Mr Tony Weare, old scholar and Mrs Jenny Price, Art Teacher cut the ribbon to officially open The Rainbow Room
Posted on 02/22/2006 11:10:02 AM PST by PURPLE SHARK
Newton TAB (Feb. 22, 2013) - Today Superintendent Jeffrey Young announced the hiring of the first transgender principal in Newton. Mr. Young declared that his selection came "after a nationwide search for the best possible principal" and that "his/her sexual orientation had nothing to do with his selection." Nevertheless, transgender groups across America applauded his choice, since this also represents the first transgender principal in the nation. Retiring Mayor David Cohen was thrilled with Young's selection and cited it as yet "another example of Newton's commitment to tolerance and diversity."
After a two-year nationwide search which involved soliciting, researching, and interviewing dozens of candidates for the position of principal for both Newton high schools, Superintendent Jeffrey Young has chosen two openly gay principals. By all indications, Newton is the first city in the nation to hire gay principals for both of its high schools. Yet Mr. Young wants us to believe that A) these two educators were the most qualified available candidates for the job and B) it is only a mere coincidence that they are both gay.
Do you believe him?
Newton gay activists and educators have for over a decade tried to impose their agenda on our school system. In 1998 they found an enthusiastic leader in the new superintendent, Mr. Young, who for reasons that the public can only speculate, embarked upon a mission of making the Newton Public Schools the gay standard bearer in public education. He's never offered any justification or explanation for his peculiar obsession. And woe to anyone in the school department or School Committee who dares to question his motives.
The high school gay organizations can boast of being the first in the state. Annual gay days are commonplace. Elementary education is interspersed with examples of the gay lifestyle. Alternative families, meaning gay families, are highlighted in elementary classrooms. Pictures of two mommies adorn the hallways; stories of two daddies are common on reading lists. It's even becoming increasing rare to find a straight male elementary school teacher.
Several years ago, a Burr school first grade teacher who chose to out himself to his class of 6-year-olds was lauded as a hero by Mr. Young, who then went into hiding when Good Morning America came calling.
Our schools have been praised in Joey Magazine, a publication for gay teenagers, while Mr. Young has received numerous accolades in Bay Windows, the Boston gay weekly. Teachers have long since formed a group called ANGLE - the Association of Newton Gay and Lesbian Educators.
Parents, students and teachers across the city readily agree that gay teachers are becoming so numerous in the school system it's almost a given that retiring teachers are replaced with gay teachers.
All of this might make perfect sense in those few places in America where gays are in the majority, or at least a sizeable minority. It would be logical, for example, for a Key West or Provincetown superintendent to go out of his way to hire gay principals and teachers. But it does not make any sense in Newton. The demographics are roughly the same here as they were 20 years ago. And with the exception of Mr. Young's school department, there has been no significant migration of gays into our city from across America.
Meanwhile, Mr. Young still smugly refuses to acknowledge that a major part of his legacy has been the implementation of the gay agenda and the continuous hiring of gay staff.
Consider the case of Jennifer Price and Thomas Gwin, the finalists for the job of principal of Newton North.
Miss Price is a 34-year-old former teacher in the Maynard Public Schools. She also served for a time as a housemaster at Lincoln-Sudbury High School. For the past few years, she has been working towards a doctorate in education at Harvard.
Mr. Gwin is a lifelong Newton resident who taught in the Newton schools for over 26 years, first as a science teacher at Day Middle, then for 15 years as head of the science department at Newton North. He has been the principal at Winchester High School since 2003, where (not coincidentally) former Newton North principal Jim Marini is the superintendent of schools.
Suffice it to say, by the time Jenny Price entered elementary school Tom Gwin wasalready teaching elementary school. In Newton.
But despite his impressive credentials, Mr. Gwin was passed over in favor of Miss Price, who, in addition to her modest academic credentials, held that one trump card that Mr. Gwin could not - she is a gay female. And in the world of Jeffrey Young this is an important prerequisite for a top administrative position. Knowing Mr. Young, he could hardly be expected to pass up the opportunity to hire the first openly gay female high school principal in the state, a milestone that will surely earn him the everlasting affection of gay organizations nationwide. And in the lingo of Miss Price's Generation X (or is it Y?), this is like, yah know, totally ahhsome!
Yet it was such a blatant act of bias and discrimination against Mr. Gwin, who was willing to give up the highly coveted position of principal of Winchester High in order to return to his original home of Newton North. Mr. Young's message is loud and clear- straight white males need not apply.
Yes, it's true that the search committee handed Mr. Young the final four candidates. And I will not contradict members of the committee - some of whom are personal friends - that they did not know that either of the two selected principals was gay. But Mr. Young soon found out, since all it really took was a few extra clicks on the computer to fully research them.
So given Mr. Young's unusual track record exemplified by his unorthodox preference for gay educators, it is more than reasonable to conclude that he chose these two high school principals preciselybecause they are gay. Now, in addition to gay elementary and middle school principals, Mr. Young has secured the highest academic rung of the Newton schools with not one, but two gay high school principals.
But it's only a coincidence, you see. Just ask him. And within about seven years, when Mr. Young hires the first transgender principal in America, rest assured, this person will undoubtedly be the best qualified for the job.
Tom Mountain can be reached at tmount117@hotmail.com. He will be discussing this column on Wednesday evening at 8:30 on Newton Talk on NewTV.
When 100% of a city's high schools have principals from a group of only 1% of the population, there is some anti-heterosexual discrimination going on.
It would be nice to see a lawsuit here.
A. Newton is huge, 13 villages, two large high schools, over 100,000 population.
B. It is full of middle-aged and old people who go to bed early. Walk through Newton Centre at 10 p.m. and it's shut down.
C. It has more cops than many larger cities.
D. It is extremely far left. One of my oldest friends no longer speaks to another old friend because he voted for Bush because of Kerry's Vietnam conduct.
They do in some New England hospitals.
A teacher outed himself to a classroom of six year olds? While I'm not opposed to gay people in general, it does seem as if there is an agenda that they SWEAR isn't there. Bull.
Several years ago, a friend "outed" himself to me as a "flaming heterosexual serial monogamist" meaning he really, really liked girls, one at a time, but had a short attention span. This revelation was not wrong, given that we were both adults in an adult venue. If he had made the same statement while teaching 6-year-olds, he should never have been allowed around children again.
Talk about an understatement! Even though it's probably not even true. Truly strange.
Newton reminds me of Boca Raton, FL, where my parents live. On the surface, looks like just another affluent town. Live there long enough, and you see that it is dominated by limousine liberals who endorse all of the sh-t usually associated with the Ithacas and Berkeley's of the world, so long as it is done quietly and by 10PM.
Mr Tony Weare, old scholar and Mrs Jenny Price, Art Teacher cut the ribbon to officially open The Rainbow Room
If the stats are to be believed, then the gay candidates should have been 10-15% of the applicant pool and the tranny may have represented a very low percentage, perhaps less than 1%.
Suddently - lightning strikes not once not twice but three times in the same place! Hands up - who's surprised? Anyone?? Anyone??
I guess one of the worst aspects of their agenda is their constant claims of having NO agenda. The evidence is clear.
This school can look forward to chaos and a general lack of discipline, decorum and respect as Electrolysis Man picks up the mic every morning to do the announcements.
If a Plaintiff would come forward. The man who should have received the job would be ostracized from his profession.
Good question. The answer is yes.
Today Superintendent Jeffrey Young announced the hiring of the first transgender principal in Newton. Mr. Young declared that his selection came "after a nationwide search for the best possible principal" and that "his/her sexual orientation had nothing to do with his selection."
I guess either the Superintendent is not up to speed on the latest leftist terminology or I am not up to speed? Maybe the liberal media adds additional spin?
I thought that the leftists consider transgender to be both ambiguous body parts or ambiguous 'feelings' as far as sexual identity is concerned BUT I did not think that orientation being comprised of declared sexual attraction to others had anything to do with ones personal objectively defined or leftist subjectively defined sexual identity?
I am now quite confused regardless the Superintendent's announcement of a specific important enough to announce yet claim unimportant...
It may have been more appropriate for the Superintendent to simply state he has hired a confused sexually active individual to mentor children in their formative years...
Any insight regarding this latest development of ambiguousness leftists apparently employ?
Hmm, not clear. There was an article about these two principals the other day, but no mention of "transgender", only "gay".
Anyone who leaves their children in these schools is commiting child abuse.
Look at the year in the dateline. That part is satire. No transgender principal was hired; it was a commentary related to the two openly gay principals.
It is city of Barney Frank.
I am not sure if I want to know what is the purpose of the that room. And this "scholar" does not look so old, unless they mean his life expectancy :(
Yes
The third law of homosexuality:
Any exposure of children to homosexual behavior is child abuse
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