Posted on 10/16/2011 3:48:29 PM PDT by Steelfish
California Schools Scrambling To Add Lessons On LGBT Americans Many are flummoxed about how to carry out a new law requiring California public schools to teach all students, from kindergartners to 12th-graders, about lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Americans.
David Columbus, a senior and president of Downtown Magnets High School's Gay-Straight Alliance club, said he was pushed around and called names since he was 3 because he liked Barbie dolls. But, he said, he has thrived in the school's supportive environment.
Teresa Watanabe October 16, 2011
At Wonderland Avenue Elementary School in Laurel Canyon, there are lesson plans on diverse families — including those with two mommies or daddies — books on homosexual authors in the library and a principal who is openly gay.
But even at this school, teachers and administrators are flummoxed about how to carry out a new law requiring California public schools to teach all students — from kindergartners to 12th graders — about lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Americans in history classes.
"At this point, I wouldn't even know where to begin," Principal Don Wilson said.
Educators across the state don't have much time to figure it out. In January, they're expected to begin teaching about LGBT Americans under California's landmark law, the first of its kind in the nation.
The law has sparked confusion about what, exactly, is supposed to be taught. Will fourth-graders learn that some of the Gold Rush miners were gay and helped build San Francisco? Will students be taught about the "two-spirited people" tradition among some Native Americans, as one gay historian mused?
"I'm not sure how we plug it into the curriculum at the grade school level, if at all," said Paul Boneberg, executive director at the GLBT Historical Society in San Francisco.
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The Democrats finally take out the prohibition on California schools employing communists and those who advocate the overthrow of the US government and this is just the sort of curriculum they believe that children were missing out on.
Life imprisonment for any GLBT teacher who abuses the powers of their authority to molest a child.
There are far more molestation cases coming from America’s schools than from the churches yet one was considered an international conspiracy while the other is a steady series of “isolated” incidents.
Celebrating sin will not make a stronger America or happier children.
it also removes other details from the lesson plan to make way for the revisionist history.
Why not add pirates lessons to every grade level of history?
Cover how early explorers of the new world were rapists and pillaging vikings. And hispanic conquestadors.
Then cover how Jean Lafitte helped the early US.
Then cover how the Kennedy family became wealthy rum running in the Prohibition era and later how the mob helped JFK steal the White House.
Then in the 1960s the mob’s connections to the Stonewall illegally operating bar can be presented.
It’s a rich history of pirates and outlaws in America. Kids need to know.
The glibbets and the luggbutts.
and don’t forget biker gangs, and bonnie ‘n’ clyde
The G-BLT crowd won’t want to focus on Roy Cohn and his efforts to rid the US State Department of communists and communist sympathizers.
Cohn was gay and anti-commie too? Oh my, politics makes strange bedfellows, or non-bedfellows as in this case.
Didn’t he die from AIDS in the 1980s?
There was a bit in Point of Order (some commie’s salvaged editing of newsreel footage of testimony) where some government figures asked him where a photo of 2 individuals came from. The discussion at some point takes the turn “did a fairy give it to you” “your fairy godmother, etc...” and he says that he’s no expert on fairies and that this has little to do with the issue at hand (or something) but at a point, it seems as if they were attacking his masculinity.
And the J Edgar Hoover stories about cross-dressing were just a revisionist history attack but maybe that too should be presented in the Caliphony schools.
Hey, this would be all the evidence the go-blitts need to say he was a screaming gay.
I wouldn’t be surprised if God zapped the entire state of California for their pornographic and Marxist behavior. I wouldn’t mind except I want the ‘good guys’ to get out ahead of time.
Seems to me that home schooling ought to explode in California after the first of the year, due to this madness.
Either that, or there are going to be a ton of protests and fights over this, by parents who aren’t in a position to take their kids out of the public schools.
If they were including lessons about how wrong, stupid, dangerous and immoral homosexuality is, then I’d be all for it. Instead it will be propaganda and outright lies being taught under the veneer of ‘education’.
To teach that sodomites as sodomites are worthy of adulation is an abomination.
If you are an American with children and live in Cauliphonya. GET THE HELL OUT! ASAP! Do it for “the churldren”!
Since that's effort failed miserably, schools are scrambling. I've long thought there's not a lot of verifiable "gay" history to work into K-12.
They can work Richard the Lionheart and Philip II's relationship into European history. They'll battle over what to say about the Greeks, Romans and Alexander the Great. They can work it into economic class when they get to John Maynard Keynes. I suppose Harvey Milk will now be part of CA history in grade school if it wasn't already. Alan Turning can get a mention in Math or Computing classes. There's a few writers/poets that can be lumped in during English class.
To meet the requirements they may have to go out of their way to include questionable claims (Abe Lincoln?) or material that wouldn't otherwise be relevant to the grade or topic of study.
How about reading the life of Oscar Wilde? He was a gay man who won over the cowboys of the American west with his wit, ability to drink, and skills as a gambler.
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