AhmedGay Rights Activist Gives Kindergarten Children Pledge Cards Vowing To Support Homosexuals
November 1st 2008 16:41
A California school system refuses to say what action, if any, it will take after it received complaints about a kindergarten teacher who encouraged her students to sign "pledge cards" in support of gays.
During a celebration of National Ally Week, Tara Miller, a teacher at the Faith Ringgold School of Arts and Science in Hayward, Calif., passed out cards produced by the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network to her class of kindergartners.
The cards asked signers to be "an ally" and to pledge to "not use anti-LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) language or slurs; intervene, when I feel I can, in situations where others are using anti-LGBT language or harassing other students and actively support safer schools efforts."
The school has acknowledged that the exercise was not appropriate for kindergartners.
During a celebration of National Ally Week, Tara Miller, a teacher at the Faith Ringgold School of Arts and Science in Hayward, Calif., passed out cards produced by the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network to her class of kindergartners.
The cards asked signers to be "an ally" and to pledge to "not use anti-LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) language or slurs; intervene, when I feel I can, in situations where others are using anti-LGBT language or harassing other students and actively support safer schools efforts."
The school has acknowledged that the exercise was not appropriate for kindergartners.
School Clams Up on 'Gay' Pledge Cards Given to Kindergartners
/off hand comment: If you seriously think the LGBT organization was in the right for doing this then you are as far to the left as those who are for proposition 8 are on the right, and no, it doesn't make you any better.
I guess they'll soon decide that having kindergarten students sign pledge cards vowing they will study hard will yield productive results.
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Comment by postmoderncritic
Comment by Ahmed
techy.Bytes
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I think it can do no harm to send young kids a positive message about all people.
LGBT is not even near 'all people'. It would be just as wrong to get them to sign pledge cards pledging they will support Christians.
It was where I read it, feel free to discredit it.
Comment by Ahmed
techy.Bytes
Video Gamer Kids
Little Green Foosballs
PolyKicks
Qwerk
Cinema Three
I think it can do no harm to send young kids a positive message about all people.
LGBT is not even near 'all people'. It would be just as wrong to get them to sign pledge cards pledging they will support Christians.
It was where I read it, feel free to discredit it.
Comment by postmoderncritic
Fair enough about the source, but if it was me I would have found the corresponding article on CNN or BBC and linked that instead.