Posted on 04/28/2005 6:14:43 AM PDT by worldclass
LEXINGTON, MASSACHUSETTS, APRIL 27. Lexington parent, David Parker, was arrested today by the Lexington Police for “trespassing” at his son’s elementary school during a scheduled meeting with the principal and the city’s Director of Education over his objections to homosexual curriculum materials and discussions in his son’s kindergarten class.
At the meeting, Parker demanded that the school inform him when homosexual subjects are to be discussed with his son, and allow his son not to be included in such activities. He said he would not leave until his request was granted. The Principal and the city’s Director of Education both refused his request. They then telephoned the Superintendent of Schools who also refused. Police were called, who told Parker that unless he left the school he would be arrested.
Statement by David Parker(April 27, 2005):
“I, David Parker, am the father of a kindergarten student at Estabrook Elementary School in Lexington, Massachusetts. Since the beginning of this school year, my wife and I have learned that school materials and discussions about gay-headed households/same-sex union issues have been exposed to the children. There are definitive plans to increase the teacher/staff/adult mediated discussions of these subjects.
“We have officially stated on many occasions—to the Lexington school administration—a request that we be notified when these discussions are planned, and want our 6-year-old opted out of such situations when arising “spontaneously”.
“Our parental requests for our own child were flat-out denied with no effort at accommodation. In our meeting on April 27, I, insisted that such accommodation be made and refused to leave the meeting room. I was informed that I would be arrested.”
Parker will be arraigned on Thursday, April 28, in Concord District Court at 9 am. “This is an unbelievable outrage,” said Brian Camenker, a friend and Newton, Mass. parent. “It’s where last year’s same-sex ‘marriage’ ruling has brought us.”
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You have that so perfectly right....I never had any doubts about my husband, but I sure had serious ones about me as a mom - they changed pretty quickly!!!! We may not be perfect parents, but we do the best we can, and we love it!
God Bless you and yours too.
When the "potential" arrives, you will do just fine, trust me - I've been there!!!!!!
Let's say Dewey County gets a voucher proposal approved. That means that suddenly, funds that were previously only available to the Dewey County School District suddenly have become available to everybody who claims they're a homeschooler. Some are county funds, and some are Federal funds.
Of course, not all of the parents Dewey County who claim a share of that money are actually homeschoolers; some are just claiming so so they can nab an extra, oh, two grand per year courtesy of the government. Other families are really trying to make a go of it under the voucher system, but are ill-prepared or not really suited to homeschool, and their childrens' educations suffer as a result.
At that point, it becomes quite reasonable for well-meaning people in Dewey County to stand up and say "We need better regulation of homeschooling in Dewey County. We need more standardized testing of homeschooled children to make sure they're meeting Dewey County's educational standards. In fact, we need to mandate a curriculum so that all the children in Dewey County are assured a quality education."
And the Federal Government, which never issues funds without accompanying regulation, nods in agreement. Thus, before too many years have gone by, we no longer have true homeschooling; we have public schooling practiced at home.
That's a bad move to make. I would rather go with the existing system, in which we pay taxes to the local school district in return for it keeping its grubby mitts off my kids. If we have to eat hot dogs and mac 'n' cheese in between reading C.S. Lewis, so be it.
Not that I'm one to side with the MSM very often, but I do have to point out this isn't a newspaper article. It's just a "press release" by someone who really doesn't know what they're doing. You can tell from the false headline that this isn't any real news story. (The guy wasn't arrested for objecting to a homosexual curriculum; he was arrested for refusing to leave the premises after any meaningful discussion had ended.)
You are, of course, correct about appositives. From the AP Stylebook:
PUNCTUATION: Do not set an essential phrase off from the rest of a sentence by commas:(I'm more into annegatives, myself.)We saw the award-winning movie "One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest." (No comma, because many movies have won awards, and without the name of the movie the reader would not know which movie was meant.)
They ate dinner with their daughter Julie. (Because they have more than one daughter, the inclusion of Julie’s name is critical if the reader is to know which daughter is meant.)
Set off nonessential phrases by commas:
We saw the 1975 winner in the Academy Award competition for best picture, "One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest." (Only one movie won the award. The name is informative, but even without the name no other movie could be meant.)
They ate dinner with their daughter Julie and her husband, David.(Julie has only one husband [at least that's what David thinks]. If the phrase read and her husband David, it would suggest that she had more than one husband.)
The company chairman, Henry Ford II, spoke. (In the context, only one person could be meant.)
Indian corn, or maize, was harvested. (Maize provides the reader with the name of the corn, but its absence would not change the meaning of the sentence.)
DESCRIPTIVE WORDS: Do not confuse punctuation rules for nonessential clauses with the correct punctuation when a nonessential word is used as a descriptive adjective. The distinguishing clue often is the lack of an article or pronoun:
Right: Julie and husband Jeff went shopping. Julie and her husband, Jeff, went shopping.
Right: Company Chairman Henry Ford II made the announcement. The company chairman, Henry Ford II, made the announcement.
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yup.
we are becoming EXACTLY the same evil we condemned in the union of soviet socialist republics.
they took kids earlier and earlier to indoctrinate them as well.
the feds will have to find a way to end homeschooling and private education, to reach their goals.
Why does this need to be discussed in a kindergarten class?
Here's what homosexuals say:
"... GLSEN activist and New York kindergarten teacher Jaki Williams said starting in kindergarten is a must, since children at that age are still developing their ideas about the world around them. Even at that age, she said, “the saturation process needs to begin.”
Williams, in fact, is a model teacher when it comes to this “saturation” process. She regularly initiates conversations with her children by reading to them such controversial books as Heather Has Two Mommies, Daddy’s Roommate, and One Dad, Two Dads, Browns Dads, Blue Dads. She also hosts a viewing of the video Both of My Moms’ Names Are Judy: Children of Lesbians and Gays Speak Out, produced by a San Francisco pro-homosexual advocacy group.
According to one writer for The Lambda Report, who infiltrated a 1997 GLSEN workshop, one former teacher admitted that changing the mind of a child required more than a one-time effort. She said she had to expose her children to a constant stream of homosexual words and images, because "It’s really a conditioning process..."
Additional information posted here.
Excerpts from Chapter Four:
"The radicals in control of the gay establishment want children in their world of moral decay, lack of self-restraint, and moral relativism. Why? How better to truly belong to the majority (when you're really on the fringe) than by taking possession of the next generation? By targeting children, you can start indoctrinating the next generation with the false construct that gay people deserve special treatment and special laws." (Pg.88)
"I believe this grab for children by the sexually confused adults of the Gay Elite repesents the most serious problem facing our culture today." (Pg.94)
"Between GLSEN, the Happy Penis, Phil, and now Kami, I'd say the Gay Elite have your children as a captive audience. Whether you like it or not, they have appointed themselves your children's moral tutor." (pg.119)
Compare what Tammy Bruce has written with the following articles:
Targeting Children - How the gay movement intends to capture the next generation
Targeting Children - Part three: Activists encouraging experimentation
Targeting Children - Part four: Access to children: homosexuality and molestation
How can he be trespassing when his meeting with the principal was scheduled? Aparently the principal can call it trespassing if you don't agree with him.
The father is on WRKO AM680 Howie Carr show right now 4:07 PM. You can pick up WRKO on the net.
Welcome to the Twilight Zone.
Well, sort of. He called in to Howie Carr. He said he was told he'd have to go through "proper channels" (whatver that may mean) and it would take some time. He asked about some kind of help in the meantime until it was finalized. The principal -- and vice principal? -- put a call in to the superintendent of schools. They were still on the phone with him when the police arrived.
Two more words: Home School
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