Let’s be extremely clear here…. this is not about homosexuality. It is about what is deemed appropriate materials for school age children. Kevin Jennings should NOT be in a position of influence with regard to our children and their education:
Safe Schools Czar Kevin Jennings was the founder, and for many years, Executive Director of an organization called the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN). GLSEN started essentially as Jennings’ personal project and grew to become the culmination of his life’s work. And he was chosen by President Obama to be the nation’s Safe Schools Czar primarily because he had founded and led GLSEN (scroll for bio).
GLSEN’s stated mission is to empower gay youth in the schools and to stop harassment by other students. It encourages the formation of Gay Student Alliances and condemns the use of hateful words. GLSEN also strives to influence the educational curriculum to include materials which the group believes will increase tolerance of gay students and decrease bullying. To that end, GLSEN maintains a recommended reading list of books that it claims “furthers our mission to ensure safe schools for all students.” In other words, these are the books that GLSEN’s directors think all kids should be reading: gay kids should read them to raise their self-esteem, and straight kids should read them in order to become more aware and tolerant and stop bullying gay kids. Through GLSEN’s online ordering system, called “GLSEN BookLink,” featured prominently on their Web site, teachers can buy the books to use as required classroom assignments, or students can buy them to read on their own.
According to GLSEN’s own press releases from the period during which its recommended reading list was developed, the organization’s three areas of focus were creating “educational resources, public policy agenda, [and] student organizing programs”; in other words, the reading list (chief among its “educational resources”) was of prime importance in GLSEN’s efforts to influence the American educational system.
The list is divided into three main categories: books recommended for grades K-6; books recommended for grades 7-12; and books for teachers. (The books on the list span all genres: fiction, nonfiction, memoirs, even poetry.)
Out of curiosity to see exactly what kind of books Kevin Jennings and his organization think American students should be reading in school, our team chose a handful at random from the over 100 titles on GLSEN’s grades 7-12 list, and began reading through.
What we discovered shocked us. We were flabbergasted. Rendered speechless.
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December 4, 2009 at 8:55 am
mrje
I cannot be more disgusted.
I am sick of these special interest groups bullying the “silent majority” into their warped frame of mind(s).
As I have been saying for nearly 2 years… we have dedicated our lives, time, money & Constitution, to protectall minority groups from tyranny, only to have them drown us with their twisted “PC” ideas.
THEY want to CHANGE US.
NO.
December 4, 2009 at 9:11 am
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December 7, 2009 at 10:08 am
PatRiota
The GLBQT, NEA and ALA have been pushing this on our children in the schools and libraries for years. Now they finally have the ultimate venue from which to push their agenda – the White House. They have earned their success. They have been slowly chipping away at this for years while we sat by and watched from our politically correct sofas.
We are getting what we deserve. Sadly we are paying the price with our children who are being taught to be silent and willing victims to pedophilia, rape, sodomy, incest and host of other perversions inflicted upon children by sick adults.
December 10, 2009 at 2:48 am
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December 12, 2009 at 10:22 am
Manny
MassResistance is the primary source for much of the damning info on Jennings, including Fistgate and the Little Black Book. http://www.massresistance.org/docs/issues/kevin_jennings/index.html
December 12, 2009 at 11:41 am
JAMES
It is too bad that the Boston Globe and the Boston Herald were not at the forefront of this atrocity when it began happening, when the taxdollars pf Massachusetts were used to fund these conferences. And I question the GLSEN’s agenda when the conference students ranged in age from13 or 14 to 21. I believe that 18 is the threshold between minors and adults?
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