Re a post dated 10/17/2007 9:50:29 P.M. A teacher of young children needs to be able to display control from malicious attacks unfounded and for no purpose. Besides sexual pervertion[sic] is moral failure. You want your children being tought by morally failing people? Thanks to progressive law-making in NJ (See below), students and teachers are protected from people acting on the above misguided assumptions. Teachers must take action to prevent malicious attacks (bullying). Teachers must warn students guilty of bullying (and their parents) that their behavior is illegal and punishable. A school district must make the community aware of these laws or it becomes liable itself. The laws prevent anyone from making the workplace/school environment inhospitable to anyone. It applies to "student-on-student," "teacher-on-student," "student-on-teacher," or any district employee on any other employee. Maybe after the 2008 elections, all states will enforce these protections so that teaching and learning can take place without fear. Please support The West Park Players: _http://www.westparkplayers.com/1.html_ (http://www.westparkplayers.com/1.html) My own preference is for the Paramount dates so we can pack that house and showcase that theater. High school performances generally have no problem selling out. ==========================
The New Jersey Law Against Discrimination (LAD) makes it unlawful to subject people to differential treatment based on race, creed, color, national origin, nationality, ancestry, age, sex (including pregnancy), familial status, marital status, domestic partnership status, affectional or sexual orientation, atypical hereditary cellular or blood trait, genetic information, liability for military service, and mental or physical disability, perceived disability, and AIDS and HIV status. The LAD prohibits unlawful discrimination in employment, housing, places of public accommodation, credit and business contracts. Not all of the foregoing prohibited bases for discrimination are protected in all of these areas of activity. For example, familial status is only protected with respect to housing. The Division has promulgated regulations that explain that a place of public accommodation must make reasonable modifications to its policies, practices or procedures to ensure that people with disabilities have access to public places. The regulations also explain that under the LAD, these reasonable accommodations may include actions such as providing auxilliary aides and making physical changes to ensure paths of travel. For more information on each area the LAD covers choose below: _http://www.state.nj.us/lps/dcr/law.html_ (http://www.state.nj.us/lps/dcr/law.html) The Superior Court of New Jersey, Appellate Division, has upheld the state's Director of the Division of Civil Rights' (DDCR) ruling that a school district was liable for peer sexual harassment based on sexual orientation under New Jersey's Law Against Discrimination (LAD). _http://www.nsba.org/site/doc_cosa.asp?TRACKID=&CID=459&DID=37576_ (http://www.nsba.org/site/doc_cosa.asp?TRACKID=&CID=459&DID=37576) ================================================================ As I see the world, the secular humanists have done more to alleviate the effects of "moral failings" than all the political preachers lurking about for some loose change. Silly me, in my "salad days," to think that the movie "Marjoe" would expose once and for all that nonsense. ************************************** See what's new at http://www.aol.com
