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.
LAMBDA is a non-profit, gay / lesbian / bisexual / transgender agency dedicated to reducing homophobia, inequality, hate crimes, and discrimination by encouraging self-acceptance, cooperation, and non-violence.
Hmm...how is waiting for additional information straddling the fence? I generally try not to form firm opinions until I have enough information to do so. That seems prudent to me.
Seems more like you're waiting for the opinion to be formed for you.
Interesting how this plays out.
Not me, particularly---typos happen. But the way you butchered "Hemingway" indicates that you were completely unfamiliar with the man, so I'm impressed you now at least know he was a "literary giant."
It hurts to be up there with Dane and MineralMan don't it? Oops. I mean DOESN'T it.
I haven't the slightest idea what you're blathering about. Did we cross swords in this space before?
By going along with it, they imply support.
Hemmingway was not a "literary giant." He was an alcoholic who wrote a few pretentious novels that certain personalities take WAY too seriously.
This response is beyond juvenile. It borders on "I know you are, but what am I?"
Absolutely. If children are encouraged to "try" same sex acts, and then told that if they've ever had One Gay Thought or One Gay Experience that they are now permanently "gay", they're born that way, it's like a death sentence. Supposedly "gay" teens are in terrible distress (and I'm sure they are) because people are mean to them. No, it's because they've been lied to. If such kids hear the truth - that they can change, and get treatment, therapy, or just make the change on their own - they don't have to be "gay".
You'll notice that a lot of the homo-promoting stuff has this phrase: "Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgendered and QUESTIONING Youth". That's the hook to really do the recruiting.
How many of us did things in our youth we later regretted (maybe even regretted at the time!) and we now have repudiated? But the lie that once "gay", always "gay" is ruining lives.
Hmm, your screen name says it all. Everyone's world is colored by their own attitude.
English must be your second language if you've never heard that phrase used metaphorically.
I've said it before, and I'll say it again.
Sending your children to Public School, unless you are completely destitute and have no other option is child abuse.. pure and simple.
She could have used a LARGER camera! /sarcasm
This has NOTHING to do w education and everything to do w indoctrination and normalization.
The administrators KNOW this kind of activity isn't what most parents want for their kids and they don't want it to be exposed. Simple as that. Time to vote in new administrators, methinks.
Yep, that's the revisionist history & "criticism" coming from touchy-feely literary professors at squishy liberal arts colleges all over the northeast. Thank you for pointing this out.
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