Posted on 04/02/2005 8:40:49 PM PST by naturalman1975
CHILDREN as young as five are learning about gay and lesbian parents in books circulating in Victorian schools.
The books - aimed at children learning to read in kindergarten and early primary school - describe families with two mums or dads.
An excerpt from one of the books, The Rainbow Cubby House, written by Vicki Harding and her daughter Brenna, 8, reads: "Today my mums and I are working in our backyard. Jed is coming over with his two dads. We are all going to make a cubby house. We've got hammers and nails and a shed full of wood."
The books' authors sparked a furore when they appeared with Vicki's partner Jackie on the popular children's show, Play School.
The controversial books were produced under a $33,000 NSW Government grant, prompting NSW Premier Bob Carr to launch an investigation.
In Victoria, the books are reported to be selling "incredibly well" at bookshops and a Melbourne education conference.
Victoria's Opposition education spokesman Victor Perton said the quality of children's books had declined so much that a public inquiry needed to establish new standards.
"At that age children need uplifting literature that stimulates their reading. We don't need to complicate it with adult themes," Mr Perton said.
Books such as The Rainbow Cubby House - the latest in a series of four by the authors - should be selected only by parental choice, he said.
"It would worry me greatly if these books were being slipped into reading lists by social activists."
In Victoria, the books are being bought by parents who donate them to school libraries.
Mr Perton said he expected most schools would censor the books out of libraries but some would not scrutinise donated books.
But Ms Harding said critics of the books should not worry.
"They are not explicit," she said. "We want to raise awareness in the community that there are diverse family structures and show children in same sex families that their family is relevant and supported."
About 5000 of the books have been sold in Australia.
Daddy's Other Wives
When I Grow Up I Want To Marry Daddy
Well duh! Who else would defile the minds of little children with abominations like that? No normal, sane person would , I assure you!
Satan isn't after bodies, he's after souls, and the children are easy targets.
can a PTA stop these books from being read? or are they now infested with 2 "mums" per child also.....sick. (i have 1 mom and 1 dad and proud of it!!!)
Yet another reason to homeschool.
Yet another reason to homeschool
Unless the kid has two mommies or two daddies.
I'm not a fan of homeschooling, but this seems to be one of the many problems with the public school system...
I don't think those books are going to find a particularly wide audience outside of areas where the two mommy/two daddy thing is popular.
If it were up to me, we'd have mandatory boarding schools.
"Satan isn't after bodies, he's after souls, and the children are easy targets."
Indeed.
There is an enemy out there who's after the poisoning of our children's minds and spirits.
Some day our children will damn us for allowing this disgusting indecency to be thought to them.
Know thy enemy.
That should NEVER happen.
Child welfare authorities should remove kids from such an environment.
Marriage in this country is a coin-toss with a fifty percent failure rate -- can you imagine what would happen to any company whose products failed fifty percent of the time? Kids are being raised by television and video games. And guys are starting second families in their late fifties.
Books are the least of the problems.
I've always been a staunch believer in the public school system, however it seems just recently it has really turned into a corrupt and violent setting, and I wouldn't send children to one if I had any (I came out of it 4 years ago).
I do, however, think that all religious schools should be treated at the same level as public schools, and that strict standards are necessary.
Schools are only as good as the community they serve. Actually, they're the best possible mirror of a community. If you want to know what kind of people live in a place, look at the local schools. It's like looking into the subconscious of a community...
In Victorian schools!
I spent the 1980's fighting this stuff down - locally, state wide, even in Washington DC - But they wear us down because their funding comes from tax payers dollars - and we have to pay our own expenses and have time from work. So we foot the bill for them and for us. They can go on forever and they do...I'm to old to keep up the fight, except by my writing, but I urge you who can - get educated - find out what organizations are still fighting this - and FIGHT.
You need to go to school and look at the books in your childs desk and in the school library. this is one part of the deliberate chiseling away to destroy our society. ahh -h
Like I said, mandatory boarding schools. Save children from their parents...
In Victorian schools!
In other news, protests erupted outside a local school over a required reading list that included Anthony Trollope...
The public school system should be abolished.
"Schools are only as good as the community they serve."
The school my children go to would never allow such a book to be used in the system. Unfortunately, that has no correlation to the quality of education the kids are getting. It's a substandard school system. While the school administrators work hard to do their best, the parents neglect the entire process of educating their children. Very sad. The principal says a prayer for guidance and assistance before every function I've been to. I'm not sure it's helping but at least there's no parents there to complain about the prayers.
"Books are the least of the problems."
Books are part of the problem, just as are images from TV, the Internet, books, magazines, newspapers, billboards, scool posters etc, etc.
Whoever controls images controls the minds of our children and, hence, the present. Whoever controls the present, controls the future. But, you knew that. It's just that we are on opposing camps.
Know thy enemy.
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