Gay fairy tale sparks outrage
 

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Way to go for gay fairytale!!!

Gay Fairy Tale...sounds kinda redundant to me...

LOL

The teacher didn't tell the parents . . . I can kinda see where the controversy stems.

LMAO@scotz

"Protecting the children" is always used as the guise for uptight adults and their own insecurities and phobias.

So what do the parents think? Little Johnny wants to grow up and be "queen" now that he's heard the tale?

LONG LIVE THE QUEEN!

Long Live ^^^^'s Av!

Ah...but here's the sad truth....gay fairy tales often don't have happy endings....especially when the majority of the US population is full of homophobic a**holes. :(

It was a confronting thing to do, but if the union of same sexes are legal, then there has been no breach of law.

The problem is that things like that are seen as advocating the alternate lifestyle, rather than just illustrating it.

I think, on points, the parents have a win on this one, but it is by no means clear-cut.

Sounds right up my 14 year olds alley. She has a facination with all things gay now adays. Not that there is anything wrong with that. ;)

Let the fags eat cake.

From what I heard on the evening news, this is not the first time this school board has allowed/encouraged something like this. Either last year or the year before they sent the kiddies (I think in first grade) home with a bunch of books. One of the books was about a gay lifestyle. When asked about the choice of books, the reply from the school board is that they were just trying to educate the kids about the world they lived in.

The sad thing is - the school board that permitted it the first time around is still there!

I know I'll catch it for my stance, but grade school is not the place to learn of such things. This should be a subject discussed by the parents at their leisure and of their choosing - not as a matter of discussion against their will and without their knowing.

Where can you draw the line of separation between home and state?

Wherever you do, someone'll always know better.

i'm torn on this one.

as for myself, it wouldn;t bother me in the least. my daughter and i have played house using two mommies or two daddies, and it doesn't stop there; we try to teach her tolerance in all things (and will with the tiny tyrant when he's old enough to get it and we do now, i suppose, just by the very nature of the way kids learn through observation.) but the school, knowing that this is a highly charged and sensitive topic, pulled a fast one. they didn't read a story about gay bashing, and, that's "part of our world", too. (although i suspect some of the parents wouldn't have minded that one so much:(). so their reasoning is a bit faulty.

on the other hand, when parents begin (as seems to be the trend here in the US) handing over more and more of the raising (as opposed to just the education) of their kids to teachers, then it's up to the educators to step up and take responsibilty for producing an entire generation of kids who will use their powers for good, not evil. and parents need to sleep in the beds they've made.

heinous is much too strong of a word, and the argument that is was sex-education (and therefore required notification) is ridiculous but poor judgement on the part of the educators? yeah, i think so. it wouldn't have taken a whole lot for the teacher to give the parents a heads up beforehand and let the parent(s) decide whether or not to let their child hear the story. i think it was more of the sly, neener-neener-neener, overtones that has the 'rents pissed off. nothing like coming home from work and getting macktrucked into a convo with your little-one that you maybe weren't prepared to handle at the moment that will get those hackles up. not to mention there are religious beliefs that would make this a taboo subject for many. if we are permitted, indeed guarunteed the right, to worship (or not) as we choose, then how can the school just step all over those beliefs by "forcing" parents to talk about it.

quite a conundrum.

What can I say....
 

that LixyChick didn't already say. The thinking of the people who would introduce gay litrature into a class room do so on the belief that left entirely to the parents,many of them would teach that intollerance and gay bashing is what is neded to fight something they are afraid of.
Thus insuring a future generation filled with hatered. Are they so far from being wrong?

lakritze

It's still people thinking that they know better than the parents, for the good of the children, so that the kids will better fit into the world the teachers think the kids will grow up into.

It's like the medical thing where a patient is grievously harmed to save their life.

It's not a call I'd like to have to make, with too many "on the other hand"s.

I am caught between my moral and civic cowardices.

Alassë,

The school board might be criticized a bit for failing to advise the parents ahead of time that controversial subject material was about to be introduced. It does seem a mite distant and out of touch.

Superintendent Ash’s point is well made – the location is in Massachusetts, where homosexual marriage is legal.

School boards are commonly elected – and unelected – as the Dover School Board recently discovered in re their decision to introduce into a Science class the controversial theory of ID. If there are enough parents who feel strongly enough about the subject to invest the effort to vote the next time they have the opportunity to do so, then the issue will be resolved to the satisfaction of the majority of good citizens.