A first-grade class at Maurice Sendak Community School (PS 118), a public school in Brooklyn, N.Y., will host a Drag Queen Story Hour for the students Feb. 24, according to Sohrab Ahmari, the op-ed editor for the New York Post. Ahmari posted a screen capture Monday of a note to parents from a first-grade teacher who promoted the event as a learning experience for children.
Drag Queen Story Hour, the teacher explained, “is run by a drag queen who will visit our school on Monday, February 24th.” Often during Drag Queen Story Hour, the drag queen reads a book to children about LGBT issues. In 2017 at a New York public library, a drag queen read Morris Micklewhite and the Tangerine Dress, a book about a boy who wears a dress.
“She will read to the students, all while teaching into ideas of inclusiveness, gender fluidity and gender roles, family structures, acceptance, empathy, and individuality,” the note says.