parents to exercise control over their children.

Either the school acknowledges LGBTQ pride month, or it does not.

The intent is to align the entire school with a reactionary political agenda.

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Inside the audacious new scheme to erase LGBTQ people from Michigan schools

A newly-formed conservative group is launching a brazen plan to remake Michigan public schools โ€” using aggressive legal action to effectively mandate the erasure of LGBTQ people. The effort, organized by the Great Schools Initiative (GSI), seeks to exploit a

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5. During a January 19 Zoom meeting obtained by http://popular.info, Nathan Pawl, one of GSI's co-founders, said the group aimed to have "20, 30, 50, or 100 parents per school" start "dropping off the opt-out forms" in February.

The goal is to OVERWHELM the schools

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6. To comply with GSI's opt-out form, Pawl says, the only option would be "to transform our schools.โ€

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7. GSI, however, doesn't expect Michigan schools to simply comply with their demands.

So, with legal support from the far-right @[email protected], GSI plans to overwhelm schools with litigation

During a 10/21 meeting, a lawyer described the strategy as "asymetrical lawfare"

@[email protected] 8. Under Michigan law, parents who don't believe their opt-out request is being honored can file a complaint with the district.

The district then must investigate and issue a report on their findings within 30 days.

GSI plans to flood Michigan schools with these complaints

@juddlegum Luckily, this effort will go nowhere. We don't put up with this bull here in Michigan. And any school board that buys into this crap is going to get their own asses handed to them on a silver platter in court. But it's just yet another Nazi angle we'll have to fight off and put an end to.