Class surprises lesbian teacher on wedding day

San Francisco Chronicle ^ | 10/10/8 | Jill Tucker

[SmithL]

A group of San Francisco first-graders took an unusual field trip to City Hall on Friday to toss rose petals on their just-married lesbian teacher - putting the public school children at the center of a fierce election battle over the fate of same-sex marriage.

The 18 Creative Arts Charter School students took a Muni bus and walked a block at noon to toss rose petals and blow bubbles on their just-married teacher Erin Carder and her wife Kerri McCoy, giggling and squealing as they mobbed their teacher with hugs.

Mayor Gavin Newsom, a friend of a friend, officiated.

A parent came up with the idea for the field trip - a surprise for the teacher on her wedding day.

"She's such a dedicated teacher," said the school's interim director Liz Jaroflow.

But there was a question of justifying the field trip academically. Jaroflow decided she could.

"It really is what we call a teachable moment," Jaroflow said, noting the historic significance of same-sex marriage and related civil rights issues. "I think I'm well within the parameters."

Nonetheless, the excursion offers Proposition 8 proponents fresh ammunition for their efforts to outlaw gay marriage in California, offering a real-life incident that echoes their recent television and radio ads.

"It's just utterly unreasonable that a public school field trip would be to a same-sex wedding," said Chip White, press secretary for the Yes on 8 campaign. "This is overt indoctrination of children who are too young to have an understanding of its purpose."

The trip illustrates the message promoted by the campaign in recent days, namely that unless Prop. 8 passes on Nov. 4, children will learn about same-sex marriage in school.

[SoftballMominVA]

I agree that the parents probably will not pull their kids out. This is what school choice with charters and vouchers looks like

[informavoracious]

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BlackBerry keys are too small!

[Neoliberalnot]

The perverted homosexuals are all about sexual harrassment, sexual abuse, and sexual access to children. Eventually you will be called a bigot if you don’t allow the perverts access to the object of their sick desires.

[metmom]

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[metmom]

It wasn’t the classes idea, it was a parents.

GAG!!!

[samiam1972]

You should try to be a little more sensitive.
http://thinkb4youspeak.com/

(Do I need a sarcasm tag?)

[Mr. Silverback]

Charter schools are public schools. From Wikipedia:

Charter schools are elementary or secondary schools in the United States that receive public money but have been freed from some of the rules, regulations, and statutes that apply to other public schools in exchange for some type of accountability for producing certain results, which are set forth in each school’s charter.

[Mr. Silverback]

First, charter schools are public schools. From Wikipedia:

“Charter schools are elementary or secondary schools in the United States that receive public money but have been freed from some of the rules, regulations, and statutes that apply to other public schools in exchange for some type of accountability for producing certain results, which are set forth in each school’s charter.”

Second, gay “marriage” is so far removed from reality that they might as well have taken them on a field trip to the Flat Earth museum. If parents want to warp their kids into soldiers for the homnormative crusade, they should do it on their own time and dime.

[Mr. Silverback]

You’re correct.

[Mr. Silverback]

Palomote’s right...it already happens everywhere the no homormative crowd gains power:

Leo Childs
http://www.amnation.com/vfr/archives/005774.html

Scott Brockie
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2004/apr/04041604.html

Ake Green
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ake_Green

Scott Savage
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=49761

Crystal Dixon
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,355507,00.html

Ene Kiildi
http://people.maine.com/paula/pph/pph-2.9b.98.html

The Mennonites of Roxton Falls, Quebec
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2007/aug/07081701.html

Christian (and Mormon, Jewish and Muslim) business owners in Colorado
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=68060

Guy Earle
http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/story.html?id=7096c4b6-e48c-46ea-9aeb-7a075a3766e2

Christian youth in Australia
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2008/jun/08062406.html

Christian civil servants
http://www.10news.com/news/16663610/detail.html

The Philadelphia 11
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=41705

The Ocean Grove Camp Meeting Association
Yeshiva University
California Lutheran High School
A psychologist at North Mississippi Health Services
A Vermont civil servant
Elane Photography
A Christian doctor
A private adoption agency
The Boy Scouts
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=91486340

[TAdams8591]

I have been thinking about you and wondering how you’ve been. So good to have you back, LJ!!!! (((HUGS)))

[little jeremiah]

I’ve often thought of you too! I hope things are going well for you.

A lot has happened during my absence here - there’s no place like FR for news and views. A lot of very very good people here.

I’ll be doing some pinging here and there, more when canning is over - got more grapes, then apples, and if I’m ambitious, winter squash!

[little jeremiah]

(((HUGS))) back atcha!

[TAdams8591]

: )

[Kickass Conservative]

Gavin just likes to watch two girls make out.

What a guy. And he gets paid to do it too.

[TAdams8591]

"This is overt indoctrination of children who are too young to have an understanding of its purpose."

[TAdams8591]

"Parents can excuse their child from all or part of the instruction."

For now. Unless Proposition 8 passes, attendance to such classes and events will soon be MANDATORY!

[justanothermaverick]

1. Wikipedia is editable by anyone with an internet connection. It’s entries are meant to be informative, but it is up to the reader to confirm the value of the content. IE, Don’t assume its entries are confirmed facts like they may be in the Britannica.

2. Education Department of the State of California defines Charter Schools as “Public schools that may provide instruction in any of grades K-12 that are created or organized by a group of teachers, parents, community leaders or a community-based organization.” That means parents, teachers and the community design the curriculum of the school for their children rather than to follow a curriculum mandated by the state.

3. Field trips, school courses, and special seminars are never MANDATORY. Fields trips and special seminars (such as sex ed) require parental consent BEFORE the school subject children to such forms of education. Lack of written parental consent means the children will be opt out of that activity. This includes field trips to evolution museums, Buddhist temples, and a teacher’s wedding, same sex or otherwise.

4. Just because the children live in San Francisco does not automatically mean many (or any) of the children have same sex parents. It may just mean the parents who consented to this field trip are tolerant of such form of liberal education. It is a decision PARENTS had made for their own children.

5. Parents should always be engaged in the education of their children. If there’s any part of your child’s course work that you do not agree with, it is up to you, as a parent to take an active part in your own child’s education. BUT it does not mean you have the right to dictate what should be taught to other children without their parents’ consent.

6. Weekday weddings are common, especially for folks who don’t have the money nor the need to blow $20k on a saturday wedding. Last I checked, elementary school teachers don’t get paid a whole lot.

7. Why is there so much hate over what other people do and how they conduct their own lives? The last time I checked, this country was founded on the principle of freedom and tolerance. Or is it only be tolerant of things you would do yourself and exercise prejudice against things you would not do. Should I put down vegans because I eat meat and eggs? Should I put down interracial marriages because my husband is the same race as me? Should I put down people of non-Protestant Christian religions because I am a Protestant Christan? Should I put down those who divorce because I am not nor will I ever be?

Isn’t it more respectable to be able to argue and support the value of our own viewpoints and agenda without resorting to fear tactics and putting down others and their right to exercise their own freedom of speech?

p.s. Mormon Temples do not allow weddings within its walls to be a spectacle to non Mormons. This include use of photography or video within the temple walls. An elementary school field trip to such a wedding would be quite impossible given the Temple rules.