Obama's Safe Schools Czar Promotes Porn in Schools

Surely by now you've heard of the Kevin Jennings brouhaha. I've blogged about him before, several times, starting in September. Pamela Gellar wrote about him before that, in June. Gateway Pundit has been all over the Jennings story this week.

Michelle Malkin has been on the case, too, and yesterday she posted a list of companies and corporations that sponsor, or fund, GLSEN. That's the organization that Jennings founded.

Today, Malkin posts a response she received from Kodak, one of the sponsors, and they, of course, stand by their support.

This is just beyond me. I don't understand a world where the kind of rot that Jennings and GLSEN advocate as appropriate reading for our school children is acceptable. I looked at some of the things that Jim Hoft posted from the GLSEN reading list. Quite honestly, I think if I tried to put some of this mess in my classroom, I'd be fired. On the spot.

In a day and age where teachers are fired from their jobs for sending text messages to students, how does this guy get the job assignment of keeping America's schools safe?

I'd be interested in knowing how many American schools actually use this reading list. I'd be interested in knowing how many schools actually have Queer 13, for example, in their libraries or classrooms.

Teachers in my district are inserviced and have to sign a document stating that they understand what inappropriate contact (including correspondence) is and that we will not participate in such conduct. There is absolutely no doubt that at least some of the items on the GLSEN reading list are pornographic. It's not about tolerance; I mean, some of the books may be. And Tango Makes Three is about homosexual penguins (recommended for grades K-6), and I guess that's about "tolerance." But there are many books on the reading list that are just simply pornographic.

I'm not even going to quote from the books, but you can go here and look at page 44 of Queer 13 and you tell me if that's about tolerance, or if it's porn. It's recommended for grades 7-12.

That's not the only offensive book on the GLSEN reading list. Gateway Pundit has a whole string of them.

And so what it comes down to is that our safe schools czar is promoting, or at least during his tenure at GLSEN, promoted porn.

What in the world will it take for American parents to get angry about this guy and demand his resignation? He has become the poster child for home schooling. As a public school teacher I've never been a rabid advocate for home schooling, even though I've never opposed it either; I see advantages to both, and your choice depends on a number of factors. But if Kevin Jennings is the final word in what is "safe" for our schools, and in developing the tolerance curriculum in our schools, I'd say get the heck out of there.

Email: Kevin.Jennings@ed.gov

Email: Arne.Duncan@ed.gov