Tuesday, May 17, 2005
Coming soon to Montgomery County Public Schools???
The quoted introduction below is located at this link. http://www.article8.org/docs/news_events/glsen_043005/black_book/black_book_inside.htm
WARNING! VERY GRAPHIC INFORMATION IS AT THIS LINK: VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED
"The Little Black Book - Queer in the 21st Century"
Is this the future? This booklet was distributed to hundreds of kids (middle school age and up) at Brookline High School, Brookline, MA, on April 30, 2005. It was written by the Boston-based AIDS Action Committee, with help with the Massachusetts Department of Public Health and the Boston Public Health Commission.
The event that day was designed for children and their teachers across Massachusetts, [and was] organized by the "Gay Lesbian and Straight Education Network" (GLSEN).
It is a fact that GLSEN influenced material was included in the new Montgomery County Sex-Ed curriculum. Page 38 of the new sex-ed curriculum lists 'Just the Facts About Sexual Orientation and Youth: A Primer for Principals, Educators, and School Personnel', with no author, just a URL (http://mirror.apa.org/pi-OLD/lgbc/publication/justthefacts.html). This leads a reader to believe that this document was origninated by the American Psychological Asscociation (APA). However, that is not correct, further the link provided in the curriculum is out of date and leads to a password protected page (why?).
The correct link for the document on the APA website is http://www.apa.org/pi/lgbc/facts.pdf and publically displays that the document (Teacher Resource) is indeed the same GLSEN influenced document that is posted on the GLSEN website (see "What is the 'Just the Facts Collation' and how did this document come about?" at the end of the document for more information).
Also, one of the homosexual sons of the Sex-Ed Committee Chairman is involved with the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN) in Maryland whose story of coming out to his seventh grade class appeared in two national publications, according to the GLSEN Metro-Baltimore website.
IS 'A LITTLE BLACK BOOK' NEXT FOR MONTGOMERY COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS???