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To: jonsie
You are lucky. As a high school teacher, I received a poster to post in my class if I supported GLSEN and would allow students with cards to remain silent during class on Wed. I do not support this and am angry that the school system has put in the middle of this. Today two of my students were discussing this one who would participate and the other who was raised to not accept this type of behavior. They asked for my opinion in which I said that I think it is a political topic which should not be allowed in schools. It is a club. We also have a youth fellowship for athletes but they have to meet before or after school. (By the way, the school district I teach in, in NC is only allowed to teach abstinence in school). I can not understand why we are promoting this during school hours. We also have a SAVE club, students against violence everywhere. This is where this thing belongs. I am all for tolerance, but this club has an agenda and I will not be promoting it. It is placing me in an awkward situation and has in the past caused some shouting matches. My husband said to just show a video for the hour and a half and that way no one could talk. I told him that that would waste a day of instruction for an agenda I did not sign on to do.

Good for you. The communities and teachers here would not even tolerate that so there is very little about the topic that ever comes up here. The ONLY time it has come up in 9 years of teaching was when a couple of students came up claiming that Tinky Winky was gay (having heard the mighty Fallwell's all-knowing statement as such, not any statement from a pro-gay organization).

Abstinence is only taught here too. In our elementary, the PTA handles it and parents attend with their kids. Though I never really saw the g stuf going through school, even if I had, it would not have mattered. My parents trained us in morals and values and would not have worried about us being affected. None of my seven siblings nor I ever had to worry about drugs, alcohol, pre-marital s--, smoking, etc. We didn't really hit the parties, but we didn't hide under a rock either. We were all active in sports, youth groups, family, clubs (including Boy Scouts--all 6 boys are Eagle Scouts), etc. And yes, we went to an inner-city type high school (which I absolutely enjoyed).The afore-mention notion was confirmed when my brother recently told a study group classmate to leave the house when he started ranting about g-m. Luckily, the others were definitely not supportive of the guy.

As far as a promotion poster, I have that one solved. I sometimes conveniently forget things. I could just make that same excuse here if the situation ever arose.:)

I have to admit, I don't really like a lot of PC stuff. I think it's been taken way far to extreme in both directions. I don't like the organizations promoting g stuff everywhere. On the other extreme, it seems as if it's only a matter of time before old standbys like Shaggy and Scooby, Full House (3 real and surrogate dads), Laverne and Shirley (all of them--Carmine and Lenny and Squiggy included), Gilligan's Island, and so on are going to be accused of promoted the g agenda. I hear on Sesame Street that Ernie is moving out of Bert's place, Oscar will find a real home and will become nice, Big Bird will wear some clothes, Kermit will find a real frog as a girlfriend instead of a pig, and Elmo will go out for the football team. Coming soon to a TV near you.

32 posted on 04/12/2005 3:05:10 PM PDT by moog
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To: moog
Yes you are right, it is TV and music that is allowing this to become the standard. Parents, teachers, and especially administrators are in a quagmire on this subject. The old damned if you do scenario.
34 posted on 04/12/2005 4:40:01 PM PDT by jonsie
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