Evolution of a N.J. cross-dressing controversy

[foxfeet]

Despite proviso that boys didn’t ‘have to wear a dress,’ project canceled

updated 1 hour, 30 minutes ago
MAPLE SHADE, N.J. - A teacher's explanation to parents of a women's history project planned for her third-graders contained these words: "If your child is a young man, he does not have to wear a dress or skirt."

That didn't stop a parent and a blogger from complaining that little boys were being asked to cross-dress as part of the "gay agenda." From there, the Maude Wilkins School's project about the evolution of women's clothing quickly took on a life of its own — and now it's been called off completely.

"In hindsight," Superintendent Michael Livengood said Wednesday, "maybe a different activity could have been chosen that was a little bit more relevant to history."

Full article: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/36520384/ns/us_news-education/

[Warpy]

1. I guess the parents are all the result of social promotion

and can't read and comprehend to save their worthless lives.

[immoderate]

2. This is a shame!

During the eighties, I was a math teacher in a junior high. Occasionally, because I had demonstrated (foolishly) some flexibility, the principal would ask me to do something special, like teach out of license. He asked me to do an American History class.

I had the help and resources from several good Social Studies teachers. One of them gave me lessons on the history of clothing. Being style conscious, the kids loved it. They found the evolution of underwear, shirt tails, and collars fascinating.

No good deed... :(


--imm

[damntexdem]

3. Hmm, what might have been "more relevant to history"? The reenactment of a lynching?

Kristallnacht?

The complaining parent would probably have been happy with either of those.

[aikoaiko]

4. Well, Maple Shade, NJ is SOUTH Jersey.

I keed. I keed. Let a NJ native now living Georgia make a joke.

[customerserviceguy]

5. A friend from South Jersey

pointed out something to me a couple of years ago, when I noticed that a lot of the kids at his daughter's sweet sixteen birthday party liked country music just as much as rap, "Well, this part of the state is south of the Mason-Dixon line!"

I really hadn't considered that before, having only moved to this end of the country in 2007, from the West Coast.

[aikoaiko]

6. It's true -- if the MasonDixon line hadn't made a hard "right" turn at Delaware...

...it would have crossed over the bottom 1/3 of NJ.