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.
Yep, but that doesn't make your comment any less juvenile.
Thankyou for giving us a roadmap for how to make you drop off permanently.
"Thankyou for giving us a roadmap for how to make you drop off permanently."
I believe I'll make my own decisions, thanks, thread by thread.
Liberals eat their own every 20 or 30 years or so. Who can explain their bizarre behavior? Not me.
BTW, how did he die again?
Self-inflicted shotgun shot to the coconut.
Ernie certainly tried to.
If there's anything else we can do to help you feel less welcome, please let us know.
Fair enough...I won't be losing any sleep over this.
Once again...my apologies for any comments that you found offensive..or inappropiate.
FRegards,
I see you're one of those who can't find artistic merit in work that doesn't appeal to your political sensitivities . . .
"I don't know. I wasn't in attendance, so I have no idea of the exact nature of the program. There's certainly not enough information in the article for me to make a judgment."
This is exactly why she was videotaping it. So that other parents could learn about it.
Sheesh
It's not about artistic merit. Its about understanding that his so-called deep thoughts are grounded in liberal philosophy, and realizing that the man was full of shjt. Why do you think he is so popular with high school English teachers?
Clear something up for me first: Are you a man? And do you find Ann Coulter particularly fetching?
No, but I was going to make a witty remark if you did.
Hemingway's literary gianthood I covered in a separate post to this thread. You, of course, are perfectly free to like or dislike Hemingway's work, but the fact that his declarative prose style and his method of telling stories all but defined American literature in the 20th century makes him, by default, a literary giant. The man more or less perfected the short story form, wrote four undisputed classics of American literature (The Sun Also Rises, For Whom the Bell Tolls, A Farewell to Arms, and The Old Man and the Sea), and won the Nobel Prize for literature. Heaven help that he didn't favor the same type of politics presidio9 does, but that certainly does not disqualify him from being a literary giant.
"Her kids weren't there. Attendance at this event was voluntary and she did not want her kids going."
So, I suppose you wouldn't mind if, say, a school in Deerborn, MI hosted a radical imam for Jihad Awareness Day so long as it was voluntary? Or, perhaps if a school in Tyler, TX invited Jerry Falwell to teach on the eternal health effects of sodomy and fornication during its Abstinence Education Day.
Jeez, state schools have no business sponsoring this crap.
How about reversing it and demanding that the opposit view be given EQUAL time as part of their STATED diversity party.
Right!
They should have included the opposite view of homosexuality as a learned recreational sex behavior on the panel.
Where are the representatives of Narth? Do they even have material for highschools?
Geeze Louise, 42 words!
You, on the other hand, would be well advised to try to mimic Ernie's succinct writing style. Still you are entitled to your opinion.
. The man more or less perfected the short story form, wrote four undisputed classics of American literature (The Sun Also Rises, For Whom the Bell Tolls, A Farewell to Arms, and The Old Man and the Sea), and won the Nobel Prize for literature.
Ernie was 10 years old when O Henry died babe. If Jack Nicholson is such a great actor, why does he play the same character in every movie? And Nobel prizes don't carry a lot of weight around here. What else do you got?
I've got a yawn for this senseless argument. You must be very bored today.
"The concept of taxpayers owning the schools is lost on some people. Oh wait people should not question how their money is spent. Never mind."
This is what happens when the concept of limited government is lost.
Government has arrogated the parental right to provide a moral foundation for their children. Of course, it could not have done that unless the majority of parents had not already abdicated on the responsibilities attendant with that right.
A large fraction of the population has essentially outsourced the function of childrearing to government. Nobody should be surprised when government institutions such as state schools implement the policies of the elites.
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