The New
York City Department of Education recently teamed up with PBS member station
WNET-TV to create and air a series of children’s shows called “let’s Learn.” The
series was ostensibly designed to help “children
3-8 with at-home learning,” and features
"instruction by educators and virtual fieldtrips."
What
is the collaboration between the NYCDOE and public television helping the
kiddies learn? Well,
the Daily Caller reported on a
recently aired episode hosted by a drag queen known as Little Miss Hot Mess who
told the youngsters "I am a drag queen and a children's book author, and
you may be wondering to yourself: 'What on earth is a drag queen?'" Yes,
I’m sure that question has been keeping them up at night for some time now.
Little
Miss Hot Mess then described drag queens in part as "everyday people who
like to play pretend and dress up as often as we can," before going on to
say drag queens "also are leaders in our community, and if you ask me, we
make pretty good role models."
After glowingly characterizing drag queens in
general, LMHM proclaimed, "Today I'm going to read from my own book, which
is 'The Hips on the Drag Queen Go Swish, Swish, Swish,'" performing it to the tune of "The Wheels on the
Bus." And why do the “hips on the drag queen go swish, swish, swish”
Little Miss Hot Mess?
“She” then explained why she plagiarized Verna Hills’
song to draw attention to “her” hips, saying, "I wrote this book because I wanted
everyone to get to experience the magic of drag and to get a little practice
shaking their hips or shimmying their shoulders to know how we can feel
fabulous inside of our own bodies." How would you instruct
three-to-eight-year-olds to feel “fabulous” inside of their own bodies, Hot
Mess?
At one point the performer/author/transvestite
exclaimed, "I think we might have some drag queens in training on our
hands." Really? Why might that be, Little Miss Child Abuser?
Kids learn a lot between the
ages of three and eight, much of which affects how successful, stable, and
happy they will be in their adulthood. The revelation that “The Hips on the
Drag Queen Go Swish, Swish, Swish” need not be part of their education.
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