Posted on 09/27/2009 12:45:14 PM PDT by Maelstorm
A small East Bay school district's effort to protect children of nontraditional families from being bullied has sparked a lawsuit from an out-of-town Christian legal group and a campaign to recall three school board members.
On one side are parents who believe the Alameda Unified School District board's decision to authorize a lesson in the so-called Caring Schools Community Curriculum violates their rights to teach their children about sexuality issues on their own terms and will indoctrinate their children into what they call the homosexual lifestyle.
On the other are parents who believe the curriculum's Lesson 9 is vital for preventing children with lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered parents from being bullied or harassed while attending school in the 10,000-student district.
The board's decision in May followed several standing-room-only hearings and touched off an effort to recall trustees Tracy Jensen, Ron Mooney and Nielsen Tam, who voted for the lesson. Trustees Trish Spencer and Mike McMahon opposed it.
"Basically, these board members decided that they didn't want to do what the people of Alameda who elected them wanted to be done, and that was to strike down Lesson 9," Alameda parent Adam Wooten, one of the 10 city residents to sign the original recall notice, told a local online news site shortly after the effort was announced. "If they don't want to do what we elected them to do, then why should they remain in office?"
District administrators have said the board's decision stemmed from concern that teachers of kindergarten through fifth grade had no lesson plan ready if they encountered LGBT-oriented intimidation.
Alameda educators have also said repeatedly that because the lesson is not about sex or sexuality, state law prevents them from granting parents the right to remove their children from school whenever the lesson is being taught.
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For these folks who insist on indoctrinating our Americans children, we should have one message and one only. “Step AWAY from the children” Especially now, with that sick education czar in place!
Ping!
America needs seperation of school and state.
So it’s CALLED “anti-bullying” but it is really about pushing the homosexual agenda.
Why is it necessary for a teacher to explain why one kid can’t beat up on another kid? The teacher only needs to point out it’s not polite and it’s battery — at which point the teacher could begin to outline the intrusive nature of the state and the necessity of hiring a lawyer in any given altercation.
Moreover what is this with the “5 protected clases” (race and ethnicity, gender, disability, nationality and religion)? Does that mean it’s OK for one kid can belt another because he is ugly, stupid, short, a Democrat, poor at sports or inept?
Anti bullying is code for leave the fags alone.
Oh yes, those hating Christians are incensed that their "freedom to bully" is at risk.
Where do these media-thugs get this kind of spin?
No. Actually, it's code for "elevate the fags to a position of honor and worship."
You’re right!
It is crazy. What gets me is that by far the dominate reasons for bullying have nothing to do with whether a kid is openly gay or not though I am in favor of removing such kids from public schools. If they want to make their sexual behavior an issue whether it be heterosexual homosexual or some other weird behavior then they have no place being in school if they can not control themselves. The majority of kids have enough problems and issues to deal with as teenagers without having further levels of confusion injected into their lives.
One does not have to inject identity politics into the school room to deal with bullying. If anything these types of policies invite bullying of a different type.
Yes it is. Most of the kids who were “bullied” and called gay were not. I know of two individuals specifically who later identified themselves as gay when they got out of highschool. One I know was molested by his openly gay arsonist uncle and I don’t ever remember him being the target of bullying. The other had a relationship with underage boys giving them prescription drugs, alcohol, and pot to get them high so he could have sex with them. The boys later killed him horribly and are now serving time in jail. Not that this is the same for ever case but there is an awful lot that is being ignored where homosexuality is concerned and these kind of “anti-bullying” agendas are designed to do exactly what you say. It has to do with what groups like Soulforce call “Gaying the youth”.
If this is the tactics undertaken by the homo-fascists when homosexual “marriage” is NOT legal, just imagine the tidal wave of perversion sweeping over government education compounds if Prop 8 hadn’t passed.
They call it “anti-bullying” when it is Christians being bullied.
Amen! Teachers should simplify the lesson to two points:
1. Keep your hands to yourself and don't bother people when they ask you to leave them alone.
2. Disregard point #1 and you're in serious trouble.
Simple enough for kids to understand, broad enough to protect everyone, and there's nothing that a reasonable person would find objectionable.
Of course, this assumes that the schools truly are interested in teaching kids to be decent people, and not simply trying to push favored agendas, such as getting kids to think in terms of group identity instead of individualism...
“...teaching kids to be decent people, and not simply trying to push favored agendas, such as getting kids to think in terms of group identity instead of individualism...”
Thanks for reply. Nicely put.
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