Common Core Standards:"... Homosexuals Do Not Exist." [View all]

[Smarmie Doofus]

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Cross posted to LGBT forum: http://www.democraticunderground.com/113717710

Common Core: Gee thanks, guys. More LGBT invisibility?


http://www.p12.nysed.gov/ciai/common_core_standards/

Except now it's officially part of the "national curriculum" that the Obama/Duncan/Gates consortium is forcing down the throats of the states.

So...now we're *officially* invisible? Everywhere?

I worked the FAQ/search feature at the above link... NYS version of Common Core ELA/Social Studies... to see what demographics are represented and in what proportion in the NYS version of Common Core Curriculum.

Unofficial counts:

"gay and lesbian" 0

"lesbian and gay" 0

"gay" 8 ( but 7 of the 8 are of the "Enola Gay" variety. So , effectively, let's say: 1... and I'm not so sure about the significance of that one. It looks like the entry in someone's resume.)

"lesbian" 1 ( I clicked on the doc. but couldn't find the word. I'll give 'em the benefit of a doubt.)

African American 52

Catholic 32

Jew 42 ( "Jewish" - slightly fewer)

Irish ( in the thirties)

Italian ( 40-something.)

Anyway... try it yourself. So... assuming my premise is correct.... why aren't we (and our advocacy groups) all OVER this?

I'm reminded of this quote:

"Within the typical secondary school curriculum, homosexuals do not exist. They are 'nonpersons' in the finest Stalinist sense. They have fought no battles, held no offices, explored nowhere, written no literature, built nothing, invented nothing and solved no equations. The lesson to the heterosexual student is abundantly clear: homosexuals do nothing of consequence. To the homosexual student, the message has even greater power: no one who has ever felt as you do has done anything worth mentioning." -Gerald Unks, editor, The Gay Teen, p. 5.

How is this stuff ever going to change if we don't start changing it?

I'll crosspost this to Education after I clean up the language a bit to reflect the rarified academic atmosphere that predominates there.