Forget What Your Parents Taught You

So Schmitty, are you agreeing with KK? In the International Falls I grew up in, kids who were suspected of being "gay" [we had different words back then] were indeed the object of bullying. I now look back in horror at some of the things we said or thought or joked about. Katherine Kersten is living in the cosmoplitan environment of the Twin Cities where one is likely to see openly gay people at school, at church, on stage, at restaurants. But almost never on the football field, for instance, because it would not be safe.
In International Falls, does bullying occur? Does it ever involve sexual orientation? If the agenda of anti-bullying is to protect potential victims from violence and if those potential victims are often gays, then she done us all a favor by bringing up the subject -- but she might not agree with our conclusions.

What Katherine Kersten almost invariably does is to take an idea that seems to have some merit and then trace that idea back to some sponsoring group and point out the most objectionable thing about that group because it saves her the need to consider the first point -- and the one I discussed --whether bullying takes place due to sexual orientation. What's creepy is that when she does this, she is almost always responding the way dictated by her connection to the erz-conservative Center for the American Way and its ideology of far right answers to all life's tough questions. [PS. I just did what she does -- on purpose] At the bottom of that ideology is fear, in this case the fear that families are being deceived by these evil educationists. I accept creepy as long as it is coming from a Katherine Kersten devotee.

Words directed at a response, not a person. You somehow have managed to turn this into a you and me thing while never addressing the topic. Which would be the children and and exercises they would be expected to preform under this program. If that's the direction our education system is heading then God help us all! Please address the topic, instead of the writer and I.

While I'm at it, I have worn my passions on my sleeve here more than likely because I didn't have the where with all to use my real name at a site such as this, and you have taken me to task for showing those passions in the past more than once. For me since I don't know you, your name might as well be Joe because if I don't know you, your name is nothing but another avatar here. Enough with the self back patting for having that where with all the rest of us didn't.

How about having the courage to address the children and those exercises they would be expected to do.

Better than a you? Some things can be conveniently pulled from thin air.