Diversity assembly at Eastern sparks backlash from parents

The York Dispatch ^ | 16 November AD 2007 | Wendy Garman

[lightman]

Eastern York School District is located along the Susquehanna River which forms the border with Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.

[lightman]

Ping

[lightman]

Ironically on the same day a Pennsylvania Appellate court struck down the broadening of the PA Hate Crimes statute to include “sexual orientation.”

Win some, lose some.

[sure_fine]

also where I live

[normy]

When I was a freshman in high school I was put through a diversity class. The year was 1987 and the city was Ballard Washington.

I had it good because my younger brother was bussed to a majority black school where they held an assembly at the beginning of the year where some faculty got on stage and told the white kids that they were in the minority now and how does it feel. My brother said the students were cheering.

[donna]

The teachers want to have sex with our children.

[VeniVidiVici]

"...and was "disturbed" to learn that her children were addressed by a "gay man, an African-American woman and a Jew."

So a gay man, an African-American woman and a Jew walk into a bar ...

[Resolute Conservative]

My children would not have spent one minute in your brothers school.

[rightinthemiddle]

I’ve had it up to my butt with “diversity.”

What happened to UNITY?

Diversified vs. Unified...who is “dividing the country.”

The LEFT.

[Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus]

One word: “Homeschool”

[achilles2000]

Ballard High? I lived in Ballard for some years when it was still mostly blue collar and Scandanavian. A lot of the kids we went to school with (Whittier/James Monroe) had fathers who worked in the fisheries and related industries.

[normy]

We had just moved from Texas and were in transition. We actually moved to Edmonds, which is north of Seattle, the following year.

[MrB]

That’s the whole goal, dude...

Divide and destroy the country. Tear down anything “traditional” to be replaced with secular socialism.

[Graybeard58]

One word: “Homeschool”

There are three kinds of people in the world.

Those who can count and those who can't

[MrB]

Good answer to the woman stating “I send my kids to school for academics, I’ll handle the morals”.

Well, then, you’re working at cross purposes, because the schools these days see their job as indoctrination into the “liberal” moral code.

[normy]

When I was at Ballard it was mostly white and Asian with some blacks. Ballard was fairly rough but it wasn't the worst school in Seattle. My brother was in middle school though and I do not recall where the school was.

This was the time where everyone started wanting to be a gang banger and the whole Californian bloods/crips thing was moving north. Combine that with liberal theology and it makes for a wonderful place to raise children./s

[Resolute Conservative]

Bet that was culture shock.

My g-parents and that side of the family all live(d) in Ellensburg and up the coast in Bow and Lynden. We live in Texas, always loved going for a visit ( back in the 70’s of course ).

[normy]

Sure was. My grandpa lived in Ballard and that is why we were there. I was glad to move away from the city and even more glad when I graduated and moved back to Texas.

[subterfuge]

The government scrhools were infiltrated by communists in the 50’s and the offspring/useful idiots carry on their work today. It’s mindless drones like this Becker woman that run the scrhools and the message of socialism is being systematically drilled into our childrens’ heads and there is nothing that can be done about it.

If teachers’ unions and the dept. of education could be abolished, there might be a chance of the government scrhools returning to normalcy, but I don’t see that happening. Politicians, any of them, have never seen a bureaucracy they didn’t like.

[ItsOurTimeNow]

We homeschool, and are daily grateful to God that we don’t have to hand our kids over to the wolves every morning.

Saw a sticker I want to get:

“We Homeschool because we’ve seen the village - and we don’t want it raising our kids!”