Tango is back with her friends

…and we couldn’t be happier for her.
As everyone surely knows by now, what we had been hearing from several people in the Sugarland Elementary community turned out to be true: the complainant Sherrie Sawyer has no children enrolled at that school, hence the entire challenge process was invalid. Kudos to Superintendent Hatrick for recognizing that […]

LCPS on a slippery slope

This is an updated overview of the status of Tango, just in terms of the policy issues that have been uncovered. There will be more forthcoming about the community response, remarks at the February 26 School Board meeting, and the merits of Superintendent Hatrick’s rationale.
First, here’s the audio clip of Culture Shocks with Barry Lynn […]

Good book

Here is a transcript of one of the speeches before the School Board on Tuesday night. It was received with tremendous applause, quite deservedly so:
“My name is Katie Neville; I’ve lived in Mr. Marshall’s School Board district for 23 years, on ____ St. in the same house; three of my children graduated from high school […]

Common ground

You know, Barbara Curtis* (Mommy Life) just said something I really agree with:
I’m wondering if a picture book about a boy who wanted to grow up to be a priest - maybe based on a true story - would be acceptable on public school library shelves? Or how about a story of a girl who […]

Somebody has some ’splainin’ to do

Well, this is certainly an interesting development.
One of the many parents who is angered by the unilateral decision of Superintendent Hatrick to remove And Tango Makes Three from Loudoun County elementary school libraries has just pointed out to me that the written policy was not followed after all.
According to that written policy, Procedure for Review […]

Now we know

Update: Erica Garman of Living in Loco filed an independent FOIA request, and has posted the documents online.
We have now seen the documents pertaining to the Sugarland Elementary* parent’s challenge to And Tango Makes Three. I’ll just share this part: One of the questions on the challenge form is “Is there anything good in this […]

CWA ladies caught in another lie

Blessings upon the folks at Good As You for finding this gem from the ladies of Concerned Women for America (you may recall this outfit as the home of disingenuous Senate candidate Patricia Phillips. She’s also the anti-gay activist who claimed to the Washington Post that the LCPS policy for student theatrical productions would prevent […]

“Ex-gay” therapy for penguins. Who knew?

This just gets weirder and weirder.
An amusing little treat landed in my inbox yesterday, containing the answer to the question “where are the national anti-gay advocacy groups in the ‘Tango’ story?” It’s an alert from the James Dobson/Focus on the Family franchise “Citizen Link,” urging Dobson groupies across the nation to TAKE ACTION by mass […]

Now we’re on “The View”

Whoopi Goldberg thinks that our public school administrators need to spend some time watching Animal Planet. Joy Behar wants to know why anyone wouldn’t like this true story about creatures taking care of each other. Sherri Shepard displays an astonishing degree of unexamined discomfort about gay people.
These are exactly the conversations people need to […]

What was objectionable, again?

“Penguins … ya gotta love ‘em.”
Betsy Allen, who writes the Loudoun Clear blog for the Loudoun Times-Mirror, just posted this.
Unlike some who have weighed in on And Tango Makes Three (you get clued in to this when a commenter employs the phrase “books like this always…”), she made a point of finding and reading it […]

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