OK you Mom's and Dad's and Grandma's and Grandpa's, it's time to stand up and let them know you do not agree!!! Keep the kids home
on April 16.
From: AFA Action Alert <contact@afa.net>
Subject: If your child's school allows 'Day of Silence' propaganda, keep your child at home April 16
Date: Thursday, April 8, 2010, 5:12 AM
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If your child's school allows 'Day of Silence' propaganda, keep your child at home April 16Let your school officials know that if they are going to allow social and political action in class, your child will not be there.April 7, 2010Dear , 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 16. 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 2010 is April 16, 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. (A sample letter is available.)
For more information or questions, visit Day of Silence Walkout.
It is very important that you forward this alert to your friends and family members.
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9 comments:
Horror of horrors! A plea for tolerance and
a stop to harassment and bullying of LGBT's.
There is no "hijacking" and "disruption". Kids
CHOOSE to be silent, or not. And they are silent
only during times of non-instruction.
Be sure to read the sample letter to get the
full hypocritical stink. Don't the various Christian
groups (including Wildmon's AFA) support the
"pro-life" Day of Silent Solidarity? So it's not
about politics as long as it's the "right" politics.
Please do! Forward this to everyone! I teach and my birthday is the 16th so that would be great!
School administrators err when they allow the classroom to be disrupted and politicized by granting students permission to remain silent throughout an entire day.
Yes, I'm sure it will be quite disruptive to... not say anything?
And don't forget, send us money! Because we need lots and lots of your money in order to discourage tolerance and equality!
Let's go, mom's, dad's, grandma's and grandpa's! It's time to get our apostrophe's out to fight teh gay's, and teh lesbian's and their various agenda's.
The Day of Silence is a program to stop bullying of gay students. Since bullying is the #1 favorite tool of right wingers I can see why they hate this program. I'm surprised they didn't ask parents to gather just off school grounds with their guns, pitchforks and bullhorns to protest anti-bullying...maybe next year.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Family_Association
A real nasty group targeting teh dreaded gheyz & muzlins, amongst the other usual suspects. Ugh. Yet another fundie winger group, which wishes to tell me how to lead my life and invade my bedroom and my religious beliefs. Yet I note not one word out of them against the pederasts in the Catholic Church. Why how convenient. nudge nudge wink wink.
Meh... let's whine and cry about kids being quiet and respectful in schools. The horror... the horror...
One would think that the American Family Association, which is solely and wholly devoted to churning out their own propoganda, would have a better understanding of what propoganda is.
Clue: it's not what GLSEN is doing with the Day of Silence (which is just alerting about bullying).
Other Clue: it is what the AFA does constantly.
jesus hates tolerance
Yeah. I'm sure keeping your kids home when something you don't like is totally going to depoliticize things. Especially when you start keeping your kids home when they talk about Martin Luther King and Thomas Jefferson and that kind of thing. [/sarc]
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