Superintendent Backpeddles ..

by Jo | November 7th, 2005

.. at least in MY opinion he does.

From CNSNews.com:

‘Sex Survey’ Superintendent Criticizes Parents’ Motives

(CNSNews.com) - The superintendent of the California school district involved in a controversial 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruling over parental rights has questioned the motives of the parents involved in the case.

I think their motives were given to them by the fact they are their parents — and want to protect their children, but we digress.

Parents sued the school district because the parental consent form did not mention that questions would pertain to sex and they didn’t want the school teaching their children about sexual issues.

But Palmdale School Superintendent Dr. Jack Gyves told Cybercast News Service Friday that the school district accepted responsibility for the “inappropriate survey” and apologized to parents before it ever went to court.

The survey was conducted by an outside health services consultant who was conducting research for her dissertation, and Gyves said the questionnaire given to the students “was not the version of the survey that had been approved by the district.

“Whether that was miscommunication or intent on the part of the person administering the survey, I don’t know,” Gyves said.

He added that parents weren’t informed about the sexual nature of the questions because the school didn’t know about them. “They were misinformed, not intentionally,” he said. “It was acknowledged that that survey was inappropriate for that age level of kids and as far as we were concerned, locally it was a dead issue.”

Okay let’s wait a damned minute here. The school was unaware of the “sexual nature” of the questions? Why is that? Now you acknowledge the survey was inappropriate — but why didn’t you know the content of the survey ahead of time? Did you Mr. Gyves not “Read” what was being handed out to the students? Or is that not your responsibility either?

Oh the butthead goes on here to make himself eligible for the “most wacked out superintendent” award:

He also criticized the parents who took the case to court despite the school district’s apology. “If they had just sought remedy without monetary damages I would give them more credit for being altruistic,” Gyves said, “but when you put money into the equation it makes you wonder.”

In terms of a possible precedent being established by the 9th Circuit Court decision, Gyves said he thinks the ruling addresses an important question of parental involvement. “I think the constitutionality, and I’m not an expert on constitutional law, but the constitutionality deals with the rights of parents to control curriculum for all children as opposed to adjudicating the appropriateness of curriculum for their own.”

Parents should be involved in their children’s education, Gyves said, but “the question is to what degree.”

What do you mean “to what degree?” Those are their children - they have every damn right to be involved with their children’s education. They have every damn right to know what the socialist pigs of the public school system are shoving down their throats. This superintendent is pissed off because he got his ass caught trying to expose children to issues they are not mentally able to understand.

The socialist communists want to take over your children’s education, leave you out of the equation so you cannot counteract the trash they want to feed them. Screw this jerk — he shouldn’t be responsible for a pig sty, but he’s in charge of these kids’ education.

Glenn, get out the duct-tape.

Here’s what Tre had to say about it.

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  1. Oh, I really want my kid to go to public school now….

    Funny part is, on Laura Ingraham’s show today, the guy said they DID know those questions were on the survey, in advance, but that they “told her to take them off”. Then he says they trusted her word that they were removed, and she betrayed them.

    Blame, blame, blame…and when that fails, attack. How much you wanna bet this guy’s a registered democrat?

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