https://wthrockmorton.com/2008/05/20/wnd-day-of-silence-incident-reports-the-rest-of-the-story/ A [retired] college psychology professor's observations about public policy, mental health, sexual identity, and religious issues Sat, 31 May 2008 02:23:33 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 https://wthrockmorton.com/2008/05/20/wnd-day-of-silence-incident-reports-the-rest-of-the-story/#comment-16952 Sat, 31 May 2008 02:23:33 +0000 https://www.wthrockmorton.com//?p=911#comment-16952 Pam~ Having been a teacher myself I can completely respect that.

]]> https://wthrockmorton.com/2008/05/20/wnd-day-of-silence-incident-reports-the-rest-of-the-story/#comment-16951 Fri, 30 May 2008 22:08:19 +0000 https://www.wthrockmorton.com//?p=911#comment-16951 Ok….just from the school’s point-of-view….because I work at one and there is a distinct culture there….I’m not saying it was appropriate for them to even so much as chuckle at you. However, I will say that them chuckling may not have meant as much as you read it to mean.
Many times, in fact MOST of the time, things that are made into a big deal outside of the school building (things like the DOS) are not a big deal at all INSIDE the school building. Believe me when I say that most educators are just trying to get through each day and remain sane. Most of the time, all these “events” that sideline the day are not something that the staff of the school take all that seriously. Most of the time, we just want it to be over so that we can get back to focusing on educating the kids.
It doesn’t make it right for them to blow you off, or to not take you seriously….but….after I while it gets very tiresome when you’re taking call after call about things that don’t make much difference in the grand scheme of our school day. We are much more concerned (at least in the places where I’ve taught) with things like test scores and ratings/rankings than with managing whatever ABC day it might be today.

]]> https://wthrockmorton.com/2008/05/20/wnd-day-of-silence-incident-reports-the-rest-of-the-story/#comment-16950 Fri, 30 May 2008 18:38:17 +0000 https://www.wthrockmorton.com//?p=911#comment-16950 Concerned Parent,
Yes I have had plenty of conversations in which I felt that the other party did not take me as seriously as I wished that they had. And it’s pretty annoying. I don’t blame you for feeling offended and indignant.
But it seems that you weren’t very accurate or respectful to them when you sent off an email that accused them of calling you names. And now you are in the uncomfortable position of having to retract what you said.
I respect you for clarifying the situation. Many folks would not have bothered to fix their misstatement, feeling that their hurt feeling justified anything they may have said whether or not it was true. Your character is better than that.
I agree that squabling isn’t very nice.
But I also believe that when children tell you that they are being bullied and ask for your help that it certainly isn’t very nice to try and shut them up instead of help them. You, of course, may disagree with me on that.
Along with Warren, I hope that we can all find a way to talk to each other. And my chiding you probably isn’t helping much. But I hope that you can maybe see that those who disagree with you on the issue of homosexuality are not evil. Any I hope that perhaps we can all find a way to live together and respect each other and not try and silence or bully each other.

]]> https://wthrockmorton.com/2008/05/20/wnd-day-of-silence-incident-reports-the-rest-of-the-story/#comment-16949 Fri, 30 May 2008 18:20:44 +0000 https://www.wthrockmorton.com//?p=911#comment-16949 Mr. Kincaid~ The officials in my school did laugh at me. It was not a doubled over laughing hysterically but they chuckled like oh geesh its one of those people. I know you have had conversations where the person you were speaking to did not outright degrade you but the tone and feel of the conversation was just that. My post here was to attempt to clarify the misspeaking that occured in my orginal email. I have attempted to explain the error and how it occured repeatedly here. I am not aware of all of Ms. Harvey’s activities or comments but felt it was the right thing to do in admitting to my error. Her story was a direct quote from my email so she did not intentionally lie concerning me. As I stated to Mr. Throckmorton in my previous post I dislike getting caught up in the arguing that occurs on posts like this. Neither side ends up looking very nice.

]]> https://wthrockmorton.com/2008/05/20/wnd-day-of-silence-incident-reports-the-rest-of-the-story/#comment-16948 Fri, 30 May 2008 18:09:06 +0000 https://www.wthrockmorton.com//?p=911#comment-16948 Mr. Throckmorton I have already read this and I guess to me its somewhat confusing. I feel a bit trapped and know that whatever way I choose to state my position I will be attacked. I DON’T think anyone should be bullyied but it seems there is a fine line between standing up and saying gay is ok. I don’t typically engage in the back and forth that goes on with blogs and posts like this at least not on this issue because of negative experience. So yes I will contact Ms. Harvey and ask her to correct her post but I am still at a loss in fully agreeing with what seems to be your position regarding homosexuality.

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