Last week, high schoolers in a Wisconsin town not far from Madison had to endure a sing and dance routine by a French teacher from the school, who was dressed in drag. Shannon Valladolid, the district’s director of Information and Public Relations, reportedly admitted that staff performances are vetted by the high school’s teaching faculty.
French teacher Matthew Kashdan, whose LinkedIn page states he is “looking to shift away from K-12 public education and into higher education study abroad programming and advising,” performed for the students during Middleton High School’s Fine Arts Week.
“Kashdan strutted onto the auditorium stage in a high-cut, blue sequinned dress, red boots and blond wig, lip-syncing and dancing to ‘Rain on Me’ by pop divas Lady Gaga and Ariana Grande,” Empower Wisconsin reported, adding, “It was all a surprise to the assembled students.”
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A Middleton-Cross Plains Area Schools parent alerted radio host Vicki McKenna in an email, writing:
I send my children to school and entrust them to teachers that I have to believe are professionals who won’t destroy their innocence for their own pleasure. If MATTHEW KASHDAN makes a decision to perform his drag show at school, what else does he do in his classroom with a roomful of children? What kind of educators thought this was appropriate? Drag shows are “fine arts”? If a teacher is a pole dancer or stripper, can they also perform for my children? … I don’t care what MATTHEW KASHDAN does outside of school. I DO CARE what he does at Middleton High School.
Valladolid declared in an email to Empower Wisconsin, “The week is full of performances that are enjoyed by students and staff alike. Performances range from music to dance to martial arts, culinary arts, visual arts, language arts, and other arts that fit our extensive definition of The Arts.”
This is an excerpt from The Daily Wire.
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