Posted on 01/26/2006 7:53:56 AM PST by SmithL
Two days after San Leandro High School teachers were ordered to hang posters in their rooms promoting tolerance toward gay students, many faculty and students said the move was long overdue.
"It shouldn't even be a debate. Kids need to feel comfortable in class, and the adults need to make sure that happens," said senior Je'Nea Woods. "The school environment's supposed to be about students. Everyone should feel safe whether they're homosexual or not."
The school board-mandated posters sparked a controversy Monday when a handful of the school's 120 teachers said the posters -- which feature pink triangles, a rainbow banner and the words "safe space" -- contradicted their religious beliefs.
TV news crews swarmed the 2,500-student campus Tuesday, and Principal Amy Furtado spent much of the day, the second day of the spring semester, fielding calls from the media, parents and the community.
But so far, the conflicts appear to have been resolved through faculty discussions about the underlying message of the posters, which is to promote tolerance, said Furtado.
"We are a diverse staff. We have teachers here who are active in their churches, and we respect their beliefs," Furtado said Wednesday. "But none of those teachers have said they won't put up the posters because of that."
Teachers have a week to hang the 8 1/2-by-11 posters, which were designed by the 30 or so students in the school's Gay-Straight Alliance. Furtado will check all 200 classrooms next week to see if the posters are visible, and she said she'd have "a private conversation" with teachers who don't comply.
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So I guess that means they can put up posters favorable to Christianity, so Christian kids can feel comfortable and included. Right?
Put them up inside a closet.
There's no way I would send my kid to such a school.
When I was in public school (some time ago) we had no homosexual clubs, no homosexual-promoting classes, and no one who actually claimed to be homosexual. What has changed? If they are "born" that way, then something must have happened to make so many in that short time. The schools now seem to be full of them.
This reminds me of the old quality posters we had to hang on the wall. Years after they were hung and seeing them every day you could ask pretty much anyone in the company what they said and would get a "I don't know" response. Posters are meaningless. What should happen is that if anyone disrupts or harrasses they are expelled and/or jailed.
So what? I don't see how this is a big deal. People are too easily offended nowadays.
Where is the posters about treatment of Christians? Oh wait...they are trying to stamp that nasty behavior out.
The only poster I can remember is the old black and white anti-smoking poster of a mature, nasty greasy, unhealthy, man with smoke billowing around him, who looked like Kramer in that episode where he had Jackie sue the tobacco companies.
I can still see his face 35 years later.
That would never fly. The religion of Sodom is PC but Christianity is not. But that frustrating fact doe prove the bible to be true.
I think the quantity of homos hasn't changed yet, but I do think that there will be more and more as society promotes them. The only difference is that we are slipping to the left allowing them to come out.
"Vee haff many pretty vayssss ufff making you cooperate...."
Oh man, I think I remember that poster. Did he have unkempt black hair, lots of deep lines in his face, and it said something like, "Smoking is very glamorous" underneath the picture?
If that's the same one, that one had an effect on me, too.
No, you have to win a multi-million dollar lawsuit first.
Good luck on that.
That's the one. Until I got older that guy scared me and was what I pictured any stranger ( cruising child abductor ) would look like.
Teachers have a week to hang the 8 1/2-by-11 posters, which were designed by the 30 or so students in the school's Gay-Straight Alliance. Furtado will check all 200 classrooms next week to see if the posters are visible, and she said she'd have "a private conversation" with teachers who don't comply.
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Kids don't need a pink triangle to represent safety.
Homosexual activist trolls supporting the homosexualization of society -posting on FR? Shocking!
Why any tension at all -just zot them!
/end sarcasm
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