So Where Does California Rank In Education - And Why?

That's a question that was put to me after I wrote an article about the State of California wanting to mandate Homosexual History in schools.

And this got me thinking, really, where does California rank in education? Fact is, California is ranked near the bottom of the list in education.

According to a 2009 report by the California Faculty Association, California ranks 49th out of 50 states. Another ranking puts California at 47th place.

It wasn't too long ago that California ranked 14th in education nationally. From what I researched, back in the 1950's and 60's California's educational system was rated in the top 10 nationwide.

That seems so long ago, yet at one time academics was California's strong suit. Public Schools were good with kids having great test scores, and yes there really was such a thing as a good quality education in California. 

Math, Science, English, History, Civics were all taught in California schools as primary subjects. Today California's educational system is just a shadow of its former self. The state's standards have become loose and many teachers are more involved in politics than they are in their students education.

The California Teachers Union is one of the strongest in the nation with huge numbers of members which translate to big dollars and  huge political muscle. I read somewhere that the California Teachers Union spent over a million dollars to defeat the Gay Marriage Ban which was on the State Ballot.

Why are they so involved in politics? Who knows really, maybe its the basic liberal makeup of teachers who more than not identify themselves with the ultra-liberal left wing of the Democratic Party.

Parents and students tell me that California teachers have gotten more political and less academic. Maybe that's why the Teachers Union fears skills and competency tests for teachers?

Teachers in California have seen their pay and retirement package sky rocket, while their class size has constantly been reduced over the years because of their screams of over crowding. At least that's the way it was until many of the cities are now laying off teachers and the class sizes are growing.

But the fact is that the teacher to student ratio in California is still very good. And yes, teachers do get paid a lot of money. California does in fact pay its teachers as much as comparable professions in the private sector.

According to the Sacrament Bee Newspaper website, "The average teacher salary last year was $67,932, an increase of 1.4 percent from 2009, according to new state figures. The average superintendent salary last year was $158,622, an increase of 0.6 percent from 2009. Much of the increase in average teacher pay was related to districts laying off thousands of less-experienced, lower-paid teachers. Combined teacher payroll for all districts fell by about $600 million, or 3 percent. Teacher pay varies widely by district."

At an average of $67,932 to work from September to June each year and still be able to hold another job during the summer months is't a bad deal. I remember taking a few summer classes in College and having a teacher who held a regular teaching position as a High School teacher. He said he made a lot of money during his summers "off" away from his regualr teaching position.

California's teachers are being paid on average the second highest teacher salaries in the nation. Only New York is higher according to the National Education Association.

To search out your California district to see how well your school district pays its teachers and superintendents, click here.

And though teaching money is good, education in California is horrible. From what I hear by talking with parents, many are disappointed with the quality of their children's education. The consensus seems to be that California public schools today are little more than teenage daycare facilities where sex and liberalism are the main courses studied.

As I asked on another post, what has replaced California's focus on Math, Science, English, Civics, and History in California public schools?  

Sure the importance of learning Math and Science, English and History are not the only parts to a well-rounded education. But friends, today these essentials are not the focus of California schools at all.

So what has caused the dumbing down of California's schools?

If not the possibility of it being some self-serving teachers, then who or what has caused California to reach the point of providing horrible schools with lousy educational standards? Why does California consistently fall behind?

Well, part of the problem is that the State of California feels that through teaching multiculturalism, diversity, homosexuality, the fear of the scam called Global Warming, and the rest of the liberalism agenda, that they are not behind the rest of the nation - but instead believe that they are actually leading the nation.

Imagine that! To California, up is down, bad is good, wrong is right.

To California, Capitalism is bad while Socialism is good; Big Brother government is good while Freedom and Democracy are bad; Adam and Eve is wrong while Adam and Steve is good; the earth is good and people are bad; and of course in today's schools, Christians are bad while Atheists and other beliefs are good. 

And please don't say that Atheist don't believe in something when they certainly do, they believe there is nothing there. Their belief is in the nothingness of man.

California believes in something, yes, the State of California truly believes that public schools are on the right track. Because of that fact, no one can convince the State of California that our schools are failing. 

The people in charge of California's educational standards won't admit that there is a problem. And if they won't admit that there is a problem, then how can they address the problem if they refuse to hear the truth about why schools are failing?

It the same as dealing with an Alcoholic who doesn't see his drinking as a problem. They say to get an Alcoholic to stop drinking, he first has to admit to having a problem, second he has to recognize that his enemy is booze, and lastly he has to take action to stop drinking.

California is an Alcoholic who thinks he fine, he has no problem with liberalism, and will no way in Hell accept that ultra-left liberalism is destroying schools and subsequently our kids - all in the exact same way that most Alcoholics will not accept that booze is destroying their lives and families and careers.

The answer is that the state can't be convinced of anything as long as they refuse to accept the fact that their agenda for social engineering has failed. Parents will have to take action in the same way that the Tea Party formed to change the way liberal spend money in Washington.  

And who's fault is it that California schools are doing so bad? My opinion is that it's the fault of many, but mostly it's falls to the teachers and libearal politicians running the state.

The Teachers!

The teachers are partially at fault and have to owe up to some of the responsible for things going to hell in a hand-basket. In many cases teachers, who falsely refer to themselves as educators, have allowed their ideology to over rule their ability to teach subjects like History or Civics in a non-bias or non-judgemental manner. In many cases they have refused to simply give the fact over to the student and allow him or her to use their own sense of right and wrong to make their own opinions.

Instead the opinions of many a teacher becomes what the student retains. And as for English, well English is becoming a second language bowing these days to Spanish in more and more schools from what I'm told. I know for fact that one of the complaints at Junior Colleges is the lack of preparation they see in students leaving High Schools in California. 

Many Colleges complain that today's student on the overall don't posses the basic reading and writing skills that's required to enter Community College, nevertheless a full University. And who's fault if that? Well it is a perfect example of the lack of importance that High Schools put on the essentials of knowing English.   

Then there is the teacher's own ability to teach? Do they know their subjects? Maybe yes, but the problem is maybe no!

And that's where the California Teachers Union is at fault and responsible, because they place their need for more paying members ahead of the needs of schools to hire more qualified teachers. By fighting teacher certification testing, the Teachers Union has essentially made themselves the defenders of the inept in many cases.

Of course, since this is just my opinion, I blame a good deal of Californias problems with California schools of this state's mostly ultra-left liberal politicians who owe their political souls to the wealthy liberal special interest groups  - like say the Gay and Lesbian lobby who only represent 1% of the entire population of California yet donate heavily to their liberal politician friends in Sacramento.

And what do the get for their money? Well the state's liberal base gets a seat at the table to decide what goes on the curriculum and a say where the state's funding for education is spent. 

Needed money that can be spent to teach more Math classes, and more Science, English, or History classes, now go to teaching kids about Homosexual History and how socialism is OK. 

And yes, just recently because Governor Jerry Brown signed it into law, Homosexuality History will be forced upon children in all California schools because it's now mandated by the State.  

Money got it in to the schools. The very wealthy Hollywood backed Gay and Lesbian lobby couldn't find a way to teach homosexual sex to kindergartners, but instead found a way to introduce homosexuality into the elementary schools. So let the Homosexual indoctrination courses begin!

And this my friends is why California schools are failing! It is liberalism.

Liberalism in California is rapid in it's public schools. Whether its encouraging deviant behaviors like abortion or drug use, or encouraging a hatred for America and a disdain for our military, enforcing class warfare, or teaching that unsafe homosexual acts and promiscuity are really all OK, the liberal agenda to make deviant behaviors acceptable is part of the liberal concept of a "good education".

Yes, liberal cognitive behavior is the desired result. That is what they what to achieve. A socialist ultra-liberal society with contempt for America as a whole is their goal. Social indoctrination is what they are doing, and yes the California educational system is ripe for their indoctrination methods. 

The liberal left believes in indoctrinating the children at there youngest point because they know that that is when they are most influenced. That may be the reason that this new mandate to teach children about Homosexual History is going to be taught at the lowest levels of Elementary School .

It is a fact that a child's formative years are when they establish their ideals of the world around them, and yes that fact is not lost on the Liberal Left. 

Every parent wonders about their child's formative years. The question is always the same, what level of imprinting should be handed down to your own children? This is a time that is considered a critical time to invest the correct morals into a child. 

Fact is is that early lessons do have a lasting impact. 

Whether people need the example of President Obama learning to be a good Muslim in his formative years which he proudly states had a great impact upon his life, or if it's the example of research showing that children learn more in their formative years than any other time in their lives, liberal educators know this and use it to indoctrinate those children who are left at their mercy.

To me, the sane course of action for parents in California today is to pull their children out of public schools and either look into home schooling or charter schooling for their children. Maybe establish private charter schools that don't ascribe to California liberal agenda?

Think about it. This may be the tipping point when parents decide to create alternative schools that will concentrate its efforts on providing a focus on essential subjects like Math, Science, English, History, and Civics, before the anything else. A return to basic educational skills is what is needed in California.

If parents should start a grass-roots effort to ban together and either make Sacramento tow the line? Maybe a Parent Party, like the Tea Party, may need to be created to get California to adjust it's thinking and stop appeasing just the liberals in California?

If parents can, at the least, I believe that they should find some way to boycott California public schools.

So what has killed the great quality education that was once a California strong suit? Why is California ranked at the bottom of the list?

Yes, I believe Liberalism is the ultimate culprit. It was a threat that turned into vicious reality in California. And yes, I believe it has accomplished its mission of turning our Public Schools into nothing lees than Liberal Indoctrination Camps. 

But don't fool yourself, the threat of liberalism is not just in California. It's happening in other states as well. And if you don't think that your child's education is being neglected while at the same time liberal indoctrination is going on, please think again.

Whatever you do, don't allow your state to become another California. The results are horrible.

Story by Tom Correa

The City of Midway Has A Law Enforcement Problem

On July 15th, the Police Chief and another officer of the small town of Midway, Georgia, spotted three children selling lemonade and shut them down.

It is insane to try to justify why in the world any police officer would have stopped to check for City permits at a lemonade stand in the first place, nevertheless try to understand or justify what motivated a Police Chief to do so.

But yes, that's what happened. She sees the kids selling lemonade and stops to investigate. It sounds crazy doesn't it?

After thinking about the insane actions of the Police Chief of Midway, Georgia, I've come to the realization that the City of Midway, Georgia, may have a law enforcement problem.

But friends, it's not lemonade stands and children showing that they want to work for the money they need to go to a water park. It is much bigger than that.

The City's problem is their Chief of Police. She demonstrates a complete lack of leadership and good judgement. She has shown how wrong a person can be when they have no common sense and an inability to use discretion. She obviously has no understanding of the community that she's supposedly serving.

The actions she took in shutting down that lemonade stand are unbelievable coming from a rookie police officer, nevertheless the Chief of Police. It's just not right!

It is not the actions of a law enforcement professional, and worse certainly not the sane and responsible actions of a Police Chief anywhere.

Why do I say this? It's because my first degree was in the Administration of Justice. And over the years, I still remember one aspect of the Administration of Justice that was enforced almost daily. It was the use of common sense.

I had this one teacher who was a great teacher. He was retired from the FBI, and he was a man who believed in officers using discretion during their duties.

He once asked my class if it was always right and correct to follow the letter of the law? Many in my class were already police officers and they were pretty insistent that that is how the world should work.

My teacher than asked if they were also in agreement that the law gives them the authority, and subsequently they would be within the law, to shoot a fleeing felon? Again the police officers were in total agreement, and yes, many said that they would not question themselves to do what the law calls for.

Then my teacher asked how many of those officers would shoot a man who just tried robbing a bank? Again almost all said yes.

Then he asked, what if that fleeing felon was an 84 year old deaf man in a walker going away from you and couldn't hear you yell stop? Since the 84 year old deaf man walking away from an officer could technically be considered a fleeing felon, would we be justified in shooting him? The class fell silent.

He saw the silence and asked, "so when does common sense supersede the letter of the law?"

He was a good teacher, it's a shame that the Police Chief of Midway, Georgia, didn't have someone to teach her the difference between following the letter of the law and using common sense which she appears in shot supply.

The City of  Midway should rethink their hiring process when screening people for key positions in their city government. A Police Chief with questionable judgement is not an asset.

Story by Tom Correa

Dennis Prager's "A Speech Every American High School Principal Should Give"

I'm sent a lot of e-mail. Some I have the time to read, and some I'm sorry to say that I never get to look at. So some of my rules on email are simple.

First, if I view a file that contains .pps files, then I automatically delete it because I can't open those types of pictures. Second, if something includes movie clips, then they're put on the back burner until I get a chance to get to it, which I may never. And lastly, it has to be special for me to pass it along. To be forwarded along, an email has to be special in that it has to be really funny, incredibly unbelievable, or on target with what it has to say.

This is about one of those special emails. It is about an email that happens to be on target and makes good sense. Though falsely attributed to a teacher in Redding, California, it has a perfect message.

It was sent entitled, "California Principal's Opening Message to Students." The email opened saying, "Hope is found in Redding, CA. When schools start talking like this, it will lead to their overcrowding. Welcome back to America Redding, California. A CALIFORNIA PRINCIPAL'S OPENING MESSAGE TO STUDENTS ... From: Dennis Prager, principal at a high school in Redding, California, on the first day of classes in 2010 ..."

Well, friends, first off, the name Dennis Prager is significant because I've read a few things written by Dennis Prager, who is, among other things, an author and Conservative Talk Show Host. So, no, he is not a teacher in Redding, California.

I did some fact-checking, and there it was - an article written by him entitled "A Speech Every American High School Principal Should Give."

There is no High School principal in Redding, California, named Dennis Prager. So the email making its rounds saying that it was a speech given to students in Redding, California, from a High School Principal is false. It's false because it was not given to students in Redding, California, by a High School Principal named Dennis Prager.

Fact-checking shows that it is instead is a piece written by Conservative Talk Show Host Dennis Prager which he believes should be given to all High School students across the United States. Please understand that article is what Dennis Prager believes all High School Principals in America "should" be telling their students.

I've reprinted it below because I happen to agree with Dennis Prager that this is something that should happen, it should take place, and that we as a Nation really need this to take place to return sanity to American Schools.

A Speech Every American High School Principal Should Give

Written by Dennis Prager, Author, and Conservative Talk Show Host

If every school principal gave this speech at the beginning of the next school year, America would be a better place.

To the students and faculty of our high school:

I am your new principal and honored to be so. There is no greater calling than to teach young people.

I would like to apprise you of some important changes coming to our school. I am making these changes because I am convinced that most of the ideas that have dominated public education in America have worked against you, against your teachers, and against our country.

First, this school will no longer honor race or ethnicity. I could not care less if your racial makeup is black, brown, red, yellow, or white. I could not care less if your origins are African, Latin American, Asian, or European, or if your ancestors arrived here on the Mayflower or on slave ships.

The only identity I care about, the only one this school will recognize, is your individual identity -- your character, your scholarship, your humanity. And the only national identity this school will care about is American. This is an American public school, and American public schools were created to make better Americans.

If you wish to affirm an ethnic, racial, or religious identity through school, you will have to go elsewhere.

We will end all ethnicity-, race- and non-American nationality-based celebrations. They undermine the motto of America, one of its three central values -- E Pluribus Unum, "from many, one." And this school will be guided by America's values.

This includes all after-school clubs. I will not authorize clubs that divide students based on any identities. This includes race, language, religion, sexual orientation, or whatever else may become in vogue in a society divided by political correctness.

Your clubs will be based on interests and passions, not blood, ethnic, racial, or other physically defined ties. Those clubs just cultivate narcissism -- an unhealthy preoccupation with the self -- while the purpose of education is to get you to think beyond yourself. So we will have clubs that transport you to the wonders and glories of art, music, astronomy, languages you do not already speak, carpentry, and more. If the only extracurricular activities you can imagine being interesting in are those based on ethnic, racial, or sexual identity, that means that little outside of yourself really interests you.

Second, I am uninterested in whether English is your native language. My only interest in terms of language is that you leave this school speaking and writing English as fluently as possible.

The English language has united America's citizens for over 200 years, and it will unite us at this school. It is one of the indispensable reasons this country of immigrants has always come to be one country. And if you leave this school without excellent English language skills, I would be remiss in my duty to ensure that you will be prepared to successfully compete in the American job market. We will learn other languages here -- it is deplorable that most Americans only speak English -- but if you want classes taught in your native language rather than in English, this is not your school.

Third, because I regard learning as a sacred endeavor, everything in this school will reflect learning's elevated status. This means, among other things, that you and your teachers will dress accordingly. Many people in our society dress more formally for Hollywood events than for church or school. These people have their priorities backward. Therefore, there will be a formal dress code at this school.

Fourth, no obscene language will be tolerated anywhere on this school's property -- whether in class, in the hallways, or at athletic events. If you can't speak without using the f-word, you can't speak. By obscene language, I mean the words banned by the Federal Communications Commission, plus epithets such as "Nigger," even when used by one black student to address another black, or "bitch," even when addressed by a girl to a girlfriend. It is my intent that by the time you leave this school, you will be among the few your age to instinctively distinguish between the elevated and the degraded, the holy and the obscene.

Fifth, we will end all self-esteem programs. In this school, self-esteem will be attained in only one way -- the way people attained it until decided otherwise a generation ago -- by earning it. One immediate consequence is that there will be one valedictorian, not eight.

Sixth, and last, I am reorienting the school toward academics and away from politics and propaganda. No more time will be devoted to scaring you about smoking and caffeine or terrifying you about sexual harassment or global warming. No more semesters will be devoted to condom wearing and teaching you to regard sexual relations as only or primarily a health issue. There will be no more attempts to convince you that you are a victim because you are not white, or not male, or not heterosexual, or not Christian. We will have failed if any one of you graduates this school and does not consider him or herself inordinately lucky -- to be alive and to be an American.

Now, please stand and join me in the Pledge of Allegiance to the flag of our country. As many of you do not know the words, your teachers will hand them out to you.

Dennis Prager hosts a nationally syndicated radio talk show and is a visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. He is the author of four books, most recently "Happiness Is a Serious Problem" (HarperCollins).

His website is http://www.dennisprager.com/

Tom Correa

California Bill Will Sexually Brainwash Kids

So what has taken the place of Math, Science, English, Civics, and History in California public schools? Why is California ranked almost last in education? What has caused the dumbing down of California's children in its public schools?

Well, too occupied with social issues might be part of the overall problem. And honestly, it's just getting worse.

Believe it or not, there is a state bill mandating that homosexual history be taught in California Schools. And yes, right now that bill is in front of the governor for signing into law.

Yes, make no mistake about it. California is at it again, and again it comes from a Democrat from ultra-liberal homosexual San Francisco. The bill's author is State Senator Mark Leno, D-San Francisco,

I was asked when I started writing this article if he were himself a homosexual or just a bought politician pandering to his homosexual supporters in San Francisco? And honestly, I don't know a whole lot about him.

All I do know about him is that he wrote a bill which requires public schools to teach the historical contributions of homosexual Americans in an effort to indoctrinate children into being more accepting of the homosexual lifestyle.

And guess what? The bill was approved by the Assembly in Sacramento, California.

Imagine that for a moment. California lawmakers have sent the governor a bill that would make the state the first state in America to require public schools to force kids to learn about the contributions of gays and lesbians and transvestites.

But hold on because it does more than just that! The bill, which not surprisingly was passed on a party-line vote, adds lesbian, gay, bisexuals, and transvestites to the list of groups that Public Schools must include in their Social Studies lessons. And not only will it be a requirement to teach, OK here it comes, but it will also be a crime to teach material that reflects adversely on gays.

A crime to teach material that reflects adversely on gays. And that, my friends, is called propaganda and brainwashing.

That means that any mention of how homosexual behavior seriously harms homosexuals individually, or how it also harms society in general, will be against the law to teach.

If this bill were written to require public schools to teach the historical contributions of smoking Americans in an effort to indoctrinate children into being more accepting of smokers. It would be laughed out of town.

Then to have someone say smoking is acceptable behavior, and see here kids - take a look at how many smokers were historically great Americans. All while at the same time it is against the law to teach how bad smoking is for people or society. Well friends, it would be laughable at best.

So let's just look at the facts about the health of people who engage in homosexual behavior, since it will be illegal to teach it in public schools.

First, we know that people who practice homosexuality experience higher rates of many diseases. This includes Human Papillomavirus (HPV), Hepatitis A, B, and C, Gonorrhea, Syphilis, Gay Bowel syndrome, HIV and AIDS, and bacterial vaginosis. Second, people who practice homosexuality have higher rates of alcohol abuse, drug abuse, nicotine dependence, depression, suicide, domestic violence - its actually 20 times more common than among straight people.

If we look at places where homosexuality is widely accepted, like say San Fransisco, you'll find that the greater the acceptance of homosexual behavior also means the higher the rate of the above negative consequences. And, what about the effect of homosexual behavior on society? In addition to a domestic violence rate that is 20 times higher than among straight people, these are also some of the negative effects homosexuality has on society in general.

There are higher rates of child molestation among homosexuals. Nearly one-third of the reported child abuse cases are homosexual in nature, and yet homosexuals are only 3% of the entire population of the United States. Research shows that most sexual predators of children are homosexual men. Defined: "A sexual predator is a person seen as obtaining or trying to obtain sexual contact with another person in a metaphorically 'predatory' or abusive manner. Analogous to how a predator hunts down its prey, so the sexual predator is thought to 'hunt' for his or her sex partners."

Studies and statistics show that daughters of lesbian so-called "parents" are more likely to engage in risky sexual behavior and experience the consequences of that behavior. Children of homosexual so-called "parents" do the worst in 9 of 13 academic categories when compared with both married straight couples and straight couples who are living together.

Homosexual behavior is linked with higher rates of promiscuity, physical disease, mental illness, substance abuse, child sexual abuse and domestic violence. These are all things that impact society negatively. Please don't try to say some homosexual behavior doesn't hurt society, because it does. Just as all homosexual and straight "deviant behavior" does.

It is a major force that tears down society and directly harms children. Look at those Priests who are known to molest children. They didn't molest the children because they were Catholic, they did it because they were homosexuals. And who is the most vulnerable in society, our children. And who is facing more and more ultra-liberal indoctrination from the left in America, our children?

Yes, the very children that are now going to have to sit through classes of homosexual indoctrination in California after the governor signs that bill into law. Which he will most likely sign, first because California's governor is a Democrat, second because Assembly Speaker John Perez is the first openly gay speaker of the California Assembly, and lastly because homosexuals are a big factor in the Democratic Party today.

A couple of years ago there was a study published in Britain revealed that homosexuals are about 50% more likely to suffer from depression and engage in substance abuse than the rest of the population.

After analyzing 25 earlier studies on sexual orientation and mental health, researchers in Britain published their findings in the medical journal BMC Psychiatry. They found that the risk of suicide jumped over 200% if an individual had engaged in a homosexual lifestyle.

In Canada, another study shows all of the same problems associated with homosexuality. The Canadian findings show that the life expectancy for gay and bisexual men is 20 years less than the average Canadian man; that homosexuals commit suicide at rates ranging from twice as often to almost 14 times more than the general population; that homosexuals have smoking rates ranging from 1.3 to three times higher than average; that homosexuals become alcoholics at a rate 1.4 to seven times higher than the general population; that homosexuals use illicit drugs at a rate from 1.6 to 19 times higher than other Canadians; that homosexuals experience depression at rates ranging from 1.8 to three times higher than average; that homosexual men comprise 76% of AIDS cases and 45% of all new HIV infections; that homosexuals are at a higher risk of lung and liver cancer; that homosexual and bisexual men suffer a higher rate of anal cancer than heterosexual men; and, yes, that lesbian women report a higher rate of breast cancer.

Both the British and Canadian findings strongly support the results of similar studies conducted in the United States which reported the severe physical and psychological health risks associated with homosexual behavior. In findings from the Family Research Institute, 2007, researchers show that the lifespan of a homosexual is on average 24 years shorter than that of a straight person here in the United States. As a health threat, with all of the concern about medical coverage, even smoking pales in comparison to the risks of homosexual behavior. And some are asking why hasn't anyone thought about having homosexuals pay more for Medical Coverage since they live a risky lifestyle?

Studies show smoking can shorten one’s life by only 1 to 7 years on average, compare that to homosexuality which can shorten one's life by 24 years. It's no wonder that expert research finds homosexuality more dangerous than smoking.

Do you think that that fact will be told to the kids in school? I don't. For one thing, it will be against the law to do so.  It will be a crime to teach material that reflects adversely on gays. Convenient isn't it? So even in Social Studies Class, children won't be able to ask questions if they want to know if homosexuality has negative effects on people and social issues.

California Assemblyman Tim Donnelly, a Republican from Twin Peaks, said he was offended as a Christian that the bill was being used to promote a "homosexual agenda" in public schools. "I think it's one thing to say that we should be tolerant," Donnelly said. "It is something else altogether to say that my children are going to be taught that this lifestyle is good."

California law already requires schools to teach about women, African Americans, Mexican Americans, entrepreneurs, Asian Americans, European Americans, American Indians and labor. The Legislature over the years also has prescribed specific lessons about the Irish potato famine and the Holocaust, among other topics.

This bill would require, as soon as the 2013-2014 school year, that the California Board of Education and all local school districts adopt textbooks and other teaching materials that cover the contributions and roles of sexual minorities. And by the way, the cost of doing this falls on the cities and counties - not the state. But remember, the textbooks and other teaching material cannot make any adverse reference to homosexuality. But this law it must only be one-sided, and not speak of the ills of the behavior.

Opponents argued that such instruction would further burden an already crowded curriculum and expose students to a subject that some parents find objectionable without being able to raise objections. One California Assemblyman Chris Norby, R-Fullerton, said the bill micromanages the classroom. "Our founding fathers are turning over in their graves," Donnelly said.

Some family groups have warned the bill will drive more parents to take their children out of public schools. "This sexual brainwashing bill would mandate that children as young as 6 years old be told falsehoods -- that homosexuality is biological, when it isn't, or healthy, when it's not," said Randy Thomasson, president of SaveCalifornia.com.

I agree. I know if I had children, I wouldn't have them going through the horrible educational system and liberal indoctrination that we in California call our public schools. There has to be a better way then what the state is offering. 

Tom Correa