Teen failed for stand on gays

The Sunday Mail ^ | October 08, 2006 | Darrell Giles

[grjr21]

A 13-YEAR-OLD student was failed after she refused to write an assignment on life in a gay community, because of her religious and moral beliefs. Her outraged mother, Christian groups and the State Opposition want an investigation into the treatment of the Year 9 student at Windaroo Valley State High School, south of Brisbane.

[grjr21]

It never ends

[stephenjohnbanker]

I think this teacher is toast : )

[msnimje]

Would she have gotten a failing grade had she written a derogatory account of the "gay community?"

[Brilliant]

The teacher would definitely not be toast if we were talking about the US, provided that the teacher was tenured.

[Cringing Negativism Network]

LET THE BACKLASH BEGIN

[frankiep]

ahhhhh, the joys and grandeur of government education.

I guess there isn't much time left to learn the basics, such as reading and math. No, pole smoking fantasy papers are what kids are being told to write.

[stephenjohnbanker]

"The teacher would definitely not be toast if we were talking about the US, provided that the teacher was tenured."

Correct! Brisbane is more civilized than we are. She will be fired, or heavily censured.

[Cogadh na Sith]

Nope, The kid is toast:

After a series of discussions between the school and her mother, it was suggested the girl would be better off leaving the state education system and attending an independent school.

Soon, that 'independent school' will be a re-education center....

[lilylangtree]

Hope the teacher, the principal and the school are brought upon charges.

[sbMKE]

Interesting read -- the assignment involved a scenario involving a heterosexual minority on a moon-based homosexual colony. Tell us how you'd feel.

What an odd question -- how would you feel if you knew the majority of the community you lived in would be extinct in exactly one generation? And for a school aged kid, I'd imagine there wouldn't be much to worry about -- unless the moon homosexuals had somehow mastered the art of asexual procreation, you'd be schooled with kids from heterosexual families.

Just more proof that feelings-based education lacks even the slightest hint of critical thinking, or intellectual honesty in its design.

[MAexile]

Interesting read -- the assignment involved a scenario involving a heterosexual minority on a moon-based homosexual colony. Tell us how you'd feel.

Just like the heterosexuals in P-Town, MA.

[No Blue States]

The love that wont STFU...or stop trying to force itself on the heteros.

[grjr21]

It is an odd question . I can see where you might want to attempt a similar style question .But why not ask her if she is white what she would feel like if she lived in an all black section of South Africa or since she is a Christian how would she feel living in Iran and since this little thought experiment involved a space station why not ask about living with aliens.That would be better.

[darkangel82]

Dis-gusting.

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This is an outrage!

[HoosierHawk]

It never ends

Will it ever end?

Nope. We just have to remain vigilant.

[yankeedame]

But why not ask her if she is white what she would feel like if she lived in an all black section of South Africa...
Now or fifteen years ago?

... or since she is a Christian how would she feel living in Iran.
Now or thirty years ago?

[GoLightly]

Sources said the students were told not to discuss the assignment with their parents and that it was to be kept in-class.

Schools are indoctrination camps. Actively pushing parents out of education makes it much easier to indoctrinate their children. I'm sure these very same educators who complain that parental failure to be involved is the reason kids fail to learn the basics.

[Nathan Zachary]

" Soon, that 'independent school' will be a re-education center.... A deprograming, and education center.

You can't accuse the public school system of actually giving kids an education, other than teaching how to have anal sex, the proper use of lubrication, and the evils of traditional familly planning.

[Nathan Zachary]

"the assignment involved a scenario involving a heterosexual minority on a moon-based homosexual colony. Tell us how you'd feel."

It would be a very short assignment, which wouldn't require homework. "I would feel relieved knowing that humanity would always return to a state in harmony with natures design within a generation or two if allowed to progress without forced interference from the unbalanced side." I'd give this student an A+