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.
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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.
I wonder how the libs would react to a school lesson showing a household with firearms in it as normal?
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.
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?
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.
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.
"...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.
"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".
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.
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.
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!
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.
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ping a ling...
But I thought diversity was GOOD. I'm so confused.
Please forward to David and his lawyers.
What the schools are now doing is not teaching "tolerance". They are demanding that the children be made to believe what the school wants the children to believe. It is a demand for "acceptance".
Acceptance and tolerance are not the same thing.
Tolerance reflects behavior, not what you believe but how you act, or do not act, on your beliefs.
Acceptance requires that your thoughts conform to a belief or set of beliefs.
Tolerance can be taught, but acceptance can only come from honest individual choice or brainwashing.
We are a tolerant society. That does not mean that we agree with someone else's beliefs and no one has a legal or moral mandate to force you to accept someone else's beliefs.
Tolerance is best taught in education by example, not by lessons that preach commands that children, whose families have different beliefs, "accept" each others beliefs. No, tolerance is reflected in how people behave toward each other, not by government demand they accept each other.
Tolerance is not taught by forcing children to read books like "Heather Has Two Mommies". Tolerance is taught through the behavior of the teachers and administrators towards "Heather" and by the behavior toward "Heather" they demonstrate they expect from the other students.
Tolerance does not require any "education" that it is "O.K." for "Heather" to have "two mommies". Tolerance is taught by teachers behaving and expecting others to behave respectfully towards "Heather", without any children having to be brainwashed into "acceptance" that the beliefs of "Heathers" "two mommies" is good, or right, or O.K.
The educators are failing to recognize that the belief that it is O.K. for Heather to have two mommies is no different than the beliefs of those who disagree - it is a belief, a secular type of religious understanding and it has no more place, as a form of indoctrination with Children than would an attempt to teach that you must be Saved by Jesus, in a public school.
The key here is the difference between tolerance and acceptance and the very different requirements that those two concepts can, and cannot be allowed to be imposed through our education system.