"Then you will have assemblies, where the kids are supposed to reveal deep secrets about themselves. In these assemblies the kids will be encouraged to confess they are homosexual, so the group can learn to accept them."
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This sort of thing is necessary for the milieu control that is necessary for thought reforming environment. Robert J. Lifton called it "the cult of confession."
People are psychologically coerced into considering passing acquaintences one's closest friends and confidants, and are further coerced into telling them things they'd only tell lifelong friends or God in private. In this way the natural order of human affection is inverted, so that the organization, and not one's relationships of natural affection, is the most important relationship in the neophyte's life.
A thought reforming organization inverts the beneficial effect of talking things over with one’s comrades. Instead, it becomes primarily an act of symbolic surrender, an expression of merging the individual with the organization. Confessions before the group helps thought reformers to totally expose organization members. Ego boundaries become blurred. The boundary between what one wishes to keep private and what one wishes to make public becomes blurred. Using this faux camaraderie, the organization can learn everything possible about the life experiences of individuals, their thoughts, their passions, their fears, and most especially, their weaknesses. A person’s psychological buttons are quickly discovered, and later are pressed incessantly to further manipulate his or her feelings and behavior. All this is explained as “sensitivity training.”
It is a common practice in totalitarian organizations and borderline psychotic religious cults, and is one reason I refer to militant homosexuals and their associates "The Cult of the Anus."
The fact that it is common in schools is cause enough to take up arms.
Your response was extremely helpful. I am not knowledgeable about brainwashing or thought reform techniques, but I suspected that this is what was happening in the assembly. I now have some information I can show the other parents to help them understand that schools are fast becoming "re-education camps". This is really really scary.
Here is an exercise asked in an assembly called Breaking down the Walls, by a company called Learning for Living.
cross the line (30 minutes)
Cross the line if...
Are a good kisser
Excellent friend
If you have ever let a friend down in a really big way
You have ever lied to your parents
Have snuck Out of the house without your parents knowing
If one of your parents ever let you down in a big way
Either parent is younger than 35
Either parent is older than 55
Parents are divorced
Considered teachers pet
Received straight A’s on a report card
Received an F on a report card
Received a suspension
Have ever been expelled
Immediate family member is addicted to drugs or alcohol
Ever been drunk
Ever tried an illegal drug (not age related)
If you smoke cigarettes
Have you ever come to school under the influence
Have a close friend or relative who gay or lesbian
Have ever used the term "that is so gay"
If you currently practice abstinence
If you believe we live in a violent society
Have ever been made fun of on this campus
Have ever done anything you shouldn’t have done just to fit in
Have ever made fun of someone on this campus
If you are treated differently because of the color of your skin
Believe that women are treated better in our society
Believe that men are treated better in our society
If you believe you are an attractive person
If someone you trust has told you, you are an attractive person
If you have been in the hospital for two weeks or longer
Immediate family member has had cancer
Know anyone who has attempted suicide
Know anyone who has committed suicide
If you have seriously considered committing suicide
Have ever attempted suicide
If one of your parents has passed away
Learned something about someone you did not know before today
Learned something about yourself that you did not know or that surprised you
Crossed 100% of the time when you could
From your information, it looks like they are using "confession" as a way to make kids think they are all alike, good or bad. The kids confessed by stepping over a line and showing everyone in the assembly some of their most intimate secrets