that is crazy, kelli..I would have picked that lady up and held her in the air until she told me she was wrong.SPOT!
He was arrested because he refused to leave. Would you want a ranting maniac in your house? Its the same damn thing. Stop spreading lies about this story. And Spot: pick anyone up and you've committed assault.
Get it through your heads: civil disobedience is against the law. There are other channels to get things changed. Going to a school and ranting about it is not the way.
"Would you want a ranting maniac in your house?"
Well, if I had that "maniac's" child in my house and was forcing said child to learn material against that "maniac's" wishes ....
It's not the same damn thing.
Get it through your head, Mr. Sanctimonious.
HA!!!HA!!!HA!!
hey bob, you shoud understand the difference between humor and reality. oh yeah..I am going to assult someone..
you dont get it..a five year old learning about homosexuality? that is what this is a about..not you!!!
OK Bob, no problem. This means that every MLK wannabe (Jesse Jackson comes to mind) will get arrested every time. Every PETA member, every anti-war nutjob, every union member picketing on company property. Of course, then Bob will be ranting and raving about how free speech is being crushed by the new Fascists....
The man had an appointment at the school, one the administrator had taken the initiative to schedule.
Further, the administrator had previously told the father that they never addressed homosexuality in the classroom or handed out materials about it- this was very shortly proven to be a flat lie. The emails the father and admin. exchanged are linked at Michelle Malkin's blog.
What the educators really mean by 'involved parents' is a subordinate relationship whereby parents do exactly what they are told without argument. They want money, supplies, and worker bees. They do not want parents as equal partners. That's not involvement. That's interference.
That's right SDN. Violate the law and get arrested. And why do you think I am some sort of liberal SDN?
Excuse me, Booobbbb, but I think that parent had every right to be in the school in which his child is registered, his taxes pay for, and above all, to attend a meeting arranged by the administration to deal with his concerns. That he wouldn't leave until his concerns were addressed satisfactorily, and that the 'administration' felt the need to call the police instead says more about the 'government' part of government schools than it does about the father. Wise up.
Some of us went to school in the 70's and never learned about 2 mommies, or 2 daddies we just learned the basics to graduate to the next level in school. We learned all of the other stuff from our parents, siblings, friends or media much later on.
When I teach college, I dont put "intercourse" into the curriculum. I dont have books that explain how to have sex and have discussion with 25 year olds about what kind of sex there is and where to look for it. I woud get fired.
This issue is much like the abortion issue. As parents dont want their kids to learn about certain issues in school because its the parent's responsibiity, woman dont want the government to make decisions about what to do with our bodies.
I dont care about who is liberal or conservative. There are certain rights american's have and I would love to exercise those rights. That is why I love this country so much. spot
It's worse than you think...
http://www.insightmag.com/news/2...ay-
160271.shtml
can anyone say, "homeschooling!!!!!"
sick, sick and more sick!
Of course, the issue comes down to teaching "tolerance" of homosexuality and homosexual "families". The question is SHOULD the school be teaching that message? And I ask that as a high school teacher in a public school.
The problem, in my experience, with teaching such "tolerance" is that it quickly morphs into approval, and the imposition of values opposed to those taught by the families and churches of the students. Rather than being a support institution, schools then become an agent of change and destruction, teaching kids that their parents, families, and religious leaders are wrong and immoral. This runs contrary to the holding of the Supreme Court in West Virginia v. Barnette, Mr. Justice Jackson writing for the majority.
If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion or force citizens to confess by word or act their faith therein. If there are any circumstances which permit an exception, they do not now occur to us.
It would appear to me that these mere public employees, among the most petty officials in the galaxy of officialdom, are attempting to force exactly such a confession of the family in question, and are banning from school grounds those who dare to oppose them -- much like the state of West Virginia did over 60 years ago when it expelled children and jailed parents because the kids would not say the Pledge of Allegiance.
Crazy. Absolutely crazy. I went to that very same Lexington school in 1979-80 and I can report that they weren't sending us home with "diversity" tripe then.
Back then we got "patriotic" tripe :^) Which I guess was good for the Yanks in attendance but at that time I was British (d'oh!). Never did quite forgive them for it.
But I think I'd rather they'd stuck with the patriotism.
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