Posted on 06/14/2006 3:57:43 PM PDT by wagglebee
They split it up some, but not enough.
I think there around 700-800 kids out at one time.
It was a nutty school.
I will add that I totally support abolishing govt schools, or at least have a voucher system.
As a parent of a special needs child, I will add that I think it is in societies best interest to educate special needs children.
My daughter is gifted in math and she wants to become an accountant. However, she needs to be taught to read differently than other kids. She needs a multi-sensory reading method. The public school does not want to teach her that way, so she is not reading well.
If she successfully learns to read, then she will be able to go to college and get a job and support herself (and pay taxes).
My goal is to have her be a self-supporting adult.
Since you don't seem to have the "real story" about David Parker at your fingertips, I'll check back tomorrow evening to see what kind of crap you've mined from the lunatic lefties in Boston. Until then, keep the faith!
I'd be happy to. But you are going to have to agree to keep your insults to yourself and address the Parker issue alone. Most here can't seem to do that, and you have certainly shown a propensity in that direction. I also followed the case quite closely last year, though I'm not sure what living in Connecticut has to do with anything. Deal?
I already bit, there seems to be no there there and in fact since I asked there seems to be no MAC here. Such is life on the web.
Now it's put up time MAC.
SO -cease your homosexuality is okay cheerleading efforts on FR already! NOTHING can legitimize homosexuality just as nothing can legitimize the beating the child received... -no buts...
The only coherent theme evident in your multiple postings on homosexual agenda topics is one of support for the homosexualization of society --SUPPORT at the expense of whatever rational a FReeper may have posted the topic for discussion upon. Rational related to OPPOSING the homosexualization of society NOT supporting it!
You do understand this???
Much as you would like to divert the discussion to the father -the discussion involves primarily the fact that a child was beaten as a result of homosexual activism...
IF you wish to discuss the father and whatever wacko theories you wish to posit THEN no one is stopping you from posting said articles and even creating a ping list to debate how the father is mean and evil...
No doubt his source will be Bay Windows (the gay newspaper in Boston, as opposed to the Globe, the other gay newspaper).
No. It is only a hate crime if a homosexual gets beaten up.
This was just boys being boys.
How are you going to punish them?
They control the law.
Dollars to donuts say that the playground monitors were in on it.
Along with a lawsuit for not protecting his son. A little girl had to FIND a moniter? Someone wasn't aware of a large group of kids making a ruckus?
Well, I'm not sure how you read that into this article - perhaps you could enlighten me. If this father deliberately put his young son into a known harms way, I would say that is despicable - and I'm not talking about the normal unpredictable hazards of life that affect everyone such as the dangers of crossing the road OR being met by a group of hoodlums in a dark alley. However, I would suggest that regardless of what the views are of any party in any dispute, there should be a reasonable expectation of safety for an innocent child. By not being able to make that assumption, the school and the state have not lived up to their responsibilities - and I hope they get their butt sued off.
You said it! A poster here the other day said of her, it takes a woman to do a man's work.
No put up. I gotta go. I'll ping you if MAC gets back to me.
One would think the problem is what is taught to 1st graders, and whether it is appropriate, rather than the institution of homosexual marriage. Having said that, at some point, the matter will be discussed. It is inevitable. I don't really think the mission of secondary schools however is to teach a PC curriculum. They are doing a poor enough job as it is with the basics, and really don't have time to branch out. In any event, I found that I was perfectly capable of making my own mind about stuff, irrespective of what teachers taught. In fact, if the "teach" was too pushy, and just arid opinion, I pushed back. I enjoyed pushing back. It gave me pleasure. I enjoyed making the teachers uncomfortable. I was a handful back then, hard as it may be to believe, I really was. :)
But his dad is trying to be "patient"
Try that on my son!
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