Posted on 04/23/2013 11:25:09 AM PDT by NYer
Red Hook, New York – A recent anti-bullying presentation at a middle school in New York that focused on homosexuality and gender identity has angered parents after their daughters have come home to tell them they were forced to ask another girl for a kiss.
According to reports, the session occurred last week at Linden Avenue Middle School in Red Hook, New York, near Poughkeepsie. A group of students from Bard College led two workshops for the youth, separated by gender.
During the workshop for girls, the 13 and 14-year-olds were told to ask one another for a kiss. They were also taught words such as “pansexual” and “genderqueer.”
Parent Mandy Coon told reporters that her daughter was very uncomfortable with the exercise.
“She told me, ‘Mom, we all get teased and picked on enough; now I’m going to be called a lesbian because I had to ask another girl if I could kiss her,’” she lamented. “They also picked two girls to stand in front of the class and pretend they were lesbians on a date.”
Coon stated that she was especially irate over the matter because parents were given no warning about the presentations, nor an opportunity to opt out. She is also dismayed that college students were granted the right to come into the classroom and encourage her daughter to be sexually active.
“I am furious,” she declared. “I am her parent. Where does anyone get the right to tell her that it’s okay for her to have sex?”
“The school is overstepping its bounds in not notifying parents first and giving us the choice,” another parent remarked. “I thought it was very inappropriate. That kind of instruction is best left up to the parents.”
According to reports, during the workshop for the adolescent boys, the students were counseled to keep a condom in their pocket at all times, and were taught how to identify a woman who is a “slut.”
“I was absolutely furious – really furious,” an anonymous parent told reporter Todd Starnes. “These are just kids. I’m dumbfounded that they found this class was appropriate.”
However, both the school principal and the district superintendent are defending the workshops, and are advising that they will schedule more. Superintendent Paul Finch told The Poughkeepsie Journal that the presentation was “focused on improving culture, relationships, communication and self-perceptions.”
“[We] may require more notification to parents” in the future, he said, contending that the sessions are required under the state Dignity for All Students Act, which prohibits harassment and bullying in the classroom.
He advised that Principal Katie Zahedi and guidance counselors at the school worked with Bard students to plan the workshops. Likewise, Mark Primoff, a spokesman for Bard College, said that students had volunteered to give the presentation after the school invited the institution of higher learning to participate in the workshops.
Zahedi asserts that the sessions were rather about saying no to unwanted advances as opposed to encouraging homosexual acts.
“In planning the discussion, we made it clear that absolutely no discussion of any sexual acts is appropriate to middle school, and they used the examples of a kiss,” she wrote in an online forum for parents. “It was a separate activity for boys and girls and ultimately about respect and safety.”
However, parents remain livid over the matter. A public meeting was held this week for residents to express their concerns.
It is not known whether girls actually had to kiss one another, or if the exercise stopped at the request.
Sheer insanity... and reason #3 to homeschool.
It shouldn't be happening the school, period. This so called "anti-bullying" session has nothing to do with teaching people to treat each other with respect, but rather, to bully/haze those who don't practice homosexuality into doing so and to promote the behavior among young impressionable minds.
Our schools are filled to the brim with perverts. Their reaction to gun pictures is proof positive. Many of them are reacting with insanity over pics of guns, marine uniforms, poptarts that are eaten into shapes, torn papers, finger guns, the word gun, etc. Why? They claim that by eliminating guns from the view of children, then these children will never want to use a gun.
Yet, they want to expose 5 year old kindergardners to sexual activity. When asked why, they claim that sexual education will empower children. I’d say that this is an admission that they are perverts that are simply interested in sexualizing your children with the hope that they will be able to create a group of willing victims.
Who else would want to watch a room full of 13 and 14 year old girls kissing each other? I say that we need to start calling them the perverted sex predators that they are admitting to being....
Yet one more reason why my kids go to a private Christian school...
Where is this list, anyway?
Parents, you better wake up and demand your public schools refrain from this kind of trash. It is not the schools prerogative to usurp parental rights to raise their children in Christian morality. What about separation of church and state schools? Parents, don’t just whine and lament what has happened go do something to rectify it and see that this does not happen again. Otherwise take your child out of the public school now before their Christian morals are trashed. Tell you children to leave any classroom immediately if some immorality is being presented to them.
I will do whatever I can to keep my family and as many others as I can out of govenmnt schools.
Sue the school for child abuse.
You know, I really should write it down... up ‘til now I’ve just been making it up as I go along.
When I was young, I hadn’t ever heard of lesbians.
There is a 100% probability that these children were molested by a pedophile in this classroom. There is no other explanation for how an individual could be presenting this stuff.
...leftists can do absolutely anything they want, including raping children.
I probably had not either, come to think of it. At some point, however, there was a rumor about two girls making out at a sleepover. Never did find out if it was true and wasn’t the type to ask.
“respect and safety” for the state cause. The sex partner is a flesh toy.
and America wonders why the educations system is going down.
Also today I went to a school where a college kid wanted to become a history teacher, the idiot took us on a tour and said our town was founded in 1511 in the 15th century.
When corrected he said he never said it.
If some ne wants to post this too or find the original
http://conservativeblogscentral.blogspot.com/2013/04/should-this-texas-school-counselor-be.html
black woman teacher wanting whites to be killed off and laughs about it on her tweet.
southern state the teacher get fired and rightly so.
What is stunning is that she got 3 likes within minutes.
http://conservativewomenfortruth.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Karon-Wright.jpg
the homostapo and the intolerant left have used NAZI tactics, thuggery, and bullying for decades and sadly they have silenced many on the right speaking up
homosexuals and their mental illness they are not just happy with their sick lifestyle but they force others to see them, to accept them and force them to go by their agenda
and that is why you are a good parent and why so many parents are awful to their kids.
Just because your kid is on school does not mean you will turn into a liberal , but it does help when the likes of you put the school on notice and take notes ever day on what your child was told
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