Posted on 06/24/2007 5:49:13 PM PDT by RDTF
NEWARK, N.J. — The yearbooks were finally printed and ready to be picked up by students at Newark's East Side High School — but not before some officials snapped open their correcting pens to edit out a picture of two males kissing.
This was not art class, but staff afraid of parental backlash used markers to color over the picture, censoring it from every copy of the 2007 yearbook before distributing it, MyFoxNY.com reports.
Described as "illicit" and provocative by Newark's superintendent of schools, Marion Bolden, the photograph depicts a kiss between 18-year-old Andre Jackson and David Escobales.
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I still haven’t decided what’s worse
A) letting that pic get published to begin with
B) faculty taking every single issue and blacking out the pic with an ink pen and then ditributing the now used yearbooks
C) Issuing an apology
I’m with you. D) All the above.
My father's childhood parish is a block away from this monstrosity. He went to Essex Catholic (RIP), although many of his cousins went to East Side.
My mom did too.
Cal, my brother went to Essex Catholic. I thought it was all boys.
Barringer High School was superb back in the day. They still taught the Greek classics when my parents went there. My father can still speak French, learned at Barringer.
Oh I get it. She went to East Side.
If you are correct about Essex Cath being all boys, there must be another catholic school I’m thinking of....It is in the same area too, if I remember correctly.
I didn’t know Newark was taken over by Trenton. I would assume Camden was too, right?
Good Counsel is not far away. It was coed. My cousin went there.
Trenton took over Trenton? A bit carnivorous, no? ^-^
Gahaha, what a hilarious overreaction. >>>
It is, how so?
They will be sued. And the idiocy begins.
Essex Catholic was all boys until the 1970s, when it merged with the girl’s school in East Orange (Sacred Heart?). Eventually, even that school closed about six years ago.
Yes, I did get my schools mixed up.
Garden State Equality, along with many homo activist groups, in and out of state (NJ), are watching NJ school districts closely. NJ is a gay friendly, liberal state but parents sending their kids to public school district schools are becoming more informed and are starting to question the political agenda apparent in many districts now. Our school district (K-8) is experiencing this now, parents questioning the teaching of homosexuality as normal, common behavior and promoting the lifestyle, really. Parents are showing up at school board meetings, asking questions, being told they’re raving lunatics, uneducated (not in this town), bigots, etc. Parents and other residents of this town are fighting for time with the hundreds of activists from various groups who are showing up, most if not all who don’t live in this area.
I think, based on what I’ve read on the Newark yearbook/kiss issue, that the district tried to prevent backlash from the parents (I’m sure they’re aware of what’s happening in my town/district and the uproar from usually quiet parents concerning the pro homo video that was being shown to 3rd graders without their knowledge)and tried not to have any publicity about this incident. However, these activist groups thrive on publicity.
The faculty advisor who allowed this picture to be included in the yearbook is to blame. IMO. I wonder if any pics of hetero couples kissing were included - I really don’t know enough about the yearbook. Anyway, including the same sex couple kissing was for the purpose of making a point, imo. It’s the same point our K-8 district was trying to make - this behavior, lifestyle is normal and anyone who thinks differently is uneducated, bigoted, misinformed, etc. At the same time, I think our district admin was trying to appease members of the admin and groups like Garden State Equality and never thought the usually quiet, supportive parents would care or that any local or national publicity would be the result.
It will be interesting to see what happens with the *special committee* formed to address this video/issue and the result (show the video or can it). The school district admin probably had no clue that parents would be so upset or that it would become national news. I think the Newark black out thing was done because the admin is aware of what’s happening in this district and probably didn’t want the backlash from parents. So now they have to deal with the Garden State Equality and other homo activist groups upset about the blacking out of the picture. On a bright note, I think our high school district will think very carefully, given what the K-8 district and other districts are experiencing, about just how important parents are in the education system (support v. nonsupport). They may cave to the homo/liberal/political agenda and groups but they’re going to have a fight from the parents.
Relevant thread on Garden State Equality:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1773471/posts
Some South Jersey Parents Upset About Award-Winning Diversity Video Being Shown In School
See posts also for add on info.
You see this thread yet?
Hi, yes disgusting isn’t it? ~P~
I saw another one on the same topic and pinged it, sometime ago. I’ve been busy so don’t remember when.
I wish that the very gays that cry foul and *what they do in the privacy of their own bedrooms is nobody else’s business* would keep it that way. If it’s not my business, don’t tell me about it, flaunt it, shove it in my face, and demand that I accept it.
Take note of posts 34 and 35.
Thanks. I’ll check it out.
I’ve seen the video. It’s indoctrination. And Women’s Media promotes homo lifestyle, transgender, abortion, and all that other perverse stuff. As a teacher and a parent, this video is just another attempt by the social progressives to indoctrinate at an earlier age, because it isn’t working well on middle and high school students.
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