"The Terminator" Caves to the Gay Agenda

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has signed an education bill that will very likely change the face of California public schools. The bill, SB777, "bans anything in public schools that could be interpreted as negative toward homosexuality, bisexuality and other alternative lifestyle choices." What this bill could potentially result in is the banning of the words "mom," "dad," "husband" and "wife" from public schools, as well as any other words that define traditional gender roles.

From the article:

CCF noted that now on a banned list will be any text, reference or teaching aid that portrays marriage as only between a man and woman, materials that say people are born male or female (and not in between), sources that fail to include a variety of transsexual, bisexual and homosexual historical figures, and sex education materials that fail to offer the option of sex changes.

Further, homecoming kings now can be either male or female – as can homecoming queens, and students, whether male or female, must be allowed to use the restroom and locker room corresponding to the sex with which they choose to identify.

This is where our nation is headed: those holding to traditional values are being silenced through the use of "hate crimes" legislation, while any and every form of perversity is not only protected, but is encouraged. The side that claims to be the party of "tolerance" is promoting "tolerance" by making opposing viewpoints criminal.

This is all that liberalism has left: they cannot win arguments intellectually through logic, so their only recourse is to spread lies and hate, and to turn their opponent's very position into a "hate crime." This is not democracy, it is the road toward tyranny.

Another bill signed by Schwarzenegger, AB394, targets teachers for "anti-discrimination" training (in other words, liberal indoctrination).

Birth Control for Pre-Teens...What are We Coming To?

A school board in Maine is looking at a proposal that would allow a middle-school health center to prescribe birth control pills to students whose parents have given the health center consent to treat their children. What this means: children of ages 11-13 could have access to birth control pills with or without their parents' consent - parents must have signed consent to treat, but after that, services are considered confidential.

According to the report, only about 4% of students at the middle school reported being sexually active (which is about 4% too many!!!!). The real question, however, is this: will handing out birth control pills to students make that number more likely to decrease, or increase?

This is what liberals don't seem to understand about sex education: actions speak louder than words. (Most) Liberals say that kids shouldn't be having sex...and then they put mechanisms in place to make it easier for kids to have sex without having to deal with the consequences.

If a child of 11-13 years is sexually active, what he/she needs is a spanking, not birth control. Instead, liberals want to provide condoms and birth control pills to children, seemingly blind to the fact that this enables bad behavior. They knock "abstinence only" programs because they truly believe "kids are going to have sex anyway," then they do whatever they can to enable kids to have sex!!! Self-fulfilling prophecy, anyone?

The truth is that liberals want to remove any vestige of morality from the act of having sex - even for children 11-13 years old. No-consequences sex is damaging to our society, especially in light of the fact that birth control pills and condoms are not 100% effective. What's more, the level of emotional intimacy involved in having sex is, quite simply, inappropriate for children. Why not let our kids be kids, instead of filling their heads with sex ed at this young of an age?

These kids don't need birth control pills, they need to be grounded and taught what inappropriate behavior is (preferably by their parents).

UPDATE:
The measure has carried: the Maine middle school will offer birth control "pills and patches" to its students. If they're offering the birth control patch, then this may be even more problematic: the last I heard, there was strong evidence that the birth control patch caused cancer...and the last thing we need (after giving kids birth control) is giving kids cancer.

Leave NCLB Behind

President Bush today voiced his intention to renew the No Child Left Behind Act, stating that

"No Child Left Behind is helping replace a culture of low expectations... As a result, the achievement gap is beginning to narrow.... There is more work to be done. So long as there is an achievement gap, we have more to do."

The truth is, about all No Child Left Behind has done is to institute a culture of increased bureaucracy - something our already bloated public education system definitely doesn't need any more of.

The problem with NCLB is that it tries to fix the education system through more testing...but our education system doesn't need more testing; what it needs is less regulation. Using standardized testing to reform the public education system is a grand case of failing to see the trees for the forest. If you stand back at a distance and look at the education system, NCLB looks great...but the truth is, NCLB is wreaking havoc at the classroom level, tying teachers' hands, forcing them to teach to the test, but preventing them from truly teaching their students. The further failing of NCLB is that it puts the responsibility for students' education squarely on the shoulders of public school teachers. The truth is, the most effective venue for a child's education is in the home: teachers introduce the concepts, but without reinforcement at home, it doesn't matter how hard teacher try, they will be ineffective. With this kind of legislation, it's no wonder that music and PE are being cut out of our schools: teachers not only have to introduce the concepts during school time, but they're forced to have students do what should be homework in class.

And all of that doesn't even include the amount of bureaucracy that NCLB adds to the public education system...at all levels. The federal government now gets more bureaucrats to impose further standards on teachers. The state governments now get more bureaucrats to impose even more standards and standardized tests on teachers. The local governments and school districts have to hire more bureaucrats to ensure that teachers are incorporating all of the district, state, and federal standards into their classroom teaching. The truth is, NCLB is leaving teachers behind: instead of doing whatever is necessary to teach students, they are regulated into teaching to the test.

President Bush is out there touting a narrowing in "the achievement gap." My question is this: is the achievement gap narrowing because low students are improving, or because high students aren't being educated properly? My suspicion, based on what I've seen happening in our public schools, is that it's the latter.