Posted on 06/05/2008 3:25:08 AM PDT by Man50D
The U.S. Supreme Court is being asked review a case in which parents are objecting to the actions of a school district where officials are trying "to systematically indoctrinate young children into disbelieving core ten[e]ts of their families' faith."
The case on which WND has reported previously involves Massachusetts father David Parker. His Boston law firm, Denner Pelligrino LLP, now has filed a cert petition with the U.S. Supreme Court asking for a review of January's ruling from a federal appeals court in Boston.
There, Judge Sandra Lynch said those who are concerned over civil rights violations "may seek recourse to the normal political processes for change in the town and state." Earlier District Judge Mark Wolf had ordered that school officials' work to undermine Christian beliefs is needed to prepare children for citizenship, and if parents don't like it they can elect a different school committee or homeschool their children.
Those conclusions, according to MassResistance, a pro-family organization following the case, "have been so bizarre that it boggles the mind."
Parker, his wife and another couple have been trying to bring a federal civil rights lawsuit against school officials and others in Lexington, Mass., but have run into a massively funded campaign by nationwide groups promoting homosexuality.
"At issue is the teaching of homosexuality and transgender topics to elementary school children while denying parents rights of consent, opt-out provision, or even notification before or after the fact!" wrote MassResistance.
(Excerpt) Read more at worldnetdaily.com ...
God bless David Parker for standing up and fighting back!
And don't go whining about your taxes. Your taxes do not pay for your child's education.
We will never get vouchers in this country, but how is this for an idea? If you have children, and remove them from the public school system, how about you get a rebate on the school funding portion of your property taxes?
The answer is to join the PTO and get as involved as possible. My wife and I both are deeply involved with the PTO of our kids' school. NOTHING can be taught to them that we won't know about, as we are involved in every aspect of the classes and curriculum. If you belong to a school where strong parental involvement is not welcome--take your children out ASAP and find a school that does.
There, Judge Sandra Lynch said those who are concerned over civil rights violations “may seek recourse to the normal political processes for change in the town and state.”
Funny that didn’t apply to the Mass Supreme court which took it on itself to decide queer marriage was some kind of “right”....
In my view, the is the best argument against the existence of government schools. You can't have freedom of religion, free speech and freedom of expression; and have government schools. You must choose one or the other.
“may seek recourse to the normal political processes for change in the town and state.”
Let me guess...she’s got her job by appointment, not election.
And when we do take “political processes” they are deemed “unconstitutional” by wackos like her!
got a kid to donate to the liberal, demo, queer DNC
Fighting back BUMP.
How about if they just stick to Readin', Writing, and 'rithmatic like they're supose to?
The only time my kid will go to a public school is when she goes with me to vote!
Impossible. There will always be mission creep for government schools. Once you have that prize out there, there will be the inevitable tendency to take advantage of that power to “teach” what’s right.
Education cannot be separated from discipleship; education cannot, by definition, be “values neutral”.
See my Richard Rorty quote in a later post.
The fundamentalist parents of our fundamentalist students think that the entire ‘American liberal establishment’ is engaged in a conspiracy. The parents have a point. Their point is that we liberal teachers no more feel in a symmetrical communication situation when we talk with bigots than do kindergarten teachers talking with their students . . . When we American college teachers encounter religious fundamentalists, we do not consider the possibility of reformulating our own practices of justification so as to give more weight to the authority of the Christian scriptures. Instead, we do our best to convince these students of the benefits of secularization. We assign first-person accounts of growing up homosexual to our homophobic students for the same reasons that German schoolteachers in the postwar period assigned The Diary of Anne Frank. . . You have to be educated in order to be . . . a participant in our conversation . . . So we are going to go right on trying to discredit you in the eyes of your children, trying to strip your fundamentalist religious community of dignity, trying to make your views seem silly rather than discussable. We are not so inclusivist as to tolerate intolerance such as yours . . . I don’t see anything herrschaftsfrei [domination free] about my handling of my fundamentalist students. Rather, I think those students are lucky to find themselves under the benevolent Herrschaft [domination] of people like me, and to have escaped the grip of their frightening, vicious, dangerous parents . . . I am just as provincial and contextualist as the Nazi teachers who made their students read Der Stürmer; the only difference is that I serve a better cause.”
Keep in mind that the Gay Activists that go into the Public Schools to indoctrinate our children do not have to undergo CORI background checks. But if Kiwanis wants to participate in the RIF program, we do. Literacy vs Sex. You make the call.
It’s easy to see how Sodom went totally gay. They, the homos, are relentless in their efforts to oppose God and spread their perversion.
I would think a bible study of the word "teacher" would make any Christian parent think twice about turning his child loose to a 23 year old lesbian "teacher" that just graduated from the U of I or any other liberal university.
AMEN!
A religiously neutral education does not exist! It is axiomatic! Therefore...When government owns and operates schools, the government **will** establish the religious worldview of some and trash that of others.
Government schools are a First Amendment and freedom of conscience nightmare! The should be abolished.
If a parent pushes their worldview through the PTO or the political process, the government is merely establishing that worldview and trashing those of other's whose worldview in opposition.
There can be no religious neutrality in education. It is impossible.
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