Posted on 08/11/2004 12:28:32 PM PDT by EUPHORIC
A California school district is considering adopting a new policy that could cause students to be expelled for "rejecting" each other, for sharing "unpleasant stories" about each other even if true or for associating with like-minded peers in groups if others feel "left out."
According to a statement from the Pro-Family Law Center, the Murrieta Valley Unified School District in Riverside County, Calif., is taking up the issue in response to race-related incidents that have taken place within the district in the last year.
The center says national race-based organizations came to the district to propose language for the policy, which prevents students from forming or openly participating in groups that tend to exclude, or create the impression of the exclusion of, other students.
"Based on a plain reading of the proposed regulation, a student could be expelled for simply claiming to be a member of La Raza ('The Race'), a Latino organization, or for playing rap music near white students," said the law group's statement.
Richard D. Ackerman is vice president of legal affairs for the Pro-Family Law Center.
"This is a brutal affront to the First Amendment," Ackerman said. "Students have a right to associate with each other and should not be punished for dividing themselves into groups that allow individuals to better relate to each other.
"For example, Latino students have unique socio-economic circumstances that justify allowing them to privately associate with each other, just as much as Christian students may have things in common that warrant the creation of a private group whose members share common values and attitudes. School districts have no right to interfere with the peaceful activities of any club or social group, even if the mere existence of the group makes certain persons uncomfortable."
Ackerman is a MVUSD parent and has sent a strongly worded legal opinion to the district. Litigation is threatened if the proposed policy is approved.
Under the policy, Ackerman says, no group would be allowed to engage in any behavior that makes others "feel left out."
The school board is scheduled to vote on the proposal tomorrow.
And there will be posters here who will try to justify it.
Next up - California bans bad weather.
Time for a mandatory cuddle party.
You can take that to the bank, Big B.
Those who are proposing/implementing these new "acceptance" policies should set the example, don't you think?
They should drop their current "significant other," and re-marry their divorced, ie. "rejected," former spouses.
Can't have "rejection," can we?
And henceforth, they should do all their socializing with traditional conservatives. Can't "reject" them either, right?
They must be sure to attend any abortion clinic protests in their areas, to meet Terry Randall and other pro-lifers so these people can be invited to their birthday parties and other events.
By setting this fine example, they will be inspiring these children to do the right thing.
You didn't read closely.
I said I do believe that a student who is promoting La Raza at school should be expelled. The organization is not very different from the KKK, World Church of the Creator or Aryan Nation.
That, my friend, is about free speech.
I went on to say I did not say that membership should be the basis of expulsion, but that actual activities related to this type of group have no place in the schools.
Having friends is definitley dicriminatory. In order to have friends you must choose some people over others. Gosh, that's so hurtful. As a child, my self esteem was permanently damaged by kids who practiced this so called "friendship". I urge all of us to adopt the position that "Friendship is Hate" and consider any child "Befriending" another as a hate crime.
Want the kids to accept one another as equals all around?
Remove their sense of individuality. Remove their self-confidence. Remove their ability to be themselves and resist outside pressures.
Turn them all into drones.
Make George Orwell proud and turn our next generation of children into cuddle happy zombies!
If you want to increase the amount of intermingling in a school, provide activities that bring people from different social circles into contact. My high school had a mandatory athletics program. The nerds and the jocks played sports together, and wouldn't you believe it? Some of the nerds turned out to be great at sports, and they became socially mobile. Other extracurricular activities besides sports were encouraged, and many jocks joined the choir and theater arts programs. Would you believe it? Some of them were great it. There were no "easy" classes for jocks, so they could pass and continue to play. They had to participate in academics as much as they participated in their sports. Study halls, and evening study hours in the library for underperforming students helped struggling students cope. Student tutors helped.
Even though I went to a private high school, the cost per student was only a few hundred more than most public schools spend per student.
Hey, it just occured to me that there are only 24 hours in a day. Rudimentary, you say? Well, sure, but not insignificant. Think about this, monday (no, on second thought, think about it today -- little joke)... Every minute spent with your own all-white, all-black or all-hispanic family is time stolen from other ethnic groups who are thereby being rejected. The obvious solution to this is to swap kids between ethnically, racially and economically dissimilar families.
Oooh! You're gonna love this, monday (just might even love it today, hehe). If you're a guy like Colin Powell, you can't spend time with anybody because you've got a little of every race already in you. Now you've got a big problem, on account of you can't spend any time alone. But there's help on the way. Spend all your time with animals.
The La Raza idiots are among the biggest racists on the planet. They subscribe wholeheartedly to the racial marxism sputtered by MEChA and other assorted lunatics.
Oh my. This person is advocating an extreme form of rejection, expulsion. Can't we all just get along?
"Kids rejected for rejecting each other" There. That makes a pantload of sense.
But, but they're not expelling them from school, they're merely confining them to the whole rest of the city. You see how that works?
Why do I have the feeling that this law would only be enforced against whites?
Words are slippery things indeed. But "expulsion" and "rejection" are about the same, and if a person is "expelled" on the justification that "rejection" is wrong, well, the person doing so is inviting criticism.
You are not considered a 'citizen' until you reach adulthood.(18)
Sad but that includes a lot of high scholl students
these days
Clearly so, and understood. I was just hoping a pithy summary would exude from my keyboard ... THAT didn't happen.
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