Sean Carpenter and Rich Davis Right Wing Extremist
School Board Candidate Sean Carpenter supports attack on gay students
The American Sheepdogs, a local right-wing group, issued a call last week for people to come to the Feb. 23 West Chester School Board meeting to speak out against the “Day of Silence” the West Chester East Gay-Straight Alliance plans to observe on April 17.
While the school board meeting attracted a larger than usual audience, no one spoke about the Day of Silence.
A number of audience members did applaud after a woman from West Chester requested that her home-schooled son be allowed to participate in the Henderson High School band. I’m not sure that there’s a connection. Some local Republicans and Democrats, however, believe that conservative activists from the school district are beginning a push to promote home schooling and charter schools, the eventual goal being to greatly shrink the role of traditional public education.
In any case, the American Sheepdogs’ call to protest contained some rather strong wording. Before I take a look at it, I should explain what the “Day of Silence” is.
It’s a day, observed nationally, during which participants keep silent in order to protest discrimination and violence against gays, lesbians, and the transgendered. The West Chester East Gay-Straight Alliance plans to end its observation of the day with a coffeehouse-style open-mic event.. This event will symbolically “break the silence,” according to a press release the from Alliance.
The Sheepdogs argued that while bullying is bad, the it’s also bad for students to take day-long vows of silence. This seems reasonable. If I were a teacher (and I have taught in the past) I would be irritated if several of my students refused to answer questions or verbally participate in class. But the Sheepdogs’ criticism was rooted in something other than a desire for effective teaching.
According to the call to protest, which first appeared at http://americansheepdogs.com/?p=1588,
“[T]he real mission of this movement [the Day of Silence] is to indoctrinate public school students with the radical agenda of the left by teaching that being gay is an acceptable behavior. What’s worse is that all of this is done on school time in taxpayer funded school buildings. Make no mistake that bullying is wrong and kids who bully other kids should be punished accordingly, but clearly the leftists are hiding behind the bullying idea to push their radical agenda through the public schools across America. It’s time to take a stand for core conservative Christian values by demanding that schools teach our children, not indoctrinate them.”
Other criticisms aside, I don’t think it’s only the radical left that believes “being gay is acceptable behavior.”
Ask yourself this question, do you want your child to be attacked for being who they are?
Adsett, Carpenter, Pimley, and Wingerter are so Right Wing, So Wrong for our schools!
submitted by very concerned Resident and Parent West Chester, Chester County
9 responses so far ↓
Bob // August 26, 2009 at 12:08 am |
And this guy wants to be on the school board? You have to be kidding me!
Joanie // August 26, 2009 at 6:51 am |
This information on the Rep. candidates for school board in West Chester gets sicker all the time.
Think before you vote friends! This is not the caliber you want influencing school board policy.
I read about Wingerter being on the staff of a cyber school….bit of a conflict don’t you think?
Wish I had gone to cyber school- could’ve skipped a lot of classes easily- just walk away from the computer….and what a rip off of tax payer dollars that would be. Nuts…this is nuts!
G. Mongonery // August 26, 2009 at 2:02 pm |
Chester County Action, The PA Conservative Council, Midnightblue PA, American Sheepdogs, Infidel Bloggers Alliance, etc have been around for some time. They’ve come out of the closet for this years municipal and school board elections. Clearly the Republican party has been taken over by a radical and sometimes hate filled group of religious right consevatives. All under the guise of cutting taxes, I might add. This has been coming to Chester County for the past ten years.
The very good news is the Democrats in Chester County are pushing back with a moderate and highly qualified slate of candidates.
The school board race is a good example. There are many sound and logical reasons to seriously consider the Democratic slate for school board. One excellent reason is balanced representation. There are 65,580 registered voters in the West Chester Area School District. Forty six percent (46.4%) are registered Republican; fifty four percent ( 53.6% ) are registered Democratic or Independant. Yet the Republican party has held a monopoly on the school board for as long as anyone can remember.
Of course, there was a time when the Democrats and Independents couldn’t find candidates to run. Also, we weren’t too worried by this monopoly because, for the most part, the Republicans on the board were moderate and really cared about the education of our children. Now that’s changed.
It only makes sense that the majority of voters ( Independents and Democrats ) have solid representation on the board. If all four Democratic school board candidates are elected to the board this November there will be four Democrats and five Republicans on the board. The Republicans will still have a majority even though they’re the minority of registered voters.
Another good reason to consider the Democratic ticket for school board this time is to prevent chaos and law suits that follow a right wing take over of school boards. One only has to look at the Dover, PA school district for a good example of this. They were taken over by the religious right who decided to introduce Creationism into the science curriculum. That led to two years of litigation and distraction which ended up costing the district over $2,000,000.
There are more good reasons to take the Democratic slate for school board seriously. Look at all the candidates. Check them out. You can go to wcasdexcellence.org to learn about the Democratic candidates. I think you’ll be very impressed.
I belive the West Chester Area School Board needs to represent the whole community. Four Democrats and five Republicans on the board makes more sense than nine Republicans. And now we have four outstanding Democratic candidates to vote for in this up coming election. We can correct the balance and be represented fairly.
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Anonymous // October 27, 2009 at 7:50 pm |
Skye // November 4, 2009 at 12:43 pm |
We won!
Linda Chester County // November 4, 2009 at 12:58 pm |
You just have shown your true colors, to keep emailing back you won makes you seem just like the people you are, grow up, you have a job to do, remember, you may have won, but if you do wrong, you can be removed, so grow up, do your job, and do whats best, like you promised.
bichuc // February 9, 2010 at 1:19 pm |
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digbisht // February 10, 2010 at 2:15 pm |
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