Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Education Metro Nashville Schools Block Gay Education Websites; ACLU Threatens Legal Action
Posted by Brantley Hargrove on Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 12:30 PM
The organization threatened litigation in a letter to
The software is provided through a contract with a group called the Tennessee Schools Cooperative. Of course, schools are expected to block porn, gay or straight, but the filtering software goes a step further. It blocks widely recognized sites like the Human Rights Campaign and the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation. At the same time, the software allows "reparative therapy" sites--organizations that seek to "reform" gays and lesbians, treating homosexuality like a psychological disorder.
Says one Nashville student in an ACLU release: "Public schools are supposed to be places where students learn from the open exchange of ideas," said Eric Austin, a senior at Hume-Fogg High School. "How are we supposed to be informed citizens and learn how to have respectful debate when our schools rule out an entire category of information for no good reason."
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I would be interested in what else is being blocked... I seriously doubt we've heard everything
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A niggling point in the big picture but please correct Dr. Register's name. It's Jesse, not Jessie.
My Dad used to call TN the monkey state. He was right all along.
Grow up people, what is everyone in TN so afraid of anyways?
I was born and raised in Nashville. Now 30 years later I live in another country where crap like this does not happen. A country where all people are equal, where children are educated about all types of people from many different cultures. When I left Nashville people were still talking about the civil war. Maybe Nashville has moved forward and went from oppressing blacks and onto gays. I guess in the south you could call that progress, I just wonder if this oppression will last take 150 yrs to get over. Maybe by then the great citizens of Tennessee will have moved on to oppressing Klingons or Martians. Cause you obviously have to oppress someone.
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I believe that is the best safety measure that any school could have taken. You do not want to give into the information that may lead the students a stray. You want their mind to remain open for more useful things.
