You know, if they’d turn this into a decade of silence, I’d be all for it.

There is a phenomenon on high school and college campuses on this day each year where most of the guys--and perhaps especially the strong, silent types--become excessively and abnormally talkative on this particular day.  No normal soul wants to be seen not talking.

Call your local school Principal and let them of your concerns ...

Thank God for Montessori education. My sixth grade daughter will not be exposed to this, due to the managment philosophy at her school that parents can, should and will teach their children in issues of morality and ethics, and that the school should stick to cognitive issues (really the only way you can do it in a school whose 60 member student body includes Christians (from nominal UCC types to hard-shell Evangelicals), Moslem (Shiite and Sunni), Hindu, Jain, Shinto, Confucian, avowed atheists and be-nice-to-each-other-and-no-hitting types).

One word…
homeschooling.
There, I said it.

My 2 will be with Tara’s.  Protesting the tyranny of Mom’s adademic rigor.  Boo hoo.

Thankfully, I send my son to a Christian school.

I remember as an undergraduate wearing corduroys on “wear blue jeans to support gay pride day” or some such similarly declared “named day” in about 1980.  As I dimly recall the Engineering Faculty declared it “wear a suit to school day”. I was not as intentional as those well dressed engineers that day, but happy none the less that I had accidentally not supported such blatant manipulation of perception. 

Silence… are you kidding me.  Some kids never talk, and I expect they will unwittingly be counted among supporters, but really silence in a High School, let alone a Jr. High?  Get real.  This will create a media buzz out of proportion to the reality. Sigh.  Well at least it will give the kids something to alk about that day.

They are encouraging children to observe a day of silence to protest what they claim are bullying, harassment and name-calling of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender students.

Peer pressure used to be very effective in social mores.  Now it is “politically incorrect.”

Thanks, Jackie, for reminding us of this very important issue.

In most public school systems, including public universities, Christian organizations are denied such access to students, prayer is not allowed except in the closet, and administrators and teachers, particularly the unions, argue that their job is not to teach values.

While I disagree with those positions, I would be less uncomfortable with them if they were applied-even handedly.

This clearly is an attempt at teaching values. But the wrong values.

Keeping children home April 25 is a good form of protest.  Several others exist.  Write a letter to the editors of local newspapers.  Call, write or email elected school board members and encourage others to do so.  Contact state legislators who vote the funds for the public school system.  Contact your state superintendant of public instruction or similar official.  It can have an effect.

Montessori and Christian schools are an excellent alternative to public schools, but, in addition to paying taxes to support public schools, you must pay tuition.  In effect, you are paying twice for your children’s education.

Charter schools, in those states where they are allowed, avoid many of the problems, including such flagrant violations of fairness as the so-called “silence day”, and in addition, the state pays the tuition, or at least some major portion of it.  Enrollment is not dependent upon ability, or willingness, to pay.

Active support of charter schools is another very effective way to protest such outrageous happenings in public schools.

The opportunity to protest and influence is not limited to April 25!

Thank God my daughter is in a good Catholic school.

Like Tara’s and Marty’s children, mine will be at home--trying to again out argue Mom about their “excessive” schoolwork load....

sjengelhardt

My 2 will be with Tara’s.  Protesting the tyranny of Mom’s adademic rigor.  Boo hoo. 

I’m with Tara and Marty… our school will not be participating.

I’d say that it will be anything but “silent"… but that wouldn’t be anything new.

Actually… I think that’s the day we have our Woodcock-Johnson testing scheduled.

To start, there are the overweight, underweight, unathletic, unpopular, too tall, too short, not smart enough and too smart kids. Who speaks for them? Shouldn’t they be treated equally?

They should all be treated equally.  However, some groups are more equal than others.

Those silhouettes don’t stand out as particularly teenage to me.  This kind of stunt is important in showing us the all ages, anything-goes ethos of our opponents.  And those that push this kind of perversion are not “worthy.”

While the ACT of homosexual behavior is forbidden in the Bible, we must all remember to “hate the sin but love the sinner”.  We should all encourage our children and grandchildren not to bully homosexuals...or anyone else for that mattter!  I have to think back to the early civil rights days and the horrible things that were done to African-Americans who simply wanted to be recognised as people.  Gays are people too.  They do deserve to be allowed to exist without fear.

I love the poster. Morality by symmetry. How about a poster with Harold Shipman on the left and Alexander Fleming on the right?

I just looked at my state (PA) and noticed at least one MIDDLE SCHOOL - that is just criminal....

Thank the good Lord mine are grown and on their own doing quite well. It’s a scary ol’ world now!

#16 Church Lady,
I agree no one should be bullied and I’ll go one further, no one should make others affirm their sins!

At least 2 middle schools in PA and one that I know is K-12 private.
My area high school is listed.  Of course my kids will never set foot in it anyway.

A quick scan down the list netted at least one Episcopal school (in CA) and also one that looks by the name of it to be Roman Catholic (gasp, faint!)

I would encourage those with children in religious schools to double check. The Kinkaid School (Jesuit) and Episcopal High School (under the administration of DioTex) are both listed as participants in Texas. They also list St. John High School, but it’s unclear if this is St. John’s School (not run by The Church of St. John the Divine).

And we have to remember that the majority of Christians send their children to public schools for lots of good (and certainly NOT so good) reasons.  In other words, there will be Christian children on the rolls on April 25th.  Whether they are in school on that day is problematic. 
I know I plan to pray.  And I plan to notify the two schools in my school district who plan to “participate;” likewise, I plan to notify the four high schools in the neighboring district who are NOT listed to commend them.  I’m a grandparent with grandchildren 150 miles away so I can’t keep MY children out. . . but my daughter, who homeschools 4 out of 6 of her kids, will probably do something!

They better be buying or making my husband and me an anniversary card.

I can tell you one thing they absodamnlutely won’t be doing..........

the snarkster

Well, I see that The (Episcopal) Bishop’s School in LaJolla (San Diego) is participating. Why does this not surprise me?

Thank God we have homeschooled our three, one still at home and away from all this!  Jane & Edwin, too

WESLEY CHAPEL HIGH SCHOOL, FL. At first I thought Charles would be turning over in his grave if he knew… but then I found out it was a government school. Wonder how long that name sticks now?

A silent day in high school? What a queer thing.

All three of my granddaughters are staying home that day.....and they know why!

A potential student from out of state came to visit my daughter’s school. The potential student asked if the school had a GSA. The students assigned to show the kid around said “No, we don’t need one. Everyone here is too cool to harass anyone. Besides, we’re all misfits.”
Well, the kid chose my daughter’s school. But guess what, the kid is a girl who dresses like a boy and goes by a boy’s name. From my daughter’s previous school, about one out of every forty kids is now a “transgender”, usually boy to girl. I just pray they do not start taking hormones.

Ooops, I now see should have posted that on the next thread.

Saddened to see one of my alma maters (Boston Latin) on the list....Considering that school produced most of the founding fathers of our nation, at least the Massachusetts group - how sad they have fallen so far.  But on the other side, gratified to see that my daughter’s high school is not listed!
MassPK

Does not talking on a cell phone count?  From what I see at my local high school, and in my town for that matter, talking on a cell phone is a 24/7 activity every day of the year - escpecially while driving a car!

That’ll be a good day to plan a couple of college visits with my daughter.

My dds will have the day off school attending a conference at our Church.  I would not be surprised if many High School students are at church helping out on that day.

sjengelhardt

Tell your school if they participate you intend to keep your child home on the day they do the count for state aid.  That’ll reach them.

That’s just dumb...PLEASE.

Well, I think we should have a day of CELEBRATION AND TALKING at the public schools for STRAIGHT kids who are tired of this crap being shoved down their throats. 

“Who’s with me?  Did we sit around while the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?  No!!!”