NPR interview w. Sen.Leno re. including GLBT history in the curriculum.

[Smarmie Doofus]

Gotta love that tone. How' bout they "throw-out" Abe Lincoln? ( ooops. Wrong guy.)


>>>>SIEGEL: What's an age-appropriate fashion for discussing transgendered individuals for, say, a fourth grader?

State Sen. LENO: Sure. Well, that's not for me to decide. This will be decided for purposes of inclusion in our textbooks by the State Board of Education. And that's a multi-year, very thorough, comprehensive public process.

With regard to daily lesson plans, that will be left in the hands of the local elected school board, again, through public process, public comment. And I would imagine that the way it's taught in one school district in California may be different from the way it's taught in another school district.

SIEGEL: What are the few hours that should come out of the syllabus to make room for it? What are the things that shouldn't be taught instead?

State Sen. LENO: Well, for example, we appropriately require that the teaching - that there was an African-American man by the name of Dr. Martin Luther King who fought valiantly for everyone's civil rights and was assassinated for his efforts. But there was also a gay American man by the name of Harvey Milk who also fought for everyone's civil rights and was assassinated for his efforts. We're currently teaching one, we're censoring the other.

SIEGEL: But - and I don't mean to be flippant about this, but if one, indeed, is adding time to the school year to learn about Harvey Milk and to learn about peoples with disabilities and other gay, lesbian and transgendered Americans and Californians, what comes out of it? What are the things that we have been teaching kids that we can throw overboard at this point?>>>>>

http://www.npr.org/2011/07/18/138484226/calif-public-schools-to-teach-gay-history

[Smarmie Doofus]

1. Gimme another rec, ya bastids.

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