Tag Archives: education

Family Suing School After Bus Driver Tells Student To Stop Saying Gays Go To Hell

The wingnut-o-sphere is positively quivering with outrage today over a report that an Indiana school bus driver berated a girl for continuing to preach against gays and Obama to fellow students. The driver was recorded admonishing the student over the bus PA system. Keep in mind that the below news story and video are from a Fox News affiliate. The …

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Cartoon Network To Launch Anti-Bullying Campaign In October

Turner Broadcasting will launch an anti-bullying campaign on the Cartoon Network in October. It’s not yet clear if the program will specifically address anti-LGBT bullying. “This has been a growing and critical issue and we knew we had to find the right way to not only engage our audience and others but to also give them the proper tools and …

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Researcher May Sue NARTH For Falsely Citing His Work On Gay Youth

The University of Minnesota’s Dr. Gary Remafedi is furious with NARTH for falsely citing his work on their website and in the letter sent to the nation’s schools by their fake pediatricians group. The letter, and the Facts About Youth website it pointed school officials to, was dense with footnotes citing scientific studies. Remafedi’s research was at the top of …

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NY Assemblyman Daniel O’Donnell Gets Bullying Law Passed For NINTH Time

Openly gay New York state Assemblyman Daniel O’Donnell (D-USW) has successfully shepherded the anti-bullying Dignity For All Students Act (DASA) through his chamber. For the NINTH time. The bill passed with only four dissenting votes. And this time DASA could help win the state a fortune in federal funding. The bill covers the broadest categories of students who face harassment …

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ARIZONA: Gay Professor Booed For Denouncing Immigration Law

Dr. Sandra Soto is the Assistant Professor for Women’s Studies at the University of Arizona, where she used this week’s graduation ceremony to denounce her state’s racist immigration law. It’s a bit surprising/depressing that so many students would boo her. (Although she did get some decent applause at the end.) The Freepers are thrilled by the students’ reaction.

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Crazyland At The Texas Textbook Debate

The battle to rewrite the textbooks used by school districts all over the nation is nearly over as Christianists attempt to revise history. The Fox clip below is, of course, full of assholery.

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BAY AREA: Christianists Force End To School District’s Anti-Bullying Program

As you can see by the above headline from World Net Daily, Christianists are celebrating their successful campaign to force the Alameda Unified School District to drop their planned anti-bullying campaign. WND exults: A lawsuit that demanded a right for parents to opt their young children out of a “gay” indoctrination program in a California school district was dropped after …

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Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) Introduces Federal Anti-Bullying Bill

Today Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) and 21 fellow Senators introduced a federal bill intended to protect LGBT students from harassment and bullying. Via the ACLU: The Student Non-Discrimination Act (SNDA) would help to end entrenched biases towards lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) students in our education system. A similar bill was introduced in the House of Representatives in January …

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BRITISH COLUMBIA: Students To Cross-Dress In Protest Over Homophobia

Student at a British Columbia high school are planning to cross-dress in protest of the cancellation of anti-homophobia events. Students at Columneetza Secondary in Williams Lake were supposed to have an assembly on Tuesday to see an anti-homophobia presentation organized by the local Gay Straight Alliance. But the event was cancelled, along with a so-called Gender Bender day when students …

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NORTH CAROLINA: Coming Out May Cost ROTC Student $80,000

Now that she has submitted a letter to them formally revealing that she is gay, the ROTC may force University of North Carolina senior Sara Isaacson to repay nearly $80,000 in tuition scholarships. Isaacson, 21, said she thought the military’s Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy was unfair years before she realized she was a lesbian and realized she had the …

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BOSTON: Catholic Archdiocese Comes To Defense Of Banned Student

Well, this is pleasantly shocking. In reaction to yesterday’s news that the son of two lesbian moms was denied enrollment at a Catholic school, the Catholic Archdiocese of Boston has issued a letter saying that it will not fund any school with a discriminatory admissions policy. Any such practice “is at odds with our values as a foundation, the intentions …

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MASSACHUSETTS: Catholic School Refuses Student With Two Moms

Once again, a Catholic school has refused to admit a student because he has lesbian parents. A Roman Catholic school in Massachusetts has withdrawn its acceptance of an 8-year-old boy with lesbian parents, saying their relationship was “in discord” with church teachings, according to one of the boys’ mothers. It’s at least the second time in recent months that students …

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University Of South Carolina Erases Dr. George Rekers From Their Site

Whoops, who used to occupy this faculty page for the University of South Carolina? Man overboard! Box Turtle Bulletin’s Timothy Kincaid asks: I’m curious as to the exact criteria for removing any mention of Dr. Rekers. Was it because the University of South Carolina was delighted to have an anti-gay activist as a respected and privileged emeritus professor, but not …

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Three Teens Charged In Sex Chat Line Murder Of Gay DC School Principal

Three Washington DC teenagers have been charged in the murder of popular and openly gay high school principal Brian Betts. According to police, Betts was set up for an attack after speaking to one or more of the suspects on a phone sex chat line. Sharif Tau Lancaster and Alante Saunders, both 18, were charged with murder, robbery and a …

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Newark Archbishop Opposes Seton Hall Course On Same-Sex Marriage

Seton Hall is preparing to offer a course on same-sex marriage and Newark Archbishop John Myers isn’t having it. “This proposed course seeks to promote as legitimate a train of thought that is contrary to what the Church teaches. As a result, the course is not in synch with Catholic teaching,” Myers said. “Consequently, the board of trustees of Seton …

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Controversy At Liberty University Over Glenn Beck Commencement Selection

Some folks are at mad at Jerry Falwell’s Liberty University because Glenn Beck, a Mormon, has been chosen as their commencement speaker. Steve McConkey, founder of the apologetics ministry 4 Winds, believes the university is sending a dangerous message by allowing Beck to speak at the ceremony. “We believe that…Christians, at supposedly the largest evangelical university in the United States…should …

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Arizona Bans Non-American School Teachers With Heavy Accents

The Arizona Department of Education has begun telling schools that must remove teachers whose English is heavily accented or ungrammatical if they are teaching students who are still learning English themselves. State education officials say the move is intended to ensure that students with limited English have teachers who speak the language flawlessly. But some school principals and administrators say …

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UNANIMOUS VOTES: Anti-Bullying Bills Pass In Massachusetts And Georgia

Anti-bullying bills passed yesterday in both Massachusetts and Georgia! Both bills passed unanimously.Massachusetts: Invoking the suicides of Phoebe Prince and Carl Joseph Walker-Hoover, lawmakers unanimously approved a sweeping measure to crack down on school bullying, saying its strict requirements for reporting student harassment make it one of the nation’s toughest. Yesterday’s legislation emerged with broad prohibitions against any actions that …

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KENTUCKY: Judge Reduces Charges In Attack Against Lesbian Teen

Saying there is not enough evidence to support felony charges, a judge in Kentucky has reduced the attempted murder charges against two teenage girls who have been accused of trying to throw a lesbian classmate off a cliff. After a hearing Thursday, District Judge Henria Bailey-Lewis reduced the charges against Ashley Sams and Corinne Schwab to fourth-degree assault and menacing, …

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VANCOUVER: Lesbian Teacher Fired From Catholic School After Partner Has Baby

A Vancouver music teacher says she was fired after co-workers at her Catholic school learned that she and her lesbian partner had just had a baby. Lisa Reimer said Wednesday her music classes were cancelled and she was told to work from home marking papers until her one-year temporary employment contract with Little Flower Academy expires in June. She said …

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