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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Whatever. I have already moved on to new topics (this is easy when discussions focus on topics and not attacking people, e.g. David Parker or myself). If you wish to post nothing substantively related to the article posted and instead continue with your inane personal attacks then do so here by yourself, you can even call it a crusade for truth and I promise not to attempt corrupting the delusion you enjoy...
There are many spins in this story from both extremes -here is but one> -- in essence, David Parker stated he felt this attack was related to his noteriety and opposition to the homosexual agenda in the school...
Note he feels it is possibly related -period... He could be wrong which is not a big deal...
However, there is a big difference between what David Parker has stated and what those attempting to dipsarage David Parker attribute to him e.g. specifically, the claims that David Parker stated that homosexual activist parents planned the attack...
I really hope he comes out and says that at some point. If he did, I could accept that, and I imagine many more would too. But he did give interviews and I notice this attibuted to him:
According to Mr. Parker, school authorities determined from an investigation into the assault that the beating was indeed planned and premeditated.
Mr. Parker described the incident at the school saying:
"During the recess period, a group of 8-10 kids suddenly surrounded Jacob and grabbed him. He was taken around the corner of the school building out of sight of the patrolling aides, with the taunting and encouragement of other kids. Jacob was then positioned against the wall for what appeared to be a well planned and coordinated assault.”
According to Parker, his son related that one student in particular performed the actual physical assault while, “many children stood, watched silently, and did nothing as the beating commenced.”
"The group of kids surrounded Jacob and he was beaten and punched. Then, as he fell to the ground, another child was heard saying to the group of children, 'Now you all can finish him off,' and as he was down on his hands and knees, the beating continued on his back. Then, fortunately, one little girl ran to contact the oblivious playground aides to stop it.
"Four of the attackers were from Jacob's first-grade class; the others were from other classes at Estabrook.
"The teachers' aide apparently determined that since she could not see external bleeding, and since Jacob apparently was not hit in the face, she did not send him to she school nurse." The family was immediately notified of the incident.
Speaking to LifeSiteNews, Parker speculated that the cause of the attack is most likely what he called “displaced aggression.” “If children hear venomous things from their parents, the children do internalize this,” he said. "We also know that activist lesbian mothers and vehement anti-David Parker parents are spewing hateful, inflaming rhetoric, and probably also to their young children".
This was given to lifesite.net. It is very close to the version he gave to mass resistance too, though that one was far worse, and one he received attribution also. I think the kids especially would appreciate it if he reconsidered this. If he does, I would have a lot more respect for him, even after last year. But I think it's gone too far now for him to retract anything. Hopefully in the future he'll realize how inflamatory these things can be, especially where the kids are concerned.
Look at the reaction here when those stories first came out. People were ready for war. And I can understand it. Yes, sometimes a news site will elaborate. But all the stories from the "conservative" sites were pretty much the same, and David Parker gave the interviews. He now needs to come forward and either confirm or deny. He knows for sure whether it was just a friend of Jacob's. A lot of people fully support what he is doing, and he owes them the truth and nothing but.
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