Teaching the reality of gay life, Oakland schoolkids learn a rare lesson

SF Chronicle ^ | 3-10-02 | Meridith May

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Oakland -- The students at Park Day School in Oakland are probably the only elementary school kids in America whose spelling lists contain words such as "homosexual," "lesbian" and "transgender."

At a time when high schools around the country are battling over bringing gay studies and gay student clubs to campus, the private Park Day School is skipping the controversy and being straight with little kids about gay life.

[Don Myers]

"It's a recipe for disaster."

Yes, it already is.

[Cultural Jihad]

Parents paid for it with their own funds. You are trying to suggest that a private school to whom you did not contribute should follow your dictums? Sounds kind of socialist to me.

Red herring. California is mandating the inurement to evil in all public schools, thanks to the Democratic Party caving into perverted pressure groups. Where is your outrage at this socialism, eh?

[Cleburne]

They wrote essays on famous gay people such as Michelangelo, interviewed a family member who was in the gay community or knew someone else who was, and wrote Dear Abby-style letters to imaginary gay children who had been teased on the playground. They decorated their classrooms with rainbow flags and pictures of singer Melissa Etheridge and her partner.

And in a move to stamp out anti-gay slurs, they wrote gay epithets using salt on the playground, then kicked off their shoes and smudged them out.

Meanwhile, traditional education- which is, acording to some area teachers, of "white homophobic devil-spirits" - was ignored for the week in favor of more liberal "studies". Children from outside, "unenlightened" schools were brought it to assist the school in spelling the epithets, though Miss. Quazlazi-Lostan, teacher of "multi-cultural gay studies in bronze skinned countries" was incised at this, saying, "They should be allowed to use creative spelling!"

[TxBec]

Not one parent complained, Little said. In fact, several came to the school to thank him for broaching a sensitive subject and making it easier to discuss gay topics at home.

oh puhleez.

[EdReform]

"...though I do suspect that it's a natural phenomenon that occurs in every species on this planet."

And your academic qualifications for making this statement are?

[Cultural Jihad]

You call them what you want (SSADs, sodomites, whatever) and I'll call them what I want. But we both know that we're talking about the same people.

What other Orwellian euphemisms can the left come up with? Rapists are really just "intimate strangers" eh?

[Cultural Jihad]

Pseudo-scientific screeds written by sexual deviants do not qualify.

[Cultural Jihad]

Somehow we find it difficult to take seriously or sanely anyone who quotes a chicken-rapist on his profile page.

[Hotline]

imagine how much they love their mom and then double that

Whoa...that's uncanny. That's what my son thinks about his dad....

What's wrong with him?

[Cultural Jihad]

Ok, I give up. I will refer to them according to whatever word you choose...

The correct term is "homosexual" which simply means "same sex". We know it brings connotations in people's minds, about excrement and disease and misery, but so be it. Calling miserable people 'gay' is intellectually dishonest.

[f.Christian]

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[Cultural Jihad]

Did you miss something on the way in...

Yes, the left wants a statement on FR claiming how wonderful their toleration of sexual deviancy is. Only THEN can they find happiness.

[I'm ALL Right!]

you forgot these spelling words:

gerbil
aids
flamer

This makes me sick. No the younger kids didn't want to know...they don't NEED to know about sex, straight or gay, in any real detail at their age! Stupid liberals. Stupid stupid stupid.