Conservative trustee calls slain gay rights leader “a pedophile;” officials say he’s only in book’s supporting materials
Posted on 06/02/2023 4:02:27 PM PDT by DogByte6RER
Temecula’s conservative school board majority has blocked a history textbook because its supporting materials mention slain gay rights leader Harvey Milk.
School board President Joseph Komrosky, who opposed the book, called Milk “a pedophile.”
In response, the Temecula teachers union staged a rally and plans another, including before the next Temecula Valley school board meeting Tuesday, June 13.
Last month, Temecula Valley Unified School District officials brought the adoption of a book called Social Studies Alive to the board and recommended it be approved for students in first through fifth grades for eight years. The textbook would be used starting with the 2023-24 school year and cost about $1.6 million, according to a report to the board.
But members of the board’s new conservative Christian majority raised concerns about the materials that go with the book, which mention Milk in optional supplemental resources. Milk, the subject of a 2008 film starring Sean Penn, isn’t in the actual textbook that children would have seen, Anna Tapley, Temecula Valley’s director of curriculum, instruction and assessment, told the board.
The board voted 3-2 May 16 against bringing the book into the district, with board members Allison Barclay and Steven Schwartz backing its approval and the board majority opposed. The vote has led some to voice concern that students could be left without a social studies book.
Milk was one of the first openly gay candidates elected to public office. While serving on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in 1978, a former political colleague shot him and Mayor George Moscone to death at City Hall.
“My question is why even mention a pedophile,” asked Komrosky, one of three conservatives elected in November to Temecula’s school board. “What does that got to do with our curriculum in schools? That’s a form of activism.”
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Conservative trustee calls slain gay rights leader “a pedophile;” officials say he’s only in book’s supporting materials
Not only that, but Milk was a supporter of Jim Jones
Archived full read article at: https://archive.ph/X0D4R
This will be compared to the Holocaust.
To the activist types , it’s a crime against humanity , not to teach all about homosexual history.
Harvey Milk is considered historic by the activists.
He is a confirmed pederast, his boyfriend was a minor and he was open about it.
“Silence Is Violence.”
He was, or at least underage.
Jane Fonda needs a mention too.
Also ran: Kamala’s old mentor Willie Brown.
I believe he was also a subscriber to Jone’s “dial a mob” service.
Yeah, and the Article doesn’t even mention that fact.
Also a friend and promoter of Jim Jones (like the witch of San Francisco) and a con man.
If that is your "hero" you have a kink in your think.
Milk was an admitted pedophile.
Democrats love their pedos.
But regardless. Aside from being a gay pedo what does a mayor from the 70s have anything to do with social studies? Oh yeah, he is a gay pedo democrat.
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