Sex Ed gone wrong: Misconduct found among 50 Palm Beach County teachers
Posted on 05/03/2010 9:37:45 AM PDT by Maelstorm
On April 28, Palm Beach County’s school board voted unanimously to amend their Equal Opportunity Policy and its Policy Prohibiting Discrimination and Harassment to include “sexual orientation” and “gender identity or expression.” Both policies are expected to be formally ratified at a public hearing within a few weeks.
Palm Beach County Human Rights Council (PBCHRC) is a non-profit organization that seeks to end discrimination towards the LGBT community in the county, founded by Rand Hoch, a Civil Rights Attorney. Since 1991 PBCHRC has asked the county’s school board to prohibit discrimination against their gay employees.
Hoch says in 1991 there were still individuals on the school board who wished to reserve the right to discriminate against gay or lesbian teachers. The council thought it was an ideal time to fight for these protections as Palm Beach County had just passed a fair-housing policy to protect gays and lesbians. Yet, this was a more sensitive issue because of students being minors and being around LGBT teachers.
“The board didn’t want the words “sexual orientation” in any school district policy. Instead of adding in those enumerations they made an absurd compromise. Race, religion, national origin, sex, age, marital status and handicap were all removed from the school board’s nondiscrimination policy,” said Hoch.
By removing the specific areas of discrimination the school board hoped to create a blanket against discrimination of any kind. Hoch finds this absurd because the purpose of such policies is to educate the public about what is prohibited in any work place, whether it’s a school board or a major corporation. The school board’s resolution was short lived however, thanks to a 1996 Supreme Court ruling in landmark gay rights case Romer vs. Evans.
“Enumeration is the essential device used to make the duty not to discriminate concrete and to provide guidance for those who must comply,” wrote Justice Anthony Kennedy.
Rather than insert anything about sexual discrimination or identity into their anti-bias policies they reverted back to the original list. They flatly refused to add sexual orientation.
Since 2002 the Council has been challenging the School Board again. By 2003 the school board did adopt a policy protecting students and employees from harassment based on sexual orientation. In 2006 they went one step further and included a commercial non-discrimination clause, that barred doing business with any entity that discriminated based on the traditional enumerations as well as sexual orientation. By 2009 that list would include gender identity or expression.
“Until now,” added Hoch, “the school board showed little interest in a policy that would impose the identical requirements on the School District of Palm Beach County.”
As conservatives and the religious right argue against ENDA, the proposed Employment Anti-Discrimination Act which is making daily headlines in DC, this is an important victory. Especially for Florida, which on the state level does not have any policies protecting people in cases of sexual or gender-identity expression.
“In Florida there are less than ten counties that have protection for teachers and staff in terms of sexuality and gender expression,” Hoch added triumphantly. “Good things come to those who wait and we have waited a long time.”
Sex Ed gone wrong: Misconduct found among 50 Palm Beach County teachers
Nice. The gay lobby’s continuing attempts to force more fag teachers down the throats of our kids (if you’ll pardon the pun). Parents living in Palm Beach might want to consider homeschooling if they haven’t already.
In further news, Miss LeBeau’s French I class has petitioned for an adjustment of grades on the midterm French examination as they contend that the exchange of “la” and “le” in a number of examples was simply an alternative form of form of “gender expression.”
When will the homosexual lobby be satisfied? When will they stop?
...never....queers want revenge!
They won’t and if we don’t stop them what has been previously seen as horrors will become common place. What we are seeing is a devolution of culture and human behavior. People have become believers of what is nothing more than propaganda. Sexual liberalism is destroying this country. It is adding the fuel for tyranny in the name of diversity and perceived slights.
I’m confused. If we say equality for everyone —
Why do we now have to list each group?
How about treating EVERYONE equally. Since political and scientific beliefs were not protected, liberals were allowed to discriminate against some teachers for supporting Sarah Palin or not believing in the myth of man-made global warming.
“sexuality and gender expression”
...gender expression means if your little girl is in the bathroom and a queer wearing a dress wants to come, in that’s OK...he is ‘expressing’ himself as a woman.
letter sent.
what these perverts want is access to children and to get them brainwashed. A male should not be standing there in a classroom dressed as a woman or vica versa.
Homosexuals, and other kind of mentally perverted folk have shown that they cannot help themselves to not be objective.
They always feel they should push their agenda
Technically such language would protect teachers who engage in teacher-student sexual relations. It's just another way of expressing who they are.
They are out to “desensitize” impressionable, innocent kids, so that these children see their perversion as “normal.”
Alexander Pope nailed it:
“Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As to be hated needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, we first endure, then pity, then embrace”
BTW, there is a link on Drudge to a story about a Baptist minister arrested in England for saying in public that homosexual behavior is a sin.
I note that they want to end discrimination for any reason. The end result is to teach our kids not to discriminate between good and evil.
Yep I saw the link. That was good news.
When the moosies take over.
There is NO homosexuality in Iran according to (Ahm a nut job)
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At this point it seems that no matter that the majority of people do not want or agree with the homosexual agenda, it is continuing to be forced on everyone. I cannot see how things will get turned around without massive unrest and turmoil of some kind.
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Christian preacher arrested for saying homosexuality is a sin
telegraph.co.uk ^
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