Brokeback Lawsuit

Now that we're putting Zach and Hannah into public school next year, someone please send me a link to a GOOD story about our public school systems.

This from Chicago Sun Times.

A suit was filed on behalf of a 12-year-old girl who claims she suffered psychological distress when a teacher showed in class the gay-themed movie "Brokeback Mountain."
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According to the suit, a substitute teacher introduced herself as Ms. Buford to Jessica's class at Ashburn Community Elementary School, 8300 S. St. Louis Ave. She then said, "What happens in Ms. Buford's class stays in Ms. Buford's class," the suit claims. Buford then had a student close the door, and started showing the controversial R-rated film, which features two men engaged in sex.

This is less about the movie itself (I actually thought it was pretty good) but more about the circumventing of parental guardianship by faculty and administration. If the staff teachers or substitute teachers have an agenda, the administration needs to sniff it out and put a stop to it. If the administration goes limp then who will protect the children from seeing what -- even the MPAA agrees -- they should not see without parental consent and/0r supervision?

Shame on Ashburn Community Elementary School.
Go here to rate the Principal (Diaz) and the substitute teacher (Buford).

Just to lighten things up a little, since this is kind of a hard-to-swallow story, here is the infamous Brokeback to the Future (you'll never look at Marty and Doc in the same way again):