Posted on 02/18/2005 1:00:51 PM PST by colorcountry
The topic of homosexuality is taboo in the Nebo School District.
So the school district in southern Utah County is having trouble finding a replacement for outmoded psychology textbooks at its three high schools.
Priscilla Leek, a Springville High School psychology teacher who sits on a district committee that reviews teaching materials, says the world has changed in the seven years since the district last chose a psychology textbook.
"Most publishers have now included small amounts - a paragraph or couple of pages - in texts about homosexuality," Leek said. "I don't teach homosexuality. But if it appears in a textbook, there's nothing I can do to keep students from reading it."
Despite their difficulty in finding new basic-level psychology schoolbooks, Nebo school board members told Leek and others this week to keep on looking.
State law bans teachers or texts from advocating homosexuality, but Nebo District's policy is more restrictive.
"Our policy is that it will not be taught unless it is teaching the negative consequences thereof," said Nedra Call, Nebo's director of curriculum.
(Excerpt) Read more at sltrib.com ...
Cajones.
Bump for text book publishers to take note.
MANY states have laws which PROHIBIT homsoexuality to be taught as a positive lifestyle.
http://www.findlaw.com
I agree with the Utah state law. But we can probably expect the communist ACLU (which stands for Anti-Christian Liberal Union) to jump all over this.
They should see if NARTH will produce the textbooks for them.
same law is in texas which recently ordered a text book maker to ensure marriage is one MAN and one WOMAN.
But texas is big enough to have shoving power.
Psychology in high school? Well, good luck to them. Maybe they could find something from a reprint publisher, or use copies of articles.
I knew if I posted this, some good ideas would surface.
Thanks!
The insides can become dated. (pictures of people etc.)
References can become irrelevant. (commitment to mental hospitals in the USSR as political control.)
That's precisely correct ... and people who were not mentally ill last year (maybe they were just annoying, or unhappy) are now mentally ill.
They will find more common sense in 'outmoded' texts, I might suggest. We have 1958 World Books. They are wonderful. Nothing PC in them. Psychology probably made more sense back then too.
We'll soon find out whether it's Anti-Mormon, too.
Does "lobotomy" ring a bell?
Wow, this requires breathtaking courage nowadays. Bravo, Nebo!!!
The article goes on to say...(finding appropriate Textbooks)... might prove impossible, but says students' educational experience will not be adversely impacted if they are forced to do without a book.
"I can find current research material, selected readings and we have the Internet," Leek said. "I mean we're not living in a cave."
I'm surprised the child predators of GLSEN (Fistgate) hasn't been there yet.
That's sort of what happened around 1975 when homosexuality was removed from the DSM which is the bible of shrinks. That removal was the start of homo's coming out of the closet and has lead to the demands for special laws and "gay marriage" which is an oxymoron. The reason the shrinks removed homosexuality as a mental illness was that so many of the shrinks were homo's.
"How exactly does a psychology text book become "outmoded"?"
I think few people remember that homosexuality was only removed from DSM as a psychological disorder in the early 1970's.
No problem; best of luck to you.
There is also that brief period when PEDOPHILLIA was removed from the DSM and then put back in under a later issued addendum.
The APA is a joke, it like the ABA and the AMA is VOLUNTARY.
I thought ACLU = American Criminal Liberties Union.
and after seven years of rough handling, they collectively get damaged.
The "older" texts do not even consider Christianity to be a mental illness...
There have been huge technological advances which have enabled researchers to gain very specific knowledge about neurochemistry and the physical functioning of the brain, which just didn't exist 10-15 years ago. One example is the imaging technology which has allowed comparisons of male and female brains working on the same task -- in boys/men a very task-specific area in the brain shows huge activity while the rest remains dark; in girls/women, that task-specific area lights up more than the rest, but not as much as in the male brains, and many other parts of the brain light up to a lesser but very significant degree.
This sort of new knowledge is very important in fighting various ignorance-based assumptions of recent decades, including the nonsense that gender differences in intellectual performance are entirely due to "sexist" socialization. Havrad President Lawrence Summers used another example in his "controversial" statements about gender differences, pointing out that many mental problems which used to be attributed to socialization/parenting styles, etc. have since been found to be genetic/organic in origin. The key example he used was autism, which leading psychology and medical researchers once generally agreed was due to personality problems in the parents affecting how they interacted with their children. Now that advanced brain-imaging techniques are available, researchers have found very clear abnormalities in how certain areas of the brain grow in autistic children.
Consider that BF Skinner teaches behavior is LEARNED and he is the father of modern psychology.
YET, homo-recruiters like the GLSEN, PFLAG, and the GSA (student sex club) come in and say behavior is "born".
They might as well say "born to party".
It can be both. They're Anti-Christian and a bunch of liberal communist liberty-snatching criminals.
Thanks ... I should have figured they'd thought of it. Cheaper for the school district, as well as giving them control over the content.
Ahh gotcha...my double think isn't up to speed.
Easy fix: just go to some used-book warehouse, or find some old closed schools that haven't yet been razed, and collect the textbooks of 40 years ago or older. The upside to this is that the children might actually learn something.
I recently took an introductory psychology class at a local college. It was very heavy on brain anatomy and biochemistry, and experimental evidence from animal studies. There was very little "touchy-feely" stuff -- Freud's theories were skimmed over quickly, with both the book and professor emphasizing that there was little evidence for most of his ideas, and that they were being covered just as background on the history of psychology. Modern psychology and psychiatry are primarily serious areas of scientific research, notwithstanding that some garbage still gets mixed in, and that the early years of these fields were heavy on wild and subjective speculation.
Well, personally, I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy! /rimshot
The only think that you need to know about psychology and homosexuality is that it is a mental disorder, and not one single psychological experiment or study has ever proven it to be otherwise... it was dropped from their guides over politics not new science.
While the specific experiments the Nazi's did lacked scientific validity, the concept of head size as being related to psychiatric problems is quite valid, as recent advances in autism research have shown.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2002/07/020724080815.htm
Early efforts in any scientific field are later found to be deficient and largely wrong, but the early efforts nonetheless are essential precursors to the later, more successful efforts.
I think the problem of public and private insurance coverage for mental illness is a serious one, not because mental illness and the professions that treat it aren't legitimate, but because the interplay between real mental illness and plain old attitude problems is extremely complex, and it's utterly impossible to separate the two in any way that's workable for insurance bureaucracies. I know someone who clearly has very real brain chemistry problems, causing psychiatric symptoms (serious depression, anxiety, completely reversed sleep schedule, and lack of appetite) for which she is being medicated with partial success. But the fact that trying different medications has brought some relief from the organically-based problems has, in my opinion, distracted her and her psychiatrist and therapist from the fact that she also desperately needs to readjust her thinking on a lot of topics. However, her counterproductive thinking patterns are at least partly the result of years of untreated, very real organic problems. Right now she really needs continued medication and professional monitoring, but without some well-placed kicks-in-the-behind, those will be a limited benefit. But how does an insurer contractually commit to cover medication and talk-therapy, only if those are accompanied by kicks-in-the-behind from people the patient interacts with in her daily life? That's the combination that's usually needed, but there's no way systematically ensure its delivery as a complete package.
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"Our policy is that it will not be taught unless it is teaching the negative consequences thereof," said Nedra Call, Nebo's director of curriculum.
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You GO, Nebo!
And this is how it SHOULD be.
"I suppose it's an improvement over teaching "they" should be burned at the stake, however."
And what exactly is that supposed to mean?
Could you cite the studies, preferably with urls?
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