Making the teacher the parent is counterproductive. Social engineering is a threat to all children. It creates problems that were not that were not there before. Once again going backwards is considered progressive. That is why being progressive is not progress.

Your headline is wrong. When you describe the video as "Kevin Jennings answers a question about what sort of policy could be implemented to counteract the "negative impact of stereotypes" against Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered students by their teachers." you are lying. The question he was answering was not specifically in reference to [LGBT] issues. You can add [LGBT] all you want to his transcript, but that does not change the fact that you are misquoting him. From Media Matters Dated 10/08/09: Audience member asked about how to combat "negative stereotypes" based on race, gender, sexual orientation, and ethnicity. The audience member -- who noted that she has "been thinking about race and gender in schooling for about 20 years" -- asked about policies to address "the negative stereotypes that basically affect kids' lives." The woman specifically referred to how "many teachers have told us" that "black and Latino kids don't want to learn," and how "teachers ... were reporting that their Chinese-American kids" are "excellent at math" at very young ages. She further asked about "trying to think about on a policy level, rather than thinking about by -- whether it's sexual orientation, whether it's girls versus boys, whether it's black -- making it sort of a more meta policy thing around how do you get into teacher education programs, into teachers -- the whole notion of thinking about the negative impact of stereotypes and how much if you believe a child doesn't have potential, guess what, they're not gonna make it." Jennings did not mention "an LGBT course" in his response. Jennings stated that coursework "that address[es] issues of bias in the classroom and how it might influence your teaching" should be "a graduation requirement" for aspiring teachers. Jennings further stated that "we all have biases, but the key thing there is to be made aware of them and to be made aware of how they might influence your pedagogy and how that might impact students, and strategies to mitigate that. You added the [LGBT]. This is garbage journalism.

Teaching about gays, bi-sexual, transgendered people has ABSOLUTELY NO place in our public schools. This man is nothing but a hard left wing Marxist nut job. Students go to school to learn subjects that will help them in furthering their education after high school or to ready them to join the work force. There is NO place for this trash in our schools. God made Adam and Eve NOT Adam and Steve! Jennings needs to be fired immediately!!!

Sleazy. Not Mr. Jennings, but the Washington Times for attempting to mislead and provoke the readers. The "American Principles Project" invented this dishonest, intolerant and seditious steaming pile of dog ... misinformation. I have to assume they were going for maximum irony when they named their he-man [LGBT] haters club. I don't see much American or Principled about it. Stay classy Washington Times.

Corpyb, you didn't bother to view the other 7 segments of the same meeting which show Jennings was speaking primarily about LGBT issues. mstone38, This is a videotape of the man's statements in an open public meeting - they're his words, his thoughts. If they're sleazy, it his principles - not sound bites - full lengthly statements not clipped. How can you say it's misinformation? Sexual orientation, etc. is a moral issue and is for parents and religions to decide, not for schools to indoctrinate with Mr. Jennings selfish wants.