[Torie]

Yikes. Sometimes I think that the educational establishment is rather fixated on delving into these periferal topics to education because they find it entertaining, and "easy." What is not so easy is teaching kids how to read with comprehension and logic in a culture so filled with more entertaining ways to spend one's time.

[mvpel]

The alternative to this curruculum is expressed by this quote from a teacher: "...it would be impossible to protect his safety, short of hiring an armed guard to escort him from class to class."

As long as it's seen as acceptable to beat, torture, and kill another human being for any reason, we'll see this kind of effort. This curriculum doesn't point to pushing of a homosexual agenda, it points to the rotting, threadbare moral fiber of this nation, where brutal murder is seen as acceptable if the vicitm "deserved" it for being different, while the teachers and administrators look the other way.

What makes him much more concerned is that he has approached teachers and administrators about the problem and, he says, "no gains have been made in eradicating these patterns of thought and behaviour." - High School Confidential

Apparently, since it's no longer socially acceptable to lynch black people, the savagery of our young people has turned to gay people.

Matthew Shephard's killer pleads guilty
Gay student beaten to death at Gallaudet
British Sailor beaten nearly to death

[LarryLied]

Sometimes I think that the educational establishment is rather fixated on delving into these periferal topics to education because they find it entertaining, and "easy."

I wish that were the reason. But it isn't.