this will never end...

PlanetOut has reported that Secretary Spellings has taken the Buster bruhaha to another level by uninviting the producer of Postcards from Buster from a conference being sponsored by PBS & the Department of Education.

The Department of Education has canceled an invitation to Carol Greenwald, executive producer of "Postcards from Buster," to speak at a children's television conference in Baltimore on Friday, according to a PBS official. All because of lesbians who milk maple trees for syrup!

They are trying to come to some agreement that Greenwald will be able to speak at the PBS section of the conference, but Spellings has made her feelings clear - it is okay to discriminate against people if they are LGBT.

Spellings defended her stance in an interview Tuesday with the Dallas Morning News, saying issues of sexuality and lifestyle should be introduced by parents.

I agree, but here are the problems: 1) if the parents don't have adequate knowledge and understanding of the topic or have slanted feelings about a topic, the children will not be given an accurate picture and 2) most parents don't deal with conversations about sexuality & lifestyles and kids get incomplete and mistaken information from the street. PBS and others are trying to give a balanced and faithful view of many things in the world with no bias but a reporting of facts.

While Spellings talks about the responsibility of the DOE of monitoring spending according to what Congress has ordered, she is focusing on something that is a lot less important than what the federal government is doing to education in general. It has placed unrealistic limits on children and schools through NCLB by demanding that 100% of all students must meet the standards by 2014.

IMPOSSIBLE! There will always be people who cannot reach that goal because of disability and other circumstances. A child who cannot speak due to having a stroke with half of her brain destroyed is in no way going to understand algabraic equations. Come on. When was the last time, if you were not an engineer or mathematician, that you used ∏? Why would a child who is autistic or TMH need it?

this will never end...