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School District Removes 'Divisive' Triangle Symbols
AgapePress ^ | January 21, 2003 | Jim Brown

Posted on 01/26/2003 2:53:18 PM PST by Buffalo Bob

An Illinois school district has banned pro-homosexual signs from its classrooms because the signs created divisiveness and disruption.

Board members from Rich Township High School District 227 have decided to remove "rainbow triangles" that designated certain classrooms as "safe-zones" for homosexual, bisexual, or transgender students. Rich Township Superintendent Dr. Brian Knutson says the presence of the symbols on school property created a disruption.

"No matter how honorable our intentions were, that particular symbol became divisive," Knutson says. "We unintentionally may have pitted some teachers against one another because if a teacher chose not to have that symbol on their door -- it was on a voluntary basis -- did that mean they weren't a safe place to go to? That wasn’t the intent, but that's how some people perceived it -- and that was part of that divisiveness."

Knutson, who supported the multicolored triangles at the beginning of the school year, says the district should have sought community input on strategies to overcome problems of bullying and harassment in schools. He says the district did not do a good enough job communicating with parents.

"Had we shared with our school community some of the issues on the kids who were being bullied and harmed, set the stage, and then talked with the community about ways to address these needs, it would have been different," he says. "But unfortunately, we kept that dialogue just within our tight school family -- the staff themselves."

Knutson says the district does not intend to put a new "diversity" symbol in classrooms, but rather will simply implement its current policies that ensure the safety of all students.


TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: homosexualagenda
The New Butt Order® (NBO) is not gonna like this. I predict Satan's minions over at the ACLU already have plans to bankrupt this school district into submission before their Master.
1 posted on 01/26/2003 2:53:19 PM PST by Buffalo Bob
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To: Buffalo Bob
it is good news that the young people at this school made the pink triangles divisive in order to stand up to the pc nazis. Maybe we should put up fish symbols for locations that are friendly to christians.
2 posted on 01/26/2003 3:05:30 PM PST by Red Jones
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To: Buffalo Bob
Every student should be "safe" inside of a classroom _without_ regard to his/her sex, religion, color, sexual preference yada yada yada.

When you begin making exceptions -- in this case for sexual preference -- in a way that isn't necessary you move into very shaky territory... for a myriad of reasons.
3 posted on 01/26/2003 3:07:01 PM PST by Anti-Bolshevik
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To: Buffalo Bob
They have no business encouraging homosexuality, or forcing its acceptance upon students or faculty. The schools should teach the kids to behave like civilized people, that every individual should be treated with respect. Instead, they choose to indoctrinate them in leftist ideology. The entire school should be a safe zone for everyone. The whole idea of special protection for any one group is unAmerican.
4 posted on 01/26/2003 3:07:06 PM PST by Jeff Chandler ( ; -)
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To: Buffalo Bob
It's nice to hear some good news for a change.

They can confront the issue of bullying in a general manner, without forcing a dumbing down of basic morality principles.

5 posted on 01/26/2003 3:08:29 PM PST by RAT Patrol
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To: Buffalo Bob
"No matter how honorable our intentions were, that particular symbol became divisive," Knutson says.

The man prevaricates. If refuge rooms were truly needed there would be some for the gothics, the nerds and the kids whose lunch money is extorted by schoolyard bullies.

This was just a propaganda effort to "fly the flag" and an attempt to get all the teachers to toe the homosexual line.

It failed.

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6 posted on 01/26/2003 3:11:50 PM PST by JCG
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To: RAT Patrol
They can confront the issue of bullying in a general manner, without forcing a dumbing down of basic morality principles.

Great minds think alike...

7 posted on 01/26/2003 3:21:38 PM PST by Buffalo Bob
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To: Jeff Chandler
Parents should teach the kids to behave like civilized people, that every individual should be treated with respect.

School should teach reading, writing, spelling, math, history, and science.

8 posted on 01/26/2003 3:29:56 PM PST by Bob Mc
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To: Buffalo Bob
What should be removed is the band of imbeciles that came up with the idea in the first place.
9 posted on 01/26/2003 3:32:55 PM PST by Dionysius
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To: Buffalo Bob
The NBO . . . I see them everyday on the evo threads - - - the NHBO ! ! !
10 posted on 01/26/2003 3:35:50 PM PST by f.Christian (Orcs of the world: Take note and beware.)
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To: Red Jones
Maybe we should put up fish symbols for locations that are friendly to christians.

In a public school?</sarcasm>

11 posted on 01/26/2003 3:36:32 PM PST by Aeronaut (Your message imprinted here)
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To: Buffalo Bob
I can picture a sit-in by students and parents, chanting "H*ll no, we don't blow!".
12 posted on 01/26/2003 3:51:20 PM PST by Paul Atreides
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To: RAT Patrol
It's nice to hear some good news for a change.

That it is, regardless of the reasoning.

FMCDH

13 posted on 01/26/2003 3:56:40 PM PST by nothingnew (the pendulem always swings back and the socialists are now in the pit)
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To: Bob Mc
Parents should teach the kids to behave like civilized people, that every individual should be treated with respect.

School should teach reading, writing, spelling, math, history, and science.

Good point. Please allow me to rephrase that.

School should require the kids to behave like civilized people, and insist that every individual  be treated with respect.


14 posted on 01/26/2003 5:32:08 PM PST by Jeff Chandler ( ; -)
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To: Buffalo Bob
Special rights always cause divisiveness which is why AA is whithering on the vine.
15 posted on 01/26/2003 5:33:53 PM PST by jwalsh07 (Boycott France, Germany and the UN)
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To: Jeff Chandler
jc...

They have no business encouraging homosexuality, or forcing its acceptance upon students or faculty. The schools should teach the kids to behave like civilized people, that every individual should be treated with respect. Instead, they choose to indoctrinate them in leftist ideology. The entire school should be a safe zone for everyone. The whole idea of special protection for any one group is unAmerican.


4 posted on 01/26/2003 3:07 PM PST by Jeff Chandler ( ; -)

fC...

They have no business encouraging homosexuality (( evolutuion // atheism )) **, or forcing its acceptance upon students or faculty. The schools should teach the kids to behave (( think )) ** like civilized people, that every individual should be treated with respect. Instead, they choose to indoctrinate them in (( hard core )) ** leftist ideology (PC // BIAS )) ** . The entire school should be a safe zone (( NO brainwashing )) ** for everyone. The whole idea (( tyranny )) ** of special protection (( MONOPOLY )) ** for any one group (( privelegdes )) ** is unAmerican (( forced RELIGION establishment // vetting // witch hunts // elites )) ** .


.. .. .. ** my additions !


16 posted on 01/26/2003 6:36:04 PM PST by f.Christian (Orcs of the world: Take note and beware.)
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To: Jeff Chandler
bttt
17 posted on 01/27/2003 2:15:07 PM PST by f.Christian (Orcs of the world: Take note and beware.)
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To: Bob Mc
School should teach reading, writing, spelling, math, history, and science.

They should not be concerned with the students' preference on where they would like to stick their genitals. And that's all that "orientation" refers to.

18 posted on 01/27/2003 2:19:06 PM PST by MrB
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