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Louisiana high school students unknowingly taken to church where girls were told to forgive rapists

Discussion in 'Too Hot for Swamp Gas' started by orangeblue_coop, Sep 23, 2022.

  1. orangeblue_coop

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    More than 2,100 students from Baton Rouge high schools were excused from classes Tuesday morning and hopped on school buses to attend what was billed as a “College & Career Fair.” Some students, however, came away from this districtwide field trip upset, saying what they participated in felt more like a church service. “The majority of students chose to attend this field trip on the promise of free food and the opportunity to skip class, however the majority of students were not only disappointed by this event, but traumatized as well," Alexis Budyach, a senior at Baton Rouge Magnet High, wrote in a Facebook post.

    Brittney Bryant, a biology teacher at Woodlawn High and the mother of a senior at the school, was one of those who took to Facebook to register her concerns. She’d learned the day before that she was serving as a chaperone for the event, accompanying her child. Bryant particularly objected to the organizer’s decision to separate the audience by gender and have the girls listen to a series of emotional talks from three female speakers. “They talked about rape (and) forgiving the offender, suicide, prayer leadership, and many more dark controversial topics. We had females in the bathrooms crying due to the topics of discussion,” Bryant wrote.

    Trey Holiday, a senior at Woodlawn High, said he found the college and career part — a series of tents set up outdoors for students visit as they choose — lacking, with too few colleges and programs in attendance. “It kind of felt more like a spiritual event than a career and college fair,” Holiday said.

    And he said he too was struck by the difference in what he heard later from the female students who attended. “We boys all we did was do push-ups, we played games, we got money for the games we played,” he said. “It was a bunch of things that were very different, very sexist (compared to what the girls experienced).”

    Parents, students complain East Baton Rouge schools field trip was more like church service


    Lawsuits should be filed. Don't manipulate my child into thinking they're going to a college/career fair and groom them with nonsense.
     
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  2. tilly

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    Yeah.
    Not cool.
    Not Christian.
    Not OK.
     
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  3. AndyGator

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    Effed up.
     
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  4. BigCypressGator1981

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    Fire everyone.
     
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    Then sue.
     
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    I’m old enough to remember when the Handmaid’s was just a tale.
    Hopefully the new judgmental moral minority blows up like the last one.
     
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  7. AgingGator

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    They're just preparing the next generation of LSU fans!!!!!

    I will hold opinion on this "event" until more info is available.
     
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    Unfortunately, more than one adult had to be involved in the planning. Not one of them thought maybe, "this may not be a good idea"?
     
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    I find it odd that teachers were chapperones and had no idea where they were going. Is the administration of this school part of some secretive cult and nobody else was told? I guess it’s the Deep South so anything is possible.
     
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  10. philnotfil

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    That sounds like something groomers would do.
     
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  11. rivergator

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    Baton Rouge school officials reject concerns that field trip was intentionally religious
     
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  15. WarDamnGator

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    The organization that hosted this student event, at a church, is called “29:11 Mentoring Families” … they are like, “nah, it’s wasn’t that religious”…
     
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  16. rivergator

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    Maybe they thought if they weren't handling snakes and speaking it tongues that it couldn't have been that religious.