Posted on 05/22/2011 2:16:23 PM PDT by markomalley
Proposed state legislation, if approved, would add gays, lesbians, bisexuals and transgenders to the list of social and ethnic groups public schools must include in social studies.
At two East Bay private schools the debate has gone beyond whether to include gay history in the curriculum. They have taken the next step, offering a high school class dedicated to gay studies.
Last school year, The Athenian School in Danville and Maybeck High School in Berkeley both began classes examining the history, contributions and other cultures' views of gays, lesbians, bisexuals and the transgendered. They said it has been popular among students who want to know more about the issues they see on the news.
Among those timely topics is SB 48, legislation from state Sen. Mark Leno, D-San Francisco, that would add gay studies to the curriculum for public schools. It also would prohibit the state from adopting discriminatory instruction and materials.
The bill, which has elicited strong opinions from all sides, has passed through the Senate. California will be the first state with such a law if the bill clears the Assembly and is signed by the governor.
Teachers at both The Athenian and Maybeck High, where the classes are considered advanced and open to juniors and seniors who fulfill other requirements, said they already have provided a supportive environment.
At The Athenian, a monument to diversity includes a rainbow flag that flies next to one for the school and another for the Round Square association it belongs to.
Will Grant, who teaches The Athenian's "Gay Pride, Gender Outlaws and Radical Love" class, said Proposition 8, approved by voters in 2008, was a catalyst. That law banned same-sex marriage and is being contested in the courts,
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Your homeschool list might be interested in this.
Liberalism and political correctness have scored another victory here.
propaganda recruitment classes
Wow... that's not a "study" class, that is pure leftwing immoral indoctrination
>They have taken the next step, offering a high school class dedicated to gay studies. <
And an AIDS clinic expansion next door.
Egads! The Athenian School goes Greek!!!
This smacks as the classic case in which the students ask to substitute a no-brainer PC class for others requiring real work so that they can spend more time goofing off.
A blow for justice.
At least they will know what they're getting into.
I would take my child out of any such school.
Watch this man.
I predict he will ride gay activism all the way to the governorship one day.
-PJ
The article cleverly shifts from proposed public school law to current elective private school practice. In the Berkeley East Bay, parents willingly pay private for their kids to learn glorified beginning and advanced sodomy.
Whether this becomes public school law is yet to be determined.
The left will set up private schools too, if the parents are willing to pay for perversion. It's the parents who determine the agenda in private schools by patronage.
It’s child abuse, even if the parents are all for it.
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He’s 59. He’s getting a little old to run for governor and he’s too radical to win statewide even with how the state is now.
He's ruthless.
I saw the determined look in his eye when he was a San Francisco Supervisor.
He followed Carol Migden into her Assembly seat when she ran for the Senate, and then he ousted her in the Senate when she had the weird DUI traffic incident.
...he’s too radical to win statewide even with how the state is now.
His strategy has been to use his radicalism to move the state towards him. It's working. Just look at his recent push to mainstream the gay lifestyle into high school social studies classes, the point of this article.
These are the voters who will put him into the governor's office within the next 10 years.
-PJ
It's probably popular because it's an easy class. It's total nonsense...
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