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SoBaKi  Posts: 487
Registered: 2002-2-26 09:31:13
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Abaddon_Ambrosius posted:
Now we can't talk about SoBaKi any more!
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You really have a hard on for me. And yes, time for you to come out of the closet. Bonk needs a date.
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Abaddon_Ambrosius  Title: Retired Theurgist TL
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SoBaKi posted:
You really have a hard on for me. And yes, time for you to come out of the closet. Bonk needs a date.
Sorry. You'll both have to get in line behind cabby's mom.
Her warm, sensuous canyon o' love is something I just can't quit.
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Lyken-P Posts: 453
Registered: 2006-1-14 18:41:19
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Scarne posted:
Lyken-P posted:
No teacher should be going around talking about their own sexuality in classes. Straight or Gay
Yes, if a teacher has flowers on their desk on Valentine's Day, they shouldn't be allowed to answer if a student asks them who sent it to them.
And a teacher's SO should never be allowed to pick up or drop off the teacher on school property.
Or any other such situation where a student could possibly pick up on the teacher's sexuality. 
1) "My significant other got it for me."
2) WTF does who drives a car have to do with who you're sexually involved with? Carpools must really confuse you... or turn you on.
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Sin_of_Onin Posts: 1,307
Registered: 2005-6-29 08:21:12
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It is amazing that such heavy handed government control comes from the small government party.
/boggle
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Groucho48  Posts: 821
Registered: 2003-10-22 03:00:14
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Rolling Stone had a long article about a school district in Minnesota that had similar restriction on discussions of being gay...
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"There has been widespread confusion," says Anoka-Hennepin teachers' union president Julie Blaha. "  ou ask five people how to interpret the policy and you get five different answers." Silenced by fear, gay teachers became more vigilant than ever to avoid mention of their personal lives, and in closeting themselves, they inadvertently ensured that many students had no real-life gay role models. "I was told by teachers, ' ou have to be careful, it's really not safe for you to come out,'" says the psychologist Cashen, who is a lesbian. "I felt like I couldn't have a picture of my family on my desk." When teacher Jefferson Fietek was outed in the community paper, which referred to him as an "open homosexual," he didn't feel he could address the situation with his students even as they passed the newspaper around, tittering. When one finally asked, "Are you gay?" he panicked. "I was terrified to answer that question," Fietek says. "I thought, 'If I violate the policy, what's going to happen to me?'"
The silence of adults was deafening. At Blaine High School, says alum Justin Anderson, "I would hear people calling people 'fags' all the time without it being addressed. Teachers just didn't respond." In Andover High School, when 10th-grader Sam Pinilla was pushed to the ground by three kids calling him a "faggot," he saw a teacher nearby who did nothing to stop the assault. At Anoka High School, a 10th-grade girl became so upset at being mocked as a "lesbo" and a "sinner" – in earshot of teachers – that she complained to an associate principal, who counseled her to "lay low"; the girl would later attempt suicide. At Anoka Middle School for the Arts, after Kyle Rooker was urinated upon from above in a boys' bathroom stall, an associate principal told him, "It was probably water." Jackson Middle School seventh-grader Dylon Frei was passed notes saying, "Get out of this town, fag"; when a teacher intercepted one such note, she simply threw it away.
" ou feel horrible about yourself," remembers Dylon. "Like, why do these kids hate me so much? And why won't anybody help me?" The following year, after Dylon was hit in the head with a binder and called "fag," the associate principal told Dylon that since there was no proof of the incident she could take no action. By contrast, Dylon and others saw how the same teachers who ignored anti-gay insults were quick to reprimand kids who uttered racial slurs. It further reinforced the message resonating throughout the district: Gay kids simply didn't deserve protection.
Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/one-towns-war-on-gay-teens-20120202#ixzz1maDzK34a
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Kjarhall Title: The Pungent One
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Registered: 2002-3-1 15:47:21
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Lyken-P posted:
Scarne posted:
Lyken-P posted:
No teacher should be going around talking about their own sexuality in classes. Straight or Gay
Yes, if a teacher has flowers on their desk on Valentine's Day, they shouldn't be allowed to answer if a student asks them who sent it to them.
And a teacher's SO should never be allowed to pick up or drop off the teacher on school property.
Or any other such situation where a student could possibly pick up on the teacher's sexuality.
1) "My significant other got it for me."
2) WTF does who drives a car have to do with who you're sexually involved with? Carpools must really confuse you... or turn you on.
Doubling down on the stupid? It's pretty easy to see that he's trying to clue you in that it goes beyond talking and can be inferred in many different ways. Where does it stop?
It isn't like kids are walking into school on the first day and getting "Hi class, i'm Mr. Lubelobber and i'll be your 1st grade teacher. By the way, i'm really really gay and if you don't know what that means, just ask and i'll be happy to explain!"
BTW - saying "My significant other" only works if heteros say it too. Are you prepared to say it too when in front of any children? After all, it's the right thing to do, even if you're not a teacher, right?
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Lyken-P Posts: 453
Registered: 2006-1-14 18:41:19
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Kjarhall posted:
BTW - saying "My significant other" only works if heteros say it too. Are you prepared to say it too when in front of any children? After all, it's the right thing to do, even if you're not a teacher, right?
Sure... what's so wrong about saying significant other to children? Or heck... do like I do at work, "That's not an appropriate conversation for work"... or what I say at work "None of your business" in a joking way. I keep personal and business separated, really not that complex. 
Edit: All work places you go do have training videos now about how not to talk about sex at work. Teachers should be no different.
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Z-Elder Posts: 671
Registered: 2002-3-15 13:58:39
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ZigmundZag posted:
It's a stupid thing to legislate, but technically they're saying not to teach the kids about gays until 9th grade. In and of itself this doesn't really bother me, but what happens if you have an openly gay teacher? Are they now forbidden from talking about themselves unless their students are in high school?
Wait. They let openly Gays teach children??  What if they are Gay and wearing a Cross?
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Sin_of_Onin Posts: 1,307
Registered: 2005-6-29 08:21:12
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Incidentally both my 4 year old and my 6 year old have brought up this issue recently. The conversation basically goes...
Kid: Boys only marry Girls.
Parent: No some boys marry boys and some girls marry girls
Kid: No
Parent Yes, you know Mike, he is married to Bob.
Kid: Ohh, OK. < continues on with their life >
The fear over the gay issue basically comes down to people pretending something doesn't exist for so long they don't know what else to do. Coming out as gay should be no different then coming out as straight.
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Lyken-P Posts: 453
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Sin_of_Onin posted:
Incidentally both my 4 year old and my 6 year old have brought up this issue recently. The conversation basically goes...
Kid: Boys only marry Girls.
Parent: No some boys marry boys and some girls marry girls
Kid: No
Parent Yes, you know Mike, he is married to Bob.
Kid: Ohh, OK. < continues on with their life >
The fear over the gay issue basically comes down to people pretending something doesn't exist for so long they don't know what else to do. Coming out as gay should be no different then coming out as straight.
So wait... your children actually learned something about life from you rather than a teacher...
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