Posted on 05/27/2009 12:37:50 PM PDT by jeannineinsd
ALAMEDA — School district leaders have approved lesson plans for kindergartners through fifth graders that aim to curb anti-gay bullying. Trustees voted 3-2 on Tuesday to adopt the Safe Schools curriculum, which supporters say will help children of gay parents feel welcome at school and help end anti-gay teasing and bullying on the playground. The lessons also aim to provide a safe environment for children to learn, as well as to offer a framework for teachers to break down stereotypes and teach kids about different types of families. "The need for this is real," said Beth Kromer, a fourth-grade teacher at Ruby Bridges Elementary School. Brian Harris, a 16-year-old student at the Alameda Community Learning Center, told trustees that he has been called anti-gay epithets on campus. "I have been harassed by other students in the classroom and I have even begun to consider just stopping and giving up on life," Harris said. Opponents of the curriculum said it would undercut parents' rights to teach their children about relationships and sexual orientation, and that it pushed a political agenda without addressing ways to help other groups who may be singled out at school. Trustee Trish Spencer, who voted no, said she was concerned that lessons about other vulnerable students were not on the table. But Superintendent Kristen Vital said the district will be developing a guide to help teachers deal with other types of bullying — such as racism or mocking someone's religious beliefs — over the next few weeks. The entire curriculum then will be reviewed, Vital said.
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When is the next school board election. I sent each of the board members a letter which is about all I could do but those in that district should focus on eliminating those who voted for this. Find candidates remove them from positions of power, that is how Democracy works.
What a bunch of fags.
“Man, those were the days...back in grade school we played that. Got bloodied a few times. Of course that was also back in the day when the school’s monkey bars were built over the asphalt parking lot.”
And we had spine-crushing see-saws too!
GeronL,
Ya gotta wonder if baby penguin
is a tasty meat of like chicken? Or maybe something a little
unusual like manatee?
It occurs to me that perhaps schools ought to SANCTION bullying.
We are rapidly becoming a nation of effete prissies who look to someone else -— ANYONE ELSE -— to fight their battles for them.
Soon, there will be no one to turn to.
probably chicken
Now it’s “smear the conservative heterosexual...eear”. And any jokes about black top and monkey bars are a hate crime, CRACKER!
Bwahahaha!! I just KNEW I was a racist!
Wow @ the responses to your post that are praising bullying.
Anyway, we are in agreement. Bullying, period, is wrong. No need to single out any specific kinds.
The question is, what do they consider “bullying,” and will this program be used to present deviant sexual behavior to little children in order to desensitize them to its deviance, and get them to accept it as “normal”?
My suspicion is that the answer to the second part of the question will be “Yes.” My suspicion is that it will also be labeled “bullying” if any child dares to say that homosexual behavior is sick and wrong.
“School district leaders have approved lesson plans for kindergartners through fifth graders “
If there are gay kindergartners, do they have the legal right to marry?
No, you’re not a racist.
You just haven’t had the richness of experiences of a Latino woman that would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn’t lived that life.
sarcasm off.
The queers are not just demanding that their deathstyle be tolerated by society, they ar pushing for society to annoint them as sacred cows.
They have gone too far, major backlash is coming.
When I was a freshman in high screwl, this one kid always was calling me that, so one day I laid a nice right cross on his jaw, which made him smack his head on a row of lockers behind him. He was really nice to me after that. If I had done that in today's climate, I would be the bully, not the victim!
Anyone paying attention to the Gaystapo Tactics in California in the wake of the Prop 8 vote would know that they bully and vandalize too.
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