October 06, 2009
The Long March of Kevin Jennings
By Robert Weissberg
An Obama appointee has attracted unwelcome media attention, namely Kevin Jennings his erstwhile Czar for school safety. The triggering incident was that he once counseled a 15 year engaged in homosexual sex with an older man to wear a condom versus reporting the statutory rape to the police. Though this lapse is horrific enough, matters are far worse. To appoint Jennings to reduce school violence is, to exaggerate only slightly, the equivalent of making the town pyromaniac Fire Chief. He will unlikely reduce school crime; the opposite is more likely -- he will discover ever more "crime" and in the process help impose the gay agenda. For Jennings, battling crime means teaching youngsters that Alexander Hamilton was gay. Don't laugh -- you'll see.


Let's start with school crime. Statistics are, admittedly, somewhat imprecise, but according to the Department of Justice, school crime has been dropping sharply since 1992. In 1992, for example, some 198,000 crimes on school grounds were reported, but by 2006 the figure had fallen to 87,000. "Serious violent" crimes went from 40,700 to 30,170. The decline was even steeper in crimes off schools grounds -- the total rate per 1000 in 1992 was 7.1 compared to 3.0 in 2006[1].


Of the utmost importance for anxious parents, much of this serious crime is disproportionately concentrated in urban schools with large minority populations. Make no mistake, school crime is deadly serious, as the recent wave of Chicago killings testify, but to suggest that millions of youngsters nationwide daily risk danger grossly exaggerates. Moreover, the historical and still effective solution to shielding junior is to relocate to safer schools (or home school), not flood schools with police. We'd guess that if America's educational woes were ranked, protection from personally experienced criminality would be fairly far down the list. "School crime" is hardly a pressing national issue and where it does erupt, humdrum policing is the correct response.


So, if violent school crime is largely an inner-city problem, and Washington wants to reduce it, whom do you call? Bring Dirty Harry out of retirement, ship him to Chicago where he can ask local toughs if this is their lucky day? How about Rudy Giuliani? Surely somebody with a crime-fighting background would be the logical choice. Unfortunately for those parents who worry about their children's safety, on a crime-fighting scale of 1 to 5, Kevin Jennings is a minus 10.


Some personal background. Kevin Jennings rose to prominence via the Gay, Lesbian, Straight Educational Alliance (GLSEN), originally a group of gay teachers founded in 1990.[2] It went national in 1995 with a large staff and a paid director (Jennings), and has profited immensely from its close relationship with the powerful National Educational Association (NEA) and similar liberal educational groups. It is not to be messed with -- at last count it included some 2500 local chapters and by 2006 it had prompted annual Days of Silence with two million students to draw attention to gay students. Their energetic intrusion in schools has ranged from threats of litigation to prodding schools to make October the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered (LGBT) Month. For those unaware, November 28th is now Transgender Day of Remembrance, so be prepared to explain some novel anatomical details when your 9th-grader asks a few questions.


But, it is one thing to create an organization dedicated to appreciate yet one more under-appreciated sliver of the population, but quite another to prod authorities to vigorously protect this sliver. With Jennings at the helm, GLSEN has performed brilliantly thanks to exploiting the patina of social science. With NEA cooperation, he has regularly conducted a "scientific" poll asking self-defined gay students about personal tribulations and the official responses to perceived slights, bullying, snide remarks, being roughed up or anything else possibly inflicting emotional distress. Questions then follow about whether school authorities remedied the alleged abuse. In an instant, voilá, perfect justification for state intervention is created -- young gays everywhere are suffering and school officials stand idly by.


In 2000, for example, some two-thirds of LGBT students taking the survey reported having been made uncomfortable because of their sexuality, 42% reported more serious harassment and five years later, the assault on gay students had not improved -- three-quarters had encountered derogatory remarks (e.g., "you're so gay') and a fifth reported some form of physical abuse. Overall, many gay students felt unsafe in their schools, no small matter since, according to GLSEN, there are between 2.25 and 2.75 million gay students in American schools. It gets worse: not only do teachers fail to protect these at-risk students, but a quarter of these students heard teachers or staff members make disparaging comments. Now that this poll is being conducted online with privacy protected passwords, we can only expect more reported animosity directed at this two million plus group of students.


Jennings and his allies have artfully constructed a highly deceptive picture. It is all about impressions, feelings about murky incidents and, of the utmost importance, the accused are not permitted their day in court, even if the incident entailed physical contact (nor are gay-on-gay incidents treated separately). Absolutely everything is unsubstantiated accusation. To the overly sensitive, especially those conspicuously celebrating sexual identity, life itself becomes one travail after the next. Moreover, none of these self-reports necessarily entail illegal behavior, a violation of school rules or are so damaging to a person's psychological development that they automatically require Washington's 9-1-1 intervention (if anti-gay actions were illegal they would be reported to the police and subject to investigation, a process that may not be welcome by those screaming that the sky is falling).


The government's own 2003 study of school-based "hatefulness" reported that sexual orientation comments were exceedingly rare -- just 1.3% of all students ever encountered such remarks. A more clear-eyed assessment is that troubling social interactions are endemic within this age group -- just ask any awkward adolescent about surviving, and one will undoubtedly hear a tale of unrelenting woe, regardless of sexual identification.


But, thankfully, Jennings is a practical man, so he realizes that American schools cannot be transformed into DDR-like totalitarian institutions where hidden microphones and cameras monitor these hurtful slights and assaults. Nor can teachers be trusted to step in and quell heterosexualism. Jennings instead suggests that this hatefulness be combated by heralding gay contributions to the history of Greece, the Roman Empire, China and every other civilization. In short, gay-flavored multi-culturalism to the rescue. Notable historical figures to make schools more "gay friendly" include Eleanor Roosevelt and, yes, thank you for waiting, Alexander Hamilton. These are his examples and left unsaid is just how their homosexuality has been established.


And rest assured, this is only the beginning, though it is already underway in many school districts. Agenda facilitators are standing by for their marching orders. A recent GLSEN compilation found some fifty-three gay-themed fiction books from mainstream publishers suitable for youngsters to stamp out homophobic "violence." The gender-bending Pinky and Rex series offers a dozen child-friendly books suitable for destroying hate in its embryonic stage. As is true for with similar left-wing capture-the-culture campaigns, advocates will be relentless with "show up early, stay late" tactics. The coercive litigation engine is already running -- as a result of U.S. District Court v. Boyd County of Kentucky et. al. (2006) consent decree, students in one school district are required to take sensitivity training on the subject of actual or perceived discrimination against gay students. As was true in racial issues, many school districts will probably preemptively surrender rather than fight costly battles.


You don't have to be a weatherman to see which way the wind is blowing. If you thought that GLSEN was an irresistible force with just a few thousand members, just wait until it leverages its power within the White House, the Justice Department and elsewhere. Jennings' appointment is all about homosexual inclusion, not restoring law and order in Chicago or Detroit where it is desperately needed. This is Newspeak deception on a grand scale, and perhaps comparable to using "green jobs" to support radical activism. Does anybody really believe that sending Pinky, a boy who loves the color of pink, and Rex, a girl who loves dinosaurs to quell warfare between the Bloods and the Crips will work?


If anything, forcefully imposing a made-in-Washington homosexual agenda will exacerbate school violence. Just wait until a bunch of seventh graders suffer their first Transgender Day of Remembrance while being compelled to hear how closeted queers made America great. Sensible parents, even liberals will jump ship regarding public schools while dedicated teachers will complain even more loudly how students loathe school. Keep in mind that aversion to homosexuality is endemic among youngsters, so "outing" reluctant classmates will provide a cornucopia of fresh targets. Jennings and his assistants may well complain of sabotage and unleash the Justice Department, even threatening to hold up federal school aid unless "rampages" against gay students are halted.


One last note on the vetting process. A disinterested outsider reviewing GLSEN's dubious findings and recommendations would have smelled trouble. Regardless of heartfelt purpose, Jennings and company are guilty of crude, sometimes dishonest, advocacy, to advance a widely detested sexual agenda. While nothing counsels banishing Jennings and his co-workers, inviting them inside the government will legitimize such tactics, or at least be viewed as an attempt to legitimize them. A wise advisor would have said, "Look Mr. President, I realize that while you must satisfy your gay constituency, sooner or latter Jennings and his machinations will be exposed, and people will ask questions, and do you really want to defend somebody who claims that Alexander Hamilton was gay and that teaching youngsters about this will calm disorderly schools?" Obviously, that day has arrived.


Robert Weissberg is Professor of Political Science-Emeritus, University of Illinois-Urbana.

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[1] U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics, National Crime Victimization Survey, 1992-2006. Table S2.1


[2] This analysis is drawn from Robert Weissberg, Pernicious Tolerance: How Teaching ‘to accept differences' Undermines Civil Society. New Brunswick, NJ: Transactions Publishers, 2008.

pasted directly from http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/10/the_long_march_of_kevin_jenn...

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I hope someone in the Czar group is keeping all this information and crossreferancing names dates places etc they will be useful in the near future. The only way to get rid of them is dig deep and than go deeper for each one, one at a time. Public information is great and pains taking work dont let it go to waist. They know the game they expect us to research them it doesen't scare them until you pick them one at a time and get into there personal lives what they own how much are they worth what did they have when they came to Washington. What do they have now. What agender are they pushing and for who and how much.Every bit of information is useful if it's true don't leave it out because you may not think it's important every bit of info can be utilized at some point. Ask what have they accoumplished since they were appointed, how many assistance do they have wher did they come from. What do they get paid what is the rent for there office who is renting it to them other Czars Which one owned the property that the olympics was going to be held on. Who had partnership in the construction companies. You will find an answer. We have to up the anti there is alot at stake here I want my country back. They Believe in what there doing we have to beat them at there own game They wrote the Book on this together we can take them down one at a time. When they have to look over there shoulder every time they go out woundering if one of us is there they will start to weaken as long as we don't give them any space. I have been here before that's how it works.

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if you want to be gay be gay but dont force it at me ,this garbage and this lowlife have no place anywhere near a school..

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Ken I understand where your coming from but he is there and we got to get rid of him and get rid of the person who put him there

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Free faxes to get rid of this monster here: http://action.afa.net/Detail.aspx?id=2147487127

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This has more to do with an agenda for what is being force-fed our children, than one's (adult) sexual identity. Sean Hannity is on this with a vengeance. He claims "there is more," so let's stay tuned. You'd think Jennings' dealings with high-profile NAMBLA (Man-Boy Love Association) would be enough to boot him out the door; however, with each revelation, it will take more and more to rid ourselves of these Czars, because now Obama has to push back to save face.

One thing I do not understand is whether (a) the media is simply attempting to cover up all of these extreme alliances (not associations - there's a difference) via their non-reporting or spin-machine; or (b) they simply agree with this radical, Socialist line of thinking. If the latter, and indeed journalists are a band of radical left-wingers themselves [in which case, it’s both (a) and (b)], then don't we have to lay the blame at the foot of the NEA and educational system, i.e., we've come full circle? The more the Obama/government indoctrinates through the educational system (and brain-washing through the Arts – have you been watching Glenn Beck?), the more likely we are to have the next generation of little Socialists. Or, at the very least, a generation more willing to accept Socialism-Light.

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The latest from Gateway Pundit:

Sunday, October 11, 2009
Obama's Safe Schools Czar Wrote That Killing Someone Who Called You Names Was "Not Aberrant Behavior"
More safe practices...
Obama's Safe Schools Czar Kevin Jennings wrote that killing someone who called you a name was not aberrant behavior.

How's that for being safe?

Verum Serum discovered this article by Obama's Safe Schools Czar Kevin Jennings in 1998:

We need to own up to the fact that our culture teaches boys that being “a man” is the most important thing in life, even if you have to kill someone to prove it. Killing someone who calls you a faggot is not aberrant behavior but merely the most extreme expression of a belief that is beaten (sometimes literally) into boys at an early age in this country: Be a man – don’t be a faggot.As Suzanne Pharr so eloquently explained in her landmark work Homophobia: A Weapon of Sexism, antigay bigotry is inextricably intertwined with the maintenance of “proper” gender roles by which little girls are supposed to be “sugar and spice and everything nice” and boys are supposed to be, well, quite the opposite. When boys take up guns to kill those who torment them with words like “faggot,” we shouldn’t be surprised. They’re just doing what we have taught them to do.

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This is an article from worldNetDaily:

CZAR WARS
'Safe schools' chief was member of radical Act Up
Jennings now responsible for public school students

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Posted: October 15, 2009
10:15 pm Eastern


By Bob Unruh
© 2009 WorldNetDaily


The man chosen by the Obama administration to head the Department of Education's Office of Safe Schools was an activist with the radical pro-homosexual organization Act Up, known for its aggressive badgering of those who don't support the homosexual lifestyle, according to a new report.

Mass Resistance, a pro-family organization in Massachusetts that has battled over homosexual agenda points there, has posted online a report and video documenting Kevin Jennings' participation in the extremist organization.

The video shows Jeff Davis, Jennings' "partner," addressing a banquet and saying of Jennings, "He was a member of Act Up. Act Up! So it's like – you know – here's a big gay activist. BIG gay activist!."

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http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=113735

Catholic League: Why does Obama like 'Christian basher'
'Remember … Jennings was chosen to instruct youth on moral matters'

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Is this typical of campus life at most universities? This is what we're paying for?

Teaching plan: America 'an oppressive hellhole'
University outlines 're-education' for those who hold 'wrong' views

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Posted: November 27, 2009
9:15 pm Eastern


By Bob Unruh
© 2009 WorldNetDaily



University of Minnesota president Robert Bruininks

A program proposed at the University of Minnesota would result in required examinations of teacher candidates on "white privilege" as well as "remedial re-education" for those who hold the "wrong" views, according to the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education.

The organization, which promotes civil liberties on the campuses of America's colleges and universities, has dispatched a letter to University of Minnesota President Robert Bruininks asking him to intervene to prevent the adoption of policies proposed in his College of Education and Human Development.

"The university's general counsel should be asked to comment as soon as possible," said the letter from Adam Kissel, an officer with The FIRE. "If the Race, Culture, Class, and Gender Task Group achieves its stated goals, the result will be political and ideological screening of applicants, remedial re-education for those with the 'wrong' views and values, [and] withholding of degrees from those upon whom the university's political reeducation efforts proved ineffective."



To continue reading:
http://ow.ly/GtLi

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Breaking: Obama's "Safe Schools Czar" Is Promoting Child Porn in the Classroom:
Promoting Child Porn in the Classroom: Kevin Jennings and the GLSEN Reading List
Friday, December 4, 2009, 6:13 AM

http://www.rightnation.us/forums/index.php?showtopic=163349

Here's how naive I am, I don't eve know what GLSEN is? Can't we get this PERVERT removed from DC? Where is the outrage?

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I know that the Health Care Reform bill (followed by Cap & Trade) are way up there on our "defeat" lists, but if we can't get this guy Jennings out, then we may as well pack up our marbles and go home.

Warning: The following video is so outrageous, just brace yourself!



The text of the video can be found on http://gatewaypundit.firstthings.com/ because it's a little hard to understand in parts. Yes, the terminolgy is described (I wasn't sure myself but was hoping it was not what I was thinking - but it was!).

Quoting from part of the article - because the rest of the article, while educational - AND WE SHOULD KNOW ABOUT THIS - is too much for these pages:

Barack Obama’s Safe Schools Czar Kevin Jennings founded the Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education Network (GLSEN). Recently he was appointed by the Obama administration to run the Office of Safe & Drug Free Schools in the US Department of Education. In 2007 Kevin Jennings was paid $273,573.96 as the executive director of GLSEN.

LET'S GET THIS PERVERT OUT! SHAME ON THE PRESIDENT OF OUR UNITED STATES TO DEEM THIS MAN SUITABLE TO INFLUENCE OUR CHILDREN!

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Well here's another article about Kevin Jennings, which again is VERY graphic. You can't write about this guy WITHOUT being graphic because of who and what he is. I couldn't stomach reading hardly any of it - I don't need to know it. It is the recommended reading material (FOR CHILDREN) promoted by Jennings:

http://gatewaypundit.firstthings.com/2009/12/breaking-obamas-safe-s...

For those who choose to subject themselves, if you scroll down partway through the article, there is actually a schetch of man-on-man - if you know what I mean.

This is provided strictly to educate ourselves as to who we are dealing with and the urgency of GETTING HIM OUT OF A POSITION OF INFLUENCE ON OUR YOUTH.

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