Plan to homeschool
Stuff like this just strengthens my resolve that we will homeschool!
Some Olympia, Wash., parents were outraged that they weren't informed before their middle school kids attended an assembly about what it's like to be gay, The Olympian reported.
At an assembly last week, six panelists told students about how their same-sex attraction has led to discrimination.
Patti Connolly, whose eighth-grade daughter attends Washington Middle School, said the school should have alerted parents.
"I was livid," she said. "It's not appropriate. That stuff is taught at home, not at school."
Bev Wood's daughter sent her a text message during the assembly to tell her what was going on. Wood drove to the school to pick her up.
"A lot of them weren't happy being in there or were uncomfortable being in there," she said.
Bill Lahmann, superintendent of Olympia School District, said while the school could have done more to notify parents, Olympia schools would not stop holding such assembliers.
"It doesn't matter what a student's beliefs are or anything else," he said. "Harassment is not tolerated."
Stewart Wood has an eighth-grade daughter at the school.
"The school was making a decision to give certain information to sway students," he said. "They're undermining parents, and they're deciding what morals to teach our children."
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Focus on the Family
http://www.citizenlink.org/CLBriefs/A000004815.cfm
Some Olympia, Wash., parents were outraged that they weren't informed before their middle school kids attended an assembly about what it's like to be gay, The Olympian reported.
At an assembly last week, six panelists told students about how their same-sex attraction has led to discrimination.
Patti Connolly, whose eighth-grade daughter attends Washington Middle School, said the school should have alerted parents.
"I was livid," she said. "It's not appropriate. That stuff is taught at home, not at school."
Bev Wood's daughter sent her a text message during the assembly to tell her what was going on. Wood drove to the school to pick her up.
"A lot of them weren't happy being in there or were uncomfortable being in there," she said.
Bill Lahmann, superintendent of Olympia School District, said while the school could have done more to notify parents, Olympia schools would not stop holding such assembliers.
"It doesn't matter what a student's beliefs are or anything else," he said. "Harassment is not tolerated."
Stewart Wood has an eighth-grade daughter at the school.
"The school was making a decision to give certain information to sway students," he said. "They're undermining parents, and they're deciding what morals to teach our children."
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Focus on the Family
http://www.citizenlink.org/CLBriefs/A000004815.cfm
Labels: home schooling, politics, public school, school, sin acceptance
posted by Celestial Freak @ 6/12/2007 02:42:00 PM
1 Comments:
Public school is awful.
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