Posted on 03/05/2008 5:57:14 PM PST by pillut48
"Boycott the April DAY of SILENCE!
Below is the list of schools we believe will be participating in the April 2008 "Day of silence."
This pro-homosexual day communicates clear (and false) messages to ALL students in the school that: homosexuality is a worthy lifestyle; that it has few or no risks; that some people are "born" homosexual, including students; and that those who oppose this behavior are hateful and uninformed.
We do NOT agree. The Day of Silence is, sadly, a day of deception.The facts do not support the implications noted above. Responsible parents and communities will oppose this message of corruption and well-informed schools that really care about kids will never allow this nonsense to take place on the school campus."
(Excerpt) Read more at missionamerica.com ...
They believe it or they know it? There is a damned big difference.
It states this before the list...
“VERY IMPORTANT:If your school is listed below, please double-check with your local school to see if the school is actually sponsoring the Day of Silence. Sometimes the “participation” turns out to be a handful of kids who are saying they have a homosexual club and are observing this protest day, but without school endorsement. We sincerely hope your school, if listed below, is not actually an official sponsor. If they ARE NOT, we will take them off the list, if a school official asks us to do so.
Scheduled for Friday, April 25, some schools are observing the DOS on other days, so check with your local school. Ask your child also—he or she probably knows”
They have heard but say check yourself.
I’m all for stopping bullying, but this isn’t the right way to do it.
What a riot! It’s a common phrase among high school students in Texas to say that something ‘is so gay’, which means that it’s stupid, ugly, dumb, etc. The gay lifestyle is a campus joke, and it’s the students that are laughing at it.
That is a common phrase here too.
Day of silence what a load.
It has to be stopped. My wife came home tonight and told me of some of the “gal talk” in the office today.
Apparently their children are quite confused. The kids are too young to understand that a friendship between girls and friendships between boys doesn’t mean they are homosexual. The kids are stating that they think they are either Lesbian, or gay because they have friends of their same gender.
This is BS as the required agenda at the school seems to actually promote this confusion.
Is it becoming to the point children will fear having friends, or think having friends is immoral as they might be thought as Homosexual?
Where is the outrage?
I can’t believe there are West Virginia schools on that list. Thanks Morgana.
I guess Huntington High because of Marshall and Morgantown due to WVU. Makes since it would happen in college towns but Wheeling...Pittsburg influence, maybe?
You spelled it wrong. It’s the “Day of Thilenth”. -Wb
This really irritates me. My son’s school is listed. My major complaint is that DOS is just another attempt, increasingly blatant and in your face, to indoctrinate our kids leftward (politically, morally, and socially) instead of to teach them the skills schools are designed to inculcate, like reading, or maybe writing; yeah, that’s good - writing. Kids write like crap today in part because of activist schools, emphasis on EOS, and parents’ failure to care or to understand that if one cannot or does not read challenging material, one will never be a decent writer. Kids can talk a big game because all they do is hear, e.g., TV, video games etc. If you don’t read, you can’t write. Teens need motivation; they need straight male teachers. But, that’s another subject, huh?
As far as DOS goes, I’ll probably let my kid decide whether to go that day. He is 17. But, I’ll lodge a complaint with the school if its participation is any more than merely putting up with some misguided teens.
I fear for our country in more ways than one.
I want a day of silence!
Libs at it again - lifting up sin - giving ‘respect’ to sin.
Is a day of silence scheduled for Good Friday? Until anyone suffers like Jesus did for all of us, they deserve nothing, IMO.
I'd like them to observe a "Day of Silence" all year long.
"The love that dare not speak its name" has become "the love that can't shut the hell up"
I keep the kids home everyday. Saves wear and tear on their moral value system.
LOL
Good Friday is in March this year.
Our home school will not be celebrating any Day of Silence this year, so no need to contact our school officials. :)
Day of Silence – Sample Letter for Parents
What follows is a sample letter for parents to send to your child's school, if you decide to announce in advance that you will be removing your child on the Day of Silence.
This is quite tactfully worded. You may choose to give the school an even stronger message---that you think homosexuality should never have a voice in a responsible school setting, and can only foment dissent and confusion in the learning environment. American Family Association encourages you to be both firm and polite in your letter.
Dear (school official):
Due to the administration’s decision to allow the politicization of the learning environment through the Day of Silence, which is sponsored by the highly partisan Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network, we feel compelled to call our child/children out of school on that day.
The administration errs when it allows the classroom to be disrupted and politicized by granting students permission to remain silent throughout an entire day. The protesters have a captive audience, many of whom disagree with and are made uncomfortable by the politicization of their classroom. How many political protests will the school allow, and who decides which political issue will be permitted to disrupt the educational process?
Day of Silence participants have a First Amendment right to wear t-shirts, put up posters, and set up tables on which they make available informative materials. The Day of Silence participants go further, however, by exploiting the instructional time of every student in every class for an entire day in the service of their philosophical beliefs and partisan political purposes. Their silence, and in some cases, the silence of their teachers, transform the activities of the day.
By allowing students to remain silent, administrations fail to protect the classroom from intrusive, political exploitation. My child/children will not be part of this political appropriation of the classroom.
Sincerely,
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