How about this for a 1st grade field trip

"Tolerance" only applies when convenient for the libs.

 

It is fair to say that yes, I am narrow-minded in my feelings about the bigoted, sexist, racist dead ex-senator from North Carolina in that I am not inclined to a broad, tolerant view towards his political and personal legacy. :lol: We obviously will never agree on this particular subject, either one actually, ever.

 

Just curious, how do you feel about Robert Byrd, Senator from W Va?

 

What are you really wanting to know? Pls be more specific.

 

Possibly, but somehow I doubt it.

It doesn't. However, considering the ratio between hetero and same gender, coupled with the fact that same gender is only recent, it would seem that there would be a hetero wedding long before a same gender wedding.

In my original post I did mention that I did not see what lessons taught by schools would be learned from a field trip to a wedding. You have since responded, and I do accept, potentially etiquette. However, if this were the case, and given the odds that a hetero wedding would have occured long before a same gender wedding, and there is no indication that the kids ever went to a hetero wedding as a field trip, I still stand by my statement.

Until it is shown that this was not, on some level, a field trip because this was a same gender wedding, then I think it was wrong.

Once again, I am in favour of same gender couples having the right to marry, I'm just against having something personal crammed into someone's face.

 

What do you think of a current Senator that was once in the KKK?

 

Wouldn't this statement be considered a sort of "guilty until proven innocent" kind of reasoning? Are you ok with that?

Remember they didn't have to attend, two stayed at the school, which is what is usually the case when parents opt to not allow their children to participate in a school activity. So not sure how anything was crammed. Would seem to be no different to me than schools recognizing and teaching about all of the different december holidays now, as opposed to just celebrating Christmas like when I was a kid.

 

I did not post the second quote you attributed to me, although I certainly do not disagree with it.

Everyone posting in this thread is making assumptions, yourself included. How long has that school existed? Maybe this is its first year as a school, and the first opportunity to take any of the students to a wedding.

 

Here is a video clip of the "blessed" event. Nope, not a political statement at all. :roll:

 

Hear, hear!

 

I believe it would be very limited to the fact a member of the staff was getting married, which would not be common at even larger schools. That is just a guess since we have no way to know how many unmarried staff emembers there are and how many were married after joining that school. I do not think they would have made the trip for just any wedding based on the article.

 

I wouldn't consider them guilty or innocent. But, if you want to use that analogy, it would seem to me that, if they were innocent, then they should be proclaiming such.

Remembering being a kid, field trips were like little vacations. Try convincing a kid that he doesn't have to go on a field trip if he doesn't want to. Or, better yet, try and tell a kid that they aren't going to be going on the field trip and then explaining why.

Teaching about all of them is a lot different than teaching just about Kwanzaa. This was not a matter of teaching about all of them, this was just one they were being taught.

 

I agree.

I also change my point of view. While I still disagree with the original statement in the article that this was a learning moment (and the video backs up my opinion as there was no etiquette being taught), I think it was nice that the kids were allowed to attend their teacher's wedding. Just don't call it a "learning moment"

 

I think Ready was being sarcastic, Clif. And WHAT pray tell, is on this little girl's shirt?

 

Yep, I was, based on the teacher's last statement to the camera... and I noticed the shirt too, Cleo.

 

Yes, and I was intentionally being mean in removing the "smiley" from her post before I responded making it sound like she was sincere.

Can't see the pic, if there is one. However in the video I did see the first little girl had a button of some sort (that I couldn't read). After seeing that I looked for others but did not see any on any of the other kids.

 

the shirt does not say queen that is for sure!!! that last letter is a "R":? lol

 

Yep, saw it in the video.

 

"No matter who's getting married, it's a beautiful, blessed union, and that right should be afforded to everyone." Sounds like a reasonable statement to me.

 

I just want to know if she disagrees with that statement.