Teachers Capitulate To Gay Agenda
Well, that was fast.
The S.F. Chronicle reports: “Two days after San Leandro High School teachers were ordered to hang posters in their rooms promoting tolerance toward gay students, many faculty and students said the move was long overdue.”
Well, maybe we’ll see some “freedom of religion” posters coming next. Seems fair. Or how about “Safe To Be Conservative Space” posters. They could read: “It’s okay to speak your mind. Just because your teacher is liberal, doesn’t mean she’ll give you a bad grade for expressing support for Bush and Iraq.” One for every college classroom. So how about it?
The school board-mandated posters sparked a controversy Monday when a handful of the school’s 120 teachers said the posters — which feature pink triangles, a rainbow banner and the words “safe space” — contradicted their religious beliefs.
TV news crews swarmed the 2,500-student campus Tuesday, and Principal Amy Furtado spent much of the day, the second day of the spring semester, fielding calls from the media, parents and the community.
. . .“We are a diverse staff. We have teachers here who are active in their churches, and we respect their beliefs,” Furtado said Wednesday. “But none of those teachers have said they won’t put up the posters because of that.”
Really? That’s not what yesterday’s news said.
Teachers have a week to hang the 8 1/2-by-11 posters, which were designed by the 30 or so students in the school’s Gay-Straight Alliance. Furtado will check all 200 classrooms next week to see if the posters are visible, and she said she’d have “a private conversation” with teachers who don’t comply.
“The expectation is compliance,” she said. “It’s board policy. But what’s great is that today we have some very conservative teachers who’ve already put it up.”
Wow. That sounds like “jack-booted” rhetoric. Of course, you won’t hear that term applied. Not to this.
It’s reserved for only conservative actions.
UPDATE:
How about a “Safe to be a straight-white-male” posters?
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January 26th, 2006 at 11:51 am
As I recall, at my university at least, the profs never expressed any political opinions to students … which is pretty good when I was taking things like “Political Order and Change” and reading Marx and the Federalist Papers. Some of the students, boy, you just couldn’t get them to shut up. Right or Left, there was always someone willing to interrupt the learning process. Fortunately, they got glared at a lot. ;-)
January 26th, 2006 at 11:54 am
Matt, sounds like you went to a good school. Perhaps they were the teachers of old. Teaching, not indoctrinating. Our concern is what’s going on today.
Thanks for your comments.
January 26th, 2006 at 1:50 pm
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January 26th, 2006 at 1:58 pm
I just want to know what went through the minds of these board members when they made this decision. They’re clearly promoting an ideology here but that doesn’t cause them to hesitate at all.
On the other hand, let the military that protects their freedom to promote that ideology ask to appear on campus and these board members would throw a fit.
January 26th, 2006 at 5:08 pm
Politicizing Classrooms
Why would a school advocate tolerance for a specific sexual orientation? Why not have posters that simply stress tolerance? Why limit tolerance to gay students? We should extend tolerance to ALL students - even conservatives, evangelicals and straights.
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