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22 Aug 2008 Preparing for a New Round of Legal Action, Kempling Seeks Financial Aid

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Update - This article is no longer current as the charges have been dropped and Chris Kempling no longer needs financial assistance. Click here for details. By ARPA Canada (www.arpacanada.ca) Dr. Chris Kempling, the BC school teacher and counselor who has been facing ongoing discipline for the public expression of his Christian faith, needs financial support for what is shaping up to be a whole new round of legal action. This is a result of more charges this year from the BC College of Teachers (BCCT) which seems to be upset that Kempling has not learned from previous disciplinary action against him and continues to engage in political action as a Christian.Kempling’s name is already widely known in this country. His previous legal battles go back to 2002 when the BCCT found him guilty of “conduct unbecoming a member” because he wrote letters to the editor of the Quesnel Cariboo Observer that were critical of a pro-homosexual program being promoted in the public schools.

17 Jul 2008 BC Considers Kindergarten for 3 and 4 Year-Olds

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Update: Deadline extended till August 15! There is still time to express your thoughts.ARPA Canada learned today that the BC Early Childhood Learning Agency is conducting a consultation to hear public input on whether kindergarten should be expanded to full-days for 5 year-olds and eventually also include 3 and 4 year olds by 2012. In a letter to the agency, we voiced our concerns about the increasing grasp of the government into what should be a parental responsibility. "We are convinced that not only do parents know best what...

08 Jul 2008 Chris Kempling to Quit BC Teachers’ College after Years of Harassment for Christian Beliefs

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By Hilary White QUESNEL, BC, July 7, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Dr. Chris Kempling will be leaving his position in the public school system after years of harassment for his Christian beliefs and his moral stand against the campaign to promote homosexuality in schools. Kempling has announced he will be taking a job at St. Ann's Academy in Kamloops. Earlier this year Kempling received a fresh list of citations for "conduct unbecoming a member" of the BC College of Teachers (BCCT) for his exposition of the Christian position on homosexuality, which fact Kempling said drove him to leave the College of Teachers.

03 Jul 2008 Petition Available for BC Parents RE: Public Education

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The BC Parents and Teachers for Life now have a petition available on their website to respond to developments in BC's education system which have given unprecedented authority to a homosexual couple to change the province's education curriculum. The petition reads as follows: We, the undersigned petitioners respectfully request that the Honourable House enact legislation to reassert that parents have the prime responsibility for the education of their children and to allow all citizens to have rights to review changes affecting what is taught in the schools, with no special...

23 Jun 2008 No skipping gay-friendly classes, schools tell parents

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Allison Cross, Vancouver Sun - June 22, 2008VANCOUVER - The Vancouver board of education says it plans to enforce a ministry policy that prevents parents from pulling students out of classes that deal with alternative sexuality. A recent staff recommendation from the Vancouver board of education says parents can pull their children out of sensitive lessons in health classes because of religious or family beliefs, but can't opt their children out of gay-friendly lessons in any other classes.Read the rest of the article here. ...

02 Apr 2008 Parents urged to protest new curriculum

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From Today's Family News [www.todaysfamilynews.ca] April 2, 2008 British Columbia parents who do not want their children taught about aspects of human sexuality that they cannot morally condone are being urged to express their opposition before it’s too late, theVancouver Sun reported. At issue is a proposed teachers’ guide called Making Space, Giving Voice. If the Ministry of Education decides to adopt the guide as written, it would revise every subject from Kindergarten to Grade 12 by inserting lessons and discussions on “diversity,” including sexual orientation. Class attendance would be compulsory. The ministry drafted the guide as part of its 2006 settlement with Murray and Peter Corren. The pair, a “married” same-sex couple, had filed a human rights complaint alleging – as Murray Corren told the Sun in 2004 – there was “systemic discrimination through omission and suppression of queer issues in the whole of the curriculum.”

27 Mar 2008 “Resist, counter and protest”

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VANCOUVER, March 22, 2008 [www.ccrl.ca] - The Catholic Civil Rights League will collaborate with other groups “to develop strategies that concerned parents can employ to passively and actively resist, counter and protest” the kind of instruction recommended by a new teachers’ manual, Making Space, Giving Voice. The statement was included in a letter to School Districts and District Parent Advisory Councils notifying them of the release of the League’s critique of Making Space, Giving Voice. The Ministry of Education manual explains how K-12 students will be introduced to “the full range of gender identity and sexual orientation.” The manual was designed to fulfil the Corren Agreement, a private contract between the Ministry and two homosexual activists.

27 Dec 2007 What is it like to plan to teach Ministry of Education curricula Christianly?

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By Derek Stoffels Teachers’ have a moral and legal obligation to teach the designated content in each course’s curriculum document. For many courses the government dictates quite specifically the things that you must teach. Fortunately what they don’t usually dictate is the perspective you approach the material from. In this article I will try to give you a bit of a glimpse into a teacher’s life as they grapple with teaching a particular learning outcome or theme.

Education

22 Aug 2008 Preparing for a New Round of Legal Action, Kempling Seeks Financial Aid

17 Jul 2008 BC Considers Kindergarten for 3 and 4 Year-Olds

08 Jul 2008 Chris Kempling to Quit BC Teachers’ College after Years of Harassment for Christian Beliefs

03 Jul 2008 Petition Available for BC Parents RE: Public Education

23 Jun 2008 No skipping gay-friendly classes, schools tell parents

02 Apr 2008 Parents urged to protest new curriculum

27 Mar 2008 “Resist, counter and protest”

27 Dec 2007 What is it like to plan to teach Ministry of Education curricula Christianly?

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