Arizona trip no, secret fisting classes - okay:
Figures. Highland Park School Official Won’t Send Students to Arizona But She’ll Send Them to Secret GLSEN Gay Sex Classes
Posted by Jim Hoft on Friday, May 14, 2010, 3:46 PM
Suzan Hebson, assistant superintendent of Highland Park, Ill., School District 113, won’t allow teen girls to travel to Arizona but she’ll send them to secret GLSEN gay sex classes and make them sign a statement promising not to tell others. The teen sex classes promoted by Hebson are part of Obama’s Safe Schools Czar’s teen sex indoctrination.
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Barack Obama’s Safe Schools Czar’s GLSEN organization also promotes porn books to children that romantisize child rape and gay orgies for first graders. GLSEN advisors hold talks on anonymous sex in parks. GLSEN trainers discuss the joys of pi$$ing on your sex partner and tips on teen fisting.
Photo: This kit for fisting was distributed by Planned Parenthood at the Fistgate II GLSEN Conference. GLSEN was founded by Kevin Jennings, Barack Obama’s “safe” schools czar. (Mass News)
Maybe this is part of the “beliefs and values” that Highland Park Assistant Superintendent Suzan Hebson is trying to promote at school.
FOX News has more on Hebson’s controversial past:
The school official who nixed an Illinois girls high school basketball team trip to Arizona once supported a controversial program that required students to attend a “freshman advisory” class where gay upperclassmen shared stories of their high school experience with new students.
The school official who nixed a girls’ high school basketball team’s planned trip to Arizona once supported a controversial program that required ninth-graders to attend a “freshman advisory” class at which gay upperclassmen shared stories of their high school experiences.
Parents who were unhappy with the class were even more outraged to learn that students who attended were asked to sign a statement promising not to tell others — including their parents — about what was said in class.
Suzan Hebson, assistant superintendent of Highland Park, Ill., School District 113, killed the hoop dreams of the Highland Park High School girls’ basketball team this week when she canceled their plans to participate in a tournament in Arizona in December. The decision has some parents and residents of the district crying foul over what they say was a politically motivated protest over the Grand Canyon State’s recently passed immigration law.
But Hebson is no stranger to controversy. She’s been criticized for making decisions based on politics numerous times in the past.
Sweetness and Light has more on Hebson’s secret gay sex classes.
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HS B-Ball Boycotter’s Controversial Past
From Fox News:
School Official in Basketball Flap Is No Stranger to Controversy
By Jana Winter
May 13, 2010
The school official who nixed a girls’ high school basketball team’s planned trip to Arizona once supported a controversial program that required ninth-graders to attend a “freshman advisory” class at which gay upperclassmen shared stories of their high school experiences.
Parents who were unhappy with the class were even more outraged to learn that students who attended were asked to sign a statement promising not to tell others — including their parents — about what was said in class…
In 2007, when she was assistant superintendent for human resources in the district, Hebson made national news for supporting an initiative at Deerfield High School that required freshman students to participate in orientation panel discussions, one of which was led by members of the school’s Straight and Gay Alliance Network. During the seminars, upperclassmen spoke to the ninth graders about a variety of topics affecting homosexual teens, including their own personal experiences — and all students were required to sign confidentiality agreements swearing never to disclose what they heard.
Parents were not allowed to attend the panel discussions, leading some to call it an attempt to indoctrinate students into a homosexual lifestyle…
Their outrage grew as Hebson defended the program as a way to ease freshmen students’ transition into their new school. “We have a great deal of pride in the program and don’t feel we are overstepping any boundaries that [most] parents would feel are inappropriate,” Hebson told the Chicago Tribune, adding that the orientation included talks on subjects other than homosexuality…
The parents formed a coalition and took out a full-page ad in their local newspaper blasting the mandatory program and its administrative backers and demanded that school officials rein in faculty who they said were promoting homosexuality.
The following year, Hebson was made principal of Deerfield High School, where she became embroiled in another controversy — this time related to the inclusion of the play “Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes” in students’ required reading material.
Parents were alarmed by the book’s explicit content, which includes highly offensive racial slurs, vivid depictions of gay sex and a sexually explicit scene involving Mother Teresa.
Hauser’s group took their complaints to the state attorney general’s office, and school officials backed down, replacing “Angels in America” with another play.
For the record, here are some excepts from the original article on Ms. Hebson’s er, ‘orientation program,’ via the archives of the Chicago Tribune:
Gay awareness panel roils school; Some parents object to kids’ discussion
By Lisa Black, Tribune staff reporter
March 8, 2007 Thursday
Some parents have accused Deerfield High School of promoting a homosexual agenda by allowing gay students to speak before freshman classes about their personal experiences, cite research and invite questions.
Taking place in classrooms this week, the panel sessions are scheduled during a class called freshman advisory, which seeks to help students adjust to high school. The class is mandatory, but parents can choose to remove their child on days the lessons concern them, school officials said.
How could parents remove their children when they were not even allowed to know about the panel discussion?
But Deerfield resident and parent Lora Sue Hauser, who heads a group called North Shore Student Advocacy, wants to see the panel discontinued, saying it delves into complex issues of sexuality that are better addressed by parents and trained counselors…
"The school makes heterosexuality and homosexuality equivalent, and our country is deeply divided on that," said Hauser, who said dozens of parents belong to the advocacy group but fear they will be labeled as haters or religious fanatics if they speak out.
"You can’t dump that on a 14-year-old," Hauser said. "These are really difficult waters to navigate." …
Suzan Hebson, assistant superintendent for human resources for Township High School District 113, said she believes only a few parents oppose the freshman advisory class.
"We have a great deal of pride in the program and don’t feel we are overstepping any boundaries that [most] parents would feel are inappropriate," Hebson said.
But Ellen Waltz, a Deerfield mother of eight, said the climate has changed so much that students who believe that homosexuality is immoral and violates their religious beliefs are now the ones being bullied.
She said other students called her daughter anti-gay and anti-Semitic when she spoke out during the panel four years ago. One of the panel members was Jewish.
"My daughter was devastated when she came home. She said, ‘Everyone hates me,’" said Waltz, adding that she plans to pull her son out of class for the day this year.
The advocacy group, led by eight board members who live in North Shore communities, published a full-page advertisement March 1 in a local newspaper, the Deerfield Review. The ad states: "We believe these students are being used to further the causes of gay activists," and demands that Deerfield High officials "rein in your staff who are using the school to promote their personal views." …
Erin Kaplan, 17, a senior, who describes himself as the only transgender student at Deerfield, said he believes that the climate at school has improved since the panel discussions began five years ago. He said the student alliance began the practice "after a really big wave of homophobic comments, targets for being gay."
Kaplan, a panelist for the last three years, tells students that he was born a boy–his parents gave him the name "Evan"–but that he has always felt like he should have been a girl. He wears feminine clothing at times but has a man’s narrow hips and husky voice.
The panel this year consists of seven students. Four students identify themselves as gay, bisexual or transgender, and three are heterosexual, he said…
Kevin Jennings, executive director of the New York-based Gay, Lesbian & Straight Education Network, commends the Deerfield program.
"We’re not trying to tell people what to believe but how to behave," said Jennings, who described the Illinois Family Institute as one of several organizations trying to intimidate school districts…
Waltz said she asked school officials if she could sit in on the class. They declined, saying her presence would detract from the learning experience and instead offered to videotape the class and give her a copy.
Laurie Higgins, a teacher’s aide at Deerfield, said she, too, has complained to school administrators about the panel and her requests to have an opposing viewpoint presented have been denied…
"My goal is not to generate controversy," said Higgins, a Deerfield parent. "I don’t think they should be treating [homosexuality] in the same way they treat conditions that are immutable and carry no behavioral implications, like race, sex, ethnicity and disability."
Hauser said the topic belongs in schools only when presented neutrally in an academic forum. She opposes the Day of Silence held every spring as part of a national event. On April 18 students attempt to remain quiet to bring attention to harassment of gays and their desire for a safe environment at school…
In response, other students–in Deerfield and elsewhere–participate in a Day of Truth, held a day later, which opposes acceptance of homosexuality.
"Neither day at Deerfield High School has been disruptive in nature, educationally," Hebson said. "Unfortunately, there have been some hurt feelings on those two days because it’s pretty evident that people choose sides."
Waltz said her children tell her the only time there is tension at the school is during the week the panel discussions take place, culminating with the Day of Silence and Day of Truth.
"There really isn’t a problem at our school," Waltz said. "It’s like they’re throwing more logs in the fire. … All our kids are great kids, whether they’re gay or straight."
So it sounds like this program ended up having the opposite of its intended effect. What a surprise?
But all that aside, which offers more danger for 14 year olds? A mandatory panel discussion on the joys of homosexuality that is so controversial they are not even supposed to tell their parents? Or playing in a basketball tournament in Arizona?
What a tough call.
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