Public schools have to be welcoming to all (except to David Parker)

Lexington Minuteman ^ | November 3, 2005 | Edith Sandy

[lexfreedom]

Singling out the children of same-sex families for "shunning,"

No, the schools are singling out same-sex "families" for special treatment, promoting that lifestyle choice as normal and equally valid. They want to start brainwashing the children in kindergarten that this is true, in direct contradiction to what their parents want to communicate to their kids.

Support David Parker ! Visit:

www.davidparkerfund.org

[lexfreedom]

The schools can't get their act together at all. Rather than focusing on homosexual indoctrination in kindergarten, they should be concerned about not illegally spending beyond budgeted funds. If the $70M school system were a public company, you can bet the management (superintendent, finance director) and board (school committee) would be under investigation for financial irregularities!

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Clearing up Lexington school spending issues By Bethan L. Jones/ Staff Writer Thursday, November 3, 2005

With so many issues, there is much room for confusion.
Recently, questions regarding school spending have surfaced, leading to questions about past actions and future plans. For the record, the outstanding bills from fiscal 2005 have not been paid.
The school department is still sitting on approximately $528,000 of fiscal 2005 bills which are still not paid.
When the school department went to close out fiscal 2005, they discovered the deficit, some of which stemmed from the spending of $240,000 of fiscal 2005 money on fiscal 2004 bills.
At the end of fiscal 2004, then-Director of School Finance Susan Bottan was faced with $240,000 in bills with no money to pay them. Rather than going to a special Town Meeting for an appropriation, Bottan used fiscal 2005 appropriated funds to pay off the fiscal 2004 bills. This action left the fiscal 2005 budget without needed funds on July 1.
The school department is also going to Town Meeting to request more than $800,000 to close the anticipated gap in fiscal 2006 funding.

[magslinger]

I wonder how the libs would react to a school lesson showing a household with firearms in it as normal?

[traderrob6]

Pure cowpie. The PS forcing their opinion on the Parker child is the infringement here. Using public funds to undermine the religious and moral education of the parents is the real violation of rights.

[SouthernFreebird]

Our children are being forced to eat chit while being told it's nutritious.

[traderrob6]

PS yhere is no guantee in the constitution of "freedom from humiliation"

[MortMan]

In other words, this Edith Bunker believes that parents should lose their constitutionally protected freedom of speech in order to not make any child feel bad? Is she really that stupid?

[IndyInVa]

"These latter examples affect only the child in question; the Parkers' request affects all the children in the classroom, because it sends an unmistakable message to all the children that there is something wrong with same-sex families."

Here's the giant hole in the argument that the ignorant letter writer is too blind to see: By her reasoning, the other examples also "send messages". The send the message that there is no God, that the United States and its flag are not worthy of respect, that American culture is something to be disdained. Oh, and by the way, same-sex families ARE abnormal. Wishful thinking can't change that.

[madprof98]

Using public funds to undermine the religious and moral education of the parents is the real violation of rights.

I believe the 9th Circuit has ruled otherwise.

[traderrob6]

"9th Circuit"

Precisely my point

[WmCraven_Wk]

"I believe the 9th Circuit has ruled otherwise."

The rulings of the 9th Circuit are normally unmitigated nonsense and are not a basis for reasonable argument.

[MACVSOG68]

Thanks for posting a letter that pretty much undercuts your crusade. The writer was objective (saw both sides) and drew out the real issue for all to see, which was in essense a demand that could not have been met. Outside of that, you know my position on the actions taken by Mr. Parker.

[WmCraven_Wk]

"...it sends an unmistakable message to all the children that there is something wrong with same-sex families."

The term 'same-sex family' is an oxymoron. God instituted the first family as Adam and Eve not Adam and Steve.

[Adder]

"because it sends an unmistakable message to all the children that there is something wrong with same-sex families."

Uhhhh...thats because there is something wrong with same sex "families".

[cricket]

Public schools have to be welcoming to all (except to David Parker)

Yes. . .'the boy who had no nose'

The Lib noses are getting longer with their every distortion of truth (aka the 'Pinnochio effect'. . .);while the 'Conservative noses' seem to be just disappearing.

[Aquinasfan]

Public schools have to be welcoming to all

Which is why students are assigned to a school and forced to attend it.

Welcome to prison for having committed the crime of being born.

[Nonstatist]

However, it is not their right to insist that the public school accommodate that belief.

But sitting down during the pledge is a "neutral" act? What crap

Its hubris like this that will keep Republicans in power. Its outrageous brainwashing by selfish insular, arrogant people. Democracy be damned!

[Blood of Tyrants]

As usual, the liberals believe that THEY are so intellectually and morally superior that THEY know what is good for your children better than you do. The 9th Circus came out with an opinion just yesterday telling parents that they had NO RIGHTS when it came to determining what would be taught in public schools.

[headsonpikes]

Welcome to prison for having committed the crime of being born.

One has to laugh, just to keep from crying.

[tutstar]

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