Posted on 02/12/2007 7:35:09 AM PST by Rodney Kings Brain
Homosexuality 101 – Coming to a School Near You
Last night a good friend of mine called me in a panic. During a recent trip to the local zoo with her two young daughters they saw two men sitting on a wall making out. Her older daughter – being an inquisitive seven year old – asked her what the men where doing. Naturally she was appalled at both the lack of discretion displayed by the men, and the prospect of explaining to her child what they were doing. I jokingly told her not to say anything because her daughter’s school – thanks to the teacher’s unions and the leftist bent of most educational establishments - would probably be giving her lessons on this topic in the near future.
On reflection I realized that my flippant remark was probably true, and that there is absolutely nothing funny about this sorry state of affairs. Not content with failing to educate students in basics, schools now feel the need to inculcate the young with the philosophies of diversity, tolerance, and identity politics.
Stage one of the brainwashing processes is to produce colorful textbooks depicting how “normal” it is for Johnny to have two moms or two dads. A brief look at some of these books shows that many of them have been produced to appeal to children as young as 5 years old.
Perhaps the best known of these books, “King & King,” is a book about a prince who must find a bride so he can become king. After searching far and wide, the would be king opts for another prince. The 29-page book ends with a “gay wedding,” the proverbial kiss and, the reader is told, the two men live “happily ever after.”
Lexington, Mass, where “gay marriage” is legal also assigns books to youngsters with the aim of “normalizing” homosexuality. One such tome is “Who’s in the Family,” a book that includes illustrations of homosexual parents. The book is split into chapters, each of which is about a different family. With captions under the illustrations such as “Robin’s family is made up of her dad, Clifford [and] her dad’s partner Clifford” and “Laura and Lyle live with their two moms,” there is nothing subtle about these texts. To make matters worse, a father who was alarmed when his kindergartener was sent home with the book was arrested when he attempted to meet school officials. Who knows how he would have reacted if his daughter had bought home, “The Sissy Duckling,” a gay take on the “Ugly Duckling” but instead of being ugly, the duckling is a sun glasses wearing, spiky haired homosexual. The hero gains acceptance after he nurses his previously disappointed father back to health after being shot by a hunter.
With the necessary texts in place, the next step in the normalization of homosexuality is to hire teachers who are prepared to “get behind” (no pun intended) the material. Last summer, the National Education Association (NEA), America’s largest teachers’ union, recommended that support for “gay marriage” be a requirement for receiving a teaching certificate.
Classrooms full of teachers who actively promote the radical homosexual agenda are bad enough; however, for students in Batavia New York returning from the summer break in 2006, the line between the Twilight Zone and reality became blurred to the point of non-existence when they were confronted with the sight of their science teacher – a man – dressed in women’s clothing. The teacher had been approved for “sex reassignment” treatment and as a result, was living as a woman while awaiting surgery. Students were given two weeks to start calling the teacher whom many knew as a man “Ms” or face suspension for sexual harassment. Outraged, many parents applied to have their children transferred to different classes only to be denied. While this may seem like an extreme case, it is not as rare as one might imagine. Parents were also outraged in 2006 when the school district of Eagleswood Township, New Jersey supported and rehired a female substitute teacher who had previously worked there as a man. In 2006, California, Gov. Schwarzenegger signed into law SB 1441, a bill that compels any school, college or daycare center that receives state funding to condone homosexuality, bisexuality, and transexuality. The implications of this bill are startling. Not only must Christian schools (and every other school, business or “program or activity that receives any financial assistance from the state”) endorse the radical homosexual agenda if they wish to keep their state funding, but they also they have to pander to radicals who can, if they are displeased, petition the state to punish offending schools.
All across the country, teachers who are friendly to the homosexual movement often place inverted pink triangles in their classroom, identifying their room as a “safe” zone for homosexuals. In addition, each year Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN) sponsors the “Day of Silence,” a day when thousands of students take a vow of silence to protest what they see as discrimination against homosexuals.
As tolerant as schools are of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered individuals, open mindedness turns into a witch-hunt where heterosexuality is concerned. One of the most egregious cases occurred in 2004 and involved a ten-year boy who was suspended from the Theodore Judah Elementary School in Sacramento for the crime of sexual harassment. It seems he made a crude comment about a female classmates chest which not only cost him a one day suspension, but students in several other classes were forced to sit through a 17-minute video entitled, “Respecting Each Other: Sexual Harassment Prevention.” One wonders what punishment the young man would have received if he had made a comment about a male students physique – perhaps a gold star (or should that be “inverted pink triangle”) for celebrating diversity and practicing tolerance?
Although I agree with the vanity poster that the presentation of homosexuality to young school students is a serious problem, I don't think that's relevant to the zoo situation. That is a question of manners, just as it would be if a heterosexual couple were going at it in such a way as to attract attention from passers-by.
I guess having watched mental illness up close and personal (my mother is bipolar and suffered a pyschotic break as a result 10 years back - on her meds and doing well now), I do not throw the term "mental disorder" around lightly.
My experience with my kids, 2 of who were at very impressionable ages, is that they fear mental illness. That is not what I'd want to instill in them, that gays, as mentally disordered, are to be feared. But that's just me.
My homeschooled teenagers would say:
Those homos ought to get a room!
We can agree to disagree, but any man that wants to be buggered up his rectum is probably suffering from severe depresssion - a mental disorder.
My teenage daughter would probably walk up to them and say, "Knock that off! Were you brought up in a barn?!?"
But the situation wasn't about teenagers; no adults should be doing personal activities in front of little children.
I agree, and would have moved my kids along. Then I would have explained to them that the two men were sick in the head, and should be in a mental hospital.
Helping parents fight with school boards, or to get "better" books into the government's Child Trauma (-Causing) Centers is a complete waste of time. Children should be taught at home by their parents, and tutored by people personally chosen by the parents. Any other arrangement is a sign of a non-functioning family, one that has allowed itself to be reduced to serving as a dormitory for the State.
Although this happened, the example was really just a way to start the piece off. You are correct though, it does introduce another issue that is not relevant to what I have to say. Thank you for your input - I will think of another way to start.
I wouldn't, but any moral or psychological comment is judgment call for a parent to make regarding his individual children.
With my children of the relevant age, I think saying something like your suggestion would require an explanation with a lot more detail than is appropriate for them.
LOL. You jokers who cannot let a thread about public schools go by without indicting those of us with public school educated children as dysfunctional and automatons for the state just crack me up.
Boldly and accurately stated. Public schools are child abuse centers.
"Any other arrangement is a sign of a non-functioning family, one that has allowed itself to be reduced to serving as a dormitory for the State."
What a silly and inane statement.
Public schools are child abuse centers.
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Another "one size fits all" post. What impressive and intelligent consideration this demonstrates on this topic.
"LOL. You jokers who cannot let a thread about public schools go by without indicting those of us with public school educated children as dysfunctional and automatons for the state just crack me up."
And don't forget that you're a child abuser. Your children will forwith be taken away and handed over to homeschoolers.
Whatever happened to the idea of minding our own business?
What ever happened to moral standards, and why would they pick a zoo to make out.
And don't forget that you're a child abuser.
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It's true. I am. My 21 year old daughter (public school educated, straight As through high school, full ride athletic scholarship to Div 1 school, now a senior, every semester on the deans list) came home and saw my 14 year old daughter using a bendy straw in her chocolate milk. The older one never got the privilege of using bendy straws.
How could I have abused her so, no bendy straws AND a public school education?
Pleased I could help! It's not a bad piece at all, although the content isn't anything new to most FReepers.
But as you can see from the responses here, the introductory example distracts the readers from the main point!
Sometimes it helps to cut through the fog. BTW, the one thing public schools do excel in is athletics.
Sometimes it helps to cut through the fog. BTW, the one thing public schools do excel in is athletics.
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