• 'Gay lessons' in maths, geography and science
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[quote] [B]'Gay lessons' in maths, geography and science [/B] [B]Children are to be taught about homosexuality in maths, geography and science lessons as part of a Government-backed drive to "celebrate the gay community". [/B] Lesson plans have been drawn up for pupils as young as four, in a scheme funded with a £35,000 grant from an education quango, the Training and Development Agency for Schools. The initiative will be officially launched next month at the start of "LGBT History Month" – an initiative to encourage teaching about lesbian, gay, bisexual and transsexual issues. The lesson plans, spread across the curriculum, will be offered to all schools, which can choose whether or not to make use of them. But critics last night called the initiative a poor use of public money which could distract from the teaching of "core" subjects. Among the suggestions are: Maths – teaching statistics through census findings about the number of homosexuals in the population, and using gay characters in scenarios for maths problems; Design and technology – encouraging pupils to make symbols linked to the gay rights movement; Science – studying animal species where the male takes a leading role in raising young, such as emperor penguins and sea horses, and staging class discussions on different family structures, including same-sex parents; Geography – examining the transformation of San Francisco's Castro district in the 1960s from a working-class Irish area to the world's first "gay neighbourhood", and considering why homosexuals move from the countryside to cities; Languages – using gay characters in role play scenarios, and teaching "LGBT vocabulary". The lesson plans, written by teachers and backed by the Department for Education, will be available for schools to download from the Schools Out website. For younger children, the plans will suggest using images of same sex couples and also promoting books such as "And Tango Makes Three", which is about two male penguins raising a young chick, inspired by actual events at New York's Central Park Zoo. The Schools Out organisation, which runs the month-long event, declares on its website that the aim is to "celebrate the lives and achievements of the LGBT community" and "encourage everyone to see diversity and cultural pluralism as positive forces". However, Craig Whittaker, Conservative MP for Calder Valley and a member of the Education Select Committee, said: "This is nonsense. We have enough problems in our country, where we are too far down the national comparative league tables in these core subjects. "Teachers should concentrate on teaching the core subjects, so we become the best at those again. I don't see how introducing LGBT themes into those subjects is going to help. "This is not about being homophobic, because there are other schemes around the education system which support the LGBT agenda." John O'Connell, from the TaxPayers' Alliance, added: "Parents will wonder if this is the right use of funds and time in those subjects, particularly when we keep hearing how tight budgets are." Sue Sanders, from Schools Out, defended the project. She said: "These lessons are not big tub-thumping lessons about LGBT and nothing else. "All we are attempting to do is remind teachers that LGBT people are part of the population and you can include them in most of your lessons when you are thinking inclusively." David Watkins, a teacher involved in the scheme, said: "We don't want teachers to start out saying 'This is a gay lesson.' We just want lessons that don't ignore that there are lesbian and gay people who suffer from issues and problems. "When you have a maths problem, why does it have to involve a straight family or a boyfriend and girlfriend? Why not two boys or two girls? "It's not about teaching about gay sex, it is about images and exposing children to the idea that there are other types of people out there." A spokesman for the TDA said the funding was secured last March and that £20,000 was to go towards the lesson plans, with the rest spent mostly on the website. A Department for Education spokesman added: "These are optional teaching materials. Ultimately, it is for heads and teachers to choose the most appropriate teaching resources to help promote equality and tolerance." LGBT History Month started in 2005 and has previously focused more on raising awareness of prominent figures said to be homosexual. A list on its website includes Hadrian, the Roman emperor, Michaelangelo, the Renaissance painter, Alan Turing, the mathematician, and Will Young, the singer.[/quote] [url]http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/educationnews/8275937/Gay-lessons-in-maths-geography-and-science.html[/url] Wow this is retarded. Why do we celebrate the gay community anyway? But as it says maths is for maths and geography for geography not learning about this bullshit. :Dawkins102:
Really? Fuckin' REALLY?? You gotta be kidding me.
Umm this seems completely dumb and not necessary. They might as well make a new class called "Homosexual Studies".
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_______ History Month is the dumbest idea ever. You don't see straight history month, so there shouldn't be any other variation of the concept floating around.
What the shit? They're spending £35,000 on that?! Sexual preference has nothing to do with any of that stuff.
Homosexual people are to good for our straight classes. Hell, why not give them Homo toilets, homo cars and homo homes while we are at it.
[QUOTE=Tunak Mk. II;27595421]_______ History Month is the dumbest idea ever. You don't see straight history month, so there shouldn't be any other variation of the concept floating around.[/QUOTE] if you have white history month or straight history month, its discriminating against gays and blacks. /rolleyes
Um....This is....I don't know what this is...
I'm disgusted.
[QUOTE=Brage Nyman;27595436]Homosexual people are to good for our straight classes. Hell, why not give them Homo toilets, homo cars and homo homes while we are at it.[/QUOTE] I would not be surprised if this happened in the near future at all. Not saying that I don't like homosexuals, but this is being blown out of proportion.
[QUOTE=FeartheMango;27595562][b]I would not be surprised if this happened in the near future at all. [/b] Not saying that I don't like homosexuals, but this is being blown out of proportion.[/QUOTE] This is just some bullshit "politically correct" movement, it'll blow over soon
[QUOTE=Tunak Mk. II;27595421]_______ History Month is the dumbest idea ever. You don't see straight history month, so there shouldn't be any other variation of the concept floating around.[/QUOTE] Do you really need a straight history month?
[QUOTE=Habsburg;27595588]Do you really need a straight history month?[/QUOTE] As much as we need a gay history month.. Nothing against gays.
I don't quite understand how someones sexuality even matters.
[QUOTE=Habsburg;27595588]Do you really need a straight history month?[/QUOTE] Do you really need any history month? Having things like black history month just adds to the segregation. Ideally you should educate everyone on all cultures, not just western/european/heterosexual things. Morgan freeman says it best: [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GeixtYS-P3s[/media]
I really don't see a problem with this. Who gives a fuck really? It's just implementing some facts about homosexuality into various subjects, it's not like they are encouraging homosexuality or replacing whole lessons with just homosexual messages edit: this gentleman explained it fine i guess and i agree [QUOTE=FeartheMango;27595656]That's the thing. Every month is 'Straight history month' . However, having a '______ History month of anything is a horrible idea as it sets apart the group as a recognizable minority. Doing this, just encourages having fine lines between races/ethnicity's/sexual orientations etc. An not blurring the lines, effectively ruining any chance at having any real equality.[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=Habsburg;27595588]Do you really need a straight history month?[/QUOTE] That's the thing. Every month is 'Straight history month' . However, having a '______ History month' of anything is a horrible idea as it sets apart the group as a recognizable minority. Doing this, just encourages having fine lines between races/ethnicity's/sexual orientations etc. An not blurring the lines, effectively ruining any chance at having any real equality. [QUOTE=Mooe94;27595643]I really don't see a problem with this. Who gives a fuck really? It's just implementing some facts about homosexuality into various subjects, it's not like they are encouraging homosexuality or replacing whole lessons with just homosexual messages[/QUOTE] It's the fact that they feel the need to shoehorn homosexuality into every precipice of the schooling system. Drawing attention to identifiable groups only makes them that much more subject to be discriminated.
[QUOTE=Tunak Mk. II;27595421]_______ History Month is the dumbest idea ever. You don't see straight history month, so there shouldn't be any other variation of the concept floating around.[/QUOTE] please tell me what kind of persecution straight people have had to endure merely because they were straight
[QUOTE=Mooe94;27595643]I really don't see a problem with this. Who gives a fuck really? It's just implementing some facts about homosexuality into various subjects, it's not like they are encouraging homosexuality or replacing whole lessons with just homosexual messages[/QUOTE] It's just completely redundant, having people calculate the number of homosexuals per area or shit like that doesn't really change people's opinions. It's just a silly un-needed movement. Why don't you just let the teachers make the lessons and have the politicians and the advocacy groups stay out of the classroom?
[QUOTE=sloppy_joes;27595620]Do you really need any history month? Having things like black history month just adds to the segregation. [/QUOTE] No it doesn't lol x history month serves to educate the population about civil rights issues and x culture since they most likely would not learn about these things otherwise saying it's causing more segregation is like saying breast cancer awareness month makes it harder to cure breast cancer
[QUOTE=l33tkill;27595608]As much as we need a gay history month.. Nothing against gays.[/QUOTE] No I think we do.
[QUOTE=Zeke129;27595690]No it doesn't lol x history month serves to educate the population about civil rights issues and x culture since they most likely would not learn about these things otherwise saying it's causing more segregation is like saying breast cancer awareness month makes it harder to cure breast cancer[/QUOTE] No because you have retards saying "why do we need black history month?! this is dumb oh my god!" and that just adds to the fire. Ideally you should put the lessons in the curriculum without putting names on months or whatever. You shouldn't have to put a whole part of history and cram it into a month, if it needs to be taught it should be taught. Did you watch the last 30 seconds of the video? He makes a good point.
[QUOTE=Tetracycline;27595668]please tell me what kind of persecution straight people have had to endure merely because they were straight[/QUOTE] Who gives a shit what any group of people had to suffer? Discrimination is like a troll: if you ignore it, it will go away.
god you facepunchers are so fucking retarded and close minded
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this seems okay
[QUOTE=Tunak Mk. II;27595728]Who gives a shit what any group of people had to suffer? Discrimination is like a troll: if you ignore it, it will go away.[/QUOTE] Ha ha wow that's pretty much the exact opposite of how reality works.
[QUOTE=Habsburg;27595722]No I think we do.[/QUOTE] Why though? What would be the point of it?
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