Third-graders were given a talk they'll never forget... It turns out the school's social worker is an activist.
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Newton school system general website:
http://www.newton.k12.ma.us/
Franklin Elementary School website:
http://www.newton.k12.ma.us/schools/elementary_schools/franklin.html
julianne_toomey-kautz@newton.mec.edu 125 Derby Street
West Newton, MA 02465 617-559-9500
STATEMENT BY DAVID PARKER:
This latest incident at a Newton Elementary school is absolutely shocking and appalling. We have arrived at a time in history where school administrators are preaching the gospel of human secularism to their captive audience in the public classroom. They coercively proclaim; there are no boundaries of gender, sexual expression, or marriage to young impressionable children.
They arrogantly trespass upon parental rights and balk at any restrictions on their indoctrination. They mercilessly thrust their immoral beliefs upon innocence, implanting the seeds of depraved ideologies into young impressionable psyches. I don't know what disgusts me more; those who do this to children in our public schools or the parents who watch silently and do nothing.
David Parker's situation covered here:
http://www.massresistance.org/docs/parker/index.html
PS: Almost as upsetting is reaction by the Boston Globe and Boston Herald. As they seem to become more and more pro-gay in their news coverage, they seem to be less and less interested in covering these issues. We spoke to reporters at both papers and they just didn't seem interested! "We'll tell the editor about it" both papers told us. We'll see what Thursday's papers have. But it's starting to sound like another reason not to subscribe to newspapers anymore!
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Yes, but how many "David Parkers" have we heard of lately? My parents told me no one really thought O'Hare would succeed in getting prayer removed from school so there was really no resistant move against it. I am afraid that today's parents will take the defeatist attitude that this is a battle that they can't win.
No coincidence there. As with all things homosexual in the Commonwealth over the last 4 years, this was planned in advance and sprung on unsuspecting folks, in this case, a class of 8 yr. olds!
Of course the legislature is a group of cowards who decided to duck the issue, AGAIN. So it looks as though, even though over 56% of the voters want the ability to vote on a Marriage Amendment, it ain't gonna happen.
All I can say is I'm glad our kids are almost out of school, and we're homeschooling the last one through high school, but mostly I'm glad because we're moving out of this idiotic place and back home to MS!
As a result of this particular "classroom lesson," Emer's daughter was petrified. For an 8-year-old accustomed to a child's world of Santa Claus, the Tooth Fairy and the Easter Bunny, the little girl had nightmares, and explained to her mother she was scared that her baby sister could turn into a boy.So Emer did what any normal responsible parent would do - she demanded an explanation from the principal, Cynthia Marchand. She and several other parents from this class met with the principal who, according to Emer, responded defensively and fully backed her staff member.
Moral absolutes ping!
The answer is no.
Dressing in women's clothing does not turn a man into a woman. A "sex-change" operation is little more than surgically enhanced cross-dressing.