Posted on 10/13/2007 4:19:32 AM PDT by Man50D
"Mom and Dad" as well as "husband and wife" have been banned from California schools under a bill signed by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, who with his signature also ordered public schools to allow boys to use girls restrooms and locker rooms, and vice versa, if they choose.
"We are shocked and appalled that the governor has blatantly attacked traditional family values in California," said Karen England, executive director of Capitol Resource Institute.
"With this decision, Gov. Schwarzenegger has told parents that their values are irrelevant. Many parents will have no choice but to pull their children out of the public schools that have now become sexualized indoctrination centers."
"Arnold Schwarzenegger has delivered young children into the hands of those who will introduce them to alternative sexual lifestyles," said Randy Thomasson, president of Campaign for Children and Families, which worked to defeat the plans. "This means children as young as five years old will be mentally molested in school classrooms.
"Shame on Schwarzenegger and the Democrat politicians for ensuring that every California school becomes a homosexual-bisexual-transsexual indoctrination center," he said.
(Excerpt) Read more at worldnetdaily.com ...
Ah, just as the Governator was being praised for signing a bill giving servicemen preference in California universities, he had to screw it all up.
” ordered public schools to allow boys to use girls restrooms and locker rooms, and vice versa, if they choose.”
That shows you how truly asinine Liberalism/Political Correctness/Womens’ Lib is/are.
I didn't believe it either, until I realized that this crap is already being done. So it's not hot-headed hyperbolic interpretation: it's reportage.
To understand the full ramifications of this radical legislation, one needs only look at Los Angeles Unified School District's policy concerning transgender and "gender nonconforming" students. In this policy, teachers are instructed to keep a student's transgender status private, including from the student's parents. Teachers are told to consult the student first, before talking with parents, "to determine an appropriate way to reference the student's gender identity." This is an appalling school policy, treating parents as the enemy, at the expense of the student's relationship with family.
Even more alarming, the LAUSD policy instructs school to provided access to restroom and locker room facilities that "corresponds to the gender identity that the student consistently asserts at school." If a male student "consistently asserts" himself as a female at school, he will be granted access to female restrooms and locker rooms.
As teachers and school officials grow accustomed to seeing boys entering female-only areas, they will be less likely to intervene for fear of offending a transgender student. Those with evil intentions will then gain access to innocent girls in otherwise safe environments. This poses a serious danger to the safety of young female students.
SB 777 will implement statewide the shocking policies LAUSD already enforces. And the enforcement will be done by lawyers working for the Cal. Dept. of Education, which means they have the power to make SB 777 "mean" whatever they want it to "mean" by the threat of lawsuit.
Which in turn will only accelerate the legislation AGAINST HOME SCHOOLING!.
Homeschooling is good, but we need to fight this in other ways, not just give in to every legislative encroachment. How could a lawsuit be brought over this?
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The governorator is controlled by the Kennedy Mafia, a noted sexually loose organization.
The schools are collapsing slowly right now already. Take 20% of the children out tomorrow and the whole rotting edifice will implode. If you think that the system is reformable - and I don’t - the only realistic prospect for reform is to create such a crisis that the delegitimazation of the government school establishment is completed.
In any event, no child ought to remain government schools. The kindest thing that parents who can remove their children can do for those left behind is to get their own children out now. Otherwise, there is no hope at all for the children whose parents don’t care or who have some genuine impediment to removing them.
This is State Senator Sheila Keuhl’s (formerly “Zelda” from The Lives and Loves of Dobie Gillis)bill, and the story is reporting the likely legal ramifications, although it may take a while for most of them to be forced onto the system.
This question reflects a misunderstanding.
Alan does not support “reparations” — which he calls “an effort to extort monetary damages from the American people.”
The confusion arises from an occasion when Alan was asked by a reporter what he thought of controversial statements about reparations that other black leaders were making when Alan was running for the Senate from Illinois in 2004.
At the time, Alan had no formal “position” on reparations, never had one, and has none today — other than to say that he has long opposed monetary awards for descendants of slaves, a disastrous policy promoted by various black leaders.
Without altering his opposition to monetary reparations, he instead offered the questioner a hypothetical solution to the potential need to help disadvantaged descendants of slaves have a more level playing field upon which to better themselves economically. He offered this proposition as a descendant of slaves, himself, one who believes that blacks as a group have been undeniably discriminated against in overt and subtle ways since the days of slavery and Reconstruction — despite modern strides to improve the situation.
The hypothetical solution Alan offered his questioner was this:
To right a historical injustice or imbalance in the marketplace that tends to give blacks certain disadvantages, Alan suggested allowing descendants of slaves an income tax break for a limited period of time — by which they might have the means to invest capital, create new businesses, and otherwise escape the destructive dependency on government welfare that Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society had created within black culture during the 1960’s, and which continues undiminished today.
Although Alan’s remarks were widely interpreted as an endorsement of monetary reparations, they clearly were not, nor were they a departure from sound conservative principles. One of the most common conservative solutions to verifiable inequities or desirable societal ends is positive incentives that avoid the “heavy hand of government,” any kind of handout, or an increase in regulations. Conservatives therefore typically favor tax breaks over monetary redistribution or government intrusion.
That’s all Alan was proposing — to deal with a real legacy of injustice. His answer to the reporter’s question was a thoughtful application of conservative principles to correct the consequences of historic injustice.
He does feel, however, that if his hypothetical solution were ever implemented (something he does not anticipate), it would bring about a swift and decisive end to the federal income tax for all Americans, since once the American people saw the economic energy that suspension of the income tax unleashed for Black Americans, they would clamor for abolition of the federal income tax and implementation of the Fair Tax proposal Alan has long advocated to replace it. This would free Americans from the liberty-destroying shackles that make us all wage-slaves of the federal government.
http://www.alankeyes.com/qa.php
-—I am amazed. Why is there no national coverage of this? I haven’t even seen it on Fox. You’d think at least THEY would cover it?
What the hell is going on in this country?-—
What country?
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argh. I’m getting my masters in education...I weep for the future of our “public” schools.
I’ll be taking the pay cut and teaching at a private school. I can’t imagine being able to stomach the craziness that’s overtaking (and has already overtaken) our schools.
What a state!
Coming soon: Governator announces new program for children suffering from Attention Deficit Disorder. It will be named the Schwarzenegger Concentration Camp.
I have consistently opposed the effort to extort monetary damages from the American people. As I have argued in the past, the great sacrifices involved in the Civil War represented the requital in blood and treasure for the terrible injustices involved in slavery. In this form the so called “reparations” movement represents an insult to the historic commitment that many Americans made to the end of slavery, which included the sacrifice of their lives.
I have also consistently maintained that the history of slavery, racial segregation and discrimination did real damage to black Americans, left real and persistent material wounds in need of healing….
The idea I have often put forward to address this challenge involves a traditionally Republican, conservative and market-oriented approach: removing the tax burden from the black community for a generation or two in order to encourage business ownership, create jobs and support the development of strong economic foundations for working families.
This has the advantage of letting people help themselves, rather then (sic) pouring money into government bureaucracies that displace and discourage their own efforts. It takes no money from other citizens, while righting the historic imbalance that results from the truth that black slaves toiled for generations at a tax rate that was effectively 100 percent
Paying no taxes while the rest of us do is indeed reparations albeit probably the best one if we were to implement it.
“It’s called socialism. Socialists want to destroy our democratic republic. They can only do so by attacking the base which is the family. Creating dysfunctional families will create a more dependent society on the government and will in turn create the strong centralized form of government socialists seek.”
That’s a fact. We ignore it at our peril.
Hmmmmm.....so what do Ahnold’s kids call him and his wife....??? Partner 1 and Partner 2? Taxpayer 1 and Taxpayer 2? Hopefully rebellious teenagers will make fun of this.
Exactly!
Where are all the RINOld fan club members who voted for this muscle-head???
And to think we still have another THREE YEARS of this idiot!
Well, we recalled the last liberal, no reason we can’t do it again!
Between Boosh & RINOld, the Gelding Old Party sure has screwed us all!
“so what do Ahnold’s kids call him and his wife?”
DUMB & DUMBER
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