LAist: Teachers Union Gives $1 Million to Fight Prop 8

itsjustme

Mon, 20 Oct 2008 09:18:53 -0800

Sam Lee -that was my first reaction to the article. Then I wondered if these funds indirectly came from school taxes routed through teachers who pay union dues.

Sam_Lee

Sat, 18 Oct 2008 23:45:35 -0800

Setting aside the Prop 8 debate, doesn't this contribution bother anyone? Why aren't these funds going toward teacher support programs? Did the member teachers consent to this? Aren't teachers seriously underpaid and undersupported as is?

BlackCracka

Fri, 17 Oct 2008 16:46:17 -0800

I think it is interesting how the same people who do NOT want to teach that some people believe in Intelligent Design are the same people who want to REQUIRE teaching that some people believe that Homosexual Marriage should be valid. Do both or neither. We are talking about beliefs that are being politicized in schools when school administrators, teachers and their unions choose to politicize them. And if you don't know the difference between Darwinism (which is impossible) and Evolution (which is clearly true), then you don't have the knowledge to respond. Intelligent Design vs Darwinism is the issue, not Intelligent Design vs Evolution. Why is it any different than Homo-Marriage?

lot_49

Fri, 17 Oct 2008 09:58:56 -0800

dallin: Then thank goodness for you that unlike Massachusetts, California expressly grants parents the absolute right to remove their children from health and family instruction with which they do not agree. In July of this year, Judge Timothy Frawley of Sacramento Superior Court found that "state law does not require school districts to teach anything about marriage or same-sex marriage ... for those school districts that choose to include instruction about marriage as part of a health education curriculum, [state education code section] 51240 requires that they allow parents to excuse their children from any such instruction conflicting with the parents' religious or moral convictions." The Massachusetts case is thus irrelevant. To imply that California school districts would not allow parents a say in their children's education is disinformation at best and an outright lie at worst.

dallin

Thu, 16 Oct 2008 20:37:23 -0800

What a sad day it will be when schools will be able to force children to learn about that which they and their parents do not wish to learn about, as is already the case in Massachusetts. Some have termed it the tyranny of tolerance. Watch this video, and Vote YES on PROP 8!!!! http://link.brightcove.com/services/link/bcpid1155394344/bctid1822459319

TheGoodGuy

Thu, 16 Oct 2008 14:54:17 -0800

Here's a suggestion: Lets take a page from the playbook of the Multi Level Marketing folks. If each one of us recruits 2 friends to go vote NO on Prop 8, and they go get two more friends to vote NO on Prop 8, and so on and on.... we might just beat this sucker. Its all about grassroots now, get on it folks. I started my 2 and tagged another 2. Need "fire power" to convince people - use http://www.noonprop8.com/ and go from there.

jrb

Thu, 16 Oct 2008 12:30:44 -0800

Be sure to read this part very slowly beth321321... "What proponents left out in their campaign e-mails was that all the students in attendance had to get their parent's permission."

rachel80

Thu, 16 Oct 2008 11:00:55 -0800

this is great news! :) yay!