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A little over a year ago, a teacher at my sons school was giving out extra credits to kids that would volunteer at a local Hospice center, overwhelmingly stacked with these poor fatally ill AIDS sufferers! She, a lesbian, lead them to believe that they those who went were somehow much better than those who refused! This ...a typical ploy, raising the bar on compassion, and lowering the bar on morality!
Some kids that were borderline students felt they had to go to either earn the extra credits, or at least boost themselves in the eye of their teacher. I went to the principal and demanded that this teacher get a permission slip from the parents of the students that she was illegally shuffling back and forth to this hospital... It did not a bit of good, so I went to the school board president and it was stopped within the same hour!
The problem with AIDS, is that the disease is one of an absence of the body's ability to fight off any type of attack from within or airborne.. thus the resurgence of TB.. etc that was all but extinguished worldwide 20 years ago.
My problem was grounded in Science, not bigotry or homophobia, it was my natural defense of children, a duty and normal reaction born in the fabric of a man, and father.

This type of nonsense has to stop. What was wrong with the principal????

How can a teacher get away with asking kids to go to a hospice without parental permission and how can a principal condone it?

Parents have to stand by their kids and let them know that the public schools don't run their kids' lives and if they fail a course because they don't give in to some loony teacher's demands, that's okay too.

re: a local Hospice center, overwhelmingly stacked with these poor fatally ill AIDS sufferers!)))

Interestingly enough, those kids with their powerful public school germs were probably not all that helpful in the hospice...

These resistant bugs are already in the hospitals. We've got tequin, but what happens when that fails, too?