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Kentucky parents are not tolerating "tolerance training".(Insider Report)(Brief Article)
Voting with your feet is a powerful way of making a statement. And the statement parents in the Ashland-Boyd County school district of Kentucky are making is that they don't want their children exposed to pro-homosexual "tolerance training."
More than 12 percent of the school district's students opted out of a training video that was supposed to be shown in 2004 to the entire school population as part of the school district's settlement of a 2003 lawsuit with the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). In that lawsuit, the school was forced to allow the Gay-Straight Alliance group to meet on campus. In addition, the Consent Decree and Order signed by the Boyd County Board of Education, the Superintendent of Schools, and the ACLU called for "Mandatory Staff Training" and "Mandatory Student Training" that was to "focus on issues pertaining to sexual orientation and gender identity, diversity, harassment and discrimination."
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