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To: MACVSOG68
No one was responsible for Parker's arrest but Parker.

That's a pathetic attitude. You seem more concerned with Robert's Rules of Order than the fact that the school was corrupting the morals of a minor. If some idiotic teacher gave my child "Heather Has Two Mommies" or some similar garbage, I don't know what I'd do. Let's not forget that the perpetrator of the crime was the teacher/school/super/school committe, not the parent. Parker's reaction was remarkably restrained.

38 posted on 06/21/2006 5:27:06 AM PDT by Aquinasfan (When you find "Sola Scriptura" in the Bible, let me know)
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To: Aquinasfan

I admire Mr. Parker's stand on the doctrination. I don't support him on keeping his kid there though.


41 posted on 06/21/2006 5:35:21 AM PDT by CindyDawg
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To: Aquinasfan
That's a pathetic attitude.

This is not about me. Keep your inane insults to yourself, and I will be happy to discuss this rationally.

You seem more concerned with Robert's Rules of Order than the fact that the school was corrupting the morals of a minor.

Mr. Parker had every right to express his concerns over the book. He did so, and when he could not get the satisfaction he wanted, he should then have gone to the school board, and then file his lawsuit. That is the way most civilized parents handle such issues.

Parker though thought that getting himself arrested was more important than following through on his goal of getting an agreement not to present such materials to his child.

Parker knew what he was going to do, and given his demand that no discussion take place on same sex anything, of course the school could not agree to that, even though they assured him that no sexual formal discussions were on the agenda for the early grades. Parker knew all that.

When he got himself arrested, he left his child in the school to be the center of ridicule and scorn. Parker didn't give a damn about his son, but only his crusade. As one Freeper who like you believes Parker can do no wrong said, "There are casualties in every war".

Let's not forget that the perpetrator of the crime was the teacher/school/super/school committe, not the parent. Parker's reaction was remarkably restrained.

First, there was no crime committed except by Parker which led to his requested arrest, and second, as I said, if Parker really wanted to get the books out of the school, he knew he had several legitimate options that did not involve putting his son in the center of things on his own.

43 posted on 06/21/2006 6:12:21 AM PDT by MACVSOG68
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To: Aquinasfan
If some idiotic teacher gave my child "Heather Has Two Mommies" or some similar garbage, I don't know what I'd do.

Explain that there are different people in the world, who do different things? Explain that maybe we don't agree with what they do? Let's not forget that the perpetrator of the crime was the teacher/school/super/school committe, not the parent. Parker's reaction was remarkably restrained.

Parker was asked to leave, he reused, he trespassed. What 'crime' did the "teacher/school/super/school committe" commit? You're letting a political view cloud the facts. The kid got in a fight. Parker didn't bring this to light in a timely manner. Parker looks like he's either playing politics with it, and/or an attention whore.
76 posted on 06/21/2006 11:27:30 AM PDT by BritExPatInFla
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