Schools remove filters on gay, lesbian (bisexual, transgender) websites (Virginia)

Insidenova ^ | 5/27/11 | Keith Walker

[ivyleaguebrat]

Oh, and re: “mainstream” ... That is a tough one. It is obviously true that words meaning “mainstream” or “normal” have no objective moral force.

It is “abnormal” to be a plumber or a farmer, because the vast majority of people are not plumbers or farmers. That doesn’t mean it’s wrongful to be a farmer. For this reason, “mainstream” is not a valid proxy for “moral.”

At the same time, school systems, like our government, is run in a quasi-democratic way. And so the “mainstream” position influences what will be taught.

In most policy decisions, if the majority thinks different from us, e.g. that taxes should be higher, they may get their way. We may be disappointed and angry. We may think an awful mistake has been made. But we will get over it, and fight on another day.

In schools, the content of our children’s education is not only more personal, but is also more irreversible. If a school turns my child into a marxist, there may not be much I can do to reverse it. I don’t have the option of “fighting on another day.”

[Pontiac]

The ACLU learned of the blocking of LGBT sites through its “Don’t Filter Me” initiative, which shows students how to re¬port that their school is filtering content.

At the time, ACLU spokesman Kent Willis said that it was clear that Prince William schools were blocking the LGBT sites while allowing anti-LGBT sites to be viewed.

I think these two sentences from the article demonstrates how pervasive it is.

This is a programmatic policy of the ACLU. ACLU is the legal attack dog of the Left.

[ivyleaguebrat]

Your other point was also well-made. Acceptance of homosexuality is likely not as “mainstream” as the media makes it appear.

[Pontiac]

At the same time, school systems, like our government, is run in a quasi-democratic way. And so the “mainstream” position influences what will be taught.

This only true because the Federal Government has intruded in to local public schools.

Prior to the disastrous Carter administration local schools meant local control.

With all politics being local; local schools taught to the local moral code.

Today because the teachers’ unions are in league with the Democratic party the teachers’ unions have more control over what your local school teaches than the local parents do.