subtitled "We'll help you make it happen..."
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.
btw, has anyone else noticed that Obama is a misspelling according to FR spelcheck?
It isn't entirely about pushing the LGBT agenda on kids either.
It is about Marxism, the destruction of our family institutions, and “demoralization”.
YuriBezmenov was right. He said “demoralization” only needed as many as to educate **one** generation of children.
Yeah, everyone is jumping on to that bandwagon, even school officials in my state. My response to that: Do it in 180 days or pack it in, and I don’t want to hear “but there’s so much more to learn.” Not really, math is math, science is science, and history is history. Cut the social indoctrination crap, do it in six hours a day, 180 days a year max. Let kids spend time with their families.
Many private schools in my state don’t even do 180 days and their kids go on to college and do very well. Whatever could be their secret?
Personally I think I learned a lot more out of school than in. My parents were divorced but involved plus I learned a lot through working at home and on local farms.
You’re absolutely correct.
Six or seven hours a day! Then add to this bus time, and **homework**. This is at **minimum!** 35 to 40 or more hours of school activity in a week!
We are asking little children to do a **FULL-TIME** job!!!
As for family time let's add it up:
—Kids sleep 9 1/2 to 11 hours a night.
— 35 to 40 or more hours a week in formal school activity.
— Children need time outside to play.
— If parents enjoy an hour or two to themselves just to relax then so to kids!
— There are afterschool sports, dance, church, and scouting.
— And...I surely wouldn't consider the early morning rush to be “quality” time!
So?...Really? When is a parent supposed to have family time with their kids? When is this time for the parent to “deprogram” their child from the influences of their atheistic government school? Huh?
I think Obama represents the dominate rather than the principate part of the Roman imperial period, nero was during the principate.
Personally I think I learned a lot more out of school than in.
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BINGO! Of course you did!
Please read post #17.
Its a toss up between Nero and Ceasar. Nero demonized the Christians and Ceasar was an out of control power mad dictator.
Home schooling is so easy. Parents who think it is hard should spend just one day at any school.
Our kids finish a days work in less than 3 hours and can spend the rest of their day on chores, reading, learning and pursuing their interests.
Home schooling is a return to liberty.
Homeschooling is the most natural and healthy way to rear a child.
Yes, it is too bad. Some children will need to be institutionalized for their education. We need orphanages too, but no one is claiming that is the best way for a child to grow.
Then they tell every little girl your gay if you think boys are "yuckey"
And now magical ever five year old now tells you their "gay"
And then the state tell you it a hate crime to try and "change" them and that includes the parents
subtitled "We'll help you make it happen..."
And if Arne Duncan, the President, and the school officials in my state have any say in the matter, kids will be doing much, much more than a full-time job. They’ll be doing overtime without the pay. But, of course, that won’t happen if the parents don’t want it to happen.
About 15 years ago, a school superintendent in my county tried to sell his district on an extended school year. The parents said absolutely not and if you implement it, we’ll remove our kids. This was in a minority school district — the middle class whites and blacks had already left for private schools. The superintendent and the school board got the message. No extended year. The superintendent decided to retire. It is very difficult to ram an unpopular idea down the throats of people who really don’t want it and are adamant.
Did you know that public schools are assigning summer homework to kids? It gets graded in September. Some schools refuse to do it because they feel that if it hasn’t been taught in the classroom it’s unfair to expect students to learn it on their own. I think that schools that do assign new work in the summer are shooting themselves in the foot. What if a parent says, my child learned this on his own with my help, what do we need you for? Talk about shooting yourself in the foot.
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I got it in post 13.
That is the evil plan, how can people be so stupid to not see what they are doing to our kids. These are people who are messed up, so they want to mess up our kids too. They have to mess up the whole world so that they can feel good about themselves.
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