What (if anything) is your DC's private school doing to celebrating LGBT History Month?

[Anonymous]

Not yet. I'm waiting to see if there is a LGBT agenda or just an effort to promote diversity. Only time will tell. . .

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Not yet. I'm waiting to see if there is a LGBT agenda or just an effort to promote diversity. Only time will tell. . .

Good riddance bigot.

[Anonymous]

I actually agree with 1740..if it is an agenda no thanks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I actually agree with 1740..if it is an agenda no thanks.

What 'agenda' would it be? Like making sure there is representation of African American perspectives? Is that a 'black agenda?' Or a Latino Agenda for Hispanic Heritage Month, or a Straight Agenda anytime a straight person is talked about with his or her family? Or a 'women's agenda' if we talk about important historical women?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I actually agree with 1740..if it is an agenda no thanks.

What 'agenda' would it be? Like making sure there is representation of African American perspectives? Is that a 'black agenda?' Or a Latino Agenda for Hispanic Heritage Month, or a Straight Agenda anytime a straight person is talked about with his or her family? Or a 'women's agenda' if we talk about important historical women?

+1

[Anonymous]

There is, quite frankly, a national homosexual agenda, which is one of preferential treatment and recruitment.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There is, quite frankly, a national homosexual agenda, which is one of preferential treatment and recruitment.

This is, quite frankly, nonsense posted by someone who is ignorant. You didn't answer the above question. Is Black History month recruitment? How about Hispanic History Month? What about anytime we talk about a woman who has accomplished something important in history--wait, we're trying to turn everyone into black, hispanic WOMEN?!?! Recruitment alert! Recruitment alert! This cry of an 'agenda' is hogwash based on complete and total willful ignorance of the facts.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There is, quite frankly, a national homosexual agenda, which is one of preferential treatment and recruitment.

Yes, this is true, if you define "preferential treatment" as "wanting the same treatment and rights that everybody else has".

As for recruitment. Well. Did somebody recruit you to be heterosexual? No? Then how did you come to be heterosexual?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There is, quite frankly, a national homosexual agenda, which is one of preferential treatment and recruitment.

Yes, this is true, if you define "preferential treatment" as "wanting the same treatment and rights that everybody else has".

As for recruitment. Well. Did somebody recruit you to be heterosexual? No? Then how did you come to be heterosexual?

+1,000

[Anonymous]

Recruitment means artificially stacking schools with a disproportionate amount of Gay families so kids think gay family is just the same as a hetero family and it isn't. It also isn't fair in the admission process to judge a candidate on who their parent is with. A gay family can be fine but it is not the same and is confusing for children at a young age to think this way. Personally I think the door has swung so far to the left that there is starting to be a push back. I am pro gay rights so can't imagine what the people who aren't pro gay rights are thinking. FYI I am not a fan of my kids being indoctrinated with this stuff at a young age. Kids are so innocent and if my child is gay so be it but I an not interested in having this stuff paraded around in Kindergarten.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Recruitment means artificially stacking schools with a disproportionate amount of Gay families so kids think gay family is just the same as a hetero family and it isn't. It also isn't fair in the admission process to judge a candidate on who their parent is with. A gay family can be fine but it is not the same and is confusing for children at a young age to think this way. Personally I think the door has swung so far to the left that there is starting to be a push back. I am pro gay rights so can't imagine what the people who aren't pro gay rights are thinking. FYI I am not a fan of my kids being indoctrinated with this stuff at a young age. Kids are so innocent and if my child is gay so be it but I an not interested in having this stuff paraded around in Kindergarten.

So, if your kindergartner comes home and says that his/her best friend has two moms or two dads and he/she really wants to have a playdate with the new best friend, what do you do? Since that family is 'parading' around who they are by just existing. Are the black families 'parading' around who they are because they are living lives as themselves? How about the Latino families? Are you tired of them parading around, too? Indoctrinating kids into thinking that, gosh, there are different people in the world? And in an independent school where the percentage of African American students is larger than the percentage nationally of African Americans in the general population, how dare they parade around, right? That's not reality to have 48% kids of color, with a 25 percent African American population, when the national population is only 13%--why are schools 'stacking' their populations in unrealistic ways, parading around that diversity?

That sounds ridiculous, right? Just like your argument sounds completely and utterly ignorant.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Recruitment means artificially stacking schools with a disproportionate amount of Gay families so kids think gay family is just the same as a hetero family and it isn't. It also isn't fair in the admission process to judge a candidate on who their parent is with. A gay family can be fine but it is not the same and is confusing for children at a young age to think this way. Personally I think the door has swung so far to the left that there is starting to be a push back. I am pro gay rights so can't imagine what the people who aren't pro gay rights are thinking. FYI I am not a fan of my kids being indoctrinated with this stuff at a young age. Kids are so innocent and if my child is gay so be it but I an not interested in having this stuff paraded around in Kindergarten.

Yes, you're right. A hetero family is not just the same as a gay family. A hetero family has a mother and a father. Or just a mother. Or just a father. Or a grandmother and a grandfather. Or a mother, a father, and a birth mother who lives somewhere else. Or a mother and a father, living in different households. Or a mother and a stepfather, or a father and a stepmother. Oy. So confusing for children at a young age. Which is why I think that private schools should only admit the children of married heterosexual couples who live together. If they get divorced, or even just if one parent gets posted temporarily overseas? Boot 'em out. Innocent kids shouldn't have to be confronted by this kind of stuff.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Recruitment means artificially stacking schools with a disproportionate amount of Gay families so kids think gay family is just the same as a hetero family and it isn't. It also isn't fair in the admission process to judge a candidate on who their parent is with. A gay family can be fine but it is not the same and is confusing for children at a young age to think this way. Personally I think the door has swung so far to the left that there is starting to be a push back. I am pro gay rights so can't imagine what the people who aren't pro gay rights are thinking. FYI I am not a fan of my kids being indoctrinated with this stuff at a young age. Kids are so innocent and if my child is gay so be it but I an not interested in having this stuff paraded around in Kindergarten.

We have had beloved gay family members and friends in our children's lives from the get-go. The kids don't find anything confusing about them. If there are kids who are confused about gay families it's because those families don't jibe with the bigotry and prejudices they've learned at home. Our children enjoy our friends' hospitality and love, along with that of their uncle (their favorite babysitter). They don't find them different in some kind of bad way just because they are not in the majority.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Recruitment means artificially stacking schools with a disproportionate amount of Gay families so kids think gay family is just the same as a hetero family and it isn't. It also isn't fair in the admission process to judge a candidate on who their parent is with. A gay family can be fine but it is not the same and is confusing for children at a young age to think this way. Personally I think the door has swung so far to the left that there is starting to be a push back. I am pro gay rights so can't imagine what the people who aren't pro gay rights are thinking. FYI I am not a fan of my kids being indoctrinated with this stuff at a young age. Kids are so innocent and if my child is gay so be it but I an not interested in having this stuff paraded around in Kindergarten.

Yes, you're right. A hetero family is not just the same as a gay family. A hetero family has a mother and a father. Or just a mother. Or just a father. Or a grandmother and a grandfather. Or a mother, a father, and a birth mother who lives somewhere else. Or a mother and a father, living in different households. Or a mother and a stepfather, or a father and a stepmother. Oy. So confusing for children at a young age. Which is why I think that private schools should only admit the children of married heterosexual couples who live together. If they get divorced, or even just if one parent gets posted temporarily overseas? Boot 'em out. Innocent kids shouldn't have to be confronted by this kind of stuff.

+1000

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Recruitment means artificially stacking schools with a disproportionate amount of Gay families so kids think gay family is just the same as a hetero family and it isn't. It also isn't fair in the admission process to judge a candidate on who their parent is with. A gay family can be fine but it is not the same and is confusing for children at a young age to think this way. Personally I think the door has swung so far to the left that there is starting to be a push back. I am pro gay rights so can't imagine what the people who aren't pro gay rights are thinking. FYI I am not a fan of my kids being indoctrinated with this stuff at a young age. Kids are so innocent and if my child is gay so be it but I an not interested in having this stuff paraded around in Kindergarten.

You owe it to those on this board to name the school your DC attend so that we can avoid it.