Posted on 06/09/2009 9:02:33 AM PDT by kellynla
The Alameda, Calif., public schools are adopting a curriculum that will require first graders to read literature that equates same-sex unions with a family made up of a mother, father and child.
Parents will not be allowed to opt their first graders out of the curriculum.
Members of the Alameda United School District (AUSD) school board voted 3 to 2 last week to implement the Safe Schools curriculum, which supporters say is aimed at stopping anti-homosexual bullying in schools.
The program includes a between one and four lessons each year between grades 1 and 5 to introduce students to LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transsexual) issues.
As part of the curriculum, second graders will be exposed to books like And Tango Makes Three--a story book about two male penguins who hatch an egg and raise a chick together in New Yorks Central Park Zoo--and first graders will see Whos in a Family? which exposes students to a variety of different family structures.
(EDITOR'S NOTE: An earlier version of this story incorrectly indicated that first graders would be exposed to "And Tango Makes Three.")
The discussion plan for Whos In a Family? includes asking students to identify a type of family they see in the book.
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>> Destroying the family - thats the goal.
Destroying America and western civilization, IMO. And then there’s the demographics aspect:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-3X5hIFXYU
Muslim Demographics
Even if you were a homo advocate, and belived that whole thing was great. What kind of monster cannot see the innocence of children needs to be preserved as long as possible? FIRST GRADE??
I hate these people who see schools as nothing more than a social petri dish.
I can hardly wait for the first muslim 1st grader to tell his or her parents about the teachings of the infidels. It will be fun to watch the liberals panic.
Don’t worry about the children, they have more intuitive sense than the nutcases in charge of the school curriculum.
Parents will not be allowed to opt their first graders out of the curriculum.
Scusie??? Not ALLOWED????
That wouldn’t last very long.
I believe that is seriously unConstitutional and there is legal precedent against that.
However, it's high time to opt "the children" entirely out of that school and avail oneself of the alternatives to education (private school, home school or charter school).
LOL!
I'd like to see that, too.
Bingo
If I ever work for a district that proposes this curriculum, I will post the names and photos of all members of the board on every single wall in town. These scum should not be allowed to get away with this.
The mistake here is to think that this is just a problem for Alameda. This type of curriculum is now mandated by SB 777 for every public school in CA, no exceptions. Alameda is a little ahead of some school districts in implementation, and there are still probably more sane parents left in Alameda who object to this than in the typical CA district. So, Alameda gets the publicity, but this type of curriculum is now the law in CA and no parent can opt a child out - except by doing what he should have done all along - get his children out of the government school system.
The family is the primary conduit of passing on the knowledge of God and Christ.
THIS is why it is under attack.
(America and Western Civ are based on Christian principles, so yes, they are going to go down when the family is destroyed, too.)
Not sure here. Isn’t that using the school system in order to teach a political doctrine? What do they mean ‘parents cannot opt out’? Where are the lawyers when you really need them?
Parents? The parents may have the best intentions inthe world, but these kids are taught IN SCHOOL that, sexually, their parents lack accurate information about "sexualities" (plural), are old-fashioned, bigoted, and/or simply don't have a clue.
I work at two private elementary schools in a city with some of the worst public schools in the country. Kids in the 2nd grade are already finished with long division and essay writing ;)
That’s one thing I won’t stand for, and I don’t care where/who it comes from -
undermining my parental authority with my kids will be met with a (verbal) ass kicking.
This is an ultimately an attack on the ideal of marriage between a man and woman, a bedrock of civilization. Traditional marriage has long been under assault by Big Government, the destruction of much of the black family structure can be traced to the folly of welfare. Divorce percentages keep rising throughout all strata of socity.
Equating deviant same-sex unions marriage further diminishes the traditional institution of traditional marriage. Ah'm agin it.
I find that the effects are worse when you start teaching “sexualities” at the late middle school/early high school level. Teenagers love to rebel in both physical and intellectual ways. Little children don’t understand sexuality and don’t really care so they ignore the weird stuff for the most part. They just want to finish doing homework and play innocent games.
Children are confused about many things at that early age. Tell them about the dangers of drugs and they think mommy’s an addict for popping an aspirin.
Abstract thought, according to Jean Piaget didn’t begin until the teenage years.
I don’t think children younger then that need to get into specifics.
Sane people should move out of the ‘fruit & nuts’ state to somewhere they can live like normal human beings.
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