“Voting parent “wants to appear even handed, but their reference to BOE going in the “wrong direction” would appear to mean voting for the curriculum because it will a) bring a law suit and b) I also think this person objects to the curriculum because of the last line “Everybody needs to be respected even if we disagree with the dogmas of their faith.” If you think about it that cuts both ways, but empathy for LGBT is not a “faith”, some pejoratively insist on calling it a life style. It’s more like a fact of life and less of a choice to me than choosing a “faith”.

It would be nice if the people of faith would step up to their credo for once and try turning the other cheek.

I’ll leave other judgments of nerdiness to others.

There are numerous non-secular schools available to you. They are permitted to ignore the state’s obligation to teach tolerance. Utilize them if you find inclusion so distasteful.

The point of all the CSC material is to help children respect and accept each other as individual humans, whether they are similar or different to us. What anyone chooses to do is a different matter, since it is within their control and we are all accountable for our actions.

If fear is required to make children “good,” then God help us all.

Good luck to us all tonight.

And yet concerning this hyperbole- if we follow this curriculum we are left with an anti-definition of Family as being basically “whatever anyone wants it to be”. This effectively neuters the concept of all cultural heritage and meaning. It destroys History (however racist/sexist/homophobic you may consider this history). This was PRECISELY Pol Pot’s objective, which however horrifying and amoral the means, were intended to justify the same ends.

Frankly I wonder about the moral compass afforded public educators- what have all the ACLU lawsuits left you with? Why should a child be “good”? What is the possible motivation if not fear of violent reprisal (i.e. totalitarianism)?

Good luck at the meeting tonight…

I understand and appreciate varying points of view on this and on most issues, but I just don’t think adding a lesson to an existing school curriculum is in quite the same league as murdering millions of people.

Let’s hope the state of California, and the AUSD by extension, doesn’t pursue a similar path in its zeal to mandate the Tyranny of Tolerance.

Whatever happens, I do hope that (after some sort of brief cooling off period), we can indeed move onward and upward to restructuring and the master plan process. If *that* doesn’t go well, we won’t have a school district much longer so none of the rest of this will matter.