Posted on 03/13/2007 12:38:00 PM PDT by EternalVigilance
Washington, D.C. — In a shocking and brazen act of governmental abuse of parental rights, Deerfield High School (DHS) in Deerfield, Illinois, has required fourteen-year-old freshmen to attend a “Straight Gay Alliance Network” (GSA) panel discussion led by “gay” and “lesbian” upperclassmen during a “freshman advisory” class which secretively featured inappropriate discussions of a sexual nature in promotion of high-risk homosexual behaviors.
Not only has DHS required that its young and impressionable freshmen be exposed to radical homosexual propaganda, the school has further required that students sign a “confidentiality agreement” promising not to tell anyone – including their own parents – about the discussion.
Matt Barber, Policy Director for Cultural Issues with Concerned Women for America (CWA), said of the scandal: “This is unbelievable. It’s not enough that students at Deerfield High are being exposed to improper and offensive material relative to unhealthy and high-risk homosexual behaviors, but they’ve essentially been told by teachers to lie to their parents about it.
“This goes to the heart of the homosexual agenda. The professional propagandists in the ‘gay-rights’ lobby know the method all too well. If you can maintain control of undeveloped and impressionable youth and spoon-feed them misinformation, lies and half-truths about dangerous, disordered and extremely risky behaviors, then you can control the future and ensure that those behaviors are not only fully accepted, but celebrated. That’s what homosexual activists from GSA are attempting to do, and that’s what DHS is clearly up to as well.”
Dr. George Fornero, superintendent of DHS’ Dist. 113, told CWA that the district “made a mistake” by requiring children to sign the confidentiality agreement and that it would be entirely aboveboard and honest with parents in the future. However, as Barber noted, the damage has already been done: “Until DHS and other government schools across the country are made to stop promoting the homosexual agenda, kids will continue to be exposed to — and encouraged to participate in — a lifestyle that places them at high risk for life-threatening disease, depression and spiritual despair,” said Barber.
Remarkably, even after the school district’s surreptitious actions were exposed, parents were nonetheless told that they were not welcome to sit in on the “freshman advisory” and were not permitted to have access to materials used in compiling its activist curriculum.
For Information Contact: Stacey Holliday (202) 488-7000 media.cwfa.org
Will they be demonstrating FISTING?
Dr. George Fornero, superintendent of DHS’ Dist. 113, told CWA that the district “made a mistake” by requiring children to sign the confidentiality agreement and that it would be entirely aboveboard and honest with parents in the future.
Am I the only one that fidn a school district that requires a program about homosexuality then mandates that the attendees sign "I can keep a secret" agreements more than a little creepy?
So are they informing or indoctrinating or recruiting? What were they expecting to happen in there?
This also shows how stupid libs are - do they really think kids can keep secrets?
Illinois, quite frankly, deserves this - after all, they continuously vote in libs/Dems religiously every year.
Obviously, the school knew this was entirely wrong, or they would not have had the students sign a confidentiality agreement. Why are the administrators/educators/school board so powerful?
No, it most definitely is time to sue.
This is so wrong on so many fronts, there is nowhere to start.
Forcing them to sign a secrecy agreement against their parents is just the tip of the iceberg.
This entire teaching staff and school board needs to be dismissed.
Sure glad that my parents were really involved with the school board decisions when I was a kid.
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
Just curious, whose Congressional district is Deerfield in?
Government schools indoctrination outrage ping.
Not sure.
Who has the homo-agenda ping list? Does anyone know who is covering that one anymore?
i'd like to see the parents get together to defund the school. There are local budget hearings, etc., during which they can agitate for defgunding the school system because it is anti-parent, anti-family and beleives in the estrangement of children from their parents.
cut their money and you'll hurt them.
Gospel according to Yahoo, Deerfield congresscritter:
Congressman Mark Kirk
(847) 392-0303
707 Skokie Blvd Ste 350
Northbrook, IL 60062
This underscores the importance of school board elections.
PING
Thanks for the ping.
I'm thinking it's the majority, not the minority, of government schools that are the enemy to all parents, NOT the other way around.
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