Tag Archives: education

Openly lesbian Mississippi high school senior Ceara Sturgis had her photo pulled from her school’s yearbook because she dared to pose in a tuxedo. Veronica Rodriguez describes her daughter, 17-year-old Ceara Sturgis, as a perfect child: a straight-A student, goalie on the soccer team, a trumpet player in the band and active in Students Against Drunk Driving. She also is …

Last night the Geneva School Board in suburban Chicago voted to only give high school teacher Dave Burk a warning for telling several classes, “How do you feel about your tax dollars being spent to fund black fags taking pictures of other black fags in New York?” The notice against teacher David Burk states that any further improprieties could result …

Today Secretary of State Hillary Clinton attended the unveiling of a statue of gay poet Walt Whitman at Moscow State University. But local Russian LGBT activists are disappointed the Clinton did not use the opportunity to denounce the homophobia of the Russian government. Russia’s leading gay activist said Wednesday that he was disappointed that Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton …

During a rant about tax funding for the National Endowment for the Arts, Chicago-area high school teacher Dave Burk allegedly told students, “How would you feel about your tax dollars going to pay some black fag in New York to take pictures of other black fags?” Openly gay Geneva High School student Jordan Hunter is now spearheading a call for …

Before he enrolled, school officials at a Kennesaw, Georgia high school assured Jonathan Escobar, 16, that he would be allowed to cross-dress as he pleased. But after a fight erupted between one of Jonathan’s supporters and one of his tormentors, the school told him that he was in violation of their “no disruptive clothing” policy. He dropped out after four …

Since being told they could no longer use scripture-laden banners on the field, the cheerleaders at Lakeview-Fort Olglethorpe High School in northern Georgia have become local martyrs. Via Christianist site OneNewsNow: Community members have showed their overwhelming support for the cheerleaders who have since become media celebrities. A local youth pastor, Brad Scott, started a facebook page in their support …

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Cheerleaders at a public high school near Chattanooga, Tennessee are under fire for refusing to stop using giant scripture-loaded signs for the football players to crash through upon entering the field. Christianists, ignoring the Constitution, are screaming “oppression!” after the school district said the signs cannot be used. Fort Oglethorpe Mayor Ronnie Cobb vehemently disagrees with the ban and said …

The headline on British tabloid The Sun screams Grammar Sir Gay Porn Pics after an elementary school physical education teacher was suspended after students found his nude shots on a gay porn site. Shamed Sam Handley, 25, turned up for lessons unaware the link to the snaps had spread round the school like wildfire. He was hauled in by the …

This weekend’s New York Times Magazine features a lengthy Benoit Denizet-Lewis piece on kids that come out in middle school. An excerpt: Though most adolescents who come out do so in high school, sex researchers and counselors say that middle-school students are increasingly coming out to friends or family or to an adult in school. Just how they’re faring in …

In the digital age, the teaching of how to write in cursive is fading from public schools. Some parents complain that nobody even gives grades in penmanship anymore (always my worst grade, after, uh, conduct), but teachers consider cursive a lost cause. The decline of cursive is happening as students are doing more and more work on computers, including writing. …

Yesterday the European Union approved a resolution condemning Lithuania’s new outlawing of any mention of homosexuality in public schools or media “accessible by young people.” The law, titled ‘Law on the Protection of Minors against the Detrimental Effect of Public Information’, includes “the propaganda of homosexuality [or] bisexuality” as a detrimental factor on young people. It has been compared to …

Bill O’Reilly: “If you are a religious person, you don’t want someone telling your child it’s OK to be gay.” O’Reilly and his co-host object to a one-day anti-bullying class being taught in Oakland, California schools. Parents are not allowed to have their children opt-out of the class and even though the class is only conducted once a year, Christians …

A Kentucky high school football coach included an extra stop during a field trip with his players. A mother is angry about a trip led by the head football coach at Breckinridge County High School. The coach took about 20 players on a school bus late last month to his church, where nearly half of them — including her son …

Here’s the president’s complete indoctrination speech to young communists students yesterday. At the beginning of the second clip he warns against bullying, although he doesn’t mention the usual anti-gay aspect of it.

Wash your hands. Do your homework. Exercise. Congratulations, you have now been indoctrinated into the Communist Party.

(Via – AatomBomb)

A Quebec provincial judge has ruled against a group of Christian parents who were outraged that their children were being taught about all of the world’s major religions as well as aboriginal Canadian faiths. Quebec Superior Court Justice Jean-Guy Dubois dismissed a bid by parents in Drummondville, Que., who said the course on ethics and religious culture introduced across the …

Next Tuesday, President Obama is scheduled to make a televised speech to the nation’s schoolchildren. But the wingnuts of America don’t want their precious snowflakes exposed to our fascist/socialist/communist leader and have launched a campaign to keep good Christian children home that day. Stephanie Klick, Tarrant County Republican Party chairwoman, told the Fort Worth Star-Telegram that many Texas families are …

A study conducted by the University of Florida finds that education level is five times more predictive of support for marriage equality than race. But you knew that, didn’t you my gentle kittens? The education level of Florida voters, not race, best predicted support for the state’s gay marriage ban, according to a new University of Florida study rebutting conventional …