Posted on 04/12/2010 10:41:21 AM PDT by GeronL
My son's Elementary School forcing kids to Cross-Dress for Women's History Month
You know...I'm always praising the Maple Shade School district where we live for the great job they do with my kids. Because of that, I have overlooked the Politically-Correct-insanity that has changed "St. Patricks Day" to "LEPRECHAUN DAY", and Christmas to "WINTER Holiday", or "Good Friday" to "Spring Day"...but NOW THEY'VE GONE TOO FAR!
I support the idea of teaching about Women's History Month, in regards to our rights, equality, and roles in US and world history...but asking my 9 YEAR OLD SON to dress like a woman in a school FASHION SHOW in school in front of his peers is crossing the line for me. They sent home a memo telling us that regardless of male/female, ALL students must participate....and I am PISSED.
How is dressing like a woman from any era going to teach him about history? Why not let him do a report, poster, or other project on this subject? If he was attending a vocational school in the field of textiles, women's fashion, etc, then it would make sense. My son is adamantly opposed, and I dont see how FORCING my 9year old to CROSS-DRESS in front of the ENTIRE SCHOOL BODY is going to teach him ANYTHING about Women's History.
I am not prejudiced, and I have gay and/or cross-dressing friends whom I love dearly, but this sounds more like a sneaky lesson in social tolerance, and that is MY JOB, not the school district or local government. If my son decided he wanted to do it, for "fun", like as if it were Halloween, then that I would support.
I resent the fact that the Maple Shade School District is telling me that HE and I have no choice. That my son must dress like a woman, because "women's fashions" are vital to his understanding of the history of this country....and we have NO options. Why not teach him/them about Betsy Ross, Susan B. Anthony, Harriet Tubman and/or Helen Keller?
Further, just like the whole "Healthcare" debacle, I believe it is for ME to decide, and not for the government, or governmental agency to force me to do something that is against my son's identity, our religious beliefs or parental rights.
What are your thoughts on this?
>> Go in a plaid flannel shirt, blue jeans, and hiking boots and say your kid is dressing like the principal on the weekends. <<
Exactly!
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Yank the kid and homeschool him.
Cutting off the school’s life blood is the ONLY thing they will listen to.
Then you haven't been keeping up with what's been going on in public schools recently. I don't doubt it for a minute.
The writer ought to get one or more of these friends to send a nasty-gram to the school. That would make their puny heads explode.
“Americas dive accelerates.”
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And as it does, I keep attending the local gun shows, attempting to stay ready.
Side note: At the Knoxville show Saturday, one booth had about ten copies of each of your books. They also had a picture they said was of you, wearing a “Don’t tread on me” type shirt that they had sent you. Your modeling career awaits. :)
It wouldn't be OK, as far as I am concerned, for boys to cross dress regardless of what kind of program they were in. I would resent, as a taxpayer, being forced by the government to pay for it, as well
It is impossible to have a religiously, politically, or culturally neutral education. IMPOSSIBLE! It is axiomatic.
So...Finally!... You have bumped your nose into a government school ruling that offends one of your non-neutral religious, political, and cultural values. ( What took so long?)
There is **ONE** thing that single payer, socialistic, government schools are really good at: CAUSING CONFLICT among the various groups of citizens who are forced to use the schools and those who are forced to pay for them. ( Oh!...And by “force” I mean the threat of armed police action that enforces all laws.)
ALL schools must make hundreds ( possibly thousands) of binary decisions whose content and consequences can never be religiously, culturally, or politically neutral.
With private schooling the parents, teachers, and principals privately agree on these decisions. Government schooling though involves the **establishment**, by the government, of a religious, cultural, and political worldview that can never be neutral in content or consequences. The winner of whose worldview will be established by the government is always awarded to the biggest political bully.
ALL government schools are a First Amendment and freedom of conscience abomination. Hopefully, now with this cross dressing decision, you see ( and personally feel) one of the practical consequences.
Solution: ALL government must be shut down. We must begin the process of privatizing all K-12 education.
The school isn't doing a “good job”. YOU and YOUR KIDS are doing the good job! ( Congratulations!)
The most any government school does is send home a tuition-free curriculum for the parents and kid to follow. It is in the home that 99% of the hard work of learning takes place. The school then administers tests, and grades projects.
If you know of an academically successful child, thank the **parents**! I think that the bumper sticker that reads, “If you can read this, thank a teacher.”, should instead read, “If you can read this, thank an ‘afterschooling’ PARENT!”
ALL government schools in this nation teach everything from an atheistic godless point of view.
How could the Maple Shade schools being doing a “good job” when it is teaching your child to think atheistically? When did that become a “good job”?
ALL government schools teach children to be socialists. Simply by attending children learn that the government has the power to take money from their neighbor to pay for a service their parents want for tuition-free. Gee! If the government can take money from their neighbor to pay for tuition-free schools, why not a thousand other socialist wants and needs?
When did it become a “good job” to teach children to be comfortable with accepting socialism?
Within one to three generations of the opening of the first single payer, monopoly, cartel, socialist government schools in the mid-1800s, we had:
** The IRS
** Direct election of senators
** The federal reserve
** “One World” attempts with the League of Nations followed by the abominable U.N.
** FDR and his New Deal elected four times!
** Johnson's Great Society
** Thousands of socialist programs, agencies, and offices
** The Department of Education
** The abolishment of the gold standard
Finally, government schools in many ways treat children (who have committed no crime) like prisoners. They are sentenced by the government to prison-like buildings. Inside the buildings, the government strips them of their First Amendment Rights. It it the government who dictates when and what they will speak and publish. The government determines with whom they will or will not assemble. The government forbids free expression of the child's religious beliefs and imposes an atheistic worldview on the child. The government tells the child when he will eat, rest, and exercise. There are metal detectors, armed guards in the halls, lock downs and strip searches.
Even their school transport resembles prison work gang buses!
So?...When did it become a “good job” for the child to learn to be a compliant little prisoner of the state?
Government schools didn't make Obama possible. Government schools made Obama INEVITABLE!
He's at 2A-GEAR.com.
Can he wear a bomber jacket and khakis and go as Amelia Earhart?
Or can he have a “sore throat” that day?
Are they serious?
Sad thing is, no one can tell for sure.
It shouldn’t even be a question, but these days, who knows?
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Was going to ping this out. SICK SICK SICK!
There should be no “Womens’s History” month, week, or day.
Feminism and homosexualism are part of the same evil agenda. Here is proof.
I’m afraid you and so many others are caught up in an internet hoax.
The source is Face Book. Also see this: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2491546/posts
As you see, there are more than a few FReepers who want more evidence this is for real before we all get our undies in a wad.
N.J. Elementary School Cancels 'Cross-Dressing' Fashion Show After Complaints
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