Posted on 12/16/2004 10:05:07 AM PST by presidio9
Two parents, shocked at frank talk during a gay and lesbian awareness day at Newton North High, were forced off the property after one parent whipped out a video camera and started taping.
``This does not belong in curriculum,'' said Kim Cariani, who said four police officers and the principal told them they would be charged with trespassing if they did not leave.
``It's against my religion. It's morally wrong and forced in a child's face.''
Each year, some students at Newton North forgo classes during To BGLAD: Transgender, Bisexual, Gay and Lesbian Awareness Day with assembly-like sessions including ``Out at the Old Ballgame'' and ``Color Me Queer.'' Students are not required to attend.
Cariani kept her two kids home during the day, but she was curious.
Cariani and another parent, Brian Camenker, were in the audience when adults in a panel discussion talked about being gay. When one man told the students he was attracted to his sister's husband, Cariani said she started to record the ``propaganda, false information and lies.''
The principal demanded Cariani turn over the videotape or leave, Camenker said.
``They took the two of us and pulled us out and gave us one minute to leave and if we came back on the property we would be arrested for trespassing,'' he said.
Tom Mountain, a columnist for the Newton Tab, was also barred from the assembly ``for the safety and security of the children,'' he said he was told.
Newton schools Superintendent Jeff Young said it is a violation of school policy to tape or photograph students without parental permission. Cariani refused to give up the tape, so they were asked to decamp, he said.
The awareness day, held for the past 10 years, is one of several ways the schools highlight diversity, Young said. Students who don't want to go can go to the library or computer lab.
You think that recording the proceedings at a government school is wrong?
I have a question for the pre-op TV who lamented his penis. What other healthy body parts can you request to have amputated without getting you 90 days observation?
LOL! Home Run!
To say nothing of the fact that she was taping the presenters, not the students.
Thank you, yes, it was very logical and straightforward. It doesn't make a darn bit of difference whether my tax dollars went to someplace. It doesn't give me any right whatsoever to be there.
Of course, there are differences between taping on a military installation and taping a school assembly. And those differences should of course be taken into account and respected. But naturally, these certain modifiers are stated few and far between. All I saw was "her tax dollars went there, so she had every right to be there!"
So yes, I agree. My statement was logical and to the point. Wouldn't you agree?
Until enough tax-paying parents care enough to demand change in the schools we'll see more of this type of thing, and not just in Massachusetts.
OK. I give permission for my kids to attend on the day that they go over the teachings of Christ. Oops. I forgot...they don't, and won't have one of those days.
Exactly.
The real issue was that the material was controversial and the school principal and administration didn't not want the "light of day" shown on it.
Bingo.
I didn't see anything that indicated that there was any sexual instruction....
I bet her tax dollars are spent on the boys' basketball team, too, but that doesn't give her the right to film them changing in the locker room. (To make an extreme example.)
Perhaps to you it is, but not to me. That's the whole point, at least it seems to me. That's why the mom was there. Documenting that children were being exposed to such perversity.
You said earlier on this thread that "There are homosexual teenagers". No sir, there are not. There are teenagers who, after being exposed to programs exactly like this, programs that normalize the homosexual perversity, and trivialize any moral objection to the aberration, *think* they're homosexuals, but they're not. They're just poor, confused kids who, while struggling with their developing bodies and minds, are convinced that their confusion over their sexuality (which every teenager goes through, just with varying degrees) is an indication that they are homosexual.
It's sick, sad, and evil what the schools are doing to kids today. If I had a kid, there would be no WAY I would send them to public school, because guaranteed, for all the crap like this we hear about, there's probably 10 other things they're doing, other things more subtle and therefore, arguably, more *dangerous*, than even this.
They didn't at my high school. Lots of schools ban same-sex couples from the Prom. It's certainly a very heterosexual event, particularly if you can get a hotel room afterwards.
The sodomites are careful about who they allow to observe them as they begin to pervert other people's children.
I guess we will never know how detailed the instruction was, seeing as how the administration has kept it Top Secret and forbidden the parents from knowing.
And we will never know, will we? A public meeting held in a public building involving minors was not allowed to be recorded by a parent of a student who is an attender of the school. We will never know what went on at that meeting through an objective witness (the camera). Is that acceptable?
Amen.
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