Same Sex Video for Third Graders

Parents to view ‘Family’ video shown at school
By DANIELLE CAMILLI Burlington County Times
January 25, 2007

EVESHAM — The township school district is inviting all parents of third-graders to view a video that has created controversy because it features families with same-sex parents.

Meanwhile, Garden State Equality, a gay rights advocacy group, has rallied behind the district. Its members have sent some 500 e-mails of support to school district officials.

The video is one of the state-approved supplemental educational materials for the family life program.

Required by the state Department of Education's core curriculum-content standards in comprehensive health and physical education, the third-grade lesson is intended to encourage children's understanding about the diversity of family backgrounds, and to note that the roles and responsibilities in families are similar. More....

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Same-sex diversity video roils Evesham district
Now a gay-rights group has entered the fray.

By Troy Graham

Philadelphia Inquirer

New Jersey's preeminent gay rights group came to the defense yesterday of Evesham's school district, which is facing questions from some parents for showing a diversity video that includes families headed by same-sex couples.

The video, called "That's a Family!," depicts children being raised in a variety of family structures, including those headed by divorced and single parents, grandparents, guardians, and gay and lesbian couples.

The video is used around the state, and the New Jersey Department of Education provides training on incorporating "That's a Family!" into the classroom.

......parents objected to the portion showing same-sex parents, saying the school district didn't tell parents about "That's a Family!" beforehand.

...... the reaction from the gay-rights group Garden State Equality - has made the school district a temporary front in the culture wars. Garden State Equality issued an e-mail "action alert" yesterday, encouraging its members to support the school district.

"We take this seriously," said Steve Goldstein, the group's chair. "For us in the gay community, prejudice perpetuates into future generations unless the current generation... is taught about diversity."

Jeanne Smith, the Evesham school district's public information officer, said the school district sent out a letter to parents at the beginning of the school year..... "I don't think any of us expected we'd have to defend it," she said.

"The whole diversity thing goes along with that, trying to teach children that people come from all kinds of families and they deserve respect and dignity, as you do," she said. "We don't believe there's an age limit for when you teach that concept."

Jon Zlock, a spokesman for the department..... said the state's health education standards require second-grade students to be able to "identify different kinds of families and explain that families may differ for many reasons." More......

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Teaching kids about homosexuality in third grade? Thank God my son goes to catholic school!

Third Grade is no place to be teaching kids about same sex marriage and that perverted stuff like this is acceptable and normal in our society. Regardless of what many may think, it is not an accepted lifestyle.

Why should young children not be shown this video? Because children at this age are very vulnerable. We constantly hear how kids are "acting' out things they see on TV or videos. Is this something we want them acting out?

Will this confuse a child when let's say, a gym teacher wants to dry him off after the shower?

The school should be ashamed for thinking parents would not get upset and they did not expect to have to defend themselves. And of course the local gay group has to come skipping down to the meeting to push their homosexual agenda of acceptance.

Bottom line is children will learn about this crap soon enough, they do not need it "forced" on them at such a young age.

King

For more on the homosexual agenda in our schools click here.