Ping
That is indeed a very key point.
Oh!but whatever you do, do not allow the children to be exposed to the Bible!!!!!!!!!!!!
So what do you do about something like this? How do you get momentum moving in your direction, when the school administration won't even listen to you? It's like you have lost before the battle is even joined.
Info about "It's Elementary." Be sure to read the entire page. But not on a full stomach :) $75 to rent, $250 to buy and it looks like you may have to be an "educational" organization to buy or rent it.
If homosexuality is normal and natural, how come most of us ain't doing it?
Why aren't these perverts being prosecuted like the felons they are?
It pains me to say this, but I believe the public education system in this country is beyond saving. They have their agenda, and they simply will not be stopped. It does not matter what parents or citizens or taxpayers think. The schools are going to do what they are going to do.
For parents, the only sensible alternative is to remove their children from the public school system. Catholic schools, private schools, homeschool, or whatever, it has to be a better alternative than the public schools. Putting your child in public school is simply not an option, because they will work to defeat you at every turn.
I know it is expensive, but what are one's children worth?
I know we all have to pay for public education whether we use it or not, but this will not change. Throwing your precious children down the educational rat-hole after you have already thrown in your money just compounds the error.
As stupid as this is...if my kid attended that school, I'd simply pull him out of school that day.
Betcha the homoactivists on Maui are largely liberal "imports" from the mainland.
However, it would be interesting to compare the absenteeism rate for that day with the normal rate.
Either way you cut it, Creationist or Darwinist, it's not normal per your beliefs!
Recruiting sexual deviants in high school should be illegal. I don't think we pay taxes so the money can be used to develop and create more sexual perverts.
School video preaches tolerance
About 28 percent of the 1,060 eligible students at King Kekaulike High School on Maui saw a video yesterday encouraging tolerant behavior toward homosexuals.
School officials had planned to show the video to all ninth-, 10th- and 11th-graders, but after some parents and residents objected, they decided to require written parental permission to see the video.
Principal Susan Scofield said she felt attendance was good -- about 300 students -- considering the video was not a part of a grade for a course and required written parental permission.
"It showed interest in allowing students to view for themselves so that students can grow and give their opinions about it," she said.
About 760 students did not return permission forms.
A couple of students who saw the video said it held their interest and did a good job in looking at homosexuality.
"I thought it addressed the question well," said Brian Ujiie, 17, a junior. "It wasn't as some people said trying to promote it."
Melody Sagario, 14, a freshman and student body president, said she felt the video was "just promoting tolerance and that gay people are just like us and they shouldn't be treated differently."
Sagario said she thought the video did a good job in giving various perspectives and did not seem like it was promoting homosexuality as being biological, as voiced by some critics.
Scofield said the students might have different opinions about the video, called It's Elementary: Talking About Gay Issues, but the intent of showing it was to foster tolerance and respect.
Students viewed the video in the cafeteria during one showing, as part of an advisory class where they receive counseling.
Kenneth Nomura, the Central Maui area complex superintendent, said the video was shown because there were cases of harassment.
A gay student left King Kekaulike after being beaten, and another has said he does not plan to return to the school for his senior year.
"If we look at it as being anti-harassment and pro-tolerance, then it's not a controversial issue, but people are making it a controversial issue," Nomura said.
The Rev. Dale Kreps, who objected to showing the video without presenting opposing views of homosexuality, said he had no problem showing the video, but felt that education officials might have been misguided.
Kreps said he has heard that the school had not done a good job at encouraging tolerance in general, and officials should not just focus on anti-homosexual behavior.
He said "It's Elementary" also portrays homosexuality as natural and biological, and that the school should also show the video I Do Exist, which presents homosexuality as a lifestyle choice.
Kreps said a main character in "It's Elementary" appears in the "I Do Exist" video and discusses how he made a mistake and thought he was gay but realized he was heterosexual.
This movie has been reported to be particularly intense with respect to Christian-bashing.