damn the FDRQ!!!
Posted on 12/10/2009 2:39:58 AM PST by reaganaut1
ALAMEDA, Calif. – The school board blinked.
Under the duress of a lawsuit and threats of recall, the Alameda Board of Education has voted to phase out an elementary school curriculum it adopted in May to prevent anti-gay bullying.
The so-called Lesson 9, which had become an opposition centerpiece in a national anti-gay marriage campaign, will be replaced by a more generic anti-bullying message.
But the board's action Tuesday night did little to ease the tension between gay parents, who want their children protected, and parents who who think elementary school is too early to talk to students about gay people.
The new anti-bullying lessons approved by the board, at the recommendation of School Superintendent Kirsten Vital, will be supplemented by children's books that explicitly address six specific forms of bias, including against gays.
"This has torn apart our community," said school trustee Trish Herrera Spencer, the board member most opposed to the gay curriculum and who opposed adding the supplemental books. She said the board's latest action did not take into consideration "the strong beliefs" of all in the community.
The 45-minute Lesson 9, which was to be taught once a year in each grade starting with kindergarten, sparked a lawsuit, accusations that religious families were being discriminated against and threats of a recall election against the three board members who approved it.
Vital said her recommendation was meant to counter complaints from parents opposed to the original lesson because it highlighted only one type of bullying.
"There is not an off-the-shelf, perfect curriculum that is going to work for our community," Vital said, explaining that she wants to solicit book recommendations, bring them back to the school board for approval in a few months and then work with teachers to develop accompanying lesson plans in time for [2010-2011].
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Take it from somebody who knows—schools are about as effective as combating bullying (of any kind) as they are at sprouting tentacles.
The leftist vision for education is that scene out of clockwork orange where the guy has his eyelids pinned open watching horrific nastiness
Gay culture IS sprouting tentacles and extending them everywhere.
This isn’t just a Bay Area thing anymore. Gay culture needs children to perpetuate itself since it doesn’t produce them the natural way.
gay parents, who want their children protected...
Huh?
But they sure are good at promoting it. It doesn't help that fighting back against bullies is illegal.
No, it's subterfuge. They'll hide their agenda in another innocent-sounding "lesson."
Kids know that bullying is wrong. The rules just need to be enforce, that's all. But this is too simple a solution for the Marxists.
Lesson 9 From Outer Space
Hmmmmmmmm needs corrections for accuracy and to eliminate leftist spin....
Tuesday night did little to ease the tension between gay perverts, who want to recruit children by trying to get them to think about homosexuality and to believe it to a normal lifestle choice, and parents who are horrified to see their children being taught that homosexuality is normal and ok.
There, now it is an accurate statement
Lesson 9 = Plan 9 From Outer Space
You may have seen a recent sad story about a Cincinnati female high school senior who had naked photographs of herself taken on Spring Break then sent them by mobile phone to her ‘boyfriend’ who then forwarded them to a couple of friends. As you might imagine the entire school ultimately had a copy. Distraught, the girl took her own life.
1 year later the parents are attempting to hold the school district responsible for the actions of the students on campus, off campus and apparently the school was supposed to police every press of every key on every phone.
Freakin' Chicken Hawks.
Homophobia my @$$!
Put it in Compton and let’s see what happens.
damn the FDRQ!!!
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