ACLU: California School Bans Sixth Grader’s Presentation on Harvey Milk

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marmar   (1000+ posts)             Thu May-21-09 06:50 AM
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ACLU: California School Bans Sixth Grader’s Presentation on Harvey Milk   
   

 
California School Bans Sixth Grader’s Presentation on Harvey Milk (5/20/2009)


Faces Possible ACLU Lawsuit For Violation Of State Education Code

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CONTACT: (212) 549-2666; media@aclu.org

RAMONA, CA – Wrongly citing a school policy on sex education, a California school illegally censored a sixth grader’s classroom presentation about Harvey Milk earlier this month. According to a demand letter sent by the American Civil Liberties Union to the Ramona Unified School District today, the school violated Natalie Jones’s free speech rights when it refused to allow her to give the presentation in class. Instead, the school improperly required classmates to get parental permission to see the presentation during a lunch recess.

“This whole thing is unbelievable – first my daughter got called into the principal’s office as if she were in some kind of trouble, and then they treated her presentation like it was something icky,” said Bonnie Jones, mother of the Mt. Woodson Elementary School student. “Harvey Milk was an elected official in this state and an important person in history. To say my daughter’s presentation is ‘sex education’ because Harvey Milk happened to be gay is completely wrong.”
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The Island  of Happiness

underpants   (1000+ posts)             Thu May-21-09 07:29 AM
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3. I was reading trying to figure out what Harvey Milk was
    
I thought it was a kind of milk like actual milk or something. Then I got to the explanation of the report.

That was a colossal screw up the principal and the admin.

WHAT?  A DUmmie who doesn't know that Milk is the greatest civil rights leader, EVAR?

What would they be saying if a child had wanted to do a report on Jesus? He was also an historical, real person.  A side note, we were taught the historical facts of Jesus's life in a history class in junior high.  It didn't cause any problems.

[Chris_]

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WHAT?  A DUmmie who doesn't know that Milk is the greatest civil rights leader, EVAR?

What would they be saying if a child had wanted to do a report on Jesus? He was also an historical, real person.  A side note, we were taught the historical facts of Jesus's life in a history class in junior high.  It didn't cause any problems.

...well of course all that stuff about Jesus is just a myth, but everything Darwin said is fact.  [/DUmmie mode]