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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
February 8, 2002
News Release
NEA Board Adopts Plan To Make Schools Safer-
NEA Acts To Make Schools Safe and Hospitable
for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgendered
Students and Education Employees.
Washington, D.C.- Following several months of
study by a broad-based task force, the Board
of Directors of the National Education
Association (NEA) today approved a set of
recommendations to clarify NEA policies and
enhance NEA programs designed to help foster
an environment of respect and safety in
America's public schools. NEA President Bob
Chase hailed the action as a positive step
toward extending protection to all students
and education employees.
NEA has a longstanding civil rights agenda
and a longstanding respect agenda,"
Chase said. "It's about building on
simple civil rights enforcement to create an
environment in schools where everyone in the
community - students, teachers, education
support professionals, and parents - respect
each other. Ultimately, when we respect each
other, schools will be safe and hospitable
for all."
The Board referred to the Executive Committee
a set of recommendations
that would continue and expand NEA efforts to
provide students, education employees, and
the general public with accurate, objective,
and up-to-date information regarding the
needs of, and problems confronting, gay,
lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered
students.
Consistent with current practices, any such
information would be nonjudgmental in terms
of sexual orientation/gender identification,
it would be age-appropriate and relevant to
subject matter in schools, and it would be
provided in accordance with local school
district policies developed by teachers,
parents, and others in the school community.
In
addition, the Board referred to the
Resolutions Committee and Legislative
Committee proposed changes that will
clarify that NEA policies regarding
nondiscrimination extend to gay,
lesbian, bisexual and transgendered
students and education employees. |
"It is
clear that, in too many places, students and
education employees who are gay, lesbian,
bisexual, or transgendered face a hostile
environment, " Chase said. "For
students, a safe, hospitable environment
means the right to learn. For education
employees, it means the right to work. For
all it means the right to be free from
harassment, bullying, and insensitivity.
"Education is the key to understanding
and respect, and education is our best weapon
against fear and discrimination," Chase
said. "That's why we will begin our
efforts with discussing these issues with our
members throughout the country."
The National Education Association is the
nations largest professional
employee organization, representing 2.6
million elementary and secondary teachers,
higher education faculty, education support
professionals, school administrators, retired
educators, and students preparing to become
teachers.
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How much ACCEPTANCE,
TOLERANCE, SENSITIVITY AND
RESPECT
has the NEA given to those that are opposed
to this perversion and have a different value
and moral belief system? They have removed
every sign of acceptance, tolerance,
sensitivity and respect of traditional values
from the classroom - from their schools.
Isn't it time we put a stop
to the SEXUAL PERVERTED
ALTERNATIVE LIFESTYLE INDOCTRINATION and RAPING of our
children in the tax funded government
schools?
Now we know the REASON for the DECEPTIVE
"sex-education" propagandized curriculum that our government school
system has been engaged in for the past 40
years. FORCED sexual
perversion! FORCED acceptance,
FORCED tolorance,
and FORCED 'respect' -
starting with our children.
IT'S TIME TO PUT AN END TO
IT NOW!
Now we know why the ACLU, the NEA and their
ilk go after everything in our government
schools and society as a whole, that pertain
to God, Christianity, Patriotism and our
Constitution.
The "Civil
Rights"of us that are in OPPOSITION to
the acceptance, the tolerance, the
respectfulness and the teaching of this
perversion, has no place in America today,
they tell us.
What they don't know - there is going to be
one huge adverse reaction and backlash and
judgement day is coming!
Read another shocker here
for what is coming our way: Click here