She is a poster child for school vouchers because she is nuts. I wouldn't want her near any children I cared about.
Quote:I can use this public facility to approve of sexual perversion and call it "an alternate lifestyle," and if someone is offended, that's OK."
She is calling gays and lesbians perverts. This is offensive and destructive.
Surely her school includes gay children. How much more warped are they going to turn out knowing their principal -- the leader and ultimate adult figure in their school -- sees them as a pervert, with all that word implies. It's practically an endorsement for all the bullying that is forthcoming from other schoolchildren who will echo the same words.
Quote:"I can use it to condone sexual promiscuity, by dispensing condoms and calling it, "safe sex." If someone is offended, that's OK."
Of course, teaching kids about condoms and dispensing them
works.
Now, this principal and her school board have every right to bury their heads in the sand and ignore this evidence. The federal government is hardly forcing schools to dispense condoms.
but fears that doing so amounts to condoning sexual promiscuity are misguided and childish. This is how an adult would do it:
"The only sure fire way to prevent pregnancy is to not have sex. And waiting is the right thing to do. Chances are good that when you do have sex, it will be more meaningful if you wait until after you've graduated from this school. I know that may sound hard to believe -- and if you don't believe me, see me after class. I'll be happy to talk to you more about it.
"Still, I know some of you aren't going to approach me after class -- and will head out of this room bound and determined to have sex. My message here is that you should wait. My message here is that ten years from now, you really will wish you would have waited until after high school.
"But since I know not every one here is going to follow my advice, I'm going to discuss condoms with you.
"Is that a giggle I heard? If condoms make you giggle, you aren't ready to have sex."
(Discussion of how to use a condom and the percentages of preventing pregnancy).
"Condoms are available from the nurse's office. Again, they aren't perfect. The only sure fire way to prevent pregnancy is to wait, which is the right thing to do.
"But if you have sex, use condoms.
"And if you aren't man enough to go down to the nurse's office and ask for one -- if that makes you giggle, if that makes you a chicken ****** -- then you aren't ready to have sex"
Is this condoning sexual promiscuity? Hardly. But it is talking to kids as if they are older than three years old -- a notion that would clearly be lost on our Ms. McLoud.
Quote:"I can even use this public facility to present the merits of killing an unborn baby as a "viable means of birth control." If someone is offended, no problem."
Who the **** says abortion is birth control? Condoms are birth control. Abortion is an act of desperation. As she did throughout her rant, she beat a straw man here.
Quote:"I can designate a school day as "Earth Day" and involve students in activities to worship religiously and praise the goddess "Mother Earth" and call it "ecology."
And this takes the cake. This is completely off the deep end. This certifies our principal as N-U-T-S NUTS NUTS NUTS.
In her warped mind, teaching kids respect for nature and an understanding of how it works amounts to "worship(ing) religiously and praising the goddess `Mother Earth.'" It appears that our Tenneseee principal cannot distinguish between simple respect for the environment, nature and ecology and pagan ritual.
I have news for Ms. McLoud. If the fear of pagan worship of Mother Earth in public schools keeps her awake at night, then the federal government is here to help. Because the federal courts have made it very clear that instructing kids in religious, pagan worship of Mother Earth would be a gross violation of the First Amendment's stricture against establishment of relgiion.
See, Ms. McLoud wants it both ways. She ahbors the idea that public schools would teach religion in a way that grossly conflicts with her values, yet she is embittered by the fact that she can't lead her students in a prayer that expresses her own set of religious values.
The courts have, rightly, said, "look, if a person in authority -- in other words, the guvmint -- is leading schoolchildren in prayer, then this is an establishment of relgiion." It may irritate Ms. McLoud. But if she doesn't want public schools teaching pagan Mother Nature worship rituals, then she ought to respect this law. It protects her, too.
One more note:
Quote:One by one, the people in the stands bowed their heads, held hands with one another and began to pray.
They prayed in the stands. They prayed in the team huddles. They prayed at the concession stand and they prayed in the Announcer's Box!
This is all fine. The government isn't saying people can't pray in a school setting. The only question is whether a person in authority is leading schoolchildren in the prayer. That's establishment. That's government imparting religious values to children. The government, rightly, frowns upon that -- for the protection of everyone, including Ms. McLoud.
