Posted on 03/05/2008 5:57:14 PM PST by pillut48
"Boycott the April DAY of SILENCE!
Below is the list of schools we believe will be participating in the April 2008 "Day of silence."
This pro-homosexual day communicates clear (and false) messages to ALL students in the school that: homosexuality is a worthy lifestyle; that it has few or no risks; that some people are "born" homosexual, including students; and that those who oppose this behavior are hateful and uninformed.
We do NOT agree. The Day of Silence is, sadly, a day of deception.The facts do not support the implications noted above. Responsible parents and communities will oppose this message of corruption and well-informed schools that really care about kids will never allow this nonsense to take place on the school campus."
(Excerpt) Read more at missionamerica.com ...
West Virginia
HUNTINGTON HIGH SCHOOL
MORGANTOWN HIGH SCHOOL
WHEELING PARK HIGH SCHOOL
They believe it or they know it? There is a damned big difference.
It states this before the list...
“VERY IMPORTANT:If your school is listed below, please double-check with your local school to see if the school is actually sponsoring the Day of Silence. Sometimes the “participation” turns out to be a handful of kids who are saying they have a homosexual club and are observing this protest day, but without school endorsement. We sincerely hope your school, if listed below, is not actually an official sponsor. If they ARE NOT, we will take them off the list, if a school official asks us to do so.
Scheduled for Friday, April 25, some schools are observing the DOS on other days, so check with your local school. Ask your child also—he or she probably knows”
They have heard but say check yourself.
I’m all for stopping bullying, but this isn’t the right way to do it.
What a riot! It’s a common phrase among high school students in Texas to say that something ‘is so gay’, which means that it’s stupid, ugly, dumb, etc. The gay lifestyle is a campus joke, and it’s the students that are laughing at it.
That is a common phrase here too.
Day of silence what a load.
It has to be stopped. My wife came home tonight and told me of some of the “gal talk” in the office today.
Apparently their children are quite confused. The kids are too young to understand that a friendship between girls and friendships between boys doesn’t mean they are homosexual. The kids are stating that they think they are either Lesbian, or gay because they have friends of their same gender.
This is BS as the required agenda at the school seems to actually promote this confusion.
Is it becoming to the point children will fear having friends, or think having friends is immoral as they might be thought as Homosexual?
Where is the outrage?
I can’t believe there are West Virginia schools on that list. Thanks Morgana.
I guess Huntington High because of Marshall and Morgantown due to WVU. Makes since it would happen in college towns but Wheeling...Pittsburg influence, maybe?
You spelled it wrong. It’s the “Day of Thilenth”. -Wb
This really irritates me. My son’s school is listed. My major complaint is that DOS is just another attempt, increasingly blatant and in your face, to indoctrinate our kids leftward (politically, morally, and socially) instead of to teach them the skills schools are designed to inculcate, like reading, or maybe writing; yeah, that’s good - writing. Kids write like crap today in part because of activist schools, emphasis on EOS, and parents’ failure to care or to understand that if one cannot or does not read challenging material, one will never be a decent writer. Kids can talk a big game because all they do is hear, e.g., TV, video games etc. If you don’t read, you can’t write. Teens need motivation; they need straight male teachers. But, that’s another subject, huh?
As far as DOS goes, I’ll probably let my kid decide whether to go that day. He is 17. But, I’ll lodge a complaint with the school if its participation is any more than merely putting up with some misguided teens.
I fear for our country in more ways than one.
I want a day of silence!
Libs at it again - lifting up sin - giving ‘respect’ to sin.
Is a day of silence scheduled for Good Friday? Until anyone suffers like Jesus did for all of us, they deserve nothing, IMO.
I'd like them to observe a "Day of Silence" all year long.
"The love that dare not speak its name" has become "the love that can't shut the hell up"
I keep the kids home everyday. Saves wear and tear on their moral value system.
LOL
Good Friday is in March this year.
Our home school will not be celebrating any Day of Silence this year, so no need to contact our school officials. :)
Day of Silence – Sample Letter for Parents
What follows is a sample letter for parents to send to your child's school, if you decide to announce in advance that you will be removing your child on the Day of Silence.
This is quite tactfully worded. You may choose to give the school an even stronger message---that you think homosexuality should never have a voice in a responsible school setting, and can only foment dissent and confusion in the learning environment. American Family Association encourages you to be both firm and polite in your letter.
Dear (school official):
Due to the administration’s decision to allow the politicization of the learning environment through the Day of Silence, which is sponsored by the highly partisan Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network, we feel compelled to call our child/children out of school on that day.
The administration errs when it allows the classroom to be disrupted and politicized by granting students permission to remain silent throughout an entire day. The protesters have a captive audience, many of whom disagree with and are made uncomfortable by the politicization of their classroom. How many political protests will the school allow, and who decides which political issue will be permitted to disrupt the educational process?
Day of Silence participants have a First Amendment right to wear t-shirts, put up posters, and set up tables on which they make available informative materials. The Day of Silence participants go further, however, by exploiting the instructional time of every student in every class for an entire day in the service of their philosophical beliefs and partisan political purposes. Their silence, and in some cases, the silence of their teachers, transform the activities of the day.
By allowing students to remain silent, administrations fail to protect the classroom from intrusive, political exploitation. My child/children will not be part of this political appropriation of the classroom.
Sincerely,
Public Schools are the Devil’s playground.
Our home school will not be celebrating any Day of Silence this year, so no need to contact our school officials. :)
The only silence we have at homeschool is the personal prayer time during Bible and devotions. Big difference from the local leftist fascist dominion.
That has also been a common phrase in the SE Los Angeles suburbs for the past 5 years. The kids got the phrase from the “South Park” TV show.
Didn’t there use to be a day of silence for the victims of drunk driving?
If you turn your child over to the state for education, they are going to educate you the way they see fit, not how you see fit.
Public schools will always do this sort of thing.
A high school girl got punished by her school for saying “that’s so gay”. She was re-educated and later repented her insensitive remark.
All the schools in Texas are big schools in the heavy urban areas. Out here on the frontier we don’t celebrate sodomites with silence we call them fags.
All the schools in Texas are big schools in the heavy urban areas.
I'm seeing Kinkaid school, it's a private school on Memorial Drive in Houston...Very expensive...
Kingwood and Spring are "celebrating" this too. There are suburban schools from Texas listed.
Our local high school is on the list too. I think I recall seeing it last year as well.
This is an excellent opportunity to start a national movement to take back the public school system from the marxistFeministas/neoNaziLiberals/neoCommunists.
By starting a election push against those school boards that allow this Queerization and defeating them in locally HOT elections where this ideology is the main issue as it means to destroy public education and the JudeoChristian American society.
By highlighting (public naming) those pricipals and teachers who facillitate this agenda and moving for their dismissal/termination/decertificaion to teach or admin.
By starting a national TAX REVOLT against these school boards/districts for allowing this treasonous ideology to have any place in education - “No More Taxes For Queerism”.
By purging all NEA and librarian organizations (AND their members) that support such ideology from the public education terrain - never to return.
Sigh....
ping
It might be simply the influence of Senator Rockefeller.
yes, I know - March 21. Still, any ‘day of silence’ no matter what the month?
It's coming. It will be called the Next Revolution. I pray it will be bloodless.
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ASHLEY HALL
COLLETIN COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL
CONWAY HIGH SCHOOL
MAULDIN HIGH SCHOOL
RIDGE VIEW HIGH SCHOOL
SOUTH CAROLINA GOVERNORS SCHOOL
UNION COMPREHENSIVE HIGH SCHOOL
WREN HIGH SCHOOL
Heard a rumor Lindsey Graham is in involved in this. While that would not be a surprise, it is, until proved, just a rumor.
Bump
“Where does it say our taxes can be used to promote a lifestyle?”
It’s not a lifestyle; it’s a mental disorder. Possibly the only transmissible mental disorder.
I just got an email about this. No kids in school on that day! LOL!
If your child's school observes the homosexual sponsored "Day of Silence," keep your child at home April 25.
Dear xxxx, Friday, April 25, several thousand schools across the nation will be observing "Day of Silence (DOS)." DOS is a nationwide push to promote the homosexual lifestyle in public schools.
AFA is joining other family-oriented groups in urging parents to keep their children at home that day if their local school is participating in the DOS project. By remaining silent, the intent of the pro-homosexual students is to disrupt the classes while promoting the homosexual lifestyle.
DOS is sponsored by an activist homosexual group, the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN). DOS leads the students to believe that every person who identifies as a homosexual, bisexual or cross-dresser is a victim of ongoing, unrelenting harassment and hate. Students are taught that homosexuality is a worthy lifestyle, homosexuality has few or no risks, and individuals are born homosexual and cannot change. Those who oppose such teaching are characterized as ignorant and hateful bigots.
Click here for Frequently Asked Questions about the Day of Silence:
Take Action!
What should parents do? Check with your local school principal to see if your child's school will be participating in DOS. If the school is participating, notify other parents about DOS and ask them to join in keeping their children out of school on that day.
Here is a partial list of schools which are expected to participate in DOS: If your school is listed, call your local school and ascertain whether they officially or passively allow students to observe "Day of Silence." If your school is listed, please double-check with your local school to see if the school is actually sponsoring DOS. Sometimes the "participation" turns out to be a handful of kids who are saying they have a homosexual club and are observing this protest day, but without school endorsement. We sincerely hope your school, if listed, is not actually an official sponsor. If it is not, we will take them off the list, if a school official asks us to do so. Please e-mail your correction to editor@missionamerica.com.
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Thanks for the ping. I’ll pass it on through my local list, too.
My teens high school does the DOS. I asked last year if it relates to the classroom or teaching and it doesn’t. I was concerned that my kids would be at school when no learning/teaching would be happening and if that were the case then it would be better to keep them home. The teachers don’t participate, in that they can’t be silent, must teach. The kids who participate, and there’s a few who belong to the homo/hetero club (called the gay/straight alliance)don’t have to speak that day.
My teens tell me that the few students who participate in the DOS are pretty much teased or joked with by some of the student body trying to get them to speak, or ignored. Most high school students don’t fall for this crap. It’s a joke among most of the high school kids here.
I asked/told the principal that if the DOS meant my kids wouldn’t be taught then I’d keep them home and expected the day to count as an excused absence. I was told no teacher would be silent, classes would proceed as every other day and any student that chose to participate would be allowed to do so but that that school faculty would not participate.
I’ll have to think about this more.
ping
Thanks for that info.
It’s a chosen lifestyle based on some dysfunctional traumatic incident or upbringing. If it isn’t dealt with it - it does take on a mental problem - like any dysfunction.
when’s National Get the F9ck Back in the Closet Day?
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