Lady Gaga, bane of conservative parents everywhere

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Dozens of kids in baggy pink t-shirts emblazoned with the word "acceptance" bob up and down to Lady Gaga's "Born This Way" in a flash-mob style video, but a civic group from British Columbia called Burnaby Parents' Voice isn't buying the message. According to the Burnaby News Leader, they are challenging the "legality and the educational purpose of posting students' images on the Internet, as well as the appropriateness of Lady Gaga as a learning resource in public schools." Parents' Voice was in the news last spring for its opposition to a school policy that was enacted to protect gay, lesbian, and transgendered students from bullying.

The video was produced for Canada's Pink Shirt Day, an annual event conceived in 2007 in response to a bullying incident in a rural Nova Scotia high school. When some students harassed a ninth grade boy and called him a "homosexual" for wearing a pink polo shirt, two seniors distributed 50 pink t-shirts for their classmates to wear the following day. The idea spread over the Internet and, in 2009, the province of British Columbia even named the last Wednesday in February Anti-Bullying Day.

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Parent's Choice has asked Minister of Education George Abbott to ban Burnaby schools' Pink Shirt Day project and remove it from the Internet. As of March 1, the video is still up and school board chair Larry Hayes said in interview with Vancouver's straight.com, "I think sometimes parents are the ones that are hiding in their caves, and the kids are the ones out there in the schools, where there are lots of colors, lots of languages, and lots of orientations, and for the most part, (the kids) get along with everybody." .............(more)

The complete piece is at: http://shine.yahoo.com/parenting/lady-gaga-video-made-kids-protested-anti-bullying-140600808.html