Posted on 12/16/2004 10:05:07 AM PST by presidio9
Two parents, shocked at frank talk during a gay and lesbian awareness day at Newton North High, were forced off the property after one parent whipped out a video camera and started taping.
``This does not belong in curriculum,'' said Kim Cariani, who said four police officers and the principal told them they would be charged with trespassing if they did not leave.
``It's against my religion. It's morally wrong and forced in a child's face.''
Each year, some students at Newton North forgo classes during To BGLAD: Transgender, Bisexual, Gay and Lesbian Awareness Day with assembly-like sessions including ``Out at the Old Ballgame'' and ``Color Me Queer.'' Students are not required to attend.
Cariani kept her two kids home during the day, but she was curious.
Cariani and another parent, Brian Camenker, were in the audience when adults in a panel discussion talked about being gay. When one man told the students he was attracted to his sister's husband, Cariani said she started to record the ``propaganda, false information and lies.''
The principal demanded Cariani turn over the videotape or leave, Camenker said.
``They took the two of us and pulled us out and gave us one minute to leave and if we came back on the property we would be arrested for trespassing,'' he said.
Tom Mountain, a columnist for the Newton Tab, was also barred from the assembly ``for the safety and security of the children,'' he said he was told.
Newton schools Superintendent Jeff Young said it is a violation of school policy to tape or photograph students without parental permission. Cariani refused to give up the tape, so they were asked to decamp, he said.
The awareness day, held for the past 10 years, is one of several ways the schools highlight diversity, Young said. Students who don't want to go can go to the library or computer lab.
They don't want to let people know what they are teaching the kids. It's the bluest town in the bluest state. True education Nazis.
"Students are not required to attend."
And there you are. Going on a school campus with a video cameral is going to get you tossed, unless you have permission. Sheesh! Her kids weren't even there.
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What is going on in the world today?!
This is disgusting!
I wonder why the "great" ACLU doesn't have a problem with this, but does anything it can to try to stop Christianity.
A--- S-- is here to stay - get over it. (/sarcasm)
Sickened, but not surprised.
There you go misdirecting your outrage again. Is using a camera to document the fact that our kids are being fed this garbage really more upsetting to you than the fact that they are being fed this garbage in the first place. Remember: Our taxes are paying for this.
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"And this contributed to the students' education
HOW?
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I don't know. I wasn't in attendance, so I have no idea of the exact nature of the program. There's certainly not enough information in the article for me to make a judgment.
I'd like to know exactly how many kids were in attendance, though.
So let me understand.... this parent pays taxes to teach her children yet can not be there at any moment to check on the well being of her children? Am I understanding this correctly?
WHO THE HELL DO THESE ADMINISTRATORS THINK THEY ARE?
Talk about double standards
Presumably, the kids who were there had their parents' permission to attend, so I'm not sure why she thinks she should be butting in.
I'm glad she held on to the tape. I hope she is making a copy for Sean Hannity and Bill O'Reilley right now.
Hi madg
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"There you go misdirecting your outrage again. Is using a camera to document the fact that our kids are being fed this garbage really more upsetting to you than the fact that they are being fed this garbage in the first place. Remember: Our taxes are paying for this."
Well, since I wasn't there, I don't know what was presented. The article doesn't tell us. We don't even know how many kids attended this thing. For me, the most important fact in the article is that students were not required to attend.
Her taxes pay for their salaries, she can't be there!? Go back and stick your head in the sand.
No, you're not. Her kids weren't there. Attendance at this event was voluntary and she did not want her kids going.
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