Political correctness and promoting the ‘gay’ agenda trumps history and geography
The daily reports that about 275 students at Gilbert Public Schools’ Desert Ridge High in Mesa’s city limits remained silent for most of the day to raise awareness about the bullying of gays and their straight supporters, according to school officials.
Students wore yellow cards explaining the annual Day of Silence observance and after school, a few gathered for a discussion led by guidance counselors and supportive staff members.
Monday’s Day of Truth, sponsored by a faith-based Scottsdale group, the Alliance Defense Fund, encourages students opposed to homosexuality to speak out.
This year, Mission America, requested that parents keep their children home on the Day of Silence, a move which the districts disapproved, although a number of families were opposed to their children’s participation in such an observance.
Principal Daniel Coombs, said about 200 to 250 students of the 2,400 enrolled were absent Friday, an unusually high number.
Coombs said overall, the day was successful because students made it seem like business as usual. “I feel bad for the several that chose not to come to school because they did not get to see what I’d been telling people all week,” Coombs said. “I’m really proud of all the kids.”
April 26, 2008 at 11:02 am
No wonder vouchers are so popular in AZ. And now wonder the government schools and their teacher’s union fight them so fiercely. Those of us with school aged children are in a real bind, when private education is so costly and the public schools are teaching liberalism. Few schools are even teaching cursive writing today. History is a relic. I appreciate that AZ Superintendent of Public Instruction, Tom Horne is mandating the teaching of American History and that of Western Civilization. Without this, our children will not understand the wonderful heritage we have that needs to be honored and protected.
April 26, 2008 at 12:23 pm
You forgot to mention another excellent alternative to the liberal agendized public–or as Thomas so rightfully called them, “government” schools. Home schooling is exploding and the students are testing out very well. Our neighbor’s two sons were home schooled and both received scholarships to ASU.
April 26, 2008 at 1:25 pm
As a former middle-school teacher, I find this absolutely infuriating. This is social engineering, not education.
Incidentally, although I taught for a number of years in a valley public school, my own children received a parochial school education. I saw enough to convince me that there was no way I would subject them to the system I saw close up and personal each and every day.
April 26, 2008 at 1:26 pm
As a former middle-school teacher, I find this absolutely infuriating. This is social engineering, not education.
Incidentally, although I taught for a number of years in a valley public school, my own children received a parochial school education. I saw enough to convince me that there was no way I would subject them to the system I saw close up and personal each and every day.
April 26, 2008 at 4:12 pm
As a system abandons the concerns of the existing participants, the existing participants will abandon that system. It’s just that simple.
April 26, 2008 at 4:44 pm
Coombs, and every other prinicipal in Gilbert along with the Superintendent, should be removed from their jobs from allowing this on campus. This is pure indoctrination and a continuation of the Gay agenda to normalize this behavior so that anyone who speaks out against it is considered a bigot. Personally, anyone who disagrees that homosexuality is a deviant lifestyle is a bigot as far as I am concerned because they disagree with my Christian beliefs.
April 26, 2008 at 5:32 pm
BRAVO, SherriAZ!!!!!