Posted on 02/27/2014 3:37:51 AM PST by rhema
This top-down, statewide measure stems from political correctness — not protection.
“Antibullying” legislation is a top priority for DFL leaders at the Capitol this year. In the last session, their bill got hung up in the Senate, and they appear determined to muscle it through this time around.
Bullying is wrong. No child should have to put up with it.
But a glance at the bill raises troubling questions. Why doesn’t it protect all children equally, instead of singling out for favored treatment children of “protected classes,” such as race, sexual orientation, and “gender identity and expression”? Why are traditional victims of bullying, like kids who are timid or viewed as nerds, invisible in this bill?
Why does the bill give the Minnesota Department of Education power to reduce or withhold state aid to districts it views as failing to create a sufficiently “positive school climate” for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender students and for those with “gender identity and expression” issues?
Why is it likely that — under the umbrella of bullying prevention — you may soon find that your daughter is studying LGBT demographic trends and famous scientists’ sexual orientation and that your son can join the girls’ basketball team if his “gender identity” inclines him that way?
Here’s the answer: The bill — misleadingly named the “Safe and Supportive Minnesota Schools Act” — is not primarily about preventing bullying. It’s driven instead by a political/cultural agenda that’s not so much about stopping bad behavior as it is about using the machinery of state education to compel children to adopt politically correct attitudes on human sexuality and alternative family structures.
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This is all prepuscent ... it was in the teens and Junior High that I started to 'man up' ... wasn't good at it ... but I DID man up
The rest is as how we all remember ... those that dare to remember.
The bottom line of all remarks to this thread is;
Leave the kids alone.
Protection from gangs and getting shot has nothing to do with bullying ... THOSE're criminal offenses.
I handled failure and defeat and embarassment and all the negatives and learned success and winning and inner/outer strength.
It's the American way to allow defeat and losing ... it's how we win.
It makes us better lovers of our women.
This bill, rather than being anti-bullying, actually empowers bullies. It gives homosexual bullies the power to accuse any other kid of “bullying” them, under their own subjective judgement, and use the force of the state to clobber them.
At least with traditional bullies you could bust em in the mouth and put an end to the harassment. With these bullies, no retaliation will be allowed.
It’s the American way to allow defeat and losing ... it’s how we win...
...you use the incorrect verb tense in your comment...the present ‘is’ must be replaced by the preterit ‘was’...now your comment is correct...
...although I allow that you are partly correct, in that a certain subset remains subject to your above tenet...to wit, straight white boys...
Everyone has a bully story and everyone already knows there is only one way to deal with the problem... and anyone with a lick of common sense knows full well that the one thing kids are the least interested in is how adults want them to behave. That leaves one thought in the end: there is a bigger agenda at work here and I think the Freepers are correct... this is about the homo agenda and that includes making sure only leftist ideals can be promoted while Christian ideals are suppressed.
I've always avoided it because I didn't think we could do it, but home schooling is starting to become a very serious consideration in my mind.
We'll be resurrecting Norman Rockwell
Thanx (yeah .. I know ... misspelled ) ...
All corrections received graciously
At least with traditional bullies you could bust em in the mouth and put an end to the harassment.
...I disagree with that to a degree...it would work on some, not on others...
With these bullies, no retaliation will be allowed.
...and when the beneficiaries of these bullies’ largesse (basically girls and gays) fully realize the power they have to destroy someone over a middling offense, social structure will end, as we know it...
We’ll be resurrecting Norman Rockwell
...the way things are going, we may have to revivify George Lincoln Rockwell instead...
...just joking, just joking...don’t anyone report me...
I wonder how many know
(I didn't)
I’ve always avoided it because I didn’t think we could do it, but home schooling is starting to become a very serious consideration in my mind.
...do you seriously believe that homeschooling, should it attain any type of sustainable foothold in our society, will be allowed to stand by the government education politburo...that the teacher’s unions and local school boards will not stop it in its tracks, or that they will not have the power to do so...
...we continue our descent into oblivion...and we keep deluding ourselves as we do so...
I continually am amazed that Katherine Kersten has managed to avoid the PC police at the Strib. She is the only columnist there who has any credibility with me. I can rely on her to cut through all the gobbledegook of liberal double talk.
Hilarity. Anti-bullying law moves forward while militant gay bullies strike bully anyone passing anti-bullying laws to protect the religous.
It’s already gained a foothold, and families prepared to fight like mad dogs to keep that right. In the worst case, some territories or states would be more friendly than others, as is now the case, and I could see a “free states/slave states” situation setting up.
That, and homeschooling gets the most “troublesome” families out of the system, from the viewpoint of the teaching establishment. An aggressive, all-out pursuit could lead to the current cold civil war getting very hot indeed.
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