Comments about ‘Misguided teachers’

It is a big problem that has already raised its ugly head in Massachusetts. At one school when parents found out that the elementary teacher was reading a book to the class about the prince going after another prince, (Can’t remember the title.) When the parent complained they where actually barred from stepping foot on the school property. There have been several incidents on the same subject, where the parents are demonized when they disagree with what is being taught to their own kids. The great fairy tale is the one perpetuated by the gay rights groups. That we are to accept abnormal behavior as normal and isn’t a threat to society at large.

I taught for 30 years and never read in any textbook I used or those of my associates support for allegations of Mr. Beus. His letter seems to assert that teachers across the country all part of some gay conspiracy! Surely the sweeping scope of his charges make his claim what it is, absurd.

Home school your kids if you want to protect them from being brainwashed by activist agendas.

More Utah obsession with the gay issue.

Please give us some specific examples of where this indoctrination is happening - what books, links to stories, etc?

I know that without a doubt, if anyone tried to teach something even remotely gay-tolerant in any school in this country there would be so much screaming and yelling we'd all hear about it.

Just another uninformed person using fear instead of common sense.

Ed...first off, so what? But, taking it back a step, with one just finished school and one high schooler...I've never seen this bombardment of which you speak. I've struggled my way though helping with math, googled my way through helping with social studies, and been reminded why physics gave me grief, but never have I been asked to help with gay marriage homework. I just don't think it's there.

This is right on~!

Homeschooling is always an option if you want to monitor what your kids are taught...or is it?

Recently the California Supreme Court ruled that parents cannot be allowed to homeschool their children unless they are accredited teachers, claiming "Parents do not have a constitutional right to home school their children" (Justice H. Walter Croskey, Feb. 28, 2009). How much longer before measures like that are implemented across the country to target parents who aren't teaching what the government liberals want shoved down the rising generation's throats?

Yup, home school them so you can ensure the only activist agendas they are exposed to are your own.

I'm calling your bluff, John C.

Either provide the names, dates, places etc. for that story you're telling or admit you're either passing along hearsay or inventing the story yourself out of thin air.

I'm a teacher and I've never seen that in my biology books or any other books we use.

Stop lumping all teachers together.

The Republicans in Utah are making it hard for us teachers to remain Republicans. You and the legislature keep bombarding us with the message that all teachers are horrible, gay activists, corrupting your children. I am as far from that as you can possibly get.

Stop telling me what I am and what I am doing.

You are wrong.

Sure you might find some that do that but stop telling the world that all teachers are the same.

You are wrong.

Put your kids in parochial school. They will be better educated and be happier. The environment is more supportive of being a child.

@John C.

About the parent in MA wasn't that the parent "was barred" he, in fact, wouldn't leave so they called the police.
The particular school district didn't have an "opt out" program for this kind of reading material so when the parents filed suit against the school district they lost.
The teacher thought it important, since MA allows gay marriage and children in their schools have gay parents, to include such a book. What do parents do? Are they going to teach their children not to associate with such children?

He learnt it at hims home skoling.

Gordo, I believe you when you tell us that you taught for 30 years and never saw a homosexual-agenda book in your classroom. Thanks for providing one data point. Unfortunately, that proves only that one classroom did not pursue the homosexual education agenda. Unless you provide the same data for every teacher and classroom, you have proved nothing. Mr. Beus needs to provide only one example (and there are hundreds) of pro-homosexual indoctrination. One clean classroom does not exonerate the entire system. Instead of wasting your time on a false argument, how about devoting your time to cleaning up homosexual corruption in the school system?

If you think that's bad, google the "Story of Stuff" that IS being shown to kids in public schools, and youtube the videos of kids being brainwashed into the fact that the current idiot in chief is some kind of God. There are much bigger fish to fry then george loving george.

another day of empty rhetoric from the far right, thanks for nothing DN

What amazes me is the vitriol Utahns have for public school teachers. Folks, teachers are your neighbors, fellow ward members, brother, sisters, cousins etc. Do you think Utah imports teachers from liberal Calif and New York? Do you think Utah school boards would approve a pro gay agenda? You guys are paranoid. Maybe the advesary is after you!!

"Pro-homosexual indoctrination"? ?

I would just one news story telling us exactly where and when this so-called indoctrination has gone on.
Everyone, pleast adjust the tin foil hats, more information is comming in from star planit vomimitus.
If escape from reality killed people, Utah would not have much of a population.

For David Parker, the first alarm went off in January, when his 5-year-old son came home from his kindergarten class at Lexington's Joseph Estabrook School with a bag of books promoting diversity.

Inside were books about foreign cultures and traditions, along with food recipes. There was also a copy of ''Who's In a Family?" by Robert Skutch, which depicts different kinds of families, including same-sex couples raising children.

Parker and his wife, Tonia, 34, who was also in court yesterday, said the dispute arose because they asked school officials to notify them about classroom discussions about same-sex marriage and what they called other adult themes. They also wanted the option to exclude their boy, now 6, from those talks.

Parker said he met with school officials to gain those assurances and then refused to leave until he got them. Parker stayed at Estabrook School for more than two hours, according to Superintendent William J. Hurley, as officials and Lexington police urged him to leave. Finally, they arrested him for trespassing.

Parker, who refused to bail himself out of jail Wednesday night, said he spent the night in custody to prove a point.