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Another Scandal-Scarred Czar Is Born
Pajamas Media ^ | Oct. 2 | Scott Ott

Posted on 10/02/2009 1:14:41 PM PDT by AJKauf

Meet Kevin Jennings, the man now in charge of safety for America’s government-run schools. He begins his reign as “safe schools czar” like many Obama appointees — with an awkward declaration about previous transgressions related to his new employment.

The “situation,” or “this kind of thing” as he calls it, refers to Jennings’ days as a private school teacher in the spring of 1988 when a 15-year-old student confessed to him that he had engaged in homosexual acts with an adult stranger he had met at a city bus station. Jennings “listened, sympathized, and offered advice” to the youth, but that was it.

Let’s put this in context. In the late 1980s AIDS diagnoses were skyrocketing, with roughly 40,000 cases reported in the U.S. in 1988 alone and 25,000 deaths. In his 1994 book One Teacher in Ten, Jennings acknowledged telling this teen that his own “best friend” had just died of AIDS. Jennings also said the teen had indicated he had not worn a condom.

There’s no doubt that Jennings understood the risk of infection. But he let the kid walk....

(Excerpt) Read more at pajamasmedia.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: agenda; bho44; bhoczars; corruption; czars; democrats; education; glsen; homosexuallinks; jennings; kevinjennings; moralabsolutes; obama; publicschools

1 posted on 10/02/2009 1:14:41 PM PDT by AJKauf
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To: AJKauf

I’m waiting for NObama to pardon O J Simpson and make him the ‘Czar” of battered women’s shelters nationwide.

Nothing is sleazy enough for the two non-entities who occupy the White House. ....from hewr theses about how much she hates whites and America to his entire entourage.


2 posted on 10/02/2009 1:29:20 PM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: ridesthemiles
Kevin Jennings wrote the forward for this book...

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3 posted on 10/02/2009 2:01:03 PM PDT by SuperSonic (I voted against BIG SOCIALISM!)
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To: SuperSonic
Human Events has a good article on Jennings.

Kevin Jennings -- Unsafe for America's Schools

4 posted on 10/02/2009 2:07:00 PM PDT by SuperSonic (I voted against BIG SOCIALISM!)
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To: SuperSonic
Also, none other than Bill Ayers wrote a blurb for the back of the book praising it as, quote, "An important contribution to nourishing the ethical heart of teaching."

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5 posted on 10/02/2009 2:19:15 PM PDT by ravingnutter
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To: SuperSonic
Couldn't get your link to work, it said "document not on this server", here is a corrected link to the Human Events story:

Kevin Jennings: Unsafe for America's Schools


6 posted on 10/02/2009 2:22:41 PM PDT by ravingnutter
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To: AJKauf
It's so comforting to have a homosexual in charge of 'safe schools.'

It's even more comforting to know that the 'central communist government' of our nation is now in charge of practically everything!

7 posted on 10/02/2009 2:55:12 PM PDT by IbJensen (If Catholic voters were true to their faith there would be no abortion and no President Obama.)
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To: AJKauf

Jennings has a book called QUEERING EDUCATION! With an afterword by BILL AYERS!!


8 posted on 10/02/2009 2:56:34 PM PDT by Ann Archy
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To: ravingnutter

Sorry about that. Thanks for posting a usable link.


9 posted on 10/02/2009 7:37:29 PM PDT by SuperSonic (I voted against BIG SOCIALISM!)
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