Posted on 06/19/2009 4:28:22 PM PDT by stevelackner
The Los Angeles Times, in an editorial entitled "The ABC's of LGBT," has taken aim at the Alameda Unified School District for turning "what should be a basic Golden Rule lesson into a primer on sexual identity for kindergartners through fifth-graders."
The Alameda Sun reports that "students from kindergarten through the fifth grade will learn about bullying that focuses on the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community in six 45-minute lessons over the course of their elementary school years." An opt-out provision is not even included. Such a provision would allow parents to pull their children out of classes they find objectionable, as is currently the case in California when it comes sex education classes.
The Los Angeles Times wrote that an anti-bullying curriculum is critical as "childhood cruelty can make school a matter of daily dread for its victims, and gay and lesbian students, along with the children of same-sex couples, have been particularly singled out." However, "lessons become more fraught when hotly disputed values are involved, such as sexuality." The L.A. Times writes that the school board has gone "too far in adopting a curriculum that introduces topics involving sexuality at an age when most children are ill-equipped to consider them. The new curriculum familiarizes second-graders with the concept of same-sex couples and teaches fourth-graders the words 'gay' and 'lesbian.' A year later, it calls on the teacher to write the acronym LGBT on the board and ask students the meaning of each letter (it stands for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender, the four main forms of alternative sexual identity)."
If you do not believe that the Los Angeles Times would write such an editorial, visit http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/editorials/la-ed-alameda19-2009jun19,0,4762424.story.
District Superintendent Kirsten Vital has acknowledged that her office has received complaints from the African American and Muslim communities that their children are being harassed. Yet for some reason they are not included in this curriculum.
"If one of us went to our child's school principal because one of our girls was being bullied because of her head scarf, do you think that the Alameda Unified School District would hire a consultant to advocate for our beliefs to be imposed on every child and every elementary school in Alameda?" said parent Aisha Balde.
"The proposed curriculum does not address race," Pastor Dion Evans of the Chosen Vessels Christian Church in Alameda said. School Board member Trish Spencer, who voted against the measure, agrees with Evans. She said that she believes the new curriculum will only increase harassment against other groups of children.
I think local school boards are some of the most important offices conservatives could run for. Proof is in the above article.
God help America, you’re our last hope.
It's not about tolerance, it's about indoctrination.
Yet another reason to home school your children and keep them away from these left wing creeps who run (and ruin) the schools.
They want to have sex with children.
And just this morning I saw Obama saying we need longer school years and longer school days.
They want total control of America’s children so they can indoctrinate them into the Obama youth movement.
Kids shouldn’t bully each other, but this is ripe for turning into a propaganda tool.
parsy, who sometimes can’t believe how stupid and cowardly groups of people can be.
Yes, get them out of the public schools.
It’s a lot easier educating your children yourself. You have less hassle trying to undo the idiocy your kids learn in the public school. There is less driving back and forth and marching to the beat of someone else’s drum.
And studies show the homeschool kids do better academically.
http://www.consideringhomeschooling.org
Why on earth would the homosexual movement be so hellbent on teaching kids about sex in kindergarten?
The answer is in the photos in “gay” magazines and in “gay” website ads: Young bodies are desirable to them.
Public schools are recruitment zones.
This is a big reason why public schools are so important to them.
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Bullying shouldn’t be tolerated. That covers everyone.
This isn’t about bullying. It’s about sexuality, and perverted sexuality at that.
It is a school board made up of fools that allows one identity politics group to use a general policy such as no bullying to advance the LGBT agenda, and to use it as an indcotrination vehicle.
Since they have focused the no bullying policy so narrowly, are we to assume that there are groups that can be bullied?
Ultimately, any institutionalized child who is academically successful is **afterschooled** anyway! Little learning happens in the classroom. The vast, vast, vast bulk of what a child learns is through the teaching of the parents and the child's study in the **home**!
The only thing that government schools do is send home a curriculum for the parents and child to follow.
Ultimately, any institutionalized child who is academically successful is **afterschooled** anyway! Little learning happens in the classroom. The vast, vast, vast bulk of what a child learns is through the teaching of the parents and the child's study in the **home**!
The only thing that government schools do is send home a curriculum for the parents and child to follow.
Definitely another reason to homeschool.
But...Wa’na bet that a government school defender with claim this isn't happening in their school. Hey! Their government school has a Christmas tree!
“Bullying” is nothing more than a tactic by the bullies of the Left to push their wretched agenda on the country and its children. It’s working exactly as planned.
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