small minded, willfully ignorant assholes. and now a little boy without an advocate.

what a thoughtful, caring teacher....those despicable parents need to be ostracized....not the teacher or the assistant principal...makes me sick inside....

Orange County is one of the few authentically liberal places in the South - it's the home of UNC, the school Jesse Helms said should have a wall erected around it to "keep its liberal views from infecting the rest of the South."

Yeah, right. Anything on the schools 'hey, let's ban it' list was usually went to the top of my want-to-read selections.
didn't matter what it was, it's the principle of the thing.
banning books..how fucking medieval can u get?

The book was approved.

"...and outraged parents are pressuring administrators at the Orange County Schools to ban the book."

I didn't do a follow-up, so if the suggestion that it should be banned was shot down, I haven't seen that yet.

Love and solidarity,
Vol

Currie had said he would resign because he felt administrators did not support him after he read “King & King,” in which two princes fall in love and get married. He has said he read the book after a boy in his class was called gay in a derogatory way and told he was acting like a girl.

A school review committee upheld the use of the book twice. But Principal Kiley Brown told Currie that teachers would have to submit a list of all books they read to parents.

Parent Brandy Davis, one of three people who filed formal complaints about the book, appealed the review committee’s ruling to the superintendent. As part of that appeal, the school district will hold a public meeting at 6 p.m. Thursday at Gravelly Hill Middle School, 4801 W. Ten Road in Efland.

Currie said Monday he will prepare remarks but is not sure if he’ll speak.

http://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/community/chapel-hill-news/article24528550.html#storylink=cpy

Hopefully the administration won't go back on their approval of the use of the book.

Oh it's only for racists, homophobes, and evangelicals.

problem with the Oklahoma City Metropolitan Libary. I had never heard of the book until some woman had a hissy fit when she saw her child pick up the book at the library. It resulted in several months worth of public meetings being conducted by the library board and some (like Oklahoma nutjub and State Rep Sally Kern) calling for book segregation. I had not even heard of Kern until this happened and, after seeing her speak at one of the meetings, realized that she is a total nut job.

Book segregation became a huge issue. Kern even tried to introduce legislation that would have denied pubic funds to any library that did not segragate certain books. Fortunately, the bill did not pass. Of course the issue becomes who gets to decide what books are "segregated", what criteria is used to decide what books are segregated, just what constitutes segration, do the various libraries have the means to segragate the targeted books and so on. The conservatives were, segregate the books and do it now without a clue as to whether or not their demands were both rational and possible. I spoke out at one of the meetings about that.

That's about right.

Although a few years old--it is encouraging if case goes to court. But seems the teacher and his partner will move on.


...."King & King" has been a subject of controversy before. In 2006, the parents of a Massachusetts second-grader sued after the book was read in their child's class. A federal judge later ruled against them, saying the rights of parents to exercise their religious and moral beliefs are not violated when children are exposed to differing ideas in public school.

In his two years at Efland elementary, Currie said his sexual orientation had never been an issue. His co-workers, and some parents, knew he lives with his male partner.

But at the committee meetings to discuss Currie's use of the book, some parents whose children were not in his class made their attacks personal, telling him he would die young and spend eternity in hell. He also began receiving hate-filled letters and emails, including one copied to other teachers at the school, described homosexuality as a "birth defect" while accusing Currie of trying to "indoctrinate" children through "psycho-emotional rape."

Though he says administrators never formally disciplined him for his decision to read the book, Currie said he was made to feel that he had done something wrong and felt pressured to leave the school. He is currently looking for another teaching job.

The book being read to them or the reaction from their bigoted asshole parents?

What is it going to be like for them to go back to class and being blamed for the loss of obviously a good, caring teacher?

Time will tell.

&$^% Mom is a Bitch, in D Minor.

Recently in an advice column in the Washington Post called "Civilities" a grandparent wrote in to complain that "their" values were being undermined "King and King" was read in her grandchild's school in Efland and asked what could "they" do about it. The columnist's response was diplomatic but firm. Basically he told the grandmother that while he understood she was upset, her rights had not been infringed. The column went on to say that books were a powerful agent of change and that teaching empathy to children was extremely important.

It's not like he brought it in from home.

Now teachers can't use books that have already been cleared by their own school?