Gayby Baby

[icyfroth]

Burwood Girls High School: Anger over gay parenting documentary ‘Gayby Baby’

PARENTS are angry that a prominent government high school had organised for its 1200 students to watch a documentary on gay parenting instead of normal classes.

Burwood Girls High School sent a flyer to parents last week saying all students would attend a special screening of the documentary Gayby Baby during periods two and three on Friday. Students were instructed to wear purple, with purple cupcakes served after the movie.

But after a backlash from parents, including outrage at the flyer which depicted a young, shirtless boy with a tattoo on his chest, principal Mia Kumar yesterday offered parents the option to exclude their daughters from the screening if they notified the school in writing.

NSW Education Minister Adrian Piccoli has now directed the Department of Education to ensure the film is not shown in school hours, telling  2GB Radio on Wednesday while the schools accepted diversity, “schools are not places for political issues to be aired”.

“During school hours we expect them to be doing maths and English and curriculum matters.

This movie is not part of the curriculum and that’s why I’ve made that direction,” Mr Piccoli said.

He also admitted that he hadn’t seen the film, which follows the lives of several children with same-sex parents.

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/nsw/burwood-girls-high-school-anger-over-gay-parenting-documen...

"principal Mia Kumar yesterday offered parents the option to exclude their daughters from the screening if they notified the school in writing." 

How dare they?

Who is pushing this relentless homosexual agenda, and why?

[icyfroth]

Documentary director Maya Newell, an old girl of Burwood Girls High is a “gayby” in as much as she says she has lesbian “mums”.

Ms Kumar should tell her that she actually has only one biological mum and any other mother is adoptive.

After numerous complaints, the school belatedly told parents that their daughters may opt-out of the screening but “purple tops, pants, jackets, scarfs, shoes, jewellery and/or hair colour” was still rig of the day and the school will give a prize to the “most purple” student.

The Right Rev Mark Powell, who until July was the Moderator of the Presbyterian Church in NSW and the ACT, was contacted by a number of parents concerned that their daughters would be ostracised within the school community and subjected to bullying and discrimination from fellow students and some teachers if they refused to go along with the directives from Ms Kumar and Ms O’Brien.

Children in same-sex couple families are one in a thousand of all children in couple families (0.1 per cent). Statistically, you are not in a “normal” family, no matter how many LGBTIQ-friendly docos you may be forced to watch by politically-driven school principals.

The drive to create the fantasy that homosexual families are the norm has come from the politically left-leaning Teachers Federation which is also pushing the Safe Schools Coalition, another political front group, which claims that anyone not involved in promoting safety for the “same-sex attracted, intersex and gender diverse young people, staff, families and communities” are bigots.

Mr Piccoli has permitted Ms Kumar to install this agenda into her curriculum.

A government intent on ensuring an apolitical school system would get rid of them both.

Entire Article Here

[j*oono]

I think Mamamia says much more about the movie than the Daily Telegraph would ever want to.  It is a real shame that it can't be shown at the school.  It is a message of anti bullying and acceptance.

http://www.mamamia.com.au/news/gayby-baby-banned/

I also noticed that the other front page story of that particular paper was "ABC is out of control, says PM".  It's a rag.

[eeebatt]

You have to wonder what the sexual orientation of Ms Kumar is, being in an all girls school.

[the_great_she_elephant]

Ms Kumar should tell her that she actually has only one biological mum and any other mother is adoptive.

Why? Are adoptive parents only pretendy parents. 

[the_great_she_elephant]

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@eeebatt wrote:

You have to wonder what the sexual orientation of Ms Kumar is, being in an all girls school.

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I rather think you mean YOU have to wonder -  my mind doesn't work that way.

[Anonymous]

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@j*oono wrote:

I think Mamamia says much more about the movie than the Daily Telegraph would ever want to.  It is a real shame that it can't be shown at the school.  It is a message of anti bullying and acceptance.

http://www.mamamia.com.au/news/gayby-baby-banned/

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The banning is an example of a weak government bowing to the pressures of the minority.

who is that emily purcell blogger with

no clue?  

[fustermcluster]

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@kilroy_is_here wrote:

Lurker having politicians visit schools is absolutely essential , it helps focus the needs within each school we have them regularly visit and discuss issue at our school , I wish we could get them there more often.

as to this movie totally in appropriate for a school , but what is even more alarming is that not only was its viewing mandatory the kids were being forced to wear purple in support of the idealism regardless of their own views this sort a fachist approach to education is not on

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The purple day is an annual event. This year they had planned to screen the movie on the annual purple day.

[lyndal1838]

I think the Purple Day is a great innovation but not to push other agendas like the film.

[kilroy_is_here]

Tolerance is allowing people to choose their own path and form their own views , not indoctrinate them to your own cause , using schools to push anything other than approved cariculum is never acceptable and should never be tolerated 

[iapetus_rocks]

Once again we have a discussion filled with opinions from people who haven't read the text, or in this case, viewed the docco under discussion.

I haven't viewed it either, though I have viewed the trailer for it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spO0mKq3vhc

The docco purports to examine what it is like to be a child raised by same-sex parents. It is from the perspective of the child / children.

Thus, it has educational value and relevance for school children, especially for those who might find themselves in this same situation.

What I take issue with, however, is the encouragement (requirement?) to wear something of a purple colour when attending the showing of the film.

This is introducing the teaching of a particular political position which supports same-sex parenting and might therefore stifle the real purpose of the docco which is to explore how the children of same sex couples feel about their situation.

it's not about us and how we feel about same sex parents . . . it's about what the children of these parents feel and about what they say.

My feelings are that I would have no problems allowing my children to watch the docco but I'd also instruct them about the political implications of the requirement to wear something purple while attending.

The teachers missed the point . . . in my opinion.