Southern Bread

I really try not to wear my disgust for public schools on my sleeve in normal conversation, but I’m finding it harder and harder not to these days. And today it just got even harder by a magnitude of 10. Why? Well, if you haven’t read about Obama’s “safe schools” Czar Kevin Jennings then buckle your seatbelt. He’s what you call militant gay with a capital M. For instance, did you know that your kids are being aggressively recruited to be heterosexual? According to Jennings, this is what public schools are doing:

It’s really hard to understand what he’s saying here, so here’s the transcript:

First of all, we all know what’s really promoted in our schools: Heterosexuality is promoted in our schools. Every time kids read Romeo and Juliet or they’re encouraged to go to the prom or whatever is it is, kids are aggressively recruited to be heterosexual in this country.

And you know what? It doesn’t work. The reality is that if schools could affect your sexual orientation there would have been no gay people in the first place. But there [are] still people out there who believe that myth, because you know what? It’s easy to panic people if you make them think that they’re after you’re kids.

–Kevin Jennings, Iowa GLSEN Speech (2000)

It seems here that Jennings is taking the odd position that schools should take a completely neutral approach to an issue that is blatantly obvious to everyone on the planet: that people are created for heterosexuality. Mr. Jennings, look at yourself in the mirror. Tell me what those parts are for. Now tell me what the appropriate, common sense teaching should be on that. Jennings can be gay if he wants. I could care less. But, promoting an aberrant sexual lifestyle as if it’s on par with the natural order is ridiculous. Current stats show anywhere between 1.12 – 1.5% of the U.S. population as homosexual. That’s probably about the same percent that think we never landed on the moon, or that deny the holocaust. 1.5% of anything is “aberrant.”

But he doesn’t stop there. No, he’s also the guy that covered up the statutory rape of a male student by an older man when he was a teacher:

Jennings does not limit his promotion of homosexuality in schools only to high schools or middle schools. He wrote the foreword for a book titled Queering Elementary Education, which includes an essay declaring that “‘queerly raised’ children are agents” using “strategies of adaptation, negotiation, resistance, and subversion.”

Perhaps the most dramatic illustration, however, of Jennings’ unfitness for a “safe schools” post involves an incident when he taught at Concord Academy, a private boarding school in Massachusetts. In his book One Teacher in Ten (the title is based on the discredited myth, now abandoned even by “gay” activist groups, that ten percent of the population is homosexual), he tells about a young male sophomore, “Brewster,” who confessed to Jennings “his involvement with an older man he met in Boston.” But at a GLSEN rally in 2000, Jennings told a more explicit version of “Brewster’s” story. Jennings here quotes the boy and then comments: “‘I met someone in the bus station bathroom and I went home with him.’ High school sophomore, 15 years old. That was the only way he knew how to meet gay people.”

Did Jennings report this high-risk behavior to the authorities? To the school? To the boy’s parents? No — he just told the boy, “I hope you knew to use a condom.” Sex between an adult and a young person below the “age of consent” (which varies from state to state) is a crime known as statutory rape, and some states mandate that people in certain professions report such abuse.
–Tony Perkins, Human Events

So, there my friends is your new Federal “safe schools” czar. The fact remains that the only true “safe schools” are when there are no public schools at all. I can do a much better job keeping my kids safe than some education apparatchik.