[JohnHuang2]

Thursday, May 29, 2003

Quote of the Day by Lizavetta

[ImaGraftedBranch]

Anyone with kids in public schools should take heed of this. Private school or homeschool. Whatever it takes.

[DoughtyOne]

We have some very sick people developing and implementing what our youth are being exposed to. IMO many of these people have steped over the line into child abuse and should be fired and registered as people who should not be allowed to work in the education or child care industry.

[Jeff Chandler]

The education industry is psychotic.

[T'wit]

>> ?What identity,? he writes, ?encompasses queer girls who f*&k queer boys with strap-ons, or FTMs (female-to-male transsexuals) who think of themselves as queer, FTMs who think of themselves as straights, or FTMs for whom life is a project of transition and screw the categories anyway??

They all concisely fit the identity of personally disgusting vulgar screwed up spoiled-brat degenerate leftist sociopathic fruitcakes.

[fporretto]

This is very upsetting, yet, paradoxically, it could be the final nail in the coffin for government-run schools.

Parents have put up with a great deal from the government schools these past fifty years, but this deliberate preachment of a hugely destructive message to vulnerable, impressionable kids as young as five years old is probably beyond their tolerance threshold. It will accelerate the trend toward homeschooling and put additional weight behind all the school-choice movements. Anti-tax movements might also receive a boost, at least at the state and local levels, since a huge percent of all state and local expenditures go to the government school system. (Here in NY, it's more than 50%.)

This could be the final tug on the demand curve that empties the government schools below the point of viability. At any rate, we can hope.

Freedom, Wealth, and Peace,
Francis W. Porretto
Visit The Palace Of Reason:
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[Jonx6]

pflr

[LiteKeeper]

SPOTREP

[Scenic Sounds]

You know, there isn't anything, anything that anyone could have told me or showed me in high school that would have prompted me to become sexually interested in males.

[lilylangtree]

"But for those adhering to the queer agenda, the problem is with the kids and parents, not their “evolving” educator."

Ludicrous! Well, in the end times, the Bible prophesies that in the eyes of unbelievers what was "wrong" will be "right" and what was "right" will be "wrong". Another example right here. After reading this aburdity, home schooling looks better and better.

[colorado tanker]

This could be a real boost for the school choice movement. It's been very hard to get suburbanites behind choice because most are satisfied with their local schools. This effort at indoctrination could finally motivate them for choice and reform.

[TradicalRC]

The idea that traditional social pressures that support and restrain our biology is somehow oppressive is absurd. The DNA of these ideas go back to Rousseau and well, they're getting old.

I love the fact that we CANNOT tax liberals to support Christian schools but its A-OK to tax Christians for schools that attack in every way the Christian faith. The frosting on THAT cake is that if you don't go along with it, YOU are the bigot. This is the Age of Irony.

Americans of Traditional Christian or Jewish Faith ought to recognize that they are being treated as second-class citizens, all under the guise of "separation of Church and State": a phrase that appears nowhere in the Constitution.

The sodomites want special rights and in a land where all are supposed to be equal under the law we find that some special interest groups are "more equal" than others.

[Gritty]

They can't post the Ten Commandments, but they can go around teaching and promoting this perverse, nasty stuff and messing up the minds of schoolchildren for life.

Something very evil is going on here!

There's no other way around it. At the very least, this is "child abuse". People should be in jail for this sort of thing. If it were 40 years ago they would be - if they weren't lynched by the parents first!

[John O]

Any exposure of children to homosexual behavior is child abuse.

All those who practice homosexual behavior must be considered child abusers and must be kept away from children

After all homosexuals don't reproduce, they recruit.

And lastly:
To the healthy person (heterosexual), sex is something they do
To the mentally ill person (homosexual), sex is what they are.

[Non-Sequitur]

a high school in prosperous Newton, Massachusetts, it’s “To B GLAD Day”—or, less delicately, Transgender, Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian Awareness Day

Wouldn't the acronym To B GLAD Day translate to "Transgender, Bisexual, Gar, Lesbian, Awareness Day Day"? Brought to you, no doubt, by the Department of Redundancy Department.

[George W. Bush]

perv alert.

This article adequately describes many of the nuances of queer theory and how the queer theorists are the real ideologues behind the radical sodomite agenda. The crude techniques they use to manipulate gullible people are on full display here.

[Mr. Mojo]

“Right now I am a 14-year-old boy going through puberty and a 55-year-old woman going through menopause,” she complains.

And a lost soul going through psychosis.

[185JHP]

Abnormal, unnatural, perverse - not to mention disgusting and unhealthy. Average age at death for a sodomite pre-AIDS: 41. Average age at death for a sodomite now: 39.

[JimRed]

Its aim: to stamp out “hegemonic heterosexuality”—the traditional view that heterosexuality is the norm...

But hetero IS the norm!

[EdReform]

Ping

[EdReform]

"The queering of the public schools has perhaps advanced furthest in California, where a new state law requires public schools to teach all K–12 students (and K means five-year-olds) 'to appreciate various sexual orientations.' "

"Queering Elementary Education: Advancing the Dialogue about Sexualities and Schooling, Edited by William J. Letts IV and James T. Sears, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 1999, 291 pages"

An excerpt from:

Book Review - Queering Elementary Education: Advancing the Dialogue about Sexualities in Schooling

Progressive Perspectives
Vol. 4, No. 1, John Dewey Project on Progressive Education, Spring 2002
College of Education and Social Services, University of Vermont

"Queering Elementary Education is unique because as it's title suggests it does not apologize for the stance that it takes, nor does it wallow in the problems of being homosexual in a heterosexist society. It is a book all educators should read whether they are elementary school teachers, administrators, or college professors. It challenges assumptions about how we view education and how we view caring for children. Edited by William J. Letts IV and James T. Sears, it offers many perspectives on the various aspects of elementary education and the myriad ways it is heterosexist.

In the first chapter James T. Sears proposes several ideas that appear throughout the book: speaking the unspoken by teaching about queer issues in elementary school, homosexuality as part of the human condition, and asserting that heterosexism and homophobia are acquired or learned beliefs. Bickmore asks, "why discuss sexuality in elementary school?” and answers “given the amount of (mis)information about gender relations and sexuality that flows freely these days in public spaces, media and peer groups, elementary educators could not prevent children from acquiring sexual information even if they wanted to do so"(p. 15). These concepts as well as others are discussed in various ways throughout the book..."

An excerpt from:

Queering Elementary Education - Book Review By Jack Nichols, GayToday.com

"Probably no other title in the pantheon of liberationist literature will evoke more controversy than Queering Elementary Education. If there was an unseemly uproar over Daddy's Roommate and Heather Has Two Mommies, just wait till the Religious Reich spies this august tome on some thoughtful teacher's shelf.

Its editors, both educators, have provided what some see as a companion volume to the award-winning film, It's Elementary. They take it for granted that children in the earliest grades have already been introduced "through schoolyard and media" to the concept of same sex love and affection, that most remain confused about it and that it is best to begin demystification processes early in life rather than allowing mistaken perceptions to take root.

It's Elementary's producer, Debra Chasnof, exults: "What a relief to finally have such a thoughtful collection of essays and research to back up what we've found in schools across the nation... an examination of the ways children's lives are hurt by homophobia and an inspiring array of strategies educators can use to turn this problem around."...

The American Pediatric Association recently called for the teaching of sexuality to begin by the middle of elementary school. Dr. Sears requests that Queering readers remember that "by the time boys and girls have become teenagers they have well-developed gender and sexual scripts: how boys and girls should behave, who makes up a family, and so on. These become our cultural straightjackets that cultivate the homophobia and sexism we see in the adult world."

"Rather than focussing on reducing such prejudices, shouldn't we consider how not to instill, foster, or intensify these prejudices in the first place?" he asks. Queering Elementary Education begins with "Foundational Issues" answering queries such as "Why Discuss Sexuality in Elementary School?".

The book's second section deals with children's sexual and social development, including supposed effects of being taught by openly gay teachers. Part three looks at possible curriculums, examining and critiquing the "heteronormative nature of elementary school science." Part four deals with family ties while the final section examines educators and their allies..."