Seed

[resa850]

My dad was driving through the farm area of our town and saw a sign that said "StopSEED.com" SEED stands for seeking educational equity and diversity. my mom is a member of the SEED program at her school so they decided to check out the site.

http://www.stopseed.com/index.php?&MMN_position=1:1

it turns out that there is a group of people trying to stop the seed program because they

"It is an agenda that seeks to transform the thinking of students via the teachers to embrace homosexuality and cultural egalitarianism, while at the same time condemning historical and present-day American culture."

my dad left a comment on their page....

"Its too bad you can't practice the teachings of the Lord Jesus. He preached forgiveness, love and tolarence. Not revenge, hate, and prejudice. Read your new testament instead of obsessing over what other people do in their private lives."

snicker snicker

happy monday everyone!!!!

[fastboy]

your dad is a good man.....

[resa850]

he's a crack up!!! the only time he talks like that is when he's mocking hypocrites like the ones on that site

[RAzOR]

I read it twice. WTF did they say???? Here's the LINK (and down below)

No disrespect to anyone, but I think if ANY culture needs proping today, it's the American one and our sense of self as a country WITH borders.

And the thing about girls and women in equity with boys and men...by a large margin boys are dropping out of schools at a far, far higher rate than girls (according to my sources) I have not verfied this for myself.

If ANYTHING, it's the Boys that need the help.

Reads like a rehash of institutionalized multiculturalism (which is Anti-American Culturalism basically- anything but our culture, self-guilt, shame, etc)

Looks like another taxpayer funded boondoggle.

THAT BEING SAID:

There is nothing about homos in the description of the program. Obviously, the web-site opposition needs a bit of education and intellectual honesty and some anger management seminars.

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The S.E.E.D. Project on Inclusive Curriculum (Seeking Educational Equity & Diversity)

Peggy McIntosh, Brenda Flyswithhawks, and Emily Style, Co-Directors

Key Ideas behind the SEED Project

• Unless we as teachers re-open our own backgrounds to look anew at how we were schooled to deal with diversity and connection, we will be unable to create school climates and curriculum which more adequately equip today's students to do so.

• Intellectual and personal faculty development, supported over time, is needed if today's schools are to enable students and teachers to develop a balance of self-esteem and respect for the cultural realities of others, in the U.S. and in other parts of the world. S.E.E.D. seminars often involve other school staff along with teachers; SEED seminars have also been held in colleges and universities, and with parents and students.

• Teachers and other school personnel are the authorities on their own experience. When teachers experience being put at the center of the process of growth and development they can, in turn, more successfully put students' growth and development at the center of their classrooms. What Peggy McIntosh and Emily Style call "faculty-centered faculty development" parallels student-centered learning and achievement.

• Both teachers and students need an awareness that respecting oneself and understanding one's own authority is intimately related to one's ability to respecting and listening to others, since they too are authorities on their life experiences. The S.E.E.D. Project works within schools to deepen the practice of a democratic balance between self and others in classrooms, schools, and society.

• Without systemic understanding of gender, race, class, and other interlocking societal systems, individual educators who try to transform the curriculum will lack coherence and creative flexibility in dealing with current events and scholarship, old and new. Group conversation, intentionally structured, can support teachers and administrators in creating accurate, nourishing curriculum material, and pedagogical strategies that are more gender balanced, multiculturally equitable, and globally attuned.

• All education can benefit from asking key questions: What would curriculum and pedagogy look like if the lives of women and girls were seen as co-central with the lives of men and boys? And how can curriculum and teaching methods provide, in the metaphors of Emily Style, both "windows" into others' experiences, and "mirrors" of each student's own realities and validity?

[resa850]

It may not explicitly talk about, homosexuality, but if you attended one of their meetings, you would see that it is discussed.

that description is pretty general aside from part about women and equality. this may be because the groups are directed based on the members and what they would like to discuss at each meeting.

furthermore i dont think a program that encourages diversity and acceptance is a waste of taxpayer money.

[RAzOR]

It may not explicitly talk about, homosexuality, but if you attended one of their meetings, you would see that it is discussed.

that description is pretty general aside from part about women and equality. this may be because the groups are directed based on the members and what they would like to discuss at each meeting.

furthermore i dont think a program that encourages diversity and acceptance is a waste of taxpayer money.

I think in America today, diversity and acceptance are done deals. It's like continuing to smash the egg with the hammer.

Edited March 28, 2006 by RAzOR

[resa850]

wow i wish i lived where you grew up, because its not like that here.

[RAzOR]

wow i wish i lived where you grew up, because its not like that here.

MOVE TO LA!!!

And really, whose keeping you down where you are? It can only be you. You can do anything in this country if you put your mind to it. YOU LIVE IN SAC!!! I mean come on. Do you really believe the "MAN" is out to get you?

Really?

You live 90 minutes from San Fran where Harley chicks and male hairdresser types run the game in one of the biggest cities in the west!

Edited March 29, 2006 by RAzOR

[Gioseppe]

You live 90 minutes from San Fran where Harley chicks and male hairdresser types run the game in one of the biggest cities in the west!

SF is the gay mans capital of california(maybe world, cept france).

i live in santa cruz. the lesbian capital.

acceptance and diversity has gotten soo off the wall that people who are not culturally diverse are being pushed out of the now culturally diverse mainstream here.

that website is a joke, the people on it are a joke. they suck.

[RAzOR]

SF is the gay mans capital of california(maybe world, cept france).

i live in santa cruz. the lesbian capital.

acceptance and diversity has gotten soo off the wall that people who are not culturally diverse are being pushed out of the now culturally diverse mainstream here.

that website is a joke, the people on it are a joke. they suck.

I say you stick it to e'm and bring back your avatar....

[resa850]

MOVE TO LA!!!

And really, whose keeping you down where you are? It can only be you. You can do anything in this country if you put your mind to it. YOU LIVE IN SAC!!! I mean come on. Do you really believe the "MAN" is out to get you?

Really?

You live 90 minutes from San Fran where Harley chicks and male hairdresser types run the game in one of the biggest cities in the west!

i didn't say anyone was keeping ME down, but discrimination exists in sac, especially in Elk Grove (where i grew up). EG is a farm town with a lot of closed minded people, its been getting better, but there are still a lot of problems. Before my dad retired he had a student whose father was the Grand Wizard (is that what its called?) of the KKK... those were some awkward parent conferences :o

[gdizzle]

i didn't say anyone was keeping ME down, but discrimination exists in sac, especially in Elk Grove (where i grew up). EG is a farm town with a lot of closed minded people, its been getting better, but there are still a lot of problems. Before my dad retired he had a student whose father was the Grand Wizard (is that what its called?) of the KKK... those were some awkward parent conferences

there will always be racism, you can't stop it. It's human nature to hate.

[Plan_B]

there will always be racism, you can't stop it. It's human nature to hate.

You'd know...............HATER :lol:

[resa850]

there will always be racism, you can't stop it. It's human nature to hate.

exactly!!!

[RAzOR]

there will always be racism, you can't stop it. It's human nature to hate.

And in a free society, it is also one's RIGHT.

Edited March 29, 2006 by RAzOR