High school teacher suspended after assigning an article on homosexuality in animals

[Peikko 1,575]

Indoctrinate? Are you educated enough to even know that that means? The paper doesn't even discuss human sexuality, by the way, this is a paper about sex and its role in the evolutionary process.

[one...two...tree 2,762]

perhaps this paper wasn't approved for classroom instruction by the school.

Probably because any parent with a lick of sense doesn't want this trash taught to their minor kids in a public funded high school. Educate...don't indoctrinate!

Teach them about Intelligent Design! That's educatin 'em.

[peejay 327]

perhaps this paper wasn't approved for classroom instruction by the school.

Probably because any parent with a lick of sense doesn't want this trash taught to their minor kids in a public funded high school. Educate...don't indoctrinate!

Teach them about Intelligent Design! That's educatin 'em.

But we are not discussing Intelligent Design. It has zero to do with this topic.

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perhaps this paper wasn't approved for classroom instruction by the school.

Probably because any parent with a lick of sense doesn't want this trash taught to their minor kids in a public funded high school. Educate...don't indoctrinate!

Teach them about Intelligent Design! That's educatin 'em.

But we are not discussing Intelligent Design. It has zero to do with this topic.

Zero? You must not know what Darwinian sexual selection means

The article ... quotes Joan Roughgarden, a biology professor at Stanford University who challenges Darwinian sexual selection by documenting more than 450 animal species that engage in homosexual behaviors.

[one...two...tree 2,762]

perhaps this paper wasn't approved for classroom instruction by the school.

Probably because any parent with a lick of sense doesn't want this trash taught to their minor kids in a public funded high school. Educate...don't indoctrinate!

Teach them about Intelligent Design! That's educatin 'em.

But we are not discussing Intelligent Design. It has zero to do with this topic.

You brought up indoctrination and labeled the teaching of science as such...so it is relevant.

[peejay 327]

Indoctrinate? Are you educated enough to even know that that means? The paper doesn't even discuss human sexuality, by the way, this is a paper about sex and its role in the evolutionary process.

Since we are answering questions with a question...do you have a bug up your azz? Since it is obvious that my position pisses you off and has hit a raw nerve for some reason. If you approve of this garbage...teach it at home to your kids. Don't force this ####### on other people's minor kids in a public school. It doesn't belong there.

Yes...indoctrination is this case is the most appropriate description. This trash doesn't belong in public schools attended by minors. Quite unnecessary and out of line.

[one...two...tree 2,762]

Indoctrinate? Are you educated enough to even know that that means? The paper doesn't even discuss human sexuality, by the way, this is a paper about sex and its role in the evolutionary process.

Since we are answering questions with a question...do you have a bug up your azz? Since it is obvious that my position pisses you off and has hit a raw nerve for some reason. If you approve of this garbage...teach it at home to your kids. Don't force this ####### on other people's minor kids in a public school. It doesn't belong there.

Yes...indoctrination is this case is the most appropriate description. This trash doesn't belong in public schools attended by minors. Quite unnecessary and out of line.

Intelligent Design FTW!

[Peikko 1,575]

Indoctrinate? Are you educated enough to even know that that means? The paper doesn't even discuss human sexuality, by the way, this is a paper about sex and its role in the evolutionary process.

Since we are answering questions with a question...do you have a bug up your azz? Since it is obvious that my position pisses you off and has hit a raw nerve for some reason. If you approve of this garbage...teach it at home to your kids. Don't force this ####### on other people's minor kids in a public school. It doesn't belong there.

Yes...indoctrination is this case is the most appropriate description. This trash doesn't belong in public schools attended by minors. Quite unnecessary and out of line.

I'm not the one that is angry.  I simply find progressive thought fascinating.  I read the piece and there is nothing about it that is designed to persuade anyone to do or think any particular way.  What it is in an alternate view on the role of sexuality in the survival of species, and the possible role that sex might play in creating and maintaining social groups that are mutually beneficial.  How that translates as trash beats me but you are obviously the expert on it.

[Peikko 1,575]

Not that it matters one way or the other, but you don't piss me off, I just find it amazing that you would want to live life in such ignorance, I find that quite astonishing. It's like the word homosexuality sets you off on this fixed course and nothing will deflect you from it.

[peejay 327]

Not that it matters one way or the other, but you don't piss me off, I just find it amazing that you would want to live life in such ignorance, I find that quite astonishing. It's like the word homosexuality sets you off on this fixed course and nothing will deflect you from it.

I could give a rat's ####### whether 2 people of the same sex wish to fornicate, cohabitate, etc., etc. I just find ####### like this example and the introduction of books like "Heather's Two Mommies" to minor children in a public school to be inappropriate and unnecessary. Yes...there is an adult agenda behind this ####### and it should not be pushed on kids in a public school. It has no place there.

Ignorance? Not hardly!

[pedroh 21]

peejay, this is not like 'heather's 2 mommies' they are not introducing point of views.. they are analyzing homosexual behaviors in animal species, and it's not about 'oh these animals are gay and they love it', it's about they've studied and documented species who engage in homosexual behavior.. hardly indoctrination.. they're not making stuff up.. science if proven right, and neutral, doesn't really damage anybody or it's 'shoving gay indoctrination down someones throat'

[Darnell 8,478]

Coupla points to consider:

1. did he have permission from the curricula chief at this school?

2. if the curricula chief said 'ok' - then that's it.

3. if the curricula chief said 'ok - but issue parent permission slips first for this assignment, a week before' - did the teacher do it?

without any of the above being covered by that 'teacher', he is eligible to be on the chopping block. ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS cover yer @ss. That's common sense - I can't believe he didn't even try to cover his @ss.

Happy Sunday !

[pedroh 21]

Coupla points to consider:

1. did he have permission from the curricula chief at this school?

2. if the curricula chief said 'ok' - then that's it.

3. if the curricula chief said 'ok - but issue parent permission slips first for this assignment, a week before' - did the teacher do it?

without any of the above being covered by that 'teacher', he is eligible to be on the chopping block. ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS cover yer @ss. That's common sense - I can't believe he didn't even try to cover his @ss.

Happy Sunday !

agree.. specially these days, that some parents think they know better than the teacher, it's always cautious to have backup

[Niels Bohr 72]

OMFG! Inserting doctines into kids in high school? These kids know the difference between Fukc = sex and fukc = insult. If you taught a kid that in elementary school, it would be different.

This teacher is correct in letting kids understand that it is actually a reality that other species in the animal kingdoms can be homosexual. What's wrong with teaching something that is scientifically sound? Religion.

Edited November 2, 2009 by Niels Bohr

[britty 1]

It would be far more beneficial to increase education in the basics, English and math. A young girl at a local small store could not add together two amounts in her head. Knowing the sexual preference of a rhino really isn't going to help her very much.