Alameda school board adopts plan to halt anti-gay bullying

Contra Costa Times ^ | 5/27/09 | Peter Hegarty

[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.

[FreepShop1]

How much anti-gay bullying really exists in kindergarten through fifth grade?

None. This is a trojan horse to get gay indoctrination and recruitment into elementary schools across the nation. Gay marriage movement was the first step. What they really want is to get to your children under the guise of "bullying".

[dfwgator]

Of course that was also back in the day when the school's monkey bars were built over the asphalt parking lot.

Bill Cosby was right. The monkey bars were the grownups way of trying to kill all of us kids off. "Hey Ma, look I'm on top of the wheeee.....*doink* oh oh oh oh...."

[ViLaLuz]

“Gay” pretend parents.

[liberalism is suicide]

If the fairies don’t back off, they will get clobbered no matter who wins.One of their own, Ernst Roehm said “All revolutions devour their own children.” Roehm was killed in the hideous Nazi party purge of 1934. The radical sodomites better be careful of what they wish for and just shut up.