Father arrested over objections to homosexual curriculum in son’s kindergarten class.

Article 8 Alliance ^ | 4/27/2005

[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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[Syncro]

... for YEARS the apathetic parents have relied on the public school system to raise their kids.

All part of the scheme.

That's why the tax code is so repressive.

The push by liberals for women to enter the work force and the taxes and other expenses incurred just to pay the bills force families to need two incomes just to supply the essentials.

The state then can supply daycare etc, and have more control of the children.

There is story about citizens complaining about Hitler having too much control over them and he said Too late, I already have your children.

[BlackElk]

Add me to your pinglist.

[Graymatter]

Very encouraging words, thank you.
We homeschool. Any parent who thinks they can't do it, should look at us. I'm not young and energetic, not well-to-do. Heck, I'm not even healthy and was born lazy. And the husband has been in his grave many years now, so this is single-handed homeschooling. Yet my 11-year-old, no genius by my reckoning, is reading and writing at college level, and in math and science at high school level. The child has excellent manners, creativity, common sense, graciousness---and is a good conservative to boot. :)

My point is that if I can do it, anybody can. There are really just two ingredients: love for the child, and the love of learning. Every thing I know is like a jewel I have treasured all the while, waiting to convey it to my baby, who accepts it in the same spirit.

There is no sacrifice here. What's more important than one's children?

[cookcounty]

With this decision, another 1,000 public school teachers will lose their jobs across the country due to declining public school enrollments. Not that the teachers' unions care.

[Graymatter]

You're not alone, Xenalyte. Maybe we were separated at birth. :)

[BlackElk]

Then the sensible response to the public indoctrination centers laughingly called "public schools" is to close them, shutter them, sell them at market prices to private school operators (no subsidy whatsoever so as to keep the evils of the courts away). Those "parents" who want their kids taught to think homosexuality, abortion, et al., acceptable ways of life will be free to fund their own schools and conservatives will be free to fund ours only and to educate our kids as they ought to be educated.

We need a constitutional wall of separation between schools and state. Fire the entire public school staff and let them apply for jobs at the resulting private schools. Revise state constitutions as necessary to get rid of the "free public schools" provisions that infest most of them.

Churches can come to the rescue of poor kids. Ask their parents whether they prefer to have their kids receive a religiously oriented quality education subsidized by churches or whether they would prefer that their kids learn "fisting" and treason at the secular humanist kindergarten. We will take our chances in the free market.

Think how much money will be saved by getting rid of that portion of taxes which is now squandered on leftist and secularist indoctrination at "public schools."

[cookcounty]

"If you are going to involve heteronormative stories in school children's readings, it's only fair and sensible to include alternative home situations."

"Heteronormative"? As opposed to what, "homoabnormative?" AIDS results from ignoring the laws of Nature, not from unusually bad luck.

[Oztrich Boy]

[TigersEye]

My main question is: If perverts are one percent of our population, from whence comes their wealth power that enables them to screw over the other ninty nine percent of us and kidnap our children,that we created through normal sex acts and convince them that perversion is cool?

George Soros and other communists.

[ninenot]

Gov. Romney could have refused to enforce the illegal ruling....typical button-down Republican, he bowed to the judicial dictators.

You can add Pryor to that list of Judiciary-kissers.

[cookcounty]

"We homeschool. Any parent who thinks they can't do it, should look at us."

I took my son out of high school to homeschool him. He was failing almost everything, though he loved reading Tolkein and Homer (NOT Simpson). He ended up scoring very decently on his SAT's, joined the military, who sent him to language school to study middle eastern languages at DLI. Today he's serving in the US Army with Special Forces. (Pray for him, as he is heading back to Iraq for his 3rd time in May).

It was not easy, but I'm so glad we did it.

[TexasTaysor]

That would be the ideal answer, however, this was in a very small town with only one school and no private schools. Home schooling was really an option at the time like it is now.

[Minuteman23]

ping

[BlackElk]

The SCOTUS went so far in the Grove City College case as to say that FedRegs apply to COLLEGE LEVEL EDUCATION (much less grammar or secondary school) if ANY FedFunds are received by ANY of the students (i.e.: Veteran's benefits; SS disability payments from death of parent, etc., much less direct federal aid to the school). Hillsdale College in Hillsdale, Michigan, can fill you in on all the details since Hillsdale decided to escape FedRegs by refusing to allow any recipient of public funds from matriculating. Hillsdale turned to its contributors to endow a fund which would continue for life the monetary support of students who rejected FedFunds as a mandatory condition of matriculation at Hillsdale. Grove City College, similar in most ways, refused the wise advice of Hillsdale and lost at the SCOTUS.

Vouchers constitute direct government involvement since the vouchers (drawn on government accounts) are handed over to the previously private school which then becomes subject to FedRegs, StateRegs, CountyRegs, et al. Tax Credits may be safer than vouchers (even refundable Tax Credits to those who pay no taxes but DO pay private school tuition).

Complete separation of ALL schools from gummint: BEST!

[TexasTaysor]

Orwellian speak to make it clear that the State is the primary "parent" of school children.

Yeah, but the "state" doesn't give birth to them, pay the hospital bill for the birth, doesn't stay up at night with them when sick or scared, doesn't chaffer them around to everything, etc., etc.....so the "state" can shove it. We need to take our lives and country back from the communists and it's past time to start. We need a revolution of some sort to make this clear.

[Syncro]

We need to take our lives and country back from the communists and it's past time to start.

We're working on it...

[BlackElk]

Save your children first. Chase the money later. The fewer the number of kids in gummint schools, the easier it will be to abolish them.

[TigersEye]

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.

The very near future.

Meanwhile, as Harper’s levels vicious attacks on conservative Christians, the California assembly has passed a bill designed to prevent politicians from using “anti-gay rhetoric” in their political campaigns. Opposition to same-sex marriage itself is considered by many to be “anti-gay.” So has public opposition to same-sex marriage been legislatively banned?

That was excerpted from the source article and is not posted on the thread itself.

[Sirc_Valence]

Superintendent William Hurley refused to sign the following at the meeting:

We, Tonia and David Parker, are once again requesting that we be notified when gay headed households/same sex union/transgender/bisexual issues are exposed to our child at Estabrook when teachers/staff/adults partake in these discussions.

The undersigned, Superintendent of the Lexington Public Schools, agrees that we will not only be notified when these discussions are planned but in addition agrees to an automatic opt out for our child when such discussions arise spontaneously to be enforced by those in authoritative control. Accordingly key teachers and staff must be notified (those that have authoritative control over our son at Estabrook) so that these accommodations may be implemented.

His e-mail is: whurley@sch.ci.lexington.ma.us
The phone number given to the LExington Public Schools 2004-2005 Administration Office is 1557 Massachusetts Avanue, Lexington, MA 02420 is (781) 861-2553.

More info here

Why do they think that they can aggrevate a man and then push him into some kind of "tresspassing" issue when it would be reasonable simply to grant the man's request not to have his son exposed to indecency when you don't have his permission???????????? As I've said before, lucky for them they didn't pick on my kid or we wouldn't be hearing about a tresspassing arrest.

This is what libs are doing in academia while producing judges that say that the pledge of allegiance of the USA is unconstitutional.

[trisham]

“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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He's right. I am amazed that so many parents continue to send their children to public schools. For some, there may be no option, and for them I have sympathy.