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.
Maybe so - but it's not true everywhere, and I suspect even YOUR alma mater will change, someday.
Big presumption.
so I'm not sure why she thinks she should be butting in.
Ummm, she's a taxpayer. The school board is elected. The voters have a perfect expectation that the programs presented there would be public knowledge.
She had another excellent reason to find out and make public her observations, she had children in this hell hole.
Honestly, I think the way to take on diversity is to test its boundaries. I think we should let unrepentent alcoholics preach to students about the joys of drinking and driving.
Isn't alcoholism partly genetic (like some claim homosexuality is)? Instead of writing it off as an "illness," society should be doing more to accomodate it as a lifestyle.
The owners and masters of the children, that's who.
Where's that story from yesterday about the Christian Rock Band that was tossed from the school line-up although it was not a required attendance event either. The double standard is frightening!
As my first post said, unless the Supt can prove that every taping at every school event was stopped and/or discouraged, his so-called reason was garbage. He didn't want her taping the discussions for one reason, because he was afraid of what it would show. That's my opinion, anyway. It shouldn't have been anywhere near a school or children and I bet that the school did indeed purposely mislead parents as to the content of the assmebly.
You sem confused about who these employees work for.
I am sure a lot of people in this school district had no problem with the material, heck they elect the school board. I think the fear is that this information will spread to other places the school district wishes it not go.
Your daughter sounds like a pistol that will go far and be a credit to her parents and upbringing.
We moved here, in large part, because of the school district. It's not top heavy in administrators and money seems to be properly spent where it should be, on teaching. Nothing is perfect, but like you I'm very happy with this district and those that run it and teach in it.
I got into a bit of a heated political debate with a guy my husband and I have become very friendly with. This was about a year or so ago. He was accusing me of being more of a liberal and than conservative, it was all in fun, but in some ways compared to him I did come across as a leftwing liberal (LOL). A few days later he and hubby got into a conversation over a couple of beers and the subject of the schools here came up (we had only lived here 6 months). It turns out this ultra conservative is the husband of our daughter's teacher!
Maybe the Christian rock band got tossed because they planned to have a video camera...
And don't give me any backtalk about kids being able to "opt out". I've read what the homosexual promoters say and do about that...
Indeed:
View homosexual film, or school faces lawsuit, ACLU tells (school) district
I gave you the information. Care to answer? Either you are cleverly playing the devil's advocate or you are blind to the homosexual agenda. Care to answer?
FMCDH(BITS)
Between the pinks and the blues, or grays, or gee whatever color matches
The GLSEN proceedings at Tufts were recorded because verbal accounts of the instructions were not believed by those that the taper gave. I believe that they were denied by the state employees who were eventually fired.
"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."
Can't have reporters who *might* report the truth witnessing this atrocity.
The teachers and administrators conducting this indoctrination into sexual perversion should be hauled out and shot.
I know they won't even be reprimanded.
See #149. I have a feeling a lot of parents in the area are of the "enlightened" and "tolerance" kind. The school district feared it would be the next exposé of the 700 Club.
Yes, I agree with your #149.
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