Posted on 08/07/2018 4:10:17 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o
Lucy McHale, now 14, worked at the snack bar at the local pool in Olney, Maryland. One day a boy from her school leaned over the counter and told one of Lucys co-workers to kiss him. In todays #MeToo environment this would be a clear violation, except the person he wanted to kiss was another boy. Because the boy demanding a kiss was supposedly gay, and because Lucy stepped in to defend her co-worker, she became the devil in the story, and the target of harassment at Rosa Parks Middle School.
Sometime later, Lucy was sitting with two of her best girlfriends at a local coffee shop, when all of a sudden, the two friends began kissing. Lucy says, We are kind of like sisters. They were kissing on the lips. I didnt know what to do. I told them its kind of disgusting and they did it again. One of her friends announced to Lucy that she was a lesbian. Their friendship ended.
Lucy comes from a large family of faithful Catholics and was already something of a target for bullying at her school. She liked to wear her favorite shirt that says, Women of the Womb Unite. One boy asked her, How are you not the most hated person in school? She tells me, If someone can wear an LGBT shirt, and they do, why cant I wear my pro-life shirt? But, Lucy found out that tolerance works only one way, that there is a favored group and shes not in it.
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Things came to a head for Lucy this Spring when the Montgomery County School Board mandated that the schools celebrate Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer Pride during June. Her schools answer to this order was enthusiastic, to say the least. It included a massive display case with pictures of heroes as Ellen DeGeneres, Jazz Jennings, Caitlyn Jenner, Rachel Maddow and others.
In addition, the case featured several books they want the kids to read.
Kissing Kate by Lauren Myracle is about Kate and her best friend Lissa who have shared everything for four years. Then one night at a drunken party, Kate leaned in to kiss Lissa, and Lissa kissed her back. And now Kate is pretending Lissa doesnt exist. Confused and alone, Lissas left questioning everything she thought she knew about herself, and about life. But with the help of a free-spirit new friend, Lissas beginning to find the strength to realize that sometimes falling in love with the wrong person is the only way to find your footing.
Ami Polonskys Gracefully Grayson tells the story of Grayson Sender who has been holding onto a secret for what seems like forever: he is a girl on the inside, stuck in the wrong genders body. The weight of this secret is crushing, but sharing it would mean facing ridicule, scorn, rejection or worse. Despite the risks, Graysons true self itches to break free. Will new strength from an unexpected friendship and a caring teachers wisdom be enough to help Grayson step into the spotlight she was born to inhabit?
With such propaganda from authority figures even in middle school, there is little wonder that boys, who are too young to know who they are, now feel emboldened to demand kisses from other boys, or that girls are confused enough to begin kissing other girls in public places.
Lucy McHale met with her principal and asked if they could have a display case about the issue of abortion or of traditional marriage. The principal said the Pride display case was mandated by the board of education. Lucy saw this as the dodge that it was. The order from the board did not say they needed to put up a display case, only recognize Pride month. It could have been practically anything, but the principal decided to put up the gaudy rainbow display case promoting lesbianism, homosexuality and transgenderism.
The principal said they needed to make everyone feel included. Lucy said to her, But I dont feel included. Lucys inclusion, of course, was entirely beside the point. Or perhaps it was quite the point, because certain viewpoints, Christian viewpoints, are the enemy of the new zeitgeist.
I interviewed Lucy for an hour this summer and found a charming, intelligent, engaging and fearless girl that any school would be happy to have. I also met her brother, Vincent, a hyper-articulate 12-year-old who has already delivered a paper at Rosa Parks laying out the lies of gender identity.
With such propaganda from authority figures even in middle school, there is little wonder that boys, who are too young to know who they are, now feel emboldened to demand kisses from other boys, or that girls are confused enough to begin kissing other girls in public places. There are no other words to describe this other than recruitment and grooming.
It is interesting to consider who is Rosa Parks at Rosa Parks Middle School. Is it the boys who demand homosexual kisses? Is it the indoctrinated kids who bully those who object? Is it the principal who does not allow competing voices? Of course, it is none of them. It is Lucy McHale who refuses to sit in the back of the ideological bus.
Some fight back.
They do this because it appears a lot of them like kids...if you know what I mean.
Why does anyone put up with this crap?
Home school your kiddos. There at least a dozen on-line K-12 schools that advertise locally, on-line = can be had everywhere.
(spits and walks away)
It doesn’t sound like the school I went to. I don’t recognize America anymore.
And what about the people who can’t afford to?
This is Montgomery County MD. Theyve been teaching how to cover a cucumber in latex for decades. My daughter was permitted to abstain from the classes 11 years ago.The principal was not pleased with me.
This is why, living in that county, we scrimp on everything to send our daughter to the Academy of the Holy Cross.
God opposes the proud.
More than opposes, He hates the prideful. It was pride that corrupted Lucifer, who was God's Lightbearer.
The LORD detests all the proud of heart. Be sure of this: They will not go unpunished.
Proverbs 16:5:
And he hates those who are proud of their sins.
Not to be to uncouth, be these perverts declare their "pride" for men sticking their penis into the anus of another man, and women engaging in mutual masturbation. To infect little children with this madness is pure evil.
Sorry, trouble typing.
And yet homeschool researchers (like Dr. Brian Ray) report that according to U.S. Labor Dept. statistics, homeschooling families are found at every level of family income.
At every level of family income.
Think of what that implies.
That at least implies that the difference between public-schooling and home-schooling families is likely not in what their income is, but in what their values are.
Some of them will be people who asked, "Will we give our kids laptops, iPods, smartphones, designer-label clothes? --- or give them a real education at home?" And they decided to homeschool.
My husband and I only had one homegrown child, and one adopted. It was all we could have in our circumstances, and getting by on one modest income (my husband's) was sometimes very tight.
But we did work out, with a spreadsheet, that were were actually saving a truly eye-popping amount of money by my NOT working outside the home. We were saving BIG on transortation expenses, clothing and the kind of grooming plusses that expected for a working woman. We were saving by eating ALL our meals at home, McDonalds only on special occasions. Plus we avoided that double-income tax category!
In fact, to a surprising extent, the expenses of having both of us working, had almost eaten up the whole second income.
So I went back to homemaking/homeschooling full time. We enjoyed it: more time, less rushing. More flexibility, less stress. More home-life, less regrets. It didn't center on our income. It centered on our values.
Can’t afford to what? About half of the schools I see advertised use the word “Free” for the tuition.
Now, if you mean both parents have to work and thus public schools = free daycare, then yes, it can be a problem.
For those folks, I have no pat answer - but, if you want to get your child out of the current cesspool that much of public education seems to have become, it will require some sacrifices from both the parents and likely for the children as well.
I was fortunate that my folks sacrificed *a lot* so that I and my siblings could receive a solid education, for that I have been most grateful my entire adult life.
We took a financial beating so that my wife could stay home and we could home school.
Best investment we ever made. The kid is now 34 and thanks us for it.
So I guess It’s not homeschool then, if someone else is doing it. So you’re allowing your childs education by one group of people with an agenda to be replaced by another group of people with an agenda.
Please, don’t try to put words in my mouth.
Most States in the USofA *require* that homeschooling parents (or whomever will do he teaching) provide a curriculum or a lesson plan that meets the minimum requirements of Public Law.
Using a ‘commercial’ product allows those parents that don’t have :
The time
The education
or the desire to produce such a document - yearly - to home school and still have a good idea of what the child will have learned at the end of that road.
Contrary to your assertion, if the parent is the teacher, the child is indeed, home schooled. Your assertion seems to assume that only a single choice exists for home schooling -
that is demonstrably not the case.
May I suggest you spend some time on the web to satisfy yourself about the many choices offered for ‘commercial’ homeschooling material - and the costs, or lack there of, for those materials. /.
EVERYTHING came from Debbie's "group" .... a bunch of born again ladies from all over America that freely shared via e-mail (in those days) ANYTHING that was requested regarding educating whatever year Debbie was teaching (She home schooled four kids until cancer sent her home to Jesus in 2004)
Not only can you afford it, but you really ARE smart enough to teach your own kids.
see my #16
see my #16
Ping
God bless you, Knarf.
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