Posted on 08/31/2007 6:22:57 AM PDT by IrishMike
The Evesham school board last night voted 7-1 to stop showing third graders a controversial educational video that includes depictions of families headed by same-sex couples. The vote came after a committee of scholars and educators, appointed by the board to review the issue, recommended keeping the video in the curriculum, but showing it to fourth graders, instead of to third graders, as had been done.
But after a number of board members spoke against the film, the board did away with the video, called That's a Family, altogether.
The half-hour video shows children explaining their various family structures, including those with mixed-race couples and divorced, single and adoptive parents.
Jeanne Smith, a spokeswoman for the board, said: "The opinions expressed by members of the board against the video dealt with their worry that the video had become so divisive that it would continue to inflame the district and that there would be no healing."
In a survey of the issue, district parents were split nearly half and half on the issue, she said
Reacting to last night's vote, Steven Goldstein, chairman of the gay civil rights group Garden State Equality, said: "It's very likely that we in the civil rights community will take legal action to have the committee's recommendation to show this film enforced. We believe the board's actions are illegal."
Evesham started showing the video last school year as part of a state-mandated health curriculum, which requires students to "identify different kinds of families and explain that families may differ for many reasons."
The segment of That's a Family on same-sex couples, however, drew the ire of many parents who objected to their children learning about homosexuality in schools.
(Excerpt) Read more at philly.com ...
LOL.
The same people that feel this video is OK for kids, would get the vapors if the school showed an NRA sponsored gun safety video.
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And watch the re-action to Military recruiters.
>>”It’s very likely that we in the civil rights community will take legal action to have the committee’s recommendation to show this film enforced. We believe the board’s actions are illegal.”<<
CIVIL RIGHTS COMMUNITY? ENFORCED?
*how I loathe those people*
We have the Muslims attacking from the front, and liberals attacking (from) the rear.
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You all can watch clips from the video in question (”That’s a Family”) and decide for yourselves how far it goes right here:
http://www.womedia.org/taf_clips.htm
I myself haven’t watched the clips yet. It’ll have to wait ‘til later when my kids aren’t in the room.
Rarely, but on occasion, I read something, leave to have a smoke, then return to read it again. Maybe deep down I wish I hadn’t read it the first time, and disbelief is always a factor.
Militant homosexuality agenda.
Would it be possible to teach children to maybe read, do math, spell?
Sorry, there is no instructional time available for such frills.
Thank you my FRiend.
In my opinion they should all get back in the closet and stay there.
You and me both brother.
Disbelief certainly is a factor.... I can’t believe where this nation is heading.. it’s not a schools job to teach my kids about a family, it’s mine!!!
Sanity and common sense are a problem, a problem to be over come by liberals.
Aaaaaawh! I get blasted for just posting my opinion. I get blown out of the water for everything. ???
What do you want, an apology?
Exactly. They keep telling us that what goes on in the bedroom between two consenting adults is nobody else’s business.
Well, I wish they would keep it that way. If it’s nobody else’s business, then WHY do they keep shoving it in our faces and forcing us to accept it? Keep it private or expect to hear about it if you don’t.
Don’t force your lifestyle on us. (Sound familiar?)
Pornographic? No - Necessary to be shown in school? No. Would I have allowed my 10 year old to watch it? Probably not, but then they were both very advanced readers and had probably already encountered most of these issues in books they would have read (except for the gay/lesbian one, doubt they would have encountered that one)
They will not overcome that. The left has no common sense and the MSM feeds that by covering stories with such a bias the deeper issues are not seen. Take Senator Craig’s issue.. rather then the news take an angle of “wow, public bathrooms can be cesspools of lewd acts” they stop with the fact that Craig is a Republican.
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