School sued over same-sex fairy tale

[GameSnake]

"Two families filed a lawsuit today against a Massachusetts town and its public school system after a teacher read a gay-themed fairy tale to children without notifying them first. The suit against Lexington, about 19km west of Boston, seeks unspecified damages after the book King & King was read to a classroom of about 20 mostly seven-year-olds."
http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5478,18955997%255E1702,00.html

WOW. There must have been something more appropriate then a gay book to read to those kids?

[Sidoh]

God, what a stupid teacher.  How can someone possibly lack that much insight?

[MyndFyre]

God, what a stupid teacher.  How can someone possibly lack that much insight?

The teacher knew precisely what he/she was doing when it was done.  Think about it.  It's in MA.  Can't get much more liberal than the state of Teddy Kennedy.

[RoMi]

Massachusetts represent.  Most socialist state in the union, yes.  Now we have state funded health care, can't wait to see the taxes off my paycheck this year.  Anyways, considering this is going to go through the same court that legalized gay marriage, I don't see it going anywhere.  In my opinion children are too young to be exposed to this kind of stuff, what ever happened to being a child, and not being bombarded with everything in the world all at once?

[trust]

Hopefully she's fired or something. I would pull my kid right then and put them in a nice Christian private school.

[rabbit]

Does anyone realize that being gay is not something people choose?  7 year olds play violent videogames and watch R rated movies all the time.  Why don't you try to stop that before bitching about a fucking FAIRY TALE?

[RoMi]

There's a difference from the kid playing video games because this was in school.  If the parent wants to read them that story then it would be fine by me.  I think parents should teach what their values are and not the school.

[Joe]

Which brings up sex ed..

[GameSnake]

All gay bashing aside I really do think there is better material to read to 7 year olds than that.

[RoMi]

Which brings up sex ed..

They don't teach sex-ed in 2nd grade last time I checked.  I don't know how they do it in other states, but here in Mass they do it from a scientific basis, they get into homosexuality, and by the time they are teaching it everyone knows what it is, and don't have a problem.

[Joe]

All gay bashing aside I really do think there is better material to read to 7 year olds than that.

Signed.

They don't teach sex-ed in 2nd grade last time I checked.  I don't know how they do it in other states, but here in Mass they do it from a scientific basis, they get into homosexuality, and by the time they are teaching it everyone knows what it is, and don't have a problem.

In Baraboo WI, they teach it in 6th grade (health class, covering STDs, etc). In Columbus WI, they teach it in 6th grade (life science, anatomy of humans). I took the class in Columbus, but I live in Baraboo now, where we covered it again in 8th grade.

As for everyone knowing, let me tell you a little secret: I thought girls had penises back in 6th grade, and when we were at my cousin's house one time the conversation between me, her, and her friend Sarah (all in the same grade), Sarah said that she thought guys had vaginas (before the class, obviously), so not everyone is all that smart.

[deadly7]

As for everyone knowing, let me tell you a little secret: I thought girls had penises back in 6th grade, and when we were at my cousin's house one time the conversation between me, her, and her friend Sarah (all in the same grade), Sarah said that she thought guys had vaginas (before the class, obviously), so not everyone is all that smart.

Wow.  Now I know why you're so fucked up.  Tell me, did you even like girls when you were in 6th grade because you thought that?

[Sidoh]

The teacher knew precisely what he/she was doing when it was done.  Think about it.  It's in MA.  Can't get much more liberal than the state of Teddy Kennedy.

A person with any decent amount of common sense should realize the high potential for radical reprocussions ...

[MyndFyre]

Does anyone realize that being gay is not something people choose?  7 year olds play violent videogames and watch R rated movies all the time.  Why don't you try to stop that before bitching about a fucking FAIRY TALE?

No, that doesn't occur to me, and I've seen nothing substantive that indicates it, either.

[Eric]

From Publishers Weekly
When a grouchy queen tells her layabout son that it's time for him to marry, he sighs, "Very well, Mother.... I must say, though, I've never cared much for princesses." His young page winks. Several unsatisfactory bachelorettes visit the castle before "Princess Madeleine and her brother, Prince Lee" appear in the doorway. The hero is smitten at once. "What a wonderful prince!" he and Prince Lee both exclaim, as a shower of tiny Valentine hearts flutters between them. First-time co-authors and artists de Hann and Nijland matter-of-factly conclude with the royal wedding of "King and King," the page boy's blushing romance with the leftover princess and the assurance that "everyone lives happily ever after." Unfortunately, the multimedia collages are cluttered with clashing colors, amorphous paper shapes, scribbles of ink and bleary brushstrokes; the characters' features are indistinct and sometimes ugly. Despite its gleeful disruption of the boy-meets-girl formula, this alterna-tale is not the fairest of them all. For a visually appealing and more nuanced treatment of diversity in general, Kitty Crowther's recent Jack and Jim is a better choice. Ages 6-up.

Interesting.