Gay Seminar Teacher Investigated [NC Governor's School: Sexual abuse of minor]

A Carolina Journal Exclusive ^ | February 14, 2006 | Paul Chesser

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K-12 Education

Gay Seminar Teacher Investigated

Teacher probed for sexual misconduct with East Forsyth student

By Paul Chesser

February 14, 2006

RALEIGH — A co-teacher of a controversial seminar on homosexuality at last year's taxpayer-funded Governor's School is under investigation in Forsyth County for alleged sexual misconduct with a student.

Susan Wiseman helped lead a lecture based on a book called "The New Gay Teenager," given at the Governor's School West. The six-week Governor’s School is conducted every summer, with 400 students each at two locations: Salem College in Winston-Salem (West) and Meredith College in Raleigh (East).

The residential program draws public high school students who are approaching their senior years, and who are nominated by their high schools’ teachers and administrators. Students are identified as “intellectually gifted,” and the program “integrat(es) academic disciplines, the arts, and unique courses….”

According to a report in the Winston-Salem Journal on Friday, Wiseman is being investigated for allegations of sexual activity with a 17-year-old student. The report was confirmed to Carolina Journal by a source involved in the investigation.

Wiseman, according to the Journal, is a social studies teacher at East Forsyth High School. She is also listed as a youth coordinator for the Parents, Families, and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG)-Winston-Salem.

Wiseman co-led the "New Gay Teenager" seminar with a 19-year-old office assistant at the Governor's School — Wesley Nemenz — who is homosexual, a former Governor's School attendee, and a student at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

The seminar was heavily criticized by James and Beverly Burrows, whose son attended the school last year and said their son returned home from the school “confused” about homosexuality as a result of the seminar, and that they have had to seek family counseling.

“We feel that this was totally inappropriate for the students who were 15, 16, and 17 years old,” the Burrowses wrote to officials at the State Department of Public Instruction last August. “We feel that our rights as parents have been violated by this program.”

The Burrowses accused the Governor's School of having a "pro-homosexual agenda."

DPI and Governor's School officials defended the seminar, saying it was optional for students to attend, as is the Governor’s School itself.

The state budget fully funds the program, with $1.3 million set aside for it this fiscal year. Students are nominated based on specific areas of academic or performing-arts excellence, and pay nothing to attend, other than the cost to travel to the schools.

At least two other families were also disturbed by the changes in their children after returning from the Governor's School last year, based on students' writings on the MySpace Internet website.

Wiseman has not been charged with any crimes. Vanessa Jeter, a spokeswoman for the Department of Public Instruction, was unaware of the investigation and said she would make sure the agency's attorneys were aware of it.

"We would take that kind of thing very seriously," Jeter said.

Paul Chesser (pchesser@carolinajournal.org) is associate editor of Carolina Journal.

[Plutarch]

What is needed here is serious jail time and registration as a sexual offender.

That is what happens to those pulchritudinous and concupiscent female teachers gone wild.

[Diva Betsy Ross]

I was attempting a dig at the (few) men who think that it is *cool* when a female teacher manipulates and molests a male student.

I think all teachers who can not keep their hands and their fantasies to themselves should be fired, and arrested...no matter the victim's age.

My children have my permission to injure any person who touches them wrongly or who tries to seduce them.

Sad thing they have had to defend themselves from both an adult and a neighbor child (boy) this year. My oldest is 7.

I homeschool both boys~ I am with them for most of their day~and it still happened to them.

Children being sexually exploited and exploiting each other in school and the playground is rampant and out of control~ no wonder so many of these kids identify themselves as Bi or just confused by the time they are in middle school.

BTW- I live in an area where a male teacher has been caught molesting boys. Hmmm... correlation to what is going on my neighborhood...I think so.

[Antoninus]

Update on the NC Governor's School homo-scandal. Disgusting, but not surprising.

[longtermmemmory]

Notice how they don't disclose the gender of the minor "student".

This is exactly the recruiting which is INEVITABLE when you place homosexuals activists and radicals with minor children.

Homosexuality is ONLY about recreational sex.
Recreational sex has no place around MINORS.
Homosexuals have no place around minors.

[Galveston Grl]

Recruiting young meat - the central purpose of gay "education" activity in your neighborhood school.

[longtermmemmory]

GSA clubs, PFLAG, and GLSEN use the EXACT SAME methods that pedophiles use to cultivate their sexual prey. You are 100% right. It is very evil and sinister to allow these sexual preditors in among the children.

Homosexuals have no place ANYWHERE near children.

[Windsong]

Dont hold back, tell us how you really feel!

[oneofmany]

Cultural Marxism. The radical homo's are on the front lines in the battle to destroy all morality in America. They desrve scorn and contempt, as do their sympathizers.

[Aquinasfan]

The six-week Governor’s School is conducted every summer, with 400 students each at two locations: Salem College in Winston-Salem (West) and Meredith College in Raleigh (East).

The residential program draws public high school students who are approaching their senior years, and who are nominated by their high schools’ teachers and administrators. Students are identified as “intellectually gifted,”

What purpose can a six-week program for "intellectually gifted" students serve?

OTOH, what could possibly go wrong?

Testimony of parent whose son committed suicide after attending the Ark. Gov.'s School

[TaxRelief]

What purpose can a six-week program for "intellectually gifted" students serve?

The children and parents are lead to believe that attendance is a guarantee of college acceptance at UNC Chapel Hill.

[Aquinasfan]

The same thing happed to my son in South Carolina. He has been screwed up since attending the Govenors School in Greenville, we yanked him out his second yea but alas it was too late. Two years of therapy has done little to reverse the damage.

Wow. You might want to check out the link in my post #49. I saw a 1992 video on Clinton's Governor's School. It was shocking. The "school" was clearly engaging in brainwashing or communist "reeducation" tactics.

I've since done some web searches on various state Governor's Schools, and children's experiences range from straight academics to straight brainwashing.

[Aquinasfan]

The children and parents are lead to believe that attendance is a guarantee of college acceptance at UNC Chapel Hill.

Well, I've found that parents will do just about anything to give Johnny a leg up on the competition for sacred college admissions. Who cares what the program's about?

"Knowledge is good." (Motto on Faber College statue)

[John O]

She is also listed as a youth coordinator for the Parents, Families, and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG)-Winston-Salem.

Youth coordinator for a group that deals only with sexual behavior. Does this not scream "Recruiter"?

[sangrila]

Sounds like some hot lesbo action.

The teacher should be fired, and tax payers should not pay for the new gay teenager seminar. NC is not the only state that has taken funding away from real public education and pumped into these PC gay-pride classes. I don't see any classes catering speciffically to the needs of heterosexual children.

A teacher having sex with a student is very inappropriate. I'm not really sure anything illegal happened though unless the age of consent is older than 17 in NC. I don't think it is. I think it is legal in my own state for a 16 year old to have sex with a 60 year old.

[sangrila]

"At 17, if a homosexual had tried to molest me, he'd have been picking his teeth up off the floor."


Exactly.

[taxesareforever]

I still want to know if the parents of the students were provided a list of courses that would be presented at this seminar. So far, that question has not been addressed.

[TaxRelief]

If the military tried putting an active member in charge of a basketball team, the left would be screaming "Recruiter" so loudly!

[NCLaw441]

NC didn't follow Arkansas. I think NC had the first Governor's School program. I attended back in 1975. Not sure who Bill Clinton was molesting back then. When I was there, there was nothing approaching a homosexual agenda.

Several years ago Governor's School in NC was divided into East and West... not sure if that changed things. Also, the head of Gov. School, Jim Bray has had substantial medical problems (and may have died in the last few years...)

[NCLaw441]

The children and parents are lead to believe that attendance is a guarantee of college acceptance at UNC Chapel Hill.
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I was never led to believe that back in 1975, although I did attend UNC as a token conservative.

[TaxRelief]

Rules excerpt:

Do students have to attend the Governor's School the entire six weeks?
Yes. If a student accepts the invitation to attend the Governor's School, he/she must agree to attend for the entire six weeks. (NOTE: Any student who does not stay until the closing session on the last day will not receive a Governor's School certificate, nor be permitted to use the Governor's School experience on college and scholarship applications.)

May students go home on weekends?
No. Students must remain at the Governor's School through the weekends except the third weekend of the session when all students go home on Saturday and return on the following Tuesday evening.

What is the cost to students to attend the Governor's School?
The program is funded by the North Carolina General Assembly. Students furnish only their transportation to and from the campus and any spending money they may need.