By Reagan Reese
A New Hampshire school district spent thousands of dollars in COVID-19 relief funds on a youth pride event that features a drag queen performance, according to documents obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation.
Manchester School District received $4,000 of the city of Manchester’s American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funds through a Community Event and Activation Grant to put on a June 2 high school pride event, according to documents obtained by the DCNF. As a part of the grant, the school district received $500 to pay for “drag performers” and another $500 to fund “pride decorations and swag.”
“As with other years, this is an after-school, extra-curricular, opt-in event,” Jennifer Gillis, superintendent of schools, said in a statement shared with the DCNF. “In prior years, it’s been well-attended, including students, families and members of the West Side community. This year, the group organizing the event applied for and received a Community Event and Activation Grant from American Rescue Plan Act funds through the city of Manchester. Although this is a school event, the district and partner organizations are working to help support the school as needed.”
A Manchester West High School art teacher applied for the grant seeking funds to purchase “equipment that is sustainable and durable” for future pride events at the school, an email obtained by the DCNF stated. The school is expecting nearly 100 students to attend the event, the email showed.
“Is this really the best use of taxpayer funds?” Frank Edelblut, New Hampshire Department of Education Commissioner, told the NH Journal.
The district has been hosting pride events since 2018 as a part of their “community-developed strategic plan,” the school district told the DCNF. The event will feature a drag performance as well as food, music and a dance party.
“Photo Booth, swag, food, entertainment and drag, LGBTQ+ affirming organizations, cake and more!” a flyer given to students about the event read, the school district told the DCNF. “Come as an ally or part of the queer community, we will love you either way!”
School districts throughout the country are pushing pride events and LGBTQ clubs in the classroom; in Colorado, two families are alleging in a lawsuit that a school district encouraged their daughters to join a “secret” club aiming to transition students and conceal the club’s activities from parents. A private school in Massachusetts offers more than 90 clubs for its students, including a “trans” and “queer people of color” affinity group.
The art teacher did not immediately respond to the DCNF’s request for comment.
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I’m sure New Hampshire is not the only State guilty of taking the DC welfare and spending it on anything but COVID-19 to fill budget gaps or grant the wishlists of the alphabet mafia and DEI grifters. In the wake of the plandemic, what was created was an emboldened corrupt syndicate using the term COVID to wreak havoc and heartbreak upon the populace. The all encompassing excuse for lawlessness, regulatory power tripping, stripping civil rights, using elders as POW’s in nursing homes, killing and maiming the healthy, corruputing elections, turning schools into activist training facilities, and weaponizing the legal system against the People. Every nickel should be clawed back from every institution and every business that ignored crimes against humanity to defraud and cause indelible to the public.
This is the dumbest use of tax payers money.
If gay people want to have a parade to show how dumb they act it is their business, but once you use tax payers money then it becomes our business.
Children’s mind don’t need to be infiltrated with this crap. Keep your dumb thoughts to yourself.
What in hell does using covid relief for mentally ill perverts have to do with rebuilding from covid? Seems to me like a illegal use of funds which should be taken away from the idiots who thought it was a good idea and they should be criminally charged with misuse of funds. This whole covid funds is bullcrp and the reason we are in the debt over our heads. Tax dollars should never be used to push perversion.
it sounds like the leftist pukes from VT have been infiltrating NH ed.
What in hell does using covid relief for mentally ill perverts have to do with rebuilding from covid? Seems to me like a illegal use of funds which should be taken away from the idiots who thought it was a good idea and they should be criminally charged with misuse of funds. This whole covid funds is bullcrap and the reason we are in the debt over our heads. Tax dollars should never be used to push perversion.