The Special Ed department funding grows by 20% a year and they complain they're swamped.
Wonder how we ever made it out of school!
Posted on 12/18/2006 4:31:51 PM PST by wagglebee
No. But (we) they could shut off the lights at the next NEA convention, if we wanted to.
who has said he wants children, even kindergartners, to be acquainted with homosexuality.
Not my child for sure. I agree with your post 100 %.
Bull. It's about making everyone feel "adequate" and letting nobody "excel". One student's success might make another one feel badly about his/herself. BARF.
Gee, I hate to bring this up, but speaking as an English and history teacher, my plate is full trying to teach students how to read, write, and think rationally. If a student is a homosexual, I can't imagine at any time when their sexuality is any business of me or has any business being in my classroom. The same goes for the vast group of hetereosexuals, the tiny group of asexuals, and the small community of insightful teenagers who are extremely bored with everything, especially the dull drumbeat of narrow leftist thinking that they call "fascism lite."
Interested in writing an essay? Comparing the Roman republic with the men who composed the American constitution? Want to know how to spell and use proper grammar in a sentence? I'm your man. Otherwise, I want to have nothing to do with the sexuality of any student, in any form, in any manner. That's the province of the family, the parents, the community, and the church.
I must be a bigot.
You're a homophobe. As an English teacher, you should know the difference. /sarcasm off
Great post!
English grammer, literature, math, history, economics (though this creates a whole new set of problems), foreign languages and science are all public schools need to teach. Everything else should be learned outside of school (hopefully in church or from one's parents).
Seriously, though, you're right. Why should any teacher really care?
Glad to hear that. I was refering to those in the NEA who do, and GLDSEN.
Absolutely right. One of the reasons my profession has sunk into the depths is the constant social engineering and pop psychology I'm confronted with daily. My job is to teach, period. Like the Constitution, my job has certain enumerated duties, and everything else is left to other institutions or people.
On a related subject: If I'm caught talking about heterosexual topics with a female student, they can fire me, take my license, and take my pension. Yet I'm supposed to be openly aggressive about discussions of homosexual behevior with students who are, for the most part, disgusted with homosexuality or embarressed about it being discussed at all.
Here's my sarcasm for the day. They wanted to have a gay and lesbian student association. I said I'd be in favor of it as long as I could be the class advisor for the fellatio club.
Think of all the lives that could be saved if educators encouraged kids to smoke cigarettes instead of experimenting with homosexuality. You can't smoke enough tobacco to reduce your life expectancy to that of the average gay male...
The Special Ed department funding grows by 20% a year and they complain they're swamped.
Wonder how we ever made it out of school!
It stuns me that anyone on this website still entrusts their children to the government funded, liberal indoctrination institutions commonly known as public schools.
"she suspects the union's embrace of GLSEN's "safe schools" rhetoric is little more than a smokescreen for its support for and collaboration with the activist organization's agenda."
Suspects? It's transparent.
Conservatives don't let conservatives send their kids to public schools.
THanks for posting this; everyone needs to see what's going on with OUR tax money.
I don't eat animals.
To compare being vegetarian to engaging in homosexual acts is pretty strange. There are plenty of conservatives who are vegetarian.
Being vegetarian doesn't cause any harm to anyone. Sure, plenty of wackos give us conservative vegetarians a bad name; but please use your brain! All we're doing is NOT killing! How does this cause anyone harm?
Because they're being brainwashed by the schools to think that way, not because they've made an independent decision, I have no problem if someone wants to be a vegetarian by choice.
I'm comparing the power of suggestion and the authority figure of the school to influence minds whether that homosexuality is normal "maybe I'll give it a try" or that one shouldn't eat animals.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.