As California Mandate Looms, Some LGBT Curriculum Already In Place

CNN ^ | December 10, 2011 | Debra Goldschmidt

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As California Mandate Looms, Some LGBT Curriculum Already In Place By Debra Goldschmidt

In 10th grade English at Los Angeles’ Grover Cleveland High School, Danielle Taklender's students read the book "Luna" by Julie Anne Peters. It's a story about a transgender teen.

Taklender has been teaching the book for seven years without any fanfare or push back. It’s getting noticed now as her school district takes the lead in developing a plan to comply with the first state law mandating lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender history and social science curricula. The California law, which takes effect in January, stops short of dictating how schools are to comply and leaves that up to the districts and schools themselves to figure out.

Taklender uses "Luna" to expose students to new vocabulary and different ways of thinking about pronouns. The students discuss gender identity versus sexual orientation, as well as gender roles in literature. Taklender said she teaches this book the same way she teaches every other book.

She says the only negative feedback she has run into was a parent who once requested an alternate assignment after the class finished reading the book.

“No students ever say they changed their sexual orientation because of it,” Taklender said.

The new law, called the California Fair Education Act, also requires schools teach about the contributions of Native Americans, and people with disabilities. It also bans instructional materials that adversely reflect on a person due to their sexual orientation. The requirements are actually an expansion to the education code already in existence, which requires lesson plans to include various ethnic groups.

But it is not without controversy. Some opponents have religious objections, others say it’s part of sex education and belongs at home not in schools. Others simply don’t want this taught to their children.

[metmom]

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[metmom]

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[brothers4thID]

My chief problem with this is that instead of teaching respect for others through hard work, discipline and a focus on the similarities we all share, schools will go the opposite way. There will be special assemblies that take away from the school day and there will be “units” on LGBT heroes that focus less on those persons accomplishments and more on the fact that they were LGBT.

California schools already make horrible curriculum choices everyday: reducing the teaching of phonics, a complete lack of basic arithmetic instruction, reduction of history and geography classes in favor of general “social studies” that are less focused on facts and more on invidual cultures and feelings.

California needs LESS “focused diversity lessons” and MORE focus on academics.

[little jeremiah]

I pinged out one article about this, I’ll read it and see if it has more info.

Even if every parent protested en masse they won’t change the pro-homo agenda stuff in the schools. They’re driven.

[little jeremiah]

California needs LESS “focused diversity lessons” and MORE focus on academics.

CA schools need NO - ZERO - "focused diversity lessons". It is wrong in every way to teach children than mentally ill sexual perversion is normal and natural and good.

[LomanBill]

 

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Got Socio-Biological Fitness?

 

 "Gay" penguins don't - not even in the San Francisco zoo

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FAIL.

[DMG2FUN]

“called the California Fair Education Act,”
What are they going to teach? How perverted homosexuals defend child molestation? They chant it happens in nature. Are they going to teach how perverted homosexuals add to civilization by reproducing? If I recall perverted homosexuals cannot reproduce.

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Here's another article about the homo-agenda cirriculum forced by law in CA schools. This has a bit more info - the book described is about a transsexual character. Why any conservative or sane person would keep their children in a CA school is way beyond my comprehension. There is no way all that indoctrination will not affect all the children who are exposed to it.