Village Academic Curriculum: Unsafe at Any Speed (or Grade)

December 13, 2009 by admin

From the Patriot Post Digest December 11, 2010
http://patriotpost.us/edition/2009/12/11/digest/

How do you spell "pervert?" Evidently, the Obama administration spells it with a "K" and a "J," as in "Kevin Jennings." Who is Kevin Jennings? He's the administration's "Safe Schools Czar." Setting aside our repulsion for the term "czar" and the constitutional end-run that term implies -- namely, the ability to craft and execute law independent of Congress -- this "czar" isn't "safe" to be left with our nation's school kids.

Jennings founded the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN), an advocacy group for homosexual youth in public schools. Actually it's not just an advocacy group, it also actively promotes the sexualization of children, regardless of their orientation. But who cares, right? We're talking safe schools, here -- what could that possibly have to do with GLSEN?

Well, among other stomach-churning revelations, it turns out that Jennings was selected to be America's "Safe Schools" Czar specifically because he founded and directed GLSEN, as a review of his official bio indicates. So how is Mr. Safe Schools making our schools safe? Well, from a cursory browsing of his organization's Web site we can't really answer that question.

For example, GLSEN's "recommended reading list" for grades 7-12 (roughly 12- to 18-yr-olds) includes such titles as "Queer 13," "In Your Face," "Hard Love," "Love & Sex: Ten Stories of Truth" and "The Necessary Hunger." Necessary? Really? How about disgusting, perverted, twisted or sick? All of these terms fit much better, at least that was our take after assessing selections from GLSEN's list of over 100 such texts.

Common decency, Patriot publication standards and e-mail spam filters prohibit an exposé of any of these "works," but more information can be found here and here. For this space, let's just say that the graphic depictions and discussions within them are definitely not what most parents would associate with a "Safe Schools" program for their 12-yr-olds, let alone with the program's "czar."