Posted on 02/15/2005 12:22:41 PM PST by Eagle of Liberty
PRESS RELEASE - 10 February, 2005
The Victor Valley Union High School District wishes to respond to parents’ concerns regarding the Gay-Straight Alliance’s same-sex “mock wedding” ceremony scheduled for Friday, February 11, 2005, at Silverado High School.
Please be advised that this ceremony is neither pursuant to, nor a part of, the District’s Board-approved curriculum for students. The ceremony is, however, a lawful exercise of the right of free speech guaranteed to public school students under state and federal law.
Specifically, a California Court of Appeal has held that the Education Code provides students a right of free speech that exceeds the right available to the general public under the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.
The federal Equal Access Act, enacted by the United States Congress in 1984, requires that student clubs be permitted to meet and conduct their activities on high school campuses without regard to any viewpoint espoused by the club. Additionally, the United States Supreme Court has held that public officials are prohibited from censoring speech before it is expressed. Prohibiting an event based on the real or anticipated objections of members of the community also has been held unlawful by the United States Supreme Court.
The District will continue to monitor the situation to ensure the safety of all its students and staff.
Greg Lundeen
Superintendent
Why wasn't something like this done after school? It HAD to be done during school hours? Holy h*ll should have been raised.
The only way that this type of stuff will stop is if conservatives challenge with a counter-measure that they know will equally offend liberals.
If it alright with the school, it is alright with my mom and daaaaaaaaaaaad.
That sounds baaaaary nice. Who will be the baaaaaride?
Who will throw the baaaaaaquet? I think the sheepdogs will want to get in on the act too.
I still trying to figure out how students have a right that exceeds the taxpaying public.
Hasn't the Supreme Court ruled that students during school hours don't have free speech, because their education trumps their expression? I remember hearing something like that back in high school (I graduated in 2002.)
Betcha the person who came up with this idiotic idea is a liberal. What is God's name is wrong with this school system and this community??? I say that everyone against this should show up at the wedding (uninvited) and show support for straight people and 'back to common sense movement'. After all, we too have the right to exercise our free speech!!!
There are a lot of freepers you have just labeled as child abusers. I'm one you have painted that way. The magnet public school my daughter attends ranks the highest in the state, above most of the parochial and private schools.
But please, don't let facts get in the way of your unfounded notions.
Who will perform the ceremony and will they have the nerve to mention God? Oh, that's right, it's a mock wedding.
I went to the Victorville newspaper and the school board site - find nothing on this. Was this in the newspaper. Did find that the next School Board meeting will be held exec session for a good portion of it - least the way I read the release.
and here
The United Nations Treaty on the Rights of the Child would set up a broad array of children's rights against their parents. The treaty would give children the right to "rest and leisure." Does that mean that, when you tell Billy to clean up his room and carry out the garbage, he can say, "I have my UN right to rest and leisure"? Does this treaty mean that, when you tell Sally to turn off the television and do her homework, she can say, "Oh, no, I have my UN right to get information from the media of my choice"? Article 43 sets up a Committee on the Rights of the Child consisting of ten "experts" to monitor compliance. Do you want UN "experts" monitoring the way you raise your children?
The United Nations Treaty on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women purports to govern political, economic, social, cultural, and civil areas, plus "customs and practices," "social and cultural patterns of conduct of men and women." This treaty would require us to follow UN dictates about "family education" and feminist dictates about revision of textbooks.
I don't know if this press release was actually released. Someone else posted on this topic last week. I read the article, got upset, did some research and then sent the Superintendent a letter.
The Press Release was a Word Document attachment attached to a reply that I received from his secretary today. Funny how I get a reply after the act is done.
Here is another article that I found.
http://www.vvdailypress.com/2005/110804514555832.html
Thanks - just what I was looking for!!!!
Sorry DMZ, a spades a spade. I'm glad your child is in a Magnet school you like, but like you said, it ISN'T the best school in the state.. may be the best public school, but not the best school.. Public Schools are like public defenders, yes they are neccessary, but hardly are they the approach one should use if they have the ability not to.
You don't have to like the reality, but it is reality.
The only "reality" you've demonstrated is the "reality" of you opinions, which, of course, means that you're attempting (unsuccessfully, I might add) to pass your opinions off as objective fact.
I have personal experience (3 times over) that completely contradicts your "reality". Sorry, my experience trumps your opinions every time.
I'm also of the opinion that no amount of back and forth is going to change anyone's mind on this topic.
Sorry DMZ, afraid not, as first hand experience personally with myself and my family mutiple generations, Public schools do not in the grand case remotely compare to private education. Not in any measurable way.
Now, that's just academics, lets not get into the legal fact that while your child is at school, legally they are pretty much wards of the state and free to be subject to whatever nonsense they decide without any real recourse by parents or guardians. Don't believe me? Go look into the forced pelvic exams of 6th graders by a school district in PA a few years ago. Or the 2nd grader who committed suicide after being shown a film about it at school. Judges threw out lawsuits over such actions etc etc. Why do you think the lesbian avengers can go pass out there crap at public schools ad naseum?
You fool yourself greatly if you think public education remotely compares to private education. Public education is the education equivalent of the public defender, yes its a neccessity, but hardly is it remotely equivalent on any measurable level. If you believe it is, you are vastly misinformed.
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