Does your child's school observe "Day of Silence"?

Blah, Blah, Blah. "Don't press your beliefs on us"? HUH? How is staying home pressing our beliefs on you? How dare YOU jenn? This day is PRESSING YOUR BELIEFS ON THE REST OF US!

My school isn't planning on observing it. And I'll make sure they don't. If they do, I guess they'll be short a few students AND a few teachers.

You know that if we were to observe the President's National Day of Prayer, all you people would be up in arms and would want to keep your kids home to protest. But of course, observing a non-national (non-official) day is OK? Give me a break.

What hypocrites. In every single thing that comes out of your mouths. "It's nobody's business what consenting adults do behind closed doors." OK, then why push the issue into public, into public schools, and into public parades, etc. HYPOCRITES!

Kids don't have to participate. No ones being forced. It's a day, one out of 365 each year, in which gays stand up against bullying. It's one day. One. Day. Get over it. Seriously. If you keep your kids home from school, that doesn't actually do anything but add an unexcused absence to your kid's record. He'll miss his education for a day just so you can prove no point whatsoever. The kid will be gone, but the day will still go on regardless. If you're against homosexuality, that's your choice, but getting your panties in a bunch over something as small as a day where a small group of bullied gay teens don't talk (how intimidating of them) is just ridiculous. Keep your kid at home, but you can't shelter them forever. Eventually they'll meet gay people, whether you like it or not.

There is no point to keep your kid at home on this day. My school did it last year and will probably be doing it again. Very few people participated in it and there was only a small population in the school that even new it was going on. It is not something that is advertised, just something a kid can choose to participate in. It does not promote homosexuality or get into the discussion of morals, all that it is doing is trying to help raise tolerance towards individuals. If you promote intolerance toward homosexuality that opens the door for millions of other intolerance levels.

Wow.

That link was an eye opener. Seriously, I feel so sad for people who buy into this type of profit for hate trade.

The day of silence was developed to help children remember that minorities and differences should be respected. It isn't an attempt to turn your kids gay.

Honestly, Christian parents must really be doing a poor parenting job if they are sure that homosexuality is a choice and are afraid that their little dears will be 'tricked' by their teachers into practicing it.

I am a happily married heterosexual father of 4 boys, I have spent everyday of their lives with them, I have been there through the best and the worst, showing them how to react to pain and sorrow and happiness and joy. I am sure, that they are socially well adjusted and strong in conviction and caring and thinking kids. I have no fears that a teacher that spends 1-2 years with them at most, could possibly lead them to adopt a morality that is counter to the one I have instilled in them.

Christians fighting against the day of silence, are either very insecure of their parenting skills, or are simply trying to instill their own warped interpretation of morality on other parent's children. I guess the name "Mission America" speaks for itself.

In my household, I teach love, respect, caring, and compassion for all human beings, and websites and opinions like these affirm my decision for atheism and against immoral Christian doctrine daily.

Deb, please stop being a pawn for people who think that minorities have no value in society. Please chose not to propagate, bigotry and distrust in the form of religious righteousness, but most of all,

Please get to know some homosexual families in your town, find out who they really are and what they are really like, instead of viewing them through dirty stained glass windows.

Religion consistently lies about people and lifestyles, claiming they are something they are not, please free yourself from the belief system that causes you to adopt such harmful tendencies.

Stop cheering on the bullies, and stand up for the picked on for a change.

What about if the child wishes to participate? Would the parents really keep their children from doing so? Even ouside the school they can keep the silence.

Miserable bigotry. Yeah, make sure your children are sheltered from reality as much as possible, so that they can successfully adopt your viewpoint.

I won't even condescend to pity people like you, and you're really beneath contempt. I'm glad to see that the majority of people who have answered your question agree that your mentality represents the exact reason why this "Day of Silence" was instituted in the first place.

I observe it in my home. It's a great way to teach my son that people may do things we don't agree with, but that NEVER gives ANYONE the right to hurt them.

I read the site you linked to - the purpose of the Day of Silence isn't to establish 'homosexuality as a worthy lifestyle.' It's to REAFFIRM the INHERENT right of a persecuted minority to SAFETY.

I hope more of you will consider observing this day as well. Any child - gay, straight, white, brown, green - has the right to feel safe in his own school. If this is something you won't stand up for... what WILL you stand up for?

Rebel silence does not include moaning. Send them on their way with bananas for lunch

The fact that you have a problem with an organized event to address intolerance pretty much sums up the reason why such an event needs to occur.

Now doesn't it.

Let me get this straight(no pun intended)

You don't like gay people (or at least the lifestyle), and all of the gay people are going to spend a day in silence, as in NOT bothering you or your children at all, and you want to keep your kids away from that?

How does that make any sense?