Posted on 08/18/2006 8:12:34 AM PDT by JSedreporter
Public schools are spending so much time on gay rights issues that about the only way left for reformers to bring Algebra back to classrooms would be to set up algebraic word problems involving cast members of Queer Eye for the Straight Guy.
“Just this week, police arrested a middle-school drama teacher in Waltham, Massachusetts for allegedly staging an elaborate production designed to molest male teens by offering them massages from prostitutes, then blindfolding them, donning a wig, and pretending to be the female masseuse,” author Dan Flynn notes on his web site. “On August 10, police arrested another middle-school teacher, in New Jersey, for allegedly attempting to lure children into his car.”
“On Tuesday, Jacksonville, Florida police arrested a teacher in a 13-year-old’s house he had chatted with over the internet after a relative, wondering why the boy hadn’t gone to school, arrived at the house to find the teen in his underwear and a strange man locked in the bathroom.” Flynn, the author of Intellectual Morons, is the former executive director of Accuracy in Academia.
“Surely the teachers’ union will be outraged when they learn that one of their own helped a student play hookey, no?,” Flynn asks wryly. Well, no.
“For the past dozen years, [National Education Association] NEA resolutions have each year adopted more of the gay rights agenda,” according to the August 2006 Education Reporter. “Whereas, gay rights goals such as same-sex marriage are steadily losing at the polls (20 states have passed state constitutional amendments restricting marriage to a man and a woman), the gay rights agenda is moving ahead full speed in the public schools, with assistance from the NEA.”
“Among the other resolutions passed in Orlando that advance the gay agenda were the following: A-14: ‘Funds must be provided for programs to alleviate race, gender and sexual orientation discrimination and to eliminate…sexual orientation and gender identification stereotypes in the public schools.”
The Education Reporter is published by Eagle Forum, the conservative group founded by attorney and author Phyllis Schlafly. “The NEA denied a press pass to a reporter for the Education Reporter after first putting us on the list to receive one,” according to the editor of the ER. “An NEA official phoned our Washington office and said our press pass was revoked because we are a ‘special interest group.’”
“But our reporters were creative enough to gain admittance anyway.” Their reporters must have been home-schooled.
As is so often the case, California leads the way in this latest progressive push in education. “AB 2510 would require the Attorney General’s office, working with the State Department of Education, to survey students on bias-related discrimination and harassment incidents in public schools,” Karen England of the Capitol Resource Institute reports of a bill making its way through the California Assembly. “Seventh, 9th and 11th graders in public schools will be forced to fill out questionnaires asking whether they have experienced bullying, discrimination or harassment based on sexual orientation or gender (actual or perceived).”
“The results of this survey will then be compiled into a biennial report by the Attorney General’s office.” CRI is based in Sacramento, the state capital. In the state of Washington, the Safe Schools Coalition bills itself as “a public-private partnership in support of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender youth.”
“Families come in all different shapes and sizes, including, among many others, two-mommy and two-daddy families and families with no kids at all (just grown ups),” according to the Coalition which advertises itself as sponsored by, among others, the Greater Seattle Business Association. “There aren’t any ‘girl colors and boy colors’ or ‘girl games and boy games,’” according to the Coalition. “Those are stereotypes of what you have to like to be a girl or a boy.”
“It’s OK to be different.” It’s OK, unless, of course, you don’t want to wind up on Brokeback Mountain.
“A group of distinguished psychology professors and practitioners has petitioned the leadership of the American Psychological Association (APA) in behalf of reparative therapy for homosexuals who seek to change,” Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council reports. “The petition, predictably, has led to outrage on the part of the homosexual lobby.”
“Entrenched as they have been in the APA leadership since 1974, homosexuals and their allies are denouncing the very idea that people can change their homosexual orientation.”
Malcolm A. Kline is the executive director of Accuracy in Academia.
Every day I'm more thankful that I'm done with high school.
This is yet another reason why the NEA and their affiliates are so disliked by the public.
Teens have always delighted in shocking adults. There's not much left to be shocked about, so they're tweaking the forced homosexual PC in their schools.
Remember, it's documented the teachers graduate in the bottom part of their college classes. Most of them are idiots who can't find a job in the private sector, so they become teachers.
Remember, they are government workers; the only difference between a DMV worker and a teacher is that a teacher can screw up your kids and molest them.
My apologies to the 10-20% of good teachers out there, but the rest are outright losers.
Kline, Flynn, and Accuracy in Academia are great.
Not at our schools (Williamson County, Texas), and no, I don't think it will ever happen.
Thanks for the ping :)
Not to mention American kids are having to spend so much time on this garbage in public schools, they are lagging behind other countries in education levels.
My wife is a teacher who I would consider at the top (what else would I say?), and I can't argue with that.
Most of the short term criticism and attention must focused toward the school board and policy level.
Take prayer and Bible out of public school, and every doctrine of devils comes in to fill the void.
The Republicans not pushing this issue to the max when they had the chance is a terrible tragedy for our nation's children and future.
You are exactly right, although many on this board with no faith in Christ or Christian values will be mystified about the connection between prayer in schools and moral decline in education. "For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness, but unto us which are saved it is the power of God." 1 Cor 1:18.
Exhibit A is the spiritual vacuum in post-Christian Europe, the inhabitants of which have no values to defend nor any particular interest in perpetuating their rich cultural past or even propigating.
I agree, but I'm also seeing this outside of school when adults aren't involved. It seems to be a backlash to the agenda being forced upon them.
I am thrilled more than I could ever say that my kids are adults now!
Now you have to worry about the grandkids!
Interestingly enough, this change moves the concept closer to "moral judgement" than before.
"....“Just this week, police arrested a middle-school drama teacher in Waltham, Massachusetts for allegedly staging an elaborate production designed to molest male teens by offering them massages from prostitutes, then blindfolding them, donning a wig, and pretending to be the female masseuse,” author Dan Flynn notes on his web site. “On August 10, police arrested another middle-school teacher, in New Jersey, for allegedly attempting to lure children into his car.”
“On Tuesday, Jacksonville, Florida police arrested a teacher in a 13-year-old’s house he had chatted with over the internet after a relative, wondering why the boy hadn’t gone to school, arrived at the house to find the teen in his underwear and a strange man locked in the bathroom.”
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Odd how this escaped the News media. Even FNC kind of missed these. Perhaps they only cover pretty blond fantasy teachers...
Seventh, 9th and 11th graders in public schools will be forced to fill out questionnaires asking whether they have experienced bullying, discrimination or harassment based on sexual orientation or gender (actual or perceived).
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