Gay Seminar Teacher Investigated [NC Governor's School: Sexual abuse of minor]

A Carolina Journal Exclusive ^ | February 14, 2006 | Paul Chesser

[TaxRelief]

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K-12 Education

Gay Seminar Teacher Investigated

Teacher probed for sexual misconduct with East Forsyth student

By Paul Chesser

February 14, 2006

RALEIGH — A co-teacher of a controversial seminar on homosexuality at last year's taxpayer-funded Governor's School is under investigation in Forsyth County for alleged sexual misconduct with a student.

Susan Wiseman helped lead a lecture based on a book called "The New Gay Teenager," given at the Governor's School West. The six-week Governor’s School is conducted every summer, with 400 students each at two locations: Salem College in Winston-Salem (West) and Meredith College in Raleigh (East).

The residential program draws public high school students who are approaching their senior years, and who are nominated by their high schools’ teachers and administrators. Students are identified as “intellectually gifted,” and the program “integrat(es) academic disciplines, the arts, and unique courses….”

According to a report in the Winston-Salem Journal on Friday, Wiseman is being investigated for allegations of sexual activity with a 17-year-old student. The report was confirmed to Carolina Journal by a source involved in the investigation.

Wiseman, according to the Journal, is a social studies teacher at East Forsyth High School. She is also listed as a youth coordinator for the Parents, Families, and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG)-Winston-Salem.

Wiseman co-led the "New Gay Teenager" seminar with a 19-year-old office assistant at the Governor's School — Wesley Nemenz — who is homosexual, a former Governor's School attendee, and a student at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

The seminar was heavily criticized by James and Beverly Burrows, whose son attended the school last year and said their son returned home from the school “confused” about homosexuality as a result of the seminar, and that they have had to seek family counseling.

“We feel that this was totally inappropriate for the students who were 15, 16, and 17 years old,” the Burrowses wrote to officials at the State Department of Public Instruction last August. “We feel that our rights as parents have been violated by this program.”

The Burrowses accused the Governor's School of having a "pro-homosexual agenda."

DPI and Governor's School officials defended the seminar, saying it was optional for students to attend, as is the Governor’s School itself.

The state budget fully funds the program, with $1.3 million set aside for it this fiscal year. Students are nominated based on specific areas of academic or performing-arts excellence, and pay nothing to attend, other than the cost to travel to the schools.

At least two other families were also disturbed by the changes in their children after returning from the Governor's School last year, based on students' writings on the MySpace Internet website.

Wiseman has not been charged with any crimes. Vanessa Jeter, a spokeswoman for the Department of Public Instruction, was unaware of the investigation and said she would make sure the agency's attorneys were aware of it.

"We would take that kind of thing very seriously," Jeter said.

Paul Chesser (pchesser@carolinajournal.org) is associate editor of Carolina Journal.

[krb]

We have nice coasts and mountains. When they ruin their own states, they escape to NC and bring their voting habits with them.

Note our tax structure compared with all the states around us.

[QwertyKPH]

This was a presentation she put together in December 2001. The audience was other teachers attending Wake Forest University, Department of Education, Seventh Annual Research Forum December 11th, 2001.

[Adder]

"So what does a seminar on homosexuality, taught by gay activists, have to do with furthering academic or performing arts excellence?"

Absolutely nothing, of course.

The brazen assumption they they are "just like everyone else" and somehow have "rights" is or should be an anathema.
[And some here even will whine that they do, so deeply has the homo agenda reached.]

They are despicable broken people who need treatment, not encouragement or "celebration". Certainly, poisoning the minds of our young people should be forbidden.

[Tax-chick]

I went to Virginia's Governor's School in 1983. No homosexual topics at that point. Of course, Virginia is known to be behind the times ...

[krb]

IIRC, Virginia's GS isn't as "progressive" as NC's. I had a friend who went there in Orchestra, and said it was no different than a normal "band camp," wereas the NC Orchestra was busy playing avant garde post-modern "wacky" music.

[freema]

No Way! OMG!

These were linked via the article and are very interesting.

http://www.matthillnc.com/

http://www.safeschoolsnc.com/

[WayneS]

They DO have rights, as human beings; but NOT as some separate entity called "homosexual" or "gay".

[Tax-chick]

I went to Virginia Tech for a month and studied Geology and Appalachian Culture. It was fun.

[krb]

That's cool. I went to Virginia Tech and didn't realize that they hosted Governor's School there.

[Tax-chick]

They did in 1983 :-). Their Geology program was very highly regarded, along with their nuclear engineering. A couple of people I met at Governor's School ended up going to Tech for the Corps of Cadets, too.

[TaxRelief]

NC has a Dem majority in every branch of government.

UNC-CH is the center of the academic communist movement in this country. Erskine Bowles who currently serves as Chancellor of the UNC system was President Clinton's Chief of Staff. John Edwards, who ran for president, has his own taxpayer-funded department at UNC-Chapel Hill, a gift he received from NC Dems as a reward for running for VP. He currently uses his position as director of a new Center on Poverty, Work and Opportunity at the university, to launch his communistic initiatives.

One glance at the Academic Depts within UNC-CH should tell you everything you need to know.

[DirtyHarryY2K]

Homosexual Agenda Ping!

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[wbill]

the kid was 17, almost an adult- so he must have enjoyed it... (right?) *sarcastic eye roll*

At 17, if a homosexual had tried to molest me, he'd have been picking his teeth up off the floor.

I think that the story here is that the teacher should be fired for sexual harrassment and breach of ethics. The teacher was in a position of power, and abused it. Statutory rape? Not so sure about that one. It's what the law says, though.

[trubluolyguy]

A co-teacher of a controversial seminar on homosexuality at last year's taxpayer-funded Governor's School is under investigation in Forsyth County for alleged sexual misconduct with a student.

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Shocked! Shocked I am that a queer would molest a kid! I mean what's next, psycopaths KILLING people?

[trubluolyguy]

At 17, if a homosexual had tried to molest me, he'd have been picking his teeth up off the floor.

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You intolerant redneck! LOL


(sarcasm, don't hate me)

[wbill]

You intolerant redneck!

I guess that if pounding on people that try to molest me is wrong, I don't want to be right. :-) Color my neck red.

[trubluolyguy]

Yea but I can just hear the lefty whines of intolerance had this kid liberated the teeth of this adult from his mouth.

[Antoninus]

Surprise, surprise.

[Antoninus]

Here's another, similarly-themed article on the same program from last week:

Dad Says His Son 'Damaged' by Homosexual Indoctrination at State-Sponsored Program