GREENWICH, Connecticut, April 7, 2021, (LifeSiteNews) — Second graders attending online school in Greenwich, Connecticut, were exposed to a lesson on “being scared” in the form of a cartoon movie featuring a graphic silhouette of a man with an erect penis standing over a sad-eyed child. A voice-over explicitly said, “Some children have experienced an adult touching or putting their penis in the child’s private parts or mouth.”
The seven-minute movie is called The Alfred Jr. & Shadow — A Short Story about Being Scared. Two little owl-friends discuss things that make them feel afraid. The video description reads, “All children are normalscared, but what do children who are embarrassedscared or painfulscared need?”
The content touches on things that would be terrifying for a child, like physical and sexual abuse, and alcoholism in families. It has since been removed from YouTube.
A second-grade father and local conservative political commentator, Carl Higbie, was “relieved” that his second grader was not shown the video, but is calling for the removal of the teachers who planned the instruction and exposed seven and eight-year-olds to the disturbing images. “That somebody thought this video was acceptable for second graders was abhorrent,” he told the local
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