On
September 14th I spoke with a staff writer for
the Rochester, NY Democrat and Chronicle, who had taken
over the Batavia, NY school issue for the paper. The
Batavia issue involves a male science teacher dressing as a woman
this year and a school district that is forcing children to
comply. We talked about how the last article in the
D&C (written by another writer) had
been slanted towards the science teacher. She blamed it on
the lack of anyone coming forward for the other side of
the
issue.
The writer
was not shy about showing her feelings on the matter, speaking
on having known there had to be people who apposed it. She
also was quite candid of her ire with the Batavia school
having refused to let her and others from the D&C into
either of the two parent meetings. They were not even allowed
on school property in the parking lot. She said they had to wait
across the street in the rain and could only talk to the few
people who would go over to them afterwards. She was
quite upset over what happened, saying lawyers were
called.
I
learned from her that her article on the issue,
scheduled for the next day, September 15, 2006,
and titled "Gender controversy persists," would
reflect some from the other side of the issue. She left out
that such was being used to paint a picture of a community
that will not let the situation go; as if the children were some how
separate from the community and as if all is great in the
class
room.
It
speaks of a boy who at first did not like what he saw with
the male teacher dressed as a woman. But then the article
states, "And then he started to learn science." The article
went on to say that Richard Stutzman, the district's
superintendent said, 'That's the way it has happened for most
Batavia High School students' and, "It's business as
usual."
It
is very interesting that this D&C staff writer took the
word of the superintendent who refused to let her into either of the
meetings, where she could have heard things for herself.
Yes, the very man who left her standing out in the rain, she quotes
and takes the word of--and reports that man's words to D&C
readers throughout the article. But of course, she does not tell her
readers about him having left her out in the
cold.
She
then goes on to address a situation with a cross dressing
public school librarian in another state. She quotes that
cross dresser as saying that in his school students began
"policing themselves," and how "It became politically correct
to accept" the librarian. (Isn't this what we all would want,
children being bullied by other students in defense of a
school staff member? How horrid!)
Could
this be why some students have not spoken out in Batavia? Could this
be why some families are staying quiet?
People
need the truth of the matter, and reading the D&C, simply will
not give a reader the truth. Logic alone says that the article which
posted on September 15th was just as slanted as the other had
been--only in a different way. I guess anything for an article that
does not offend the NY liberals. Goodness forbid we offend those who
voted for
Hillary!
Moral
New Yorkers need to call the State Department of Education,
Commissioner Mills office. And tell him that just because
the state titles something a "Disorder," does not make it
right that the person continues to teach children, once
diagnosed. We
need to let Commissioner Mills know that we are not going to sit by
while students are bullied into some sort of submission to
accept a behavior that goes against their faith-beliefs or
even human
logic.
Schools
are there for the children, not to give a teacher a job.
This issue would be on going every year that the teacher works
there. How many children will have to be subjected to
this?
As
my 16 year old daughter said to me today, "If people
continue to not stand up for themselves, believing that they do not
have a right to do so, some day they won't have the
right."
