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Posted on 04/28/2005 6:14:43 AM PDT by worldclass
LEXINGTON, MASSACHUSETTS, APRIL 27. Lexington parent, David Parker, was arrested today by the Lexington Police for “trespassing” at his son’s elementary school during a scheduled meeting with the principal and the city’s Director of Education over his objections to homosexual curriculum materials and discussions in his son’s kindergarten class.
At the meeting, Parker demanded that the school inform him when homosexual subjects are to be discussed with his son, and allow his son not to be included in such activities. He said he would not leave until his request was granted. The Principal and the city’s Director of Education both refused his request. They then telephoned the Superintendent of Schools who also refused. Police were called, who told Parker that unless he left the school he would be arrested.
Statement by David Parker(April 27, 2005):
“I, David Parker, am the father of a kindergarten student at Estabrook Elementary School in Lexington, Massachusetts. Since the beginning of this school year, my wife and I have learned that school materials and discussions about gay-headed households/same-sex union issues have been exposed to the children. There are definitive plans to increase the teacher/staff/adult mediated discussions of these subjects.
“We have officially stated on many occasions—to the Lexington school administration—a request that we be notified when these discussions are planned, and want our 6-year-old opted out of such situations when arising “spontaneously”.
“Our parental requests for our own child were flat-out denied with no effort at accommodation. In our meeting on April 27, I, insisted that such accommodation be made and refused to leave the meeting room. I was informed that I would be arrested.”
Parker will be arraigned on Thursday, April 28, in Concord District Court at 9 am. “This is an unbelievable outrage,” said Brian Camenker, a friend and Newton, Mass. parent. “It’s where last year’s same-sex ‘marriage’ ruling has brought us.”
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Please ping me at MinuteGal if you catch any follow-up to this story. I'm interested to hear what happens to him in court.
(....shudder....since this is Sodomchusetts)
Leni
Hopefully this will result in a well deserved lawsuit. Ring every drop of money from the wallets of the tax payers in that district that condone this BS.
Or, as Walter Williams has put it, "Nothing opens the closed minds of academic administrators like a pocketbook snapping shut." Defund them. Cut funding 80 percent until every last education bureaucrat is gone and only the hungriest of teachers are left to run the institutions.
I will take his name and ditch mine.
His is later in the alphabet, which is a drag, but it's shorter and more pronounceable than mine, which are pluses.
Another bonus is that I'll be switching from an Irish surname to a Czech one. That's cool.
Not only that, the latest thing is for mandatory "pre-kindergarten" for four year olds. It seems that they don't think the 5 year olds are pliable enough and now want your 4 year old to "educate". I found about a website in Tennessee that was promoting it and wrote them a scathing letter asking why they didn't just take the children from the parents at teh hospital door.
I used to be part of the junior high ministry at my church for many years. I had a number of boys who were home schooled. Every last one of them was well behaved (even more than their leader). They all related well with the other kids around them. In fact, I'd say that most of my home schooled guys were the leaders of our groups, in that they were more confident in who they were. Other kids would pick up on that, and follow them.
I had one guy who when he was in 6th grade would talk to the other adult leaders, and they were all amazed at the maturity he displayed.
Nothing matches the TIME a parent invests in a child. First and foremost a child knows they are loved. After that everything else begins to fit right in. The lessons of life that are then taught, stick. Why? Because they see them displayed in Mom and Dads life day in and day out.
If it has, I'll bet you $50 that they will either not tell the parents or lie about it.
I plan on emailing.
I was thinking the same thin.
The seemingly obsessive desire to get young children thinking about sex, and specifically gay sex, as early as possible has me heartsick. It's grotesque.
My little girl just said this to me last week. I told her about how women marry men and men marry women. That someday she would find a nice man to marry. In the near future, if a school counseler found out I said that to my child, I might be arrested for encouraging hate or something.
Oh, you're a good woman!
Well, in that way.
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You make some very wonderful comments.
Like you, I also believe in being PROactive as opposed to being REactive........and the teachers at my daughter's school actually appreciate it.
When I recently needed to keep her out of school for a time I requested and received all class assignments and homework for the missed time and she worked on them at home. Additionally I spoke with at least one of the teachers on a daily basis.
Parental involvement can and will keep some of this PC crapola under control.
I know that I am out of state,but let me know if there is anything I can do!
Only starting? You must be either young or recently awakened because this has been coming for 40 years. In either case, we are glad you are now on the alert.
Are you sure about that? Can you point me to detailed information on this?
I was under the understanding that vouchers prevented the tax dollars from being "pooled into the collective," which enables the government to set curriculum. I thought vouchers meant the money was still private (still considered income) and could be spent privately without governmental regulation.
I agree. If there are public funds in private schools, they will no longer be private schools. And I have fears about what an influx of students would do to these schools as well.
The public schools are indeed a problem, but we need a better solution.
Gee if he had wanted his son exempted from the Pledge of Allegance or hearing about Christmas the ACLU and MSM would have been falling all over this guy.
If this would have happened to me I would have calmly just took my child to the office withdrew him or her and put them in a private school. Oh wait my wife and I have already decided to put our children in private christain (possibly Catholic) schools from the get go.
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