Posted on 06/20/2006 5:54:24 PM PDT by lexfreedom
Lexington's school superintendent yesterday denied assertions that a first-grader was beaten up on a playground last month in retaliation for his father's campaign to stop the school from teaching his son about homosexuality. School officials, citing interviews with the children involved, said the fight actually started over where students would sit in the cafeteria and then spilled onto the playground. The student, the 7-year-old son of David Parker , who filed a federal lawsuit in April over the teaching of homosexuality in school, was punched several times during the May 17 fight. ``These were two first-graders having a child squabble on a playground," said Superintendent Paul Ash . ``Some adults are exploiting these children for political purposes." The playground fight ballooned into a School Department inquiry after a Waltham-based parents' group, MassResistance, alleged that a group of children pounced on the boy on the two-year anniversary of the legalization of gay marriage. According to school officials' investigation, one child hit Parker's son two to four times during recess, and the boy fell to his knees as about five students watched . A teacher's aide intervened. The child who hit Parker's son was sent to the assistant principal's office, where he wrote an apology and was denied recess for two days. Parker's son and the boy have since had a play date, Ash said. School officials contacted authorities, who declined to investigate, Ash said. Parker said he was unconvinced that the fight had nothing to do with the outcry. He said other students have talked to his son about the issue. Parker was arrested last year when he refused to leave Estabrook Elementary School without a guarantee that his child would not be exposed to teachings about homosexuality. In April, he filed a federal lawsuit over the issue.
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Well, liar, I HAVE done my own research and you know it. But you don't like articles from the Boston Globe because it doesn't comport with your version of reality.
Your petty threats of zotting everyone who doesn't agree with you on these threads is pathetic.
Absent evidence to the contrary this seems like a schoolyard fight. My advice to Mr Parker, teach your son how to defend himself and forget the play date crap.
Agree. He needs to get his son into boxing or something immediately.
I'm only aware of one homosexual agenda poster who searches the internet constantly finding homosexual articles and who posts many such articles each day, and who in spite of no ability to argue, tries to argue against reality. In fact, I'm guessing that poster has never been on anything but a homosexual thread...in years. Kinda strange, dontcha think?
Sounds like a HATE crime to me. But then the anti-humans do not do hate crimes so the left says.
Just curious as to why you say this. If this were true, why would third graders want to be taught about homosexuals? I just don't understand this whole situation. Some how the older kids beat this first grader because the father complained about being taught about homosexuals? I would think that he would be treated as a king. I think the kids were just picking on each other on some unrelated subject and got into a fight. I just don't see how it could be hate crime. I don't know anyone who would beat up a kid over NOT being taught about homosexual activity. In fact, I would be happy not to have to learn another subject (at that age). Maybe exempting that class would have added to recess. Damn that would be a popular stance.
LOL. I was thinking the same thing.
The Parkers have assembled a strong legal team to handle the criminal case and a civil suit they plan to file against the school system...
I actually think he might lose. I wonder why he did not leave when he was told to. I still find something missing here. To get a restraining order against someone don't they have to have some proof of "bad behavior". I guess I just don't know how all this came to be a hate crime when it happened long ago and in the story they left Lexington, but the kids got in a fight. I am just confused. Help!!! I am trying hard to be on Parker's side, but these chop stories here and there just does not help.
I have no doubt you note my unapologetic and objectively evident efforts. I do not need to slither around picking and choosing from the scraps of moral relative potentialities... LOL I will leave you to the David Parker sand box you are contained within -enjoy your castles...
ROTFLMAO
Calling me a liar does not help you out in any way -let me help you out here -- "research on your comrades" means checking their posting history -NOT checking leftist publications LOL (IF you do not know how to do this then just state as much and I will assist)...
Your petty threats of zotting everyone who doesn't agree with you on these threads is pathetic.
Actually YOU do not agree with me on this issue so clearly your statement is false... What you call pathetic is quite effective (only David Parker and Paul Cameron topics now contain the trolls -they have been effectively contained and weeded out from the other discussion topics) -ONLY the very very few remaining sleeper trolls would disagree and I work on containing these leftist scounderels each and every time they troll...
Absolutely. I know exactly what you are. In fact you have been featured on a few other conservative sites. You have a tendency to amuse folks.
I do not need to slither around picking and choosing from the scraps of moral relative potentialities...
No, you slither around in only one little sandbox. The conservatives here, other than trying to contain this embarrassing side of our Party, do take an interest in the Party and the Country.
Hehehe.
You know, with that mindset, Dbeers must be terribly upset with House and Senate Republicans who refused to sign on to the Marriage Amendment Act.
In his worldview, they must be, hold onto your hat, "Homosexual Activists". LOL
Sigh...you just can't get it right, can you? They're LEFTIST homosexual activists...
ROFL. I mean, on the floor. LOL
I just can never keep that crap straight. Oops.
Actually if you imply that you are involved in a concerted effort to harrass then you too would eventually get zotted... Just follow homosexual agenda topics and continue engaging to see how long you can last in such an illegitimate campaign...
If true, no doubt they are disgruntled zottees that you commiserate with and will eventually join ROTFLMAO --Care to post some links or is this claim too but a fantasy? As to your attempted personal attacks -key word, attempted...
--something other than a personal attack --then feel free to ping me to your sand box when and if you EVER can post just one quote and link substantiating your claims that I have repeatedly asked and got nothing on...
I was quite clear...
Never a personal attack, unless attacked first. I leave that to your friends who can do nothing but attack. In fact, I would love to engage in a substantive discussion of this and other issues. You've still not said explicitly what you want referenced. If you are referring to the Article 8 report, it does quote Mr. Parker, who gave them the interview. Since Parker, and only Parker could have been the source, it is up to him to vet the story or to object to anything said there. Once he chose not to, it is his story. In any case, you said you agreed with it completely. Is that your question?
So was I. Your empty threats are pathetic and silly but if you don't mind looking foolish, by all means, keep it up.
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