Posted on 05/22/2006 12:11:31 PM PDT by Borges
We could cut their names out of the textbooks.
Or, we could avoid the issue of their sexual proclivities in high school textbooks altogether. It seems our grandparents managed to learn much more history than children today, despite being deprived of this "crucial" information.
You would have if your school hadn't banned those books.
You clearly don't understand. The mere mention of reproduction, even in plants, sends teenagers into a frenzy of lust. That's why we no longer teach about the birds and the bees, you see. All that egg-laying and pollinating going on inflames adolescents and causes them to engage in wild orgies of sexual licentiousness.
Why, the simplest things can trigger this sort of immoral behavior in teens. A case in a city (unnamed for privacy's sake) occurred when a wind blew through the schoolgrounds. Budget cuts had prevented the lawns on campus from being mowed frequently, and the wind blew the seeds from all the dandelions on the campus all over the place. Within minutes, the students had all removed their clothing and were rutting mindlessly on the grass.
You can see how serious this all is, I'm sure.
Good point, I'm chastened at my lack of understanding of the seriousness of this problem. By all means, let's continue restricting such licentious inflammatory knowledge. Who cares if China and India take the lead in science, we'll have all the pure teenagers, their heads uncluttered by knowledge of plant reproduction!
I mean it's not like the school district is trying to put the Bible in the classroom or anything.
Probably so. That kind of language is suspect today, but common back then for friends.
The same trick is used of David and Jonathan in the Bible.
Sick tricks.
Shhhhh! You'll have the ACLU warming up their fax machine in a minute.
So can those seven books.
Irrelevant.
Every parent can't decide individually otherwise the school system is chaos.
The government schools are already in chaos in case you haven't noticed.
There have to be some shared criteria upon which all essentially agree
The thing we need to agree upon is that there should be some criteria and the school system must decide.
If you do, that makes this whole conversation irrelevant.
Ultimately, parents have the final say. If some imbecilic teacher told my child they had to read "The Complete works of the Marqui De Sade" I would tell them to shove it
We did the hippy-dippy Sixties poetry, not the real stuff. The book (I can't BELIEVE this neuron still fires) was called "A Gift of Watermelon Pickle." That would have been 69 or 70.
With a graphic artist.
Was it? Do you know that for a fact? Can you provide any evidence to back up that assertion? Please cite other 13th century French examples.
The same trick is used of David and Jonathan in the Bible.
Who lived 2000 years previous thousands of kilometers away in an utterly different civilization. I really don't see the parallel, unless your argument is that no historical figure has ever been homosexual.
I remember some boring stuff like: "Late Night Thoughts on Listening to Mahler's Ninth Symphony."
Since I never said that, it's probably safe to say.
If a class was the History of sexuality or French literature in general then De Sade may very well be on the syllabus. Plato's Symposium would probably raise a lot of cackles as well.
"Then they kissed each other and wept together - but David wept the most" - 1 Sam.
The above is supposedly "proof" that the 2 were gay. Much like the passage you quoted of Richard and Philip.
Who lived 2000 years previous
Exactly my point. Richard I lived 800 years previous to us. They used quite different language back then. And the gays will manipulate that to 20th century standards to "prove" he was gay.
People pushing the homosexual agenda tend to ignore the historical context when it comes to speculating that every major figure (including David of the Bible) who had a deep friendship with another man was therefore homosexual. It's one of the most destructive aspects of their agenda--they degrade male friendship with sexual innuendo.
Some school board SHOULD have made our teachers swap out that stupid Watermelon Pickle book for maybe some Milton or Donne. I can barely name any real poets because we did "Language Arts" instead. The next time I hit poetry was in college, where they stuck me (and the rest of the Electronics students, it was the only section that fit our schedule) with Sylvia Plath. I never did figure out why she called a poem about a dead snake "Medallion."
That's probably why I care so much about kids getting GOOD stuff to read, not whatever fits the current trend. I think poetry and literature are probably as important as visual arts and I think I was gypped. Reading it long after school ended is not the same as being taught it.
Good golly...does sarcasim need to be written in order for you to understand? Relax, bub.
Not to mention degrading a great crusader which of course has fed over the last decades into the Muslim agenda.
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