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Here is my thought about it all

I have written about the situation at the Victor Valley high schools. Newspapers from Victorville to the other side of the planet have, of late, used these schools as models of what NOT to be.

Yesterday, in celebration of some national gay and lesbian lifestyle day, the high schools here in the Victor Valley allowed mock gay marriages to take place during the lunch hour at each of the high schools, and the local community college also took part in the 'celebration.' Fine. Good. Great. I have no problem with this sort of thing, at least not outwardly. You already know how I feel about gay marriage. I won't go on to explain it all to you again.

However, there is something that bothers me about it all. Mind you, I wouldn't feel like this marrying day was such a big deal if that part of me that lives with the constant droning of the theme from The X-Files playing in her head. There is part of me that constantly feels like there is always someone out to get each and every one of us. There's a part of me that says, over and over again, that for every right that is done, there is a wrong out there waiting to happen. For every little thing that we each do, good or bad, comeupance is somewhere in the wings, waiting with its teeth bared like a feral cat ready to pounce on a helpless and crippled baby bird.

It seems very odd to me that a week ago yesterday (with today being the 12th of Feb.) a riot took place again. This would be three within the time span of four months. It seems odd to me that just last week, the principal at one of the high schools sent home a letter to the parents of the students who attend this particular school, with the letter requesting that no one talk to the media about the circumstances that had arisen.

This past Wednesday parents were informed that the mock gay marriages would be taking place during the lunch hour at this same school. Parents were outraged. "Our hands are tied," said one school official. Hands are tied? I guess that means that they couldn't do anything about it because, if they had, the students could go into protest and the district, the school and the officials would be in deep 'doo-doo'...

These are the same school officials who asked the parents to not say anything to the press about this. You know, the parents were asked to not give their opinion - an action which is something that is protected by the same constitutional rights that protects those gay kids mock marriages.

That, of course, is not what I am writing about today. It seems very odd to me that the district would allow such a thing in the midst of all this violence.

Frankly, I think it did the trick. There were no parents talking about the riots anymore.

I wanna know who the prinicipal's PR manager is, because that person is a GENIUS!!!

Guess the principal's PR manager smokes pot. I say that because someone would have to be completely stoned in order to NOT see that this was somehow a ploy to take heat off of the major issue at hand right now, which for parents like me, is the ever-present, always-looming sense of doom due to the racial tension that leads to riots. "It's like going from the country club to the ghetto," said one neighborhood kid who asked to remain anonymous.

Call me a cynic, but I think that this mock gay marriage celebration day was a perfectly timed ploy to get the media and the public and especially the parents' attention off of the fact that the schools here in the high desert - at least the two that I read about all the time - are no safer than those that are seen on the local Los Angeles newscasts every night. In fact, truth be told, the schools that are portrayed here in Southern California are all Los Angeles Unified School district campuses. Almost all are overcrowded and according to news accounts, none are safe. Let it be known that there are kids here in my neck-of-the-woods who have confided that going to one of those schools would be a step up.

It is my opinion that these children at our high school playing pretend wife and wife and husband and husband have no clue that at least this parent thinks it is a shame that they were used to cover up something bigger and uglier than the lies they were told in order to get them out there in the first place.

This is just my opinion. I could be wrong.






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