If your child's school allows "Day of Silence" propaganda, keep your child at home April 17
Courtesy the AFA:
The Day of Silence, which is sponsored by the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN), fast approaches. This year it will take place in most public schools on April 17. On this day, thousands of public high schools and increasing numbers of middle schools will allow students to remain silent throughout an entire day-even during instructional time-to promote GLSEN's socio-political goals and its controversial, unproven, and destructive theories on the nature and morality of homosexuality.
Parents must actively oppose this hijacking of the classroom for political purposes. Please join the national effort to restore to public education a proper understanding of the role of government-subsidized schools. You can help de-politicize the learning environment by calling your child out of school if your child's school allows students to remain silent during instructional time on the Day of Silence.
Parents should no longer passively countenance the political usurpation of public school classrooms through student silence.
If students will be permitted to remain silent, parents can express their opposition most effectively by calling their children out of school on the Day of Silence and sending letters of explanation to their administrators, their children’s teachers, and all school board members. One reason this is effective is that most school districts lose money for each student absence.
School administrators err when they allow the classroom to be disrupted and politicized by granting students permission to remain silent throughout an entire day.
Visit this website for complete information on opposing the Day of Silence.
Take Action!
1. Call your local schools and ask whether they permit students or teachers to remain silent in the classroom on “Day of Silence.” IMPORTANT: Do not ask any administrator, school board member, or teacher if the school sponsors, endorses, or supports DOS. Schools do not technically sponsor the Day of Silence. Technically, it is students, often students in the gay-straight alliance, who sponsor it. Many administrators will tell you that they do not sponsor the DOS when, in fact, they do permit students and sometimes even teachers to remain silent during instructional time. Also ask administrators whether they permit teachers to create lesson plans to accommodate student silence.
2. Find out what date the event is planned for your school. (The national date in 2009 is April 17, but some schools observe DOS on a different date).
3. Inform the school of your intention to keep your children home on that date and explain why.
6 comments:
According to a letter from the ACLU, students have the right to participate during non-instructional time, do not have the right to stay silent if a teacher asks them to speak, and must allow others to engage in similar protests against them. The only thing I see happening according to dayofsilence.org is a bunch of students wearing red shirts and not talking. Considering that the University of Alabama’s colors are red and white, the local high school is maggoty with red shirts on any random day anyway. Also, I remember most of the other students in the hallways remained silent in my high school because they had nobody to talk to at that exact time.
I do find it very funny that Pittsburgh is having a Break the Silence party at Planned Parenthood Center. Considering that Planned Parenthood is all about preventing pregnancy and the gays have no use for birth control.
Dave,
It's disturbing that some schools are going to be held up as examples of participation when in fact they are nothing of the kind. Thank you for pointing out the potential for lies in the University of Alabama. We should read reports of any schools participation with skepticism. Just because some liberal administrators or reports claim a high student participation level doesn't mean the students are actually brainwashed as a group.
I also want to thank you for telling me about the misinformation being spread by the ACLU. It's very telling that the ACLU is giving worried parents a different version of the day of silence than is being given to students. It says a lot about the people behind this DOS that they're telling parents a very different story of what "participation" entails.
...Wow. Irony is lost on you religious fuck nuggets isn't it. I hope one day you realize what I mean.
Alex,
My point is that you seem to paint this picture of a bizzarro nazi youth rally where the straight boys are forced to kiss each other. All these students really seem to want is for others to stop tormenting and bullying them.
Also, that letter from the ACLU seems to be there so that when the school officials try to deny the students their right to participate, they can call bullshit on the officials.
Manin5,
I get the irony of staying silent to protest the ridicule and torment put upon people for their sexual orientation. As an atheist, I received my share of ridicule whenever someone asked me what church I went to. I was simply pointing out that the Day of Silence isn't the Turn Everyone Gay Day that Alex's article seems to imply.
Also, I will concede that I have earned the label of fuck nugget several times in my life, but please don't call me religious.
Dave: I was talking to the "Creative" mind behind this blog, not you.
"Creative" LOL! Good one
Post a Comment