Posted on 09/13/2011 11:05:29 AM PDT by lbryce
This sprawling suburban school system, much of it within Michele Bachmanns Congressional district, is caught in the eye of one of the countrys hottest culture wars how homosexuality should be discussed in the schools.
After years of harsh conflict between advocates for gay students and Christian conservatives, the issue was already highly charged here. Then in July, six students brought a lawsuit contending that school officials have failed to stop relentless antigay bullying and that a district policy requiring teachers to remain neutral on issues of sexual orientation has fostered oppressive silence and a corrosive stigma.
Also this summer, parents and students here learned that the federal Department of Justice was deep into a civil rights investigation into complaints about unchecked harassment of gay students in the district. The inquiry is still under way.
Through it all, conservative Christian groups have demanded that the schools avoid any descriptions of homosexuality or same-sex marriage as normal, warning against any surrender to what they say is the homosexual agenda of recruiting youngsters to an unhealthy and abnormal lifestyle.
Adding an extra incendiary element, the school district has suffered eight student suicides in the last two years, leading state officials to declare a suicide contagion. Whether antigay bullying contributed to any of these deaths is sharply disputed; some friends and teachers say four of the students were struggling with issues of sexual identity.
In many larger cities, lessons in tolerance of sexual diversity are now routine parts of health education and antibully training. But in the suburbs the battle rages on, perhaps nowhere more bitterly than here in the Anoka-Hennepin School District, just north of Minneapolis. With 38,000 students, it is Minnesotas largest school system, and most of it lies within the Congressional district of Ms. Bachmann, a Republican contender for president.
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“...a district policy requiring teachers to remain neutral on issues of sexual orientation has fostered oppressive silence and a corrosive stigma.”
Not teaching propaganda is “oppressive”? This is the statement of a dictatorship, in particular that of National Socialists and Communists.
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I've got an idea. How about no mention of homosexuality at all in schools, either officially or by students? No "gay" anything, no Day of Silence, no "gay" clubs, nothing. Problem solved.
Exactly. It's a way to shut normal people up, and give perverts a megaphone. And destroy children.
The Obammunists new anti-"bullying" website has your answers. Here are the new, Orwellian, universally-applicable definitions that will bring screeches of lawsuits from any liberal:
Bullying can take many forms. Examples include:
Notice that physical bullying, what we've always known as REAL bullying, is at the end of the list.
So if you "dis" a fag, you're a hateful bully now.
exactly
any kid and there was one at my kids middle school saying they like both or the same sex need to shut the hell up.
It just so happens that when this girl said this the other kids told her she is being weird, stop looking for attention, we’re built in such a way because that is how it is etc
Next day this girl tells all the kids she was only joking and that she was looking for attention.
BTW This girl is all messed up with a mother who never looks after her.
There is no excuse for any kid saying this as if you bring kids up the right way and tell them the dangers of the left from an early age then they will become productive people.
said the same thing to the principle.
It is my job as a parent to raise my children and be there for them at all times as well as bringing them up socially and to help teachers with education.
It is the teachers job to educate on the more important educational matters.
Do we really think that kids out in India or China are being taught this new social lifestyle , of course not.
Then the teachers union wonders why the American education is coming nearly last.
I see now the white house has sent their puppets out to all public schools and to have parents sign what their kids are eating, what exercise they are doing.
Let’s see...
I got picked on because I wore glasses, I didn’t socially “fit in” as a middle-schooler, had braces, and so on, getting picked on is part of life, which either makes or breaks you. Hopefully, home life is decent enough to give a little respite when the day is over.
There are many really screwed up kids now, compared to when I was in high school. Broken families, single mothers with various boyfriends hanging around, sickening media/entertainment influences, and to top it all off, leftist indoctrination in schools. Many teachers’ colleges are staffed with ultra leftists. The older teachers are likely to be much saner!
Your children are learning how to be strong in the face of craziness.
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