School Czar's Permanent Record

Accuracy in Academia ^ | December 10, 2009 | Allie Winegar Duzett

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School Czar’s Permanent Record

Allie Winegar Duzett, December 10, 2009

While CBSNews.com has 108 stories on the White House-gate-crashing Salahis, the site only features one story on the “Safe Schools Czar” of the Obama administration, Kevin Jennings. The article on Jennings, entitled “Kevin Jennings Gets Boost from White House,” was written on October 1, 2009. The article defends Jennings, who was selected for the position largely because of his work founding and directing the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN), a radical gay promotion group.

However, since October 2009, videos have surfaced of Jennings teaching 14-year-old boys the dangerous sexual practice of “fisting,” and discussing with them the particulars of oral sex.

Most recently, a team of “independent researchers” came forth with a report on a reading list for schoolchildren that Jennings was involved in creating, as the founder and executive director of GLSEN. “Although GLSEN does not address how books get added to its list, it’s hard to imagine that they are chosen by low-level staffers or volunteers, with no oversight,” the researchers note, especially “since the list of recommended books is one of the organization’s primary tools… every single book mentioned in this report was added to the list while Jennings was in charge (dates are given for each title’s addition to the list). Therefore, it’s reasonable to believe he was aware of the addition of these works – especially since most were added when GLSEN was still quite small and the Executive Director had a hands-on role in daily operations.”

These researchers randomly selected 11 books off Jennings’ GLSEN reading list, and what they found left them “speechless.”....