Get thee to a private school or just keep your children home. File this story as reason #3,493 to get your family out of public schools.
World Net Daily did a story on the San Francisco School District’s launching of a website that says “April is Gay Pride Celebration!” in an attempt to make schools “safer” for gays, bisexuals, and transgenders, as well as “questioning youth.”
According to WND, the site has testimonials from school officials on how they’re making their schools more friendly to LGBTQ students. Susan, a school nurse from Burton High School, for example, explains the steps her school is taking:
“Probably the most fun activity that we’ve organized and I think the most informative for the students is what we call the Rainbow Café,” writes Susan. “One week during Gay Pride Month … we have a room that’s set aside and there are snacks. The [Gay-Straight Alliance] has usually chosen a topic, and each day at lunch there’s a speaker on a different topic. So Monday might be gays in the military, Tuesday might be gay parents, the next day might be gays and religion, and then it might be legislating civil rights for gays. We usually culminate the week with a Day of Silence. We’ve asked teachers to give extra credit to allow kids to come who wouldn’t normally come. But because they get extra credit, kids who wouldn’t be exposed to this kind of programming will be taught to think about it.
So they’re offering kids free eats and extra credit in order to expose them to their gay agenda. I’d bet these are the same folks who are against trans-fats in every other case but here’s they’re willing to hook up Ring-Dings to the I.V.’s in order to get the kids to listen to “Heather has Two Mommies and a Questioning Pet.”
But then Susan really puts the icing on the cake when she says that, of course, there are some challenges to their attempts at indoctrination.
“When asked about challenges she faces in creating an “equally safe, equally loving, equally equal environment” in schools, Susan responded, “I think any time you talk about youth relative to sexuality, and sexual behaviors, there are barriers to overcome – whether they’re personal barriers or family barriers or whether they are barriers within the schools. … But I don’t think they’re insurmountable. We always manage to either cross over them or get around them.”
So family objections to such things just need to be gotten around. But that can be difficult so many times they just don’t tell the parents.
In fact, the school district then comes right out and says it in its parental notification section,
“A discussion about gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and questioning people does not constitute a discussion about human sexuality or family life education and does NOT require parent notification according to the California Education Code.”
Specifically, the website states, parents do not need to be notified of homosexual parents talking to students about their careers, intervention in name-calling incidents that violate the anti-slur policy, reading books that highlight LGBTQ characters or celebrating Diversity Days or Gay Pride Month at school.
Public schools clearly see parents as impediments to indoctrination. You are something to be “gotten around” while they busily mold the mind of your children. Never mind, that it’s your child and your taxpayer money paying their salaries. Many of these school officials have nothing but contempt for you and your beliefs.
Remember always that to our cultural elite, whether or not you are in the majority, you are an anti-social backwards thinking impediment to a “New America.” If you doubt it, check out the website or just watch a Miss America pageant.
April 23, 2009 at 4:32 am
Some Catholic grade schools and high schools in the Seattle Archdiocese teach similar things. A lot of Catholic schools aren’t safe either.
April 23, 2009 at 12:43 pm
And if someone tried to “get around” the “barriers” to have, say, a moment of prayer? Ah, the sh*t would hit the fan!
April 23, 2009 at 12:56 pm
Oh, well, thank God we can send our young ‘uns to private schools such as Notre Dame and Georgetown.
April 23, 2009 at 1:59 pm
If we keep seeing articles like this by time my fiance and I are having kids we may just end up homeschooling even though its not our first choice… hmmm but we will not have to worry about picture day then though 😉
Stuff like this is really troubling, and I know stuff like this goes on at some Catholic Schools too. Luckly in my public high school (I graduated 2 years ago) the population of the school district is signifgantly Mormon which kept the district from trying anything too wacky. But I guess the year after I graduated they started the condoms on bannanas exercize… and apparently they are doing other wacky thing now too.
April 23, 2009 at 2:02 pm
I really do wonder what it’d take to evacuate all the sane people from California, and get it to secede from the union (and maybe give Puerto Rico “state” status, so as not to mess up our flag). It’d only be a matter of time before California (perhaps renamed “Gay Nation”?) imploded like the Netherlands, Denmark, and other epicentres of the culture of death… and it’d stop them from poisoning the USA culture more than it already has…
April 23, 2009 at 2:51 pm
Holy Cow! Have we come a long way or what? I don’t think I’ll ever regret keeping our kids at home.
April 23, 2009 at 4:15 pm
Hey, Mitch, if you’re worried about Picture Day, there’s always Sears, JCPenney, or Wal-Mart studios. 🙂
Our homeschool group even has a prom, and parents are encouraged to attend as chaperones.
April 23, 2009 at 4:19 pm
Where are they with the ruling that homeschoolers in CA have to have teaching credentials (i.e. the ability to read at an 8th grade level)?
April 23, 2009 at 9:22 pm
“We’re going to spend a week on sexuality indoctrination, which is counter to most organized religions, but it’s not sexual– and we won’t even consider if it might be religious discrimination.”
April 23, 2009 at 11:37 pm
Terry, that ruling was completely reversed. Practically a miracle!
Speaking of gay “marriage” and religious discrimination, check this out on CNA. Oh, and do someone please reply to the clueless comments on that article!
April 24, 2009 at 10:28 am
“A discussion about gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and questioning people does not constitute a discussion about human sexuality or family life education and does NOT require parent notification according to the California Education Code.”
What? How is that *not* a discussion about sexuality? Or family life education, since they said something about discussing gay parents?
April 25, 2009 at 3:24 pm
Hoowee! Don’t get me started on San Francisco’s public schools. I did thirteen years in ’em, and I can tell you some stories. Looking back, I’m appalled, but at the time I didn’t question any of our sex ed because all the adults around me seemed to approve.