Many kids want to look and act like the other sex

Park Day School is throwing out gender boundaries.

Teachers at the private Oakland elementary school have stopped asking the children to line up according to sex when walking to and from class. They now let boys play girls and girls play boys in skits. And there's a unisex bathroom.

Admissions director Flo Hodes is even a little apologetic that she still balances classes by gender.

Park Day's gender-neutral metamorphosis happened over the past few years, as applications trickled in for kindergartners who didn't fit on either side of the gender line. One girl enrolled as a boy, and there were other children who didn't dress or act in gender-typical ways. Last year the school hired a consultant to help the staff accommodate these new students.

"We had to ask ourselves, what is gender for young children?" Hodes said. "It's coming up more and more."

What do they tell little girls that want to be boys?  "its ok honey, you really are a boy, yours just fell off"

hal:

I would've thought the adults there would have their heads on straight before they tried to teach kids...

their heads were on straight... straight on up their asses

jlb:

hal:

I would've thought the adults there would have their heads on straight before they tried to teach kids...

their heads were on straight... straight on up their asses

ritepath:

Union thugs (civil union that is) not teachers / public service union.

ritepath:

"We had to ask ourselves, what is gender for young children?"

I wish they had asked my brother-in-law this question, because he can tell the gender of a puppy just by holding them up in the air and looking at the bottom of their feet.

Edit: The appropriate consonant is required for some words and sentences to make sense.

Bubbalives:

Come on people, this is a San Francisco paper reporting...........

I see your point.  Tommy with two mommy's is the norm in SF, so he may as well be a she.