>>>You can request that your child not see it. Or you can chose to have them stay home the day its shown.
I do see this isn't in the article; but it had wide radio coverage today. The families were not notified first. The parents weren't given a choice to opt out.
I just got the phone with my school principle. She said she never heard of the film, but she took all the information about Garden State Equality, Steven Goldstein and "That's a Family" . I read her the article . She told me that if it comes to our district she will call me....Parents do have the right to say no to their child seeing the film. All films on sex ed and even the DARE films must have parental approval.... She was very nice and concerned. She was very careful in her wording but I got the feeling she was concerned about this film and won't just let it be shown without permission slips from parents. So far she is not aware of our school district using it or planning to use it.
I meant to say I just got off the phone....I am so pstttt about this. How dare this gay !#@#!@ tell us we should leave NJ if we don't like his stupid gay film. GRRR
Exactly! And they notify parents about everything. In the middle schools, any film shown has to have a permission slip signed in order for each child to view the film.
After the fiasco, they sent home permission slips and half chose to not have their children view the video (after it being shown to parents at a BoE meeting, shown at various churches, etc.). Those parents are considered loons, troublemakers, bigots. It became national news and so many are too worried about how any dissent will affect their kids, themselves. The major issue isn’t just about this video. The video is just what opened many eyes concerning what’s going on in our schools.
the reaction in this formerly conservative town is unbelievable. Parents opposing this video, opposing not being notified, are considered uneducated, bigoted, lunatics. Seriously, the BoE meetings have been overtaken by activist groups who don’t live here, don’t pay the taxes we do.
I can’t even discuss how we hired a consultant, a diversity consultant, to promote this agenda, at taxpayers expense when they had no clue they were paying for this consultant who is a leftist talking head.And, none knew because we’re not informed of any of this.