That's very misleading, madg. While parents may have signed general permission slips for their children to attend a "Safe Schools" conference, you stated that, based on your experience of attending a GLSEN conference, that GLSEN did no check-in for specific workshops.
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To: madg
"All of the workshops that I attended at the 2002 GLSEN conference did no kind of “check-in” whatsoever. None of the presenters knew my name or, presumably, anyone else’s name."
If there was no "check-in," then there was no pre-registration for any of the individual workshops. So any 12, 13, or 14 year old could walk in to a workshop where explicit homosexual sex acts are being discussed.
Some parents, believeing this was a "safe-schools" conference, may have given permission for their children to attend the conference in general. It's unlikely they knew that this sexually explicit workshop would be included. Of course, since no registration or parental permission was required for individual workshops, a kid could always tell his parents, "oh no, I didn't attend THAT workshop!"
228 posted on 02/13/2003 8:04 AM PST by EdReform
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