Kudos to the school board for standing up for the rights of parents to determine the time and method that sensitive issues are taught to their kids:
A school board in Erie, Ill., is sending ripple effects nationwide after daring to listen to local parents rather than yielding to pressure from national gay activist groups.
Responding to parental concerns, the board of Erie Community Unit School District 1 voted 5-2 not to use materials from the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN) in its elementary school, which goes from pre-kindergarten through fourth grade.
Now GLSEN and liberal media outlets are trying to pressure the school board to reverse course.
“[We asked the School Board to reconsider,” GLSEN said on its website. “Unfortunately, the school board won’t budge. So now we need your help.”
But local parents have a different perspective. -- CitizenLink
And kudos to the school board for resisting the ridiculous notion that there is a "gay-friendly" way to teach math:
The controversy began when a news flyer unveiled plans to introduce GLSEN’s new elementary-level “toolkit” called “Ready, Set, Respect!” The kit encourages teachers to “invite students” as young as kindergarten to “draw pictures of favorite TV or storybook characters and dress them in clothes that are different … from what they would typically wear,” such as “Cinderella in a knight’s armor” or “Spiderman wearing a magic tiara.”
It also suggests teachers incorporate examples of homosexual relationships into classroom activities, such as writing math problems including “a variety of family structures and gender-expressions. For example, ‘Rosa and her dads were at the store and wanted to buy three boxes of pasta…’ ”
The kit encourages educators to use storybooks that familiarize young children with same-sex marriage and transgender or cross-dressing behaviors. Suggested books include Uncle Bobby’s Wedding, which features two male guinea pigs who get married.
When parents objected, the school board voted to remove the materials.
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"When parents objected, the school board voted to remove the materials."
Kudos for the parents, but what the freak is the matter with the school board that it needed to parents' input to decide that this screwball curriculum should be not used?
They want to turn our kids into freaks. We have to get the government out of our schools to stop this baloney. Vote Romney.
Thank you, school board.
Not only is this something kids should not be taught, but math of all subjects? As if kids trying to learn math need the extra distraction of trying to figure out the "variety of gender-expressions."
I've read on some sites that since homosexuals can't reproduce using normal methods, that they can only grow their ranks by indoctrination. I thought that was a little extreme, but I'm convinced now.
These people know that their traits are not immutable and that if you get kids young enough you can program them to become freaks; perhaps not all of them, especially those with solid families, but certainly a good number of them. Witness how feminized men have become over the last, say, 25 years or so. All from feminized programs in public schools.
This is not indoctrination; not at all. This is correcting five-thousand-years of history and tradition rooted in the laws of nature when men were treated like men and women were treated like women - in recognition of their separate but equal circumstance as noted in the Declaration of Independence.
Mother nature is a bigot.
Kudos to the parents and school board for nixing this propaganda. Parents must be involved in what's going on at their child's school. This story is proof.
No doubt a GLSEN propagandist met with school board members with a slick presentation, convinced them this was a good idea.
The opposition will turn everything into a propaganda opportunity if we allow it. They have no qualms about using our children as political pawns, poisoning their minds.
Yes Virginia, there is still sanity in Illinois outside of the Chicago political machine.
bravo! Every parent and school adminstrator should read the 'gay manifesto' scary stuff
Math of all subjects. I have math teachers certification in math and thought I would avoid all this because numbers do not have sexual preferences. After all just because three is an odd number does not mean that 3 is gay.
My math classes would focus only on mathematics and would have nothing to do with sexual behaviors.
It will be interesting to see the comments from the SSM side on this story. Don't they always ask, 'how will my marriage affect your marriage?' This is one answer. The kids.
When the parents finally speak out, people listen.
Good thing too, this stuff shouldn't be taught in schools. The California legislature passed a similar bill calling it the FAIR-Education Act.
Just more revisionist history and liberal indoctrination.
Thank you parents and school board of Illinois...
It is about time a school district stood up for common sense.
Nobody talks about the liberty children are entitled to but denied by the "gay" agenda.
Please visit http://www.libertyforchildren.com and http://www.endcensorship.com.
But....but....they told me that they would never indoctrinate children in homosexual values.........
Good for the parents!!!!
"[We asked the School Board to reconsider,” GLSEN said on its website. “Unfortunately, the school board won’t budge. So now we need your help.”
Heh heh heh.........
You are going to need lots and lots of help come November.
Here is something very telling. I found this article about a year or so ago and thought I might share it.
http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/gay-journalist-lets-face-it-we-want-to-indoctrinate-children
http://apprising.org/2011/05/20/gay-writer-we-do-want-to-indoctrinate-children/
Well two articles: one is just confirming the other.
There is not the slightest doubt that indoctrination and recruitment is at the heart of the pseudo-marriage agenda.
The only remaining question is whether we have the guts as parents to stand up and stop it.
RD, so true, preach it brother...We need to stand up and work to defeat the enemy living within our own borders ,Blacks ,Whites, Asians, Hispanics, etc, as if our lives depended on it. Most importantly, it is imperative that Obama is defeated by "impeachment", or voted out of office on NOV. 6 2012, he has been bought and paid for the LGBT elitists. There are hoping Obama will turn this country into Canada...
I don't care what others may think, I believe Obama is likely to be a closet homosexual. His is too radical even for a Democrat...
Great Job parents and school board! Homosexuality is an abnormal lifestyle it is unhealthy for individuals, for children and society.
Homosexuality is abnormal.
Homosexuality is immoral.
Homosexuality is sin.
Homosexuality is sickness.
Here's some math:
About 3% of the population identifies itself as GLBT. Of this, depending on the poll only a small minority to a half at most desire to be in a lifetime commitment with another. Of that, only a small minority desire to bring children into their union.
And so we are to brainwash our children to accomodate the minority of the minority of 3%????!
"And so we are to brainwash our children to accomodate the minority of the minority of 3%????!"
This is the worst of the arguments against same sex marriage. Since supporters of same sex marriage believe fairness as the issue here, you're actually arguing that it's OK to be unfair to minorities, as long as the minority is small enough.
No, Bruce.
There is nothing unfair about defending children against the profound moral disorientation of the poor homosexual, whose real argument is with the biological fact that our species is constituted in two complementary genders.
This fact is not amenable to remedy via lawsuit.
Therefore the lawsuits seeking to impose pseudo-marriage are insane, and must be defeated.
Rick,
My point was a rather narrow one: if a particular policy is unfair, it doesn't matter whether that unfair policy has an impact on one individual on 25 million indiviuals. It had nothing to do with biology or lawsuits, so I have no idea why that prompted your expression of disgust for all LGBT people.
Bruce,
I see nothing unfair about the current construct. There is no live and let live with you miscreants; we get it.
This ray of hope shows the potential for greater opposition to the imposed gay agenda on our schools and children.
A just released landmark study from the University of Texas shows the harm to children from gay parenting. The name of study is New Family Structures Study from Social Science Research, June 10, 2012. The Washington Times distills outcomes of study with chart graphic. See http://americansfortruth.com/uploads/2012/06/gay-parenting-study-graph-WTimes.jpg
Please won't anybody think of the children?
I know they're a political tool, a weapon, for y'all, but maybe an organization working to help children should be commended instead of challenged?
Parents won! Yay! But what about the parents who are actually affected? And, more importantly, the children?