tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6194583.post3806241953419715216..comments2024-03-22T13:06:27.366-05:00Comments on WataugaWatch: Last Night, With the Watauga School BoardJ.W. Williamsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17694324792688711136noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6194583.post-58979699745901405462014-03-05T10:41:23.551-05:002014-03-05T10:41:23.551-05:00We all want what's best for students. The pro...We all want what's best for students. The problem that must be solved is who should make decisions about what is best. The challenger based her challenge on the belief that she should be allowed to decide, and the beliefs of the majority of parents should be ignored.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6194583.post-32817282767043576362014-03-04T15:33:39.936-05:002014-03-04T15:33:39.936-05:00As the priority should be what's best for stud...As the priority should be what's best for students, not what's best for peoples personal agendas and appointing to the BOE only people who agree with their version of what morality is.<br /><br />You are doing exactly the same thing. you do not an people with ideas that you don't agree with on the BOE exactly as you accuse others of doing.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6194583.post-79848129142040103902014-03-03T00:35:35.843-05:002014-03-03T00:35:35.843-05:00@ anon 11:12
That's easy, you just ask the Ta...@ anon 11:12<br /><br />That's easy, you just ask the Taliban how they do it.<br /><br />And I'm beginning to think once again some people in Watauga really would be more home over there then here. <br /><br />That or they really need to stop confusing religion and politics. Either way the fact we're going to see this used as the next great moral wedge issue by the righties around here really is sickening. As the priority should be what's best for students, not what's best for peoples personal agendas and appointing to the BOE only people who agree with their version of what morality is.Jesse Steelenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6194583.post-62182258516809740422014-03-02T11:12:34.246-05:002014-03-02T11:12:34.246-05:00I'm trying to imagine the complexity of lesson...I'm trying to imagine the complexity of lesson planning if the public is allowed to vote on which songs to be sung by the chorus, which book is to be read, which topics in science to be taught, which hairstyles to include in cosmetology. . . Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6194583.post-65284024555725864762014-03-01T21:07:06.452-05:002014-03-01T21:07:06.452-05:00I find it mystifying that if the challenging mothe...<br />I find it mystifying that if the challenging mother found the language in the book so pornographic and objectionable that she would read it out loud to a large room full of people, including many students. Maybe she just titillated herself and that's what this whole thing was actually about.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6194583.post-18683869963635388782014-03-01T13:07:01.763-05:002014-03-01T13:07:01.763-05:00Wanna know what's really sick, twisted, and po...Wanna know what's really sick, twisted, and pornographic? The fact that the state legislature wants to insert vaginal probes into women who seek abortions. For no good reason other than just to humiliate women and because state legislators have some really twisted sexual perversions of their own.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6194583.post-57616355716519359592014-03-01T12:17:24.486-05:002014-03-01T12:17:24.486-05:00We need to urge the School Board to pass a new pol...We need to urge the School Board to pass a new policy that states that any material approved by the NC Dept. of Public Instruction can be challenged only at the state level. This is only fair because teachers should be free to select any material on the state-approved list without fear of being attacked. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6194583.post-46386712815245369872014-03-01T07:59:43.976-05:002014-03-01T07:59:43.976-05:00Instead of reading the Allende book, the parents w...Instead of reading the Allende book, the parents who want to ban it should study history. As they pledge allegiance and conflate patriotism, morality and all that is right with the world with their narrow and extreme views of Christianity, they seem (and no doubt are) unaware of the precedents of history in which totalitarian regimes which they are themselves quick to criticize (North Korea, Iran, U.S.S.R., China) have first and foremost tried to eliminate literature that did not comport with the world view which was being promoted. <br /><br />If these parents want children to learn about sexual issues in healthy ways (so they won't be "excited" by depravity which is depicted in the book and exists in the world, maybe they should support sex education in our schools. It's badly needed. Instead, they sticks their heads in the sand and pretend that they can protect their children from the world by putting blinders on them. Hasn't worked for the Amish, who are less hypocritical than the Franklin Graham sect, and it won't work here.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6194583.post-13701045075431183692014-02-28T16:55:00.722-05:002014-02-28T16:55:00.722-05:00It is alarming that the religious views of a minor...It is alarming that the religious views of a minority have this ability to disrupt curriculum for the majority. <br /><br />Chastity Lessene, who advocated for censorship and book banning, must also censor her children from reading violent and sexual sections of the Bible. A brother kills a brother in Genesis. Lovers meet in Song of Songs. The penalty for rape is discussed in Deuteronomy (the rapist must marry the victim.) Lot offered up his virgin daughters to men of Sodom who wanted to have sex with two male angels staying at Lot's house. The male angels were under Lot's protection; therefore the daughters had to be given up to protect them.<br /><br />We need to vote out the two Board members who voted for censorship. They do not care about the education of our students. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6194583.post-4163920010263228382014-02-28T12:48:05.031-05:002014-02-28T12:48:05.031-05:00I appreciate the fact that 3 members of the School...I appreciate the fact that 3 members of the School Board voted to allow equal rights for all parents of WHS students to make choices for their own teens. If this had not passed, 7% of the parents this semester would block the choice for 93%.Glendahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13989850717532658371noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6194583.post-47685200158065834032014-02-28T10:43:25.135-05:002014-02-28T10:43:25.135-05:00Thanks for this, concerned citizen! Saw this 1st a...Thanks for this, concerned citizen! Saw this 1st and then read Jesse Wood's article in High County Press. Check it out: http://www.hcpress.com/news/watauga-county-board-of-education-votes-3-2-to-keep-the-house-of-the-spirits-in-the-whs-curriculum-thursday.html<br /><br />Odd that Henries felt that he needed to denounce the book as horrible. Looks like he was playing both sides, but it was his vote that counted.<br /><br />Playing both sides is a dangerous game and it suggests that next time he could just as easily vote for book-banning.Lucille K.noreply@blogger.com