When governments borrow ideas from the private sector, such as making people sign non-disclosure agreements, they might want to reflect upon the context in which they are used:
Officials at Deerfield High School in Deerfield, Ill., have ordered their 14-year-old freshman class into a "gay" indoctrination seminar, after having them sign a confidentiality agreement promising not to tell their parents.
It doesn't really matter because being minors they can tell their parents anything they want to, since they cannot be party to a contractual agreement. Ohhh silly school administrators. Probably the same sort of people who think that their petty policies actually trump state law and the constitutions (state and federal). In fact, I think it would be great for one of these students to discretely smuggle the materials out of class and post them on the Internet for public consumption. That is precisely the sort of thing I would have pulled in high school several years ago out of principle for any sort of secret, fake NDA-backed indoctrination.
What's with America's youth today? Why are there no would-be subversives stealing this content and exposing it just to stick it to The Man for trying to brainwash them any which way?
Doesn't the school realize it's making itself (and the gay agenda) seem suspicious when it acts this way?!? Not that I thought the gay agenda was okay to begin with but geez, it's kinda like asking the kids to meet the gym teacher by the docks at midnight...
I hope that school gets sued BIG TIME for coming between the parents and children in such an objectionable way.
I think they know it's not enforceable, they are just trying to use their power to intimidate.
I don't want them sued. I think fifty to one hundred parents should immediately withdraw their kids and send them to private schools. If they did that, they would probably be able to immediately, dangerously, drop the school's funding. That would also have the benefit of neither increasing taxes in the short term (1-2 years at least) nor sending a temporary message. Preferably the majority would leave after a stunt like THAT, but I wouldn't hold out. Most parents are just too stupid today to understand the implications of a school making kids sign an NDA...
Isn't "don't tell your parents" the first rule of child molesters?
What would be the penalty for disclosure? suspension/holiday?
Truant officer to student: Young man, why are you not in school today?
Student to officer: It's OK, they gave me the day off.
Student's friends: Can I sign a non-disclosure statement?
Yep, and it also contradicts the average school's efforts to teach kids to go to authority figures. If they cannot go to their own parents, why would they go to a teacher or a cop if they have a problem? If we punished these people for being so inconsistent, what a tormented lot they would be!