Mass Law Would Require Parental Approval For Gay Straight Clubs

[davidinalameda]

http://www.365gay.com/NewsContent/092503massGSA.htm

State lawmakers are considering legislation that would require parental approval for sex-education classes or for students joining extra-curricular clubs such as the Gay Straight Alliance.

Current law requires schools to notify parents of sexual education classes or curriculum involving the subject, but does not require the parent's permission. Parents may opt to pull their children out of the classes without punishment and must have the curriculum "reasonably accessible" to them for review.

Presently parental approval is not needed for GSA.



if this isn't discrimination, I don't know what it is then

[qb]

1. This is truly sad. Those who need peer support the most will not get it.

Kids who risk a brutal beating or being disowned if they come out to their parents

[Terwilliger]

2. sure is

Is there parental notification (much less permission) required to join the Chess club?

[Toucano]

4. If not, they're missing a prime opportunity

My Chess Club was a veritable hot bed of socialists, communists, and other anti-establishment types.:)

Maybe I shouldn't have told them that.

[freepotter]

3. Federal Equal Access Law

requires that they will have to get parental permission for all clubs if they require it from one. Whatever rules they apply to one club they will have to require it of all. Stupid time consuming crap, more paperwork, bureaucracy, employee time.....on an on.




~
Let them call me a rebel and I welcome it, I feel no concern from it;
but I should suffer the misery of demons were I to make a whore of my soul." --Thomas Paine

[bicentennial_baby]

5. Fucking Finneran

I bet he's just pleased as punch about this, homophobe that he is. My state makes me so mad sometimes! :mad: