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04-01-2005, 09:07 PM
NC Mom Finds Popular Teacher's Methods Odd, Morally Suspect
By Jim Brown and Jenni Parker
March 31, 2005
(AgapePress) - A Christian family in Thomasville, North Carolina, is distraught over a public school teacher's reported use of sexually suggestive yoga poses and alleged promotion of cross-dressing and homosexuality in the classroom.
Thomasville resident Debbie Moon says back in January she became concerned about the conduct of one of her daughter's teachers at East Davidson High School. Moon believes history teacher Dan Orr violated her daughter's constitutional rights by asking her, along with her classmates, to join him in chanting Hindu and Buddhist mantras.
The North Carolina mother says Orr, on one particular occasion, "had climbed on top of three desks that he had pushed together and lay down on his stomach, and was sticking his tongue in and out and humming." She says she was "concerned" about this because she "didn't understand what that meant and how it related to a world history class."
And Moon contends the teacher's behavior is not only unprofessional at times, but also immoral and inappropriate for a high school classroom. "When he lay down on the desk that day," she says, "he handed out a handout that told the students if they got into that position, it would enhance the function of their sexual organs." And reportedly, she notes, Orr has been known to show his students sexually suggestive yoga poses and raise questions disruptive to the learning environment in class.
The rest of this WEIRD story found here: News from Agape Press (http://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/3/312005d.asp)
By Jim Brown and Jenni Parker
March 31, 2005
(AgapePress) - A Christian family in Thomasville, North Carolina, is distraught over a public school teacher's reported use of sexually suggestive yoga poses and alleged promotion of cross-dressing and homosexuality in the classroom.
Thomasville resident Debbie Moon says back in January she became concerned about the conduct of one of her daughter's teachers at East Davidson High School. Moon believes history teacher Dan Orr violated her daughter's constitutional rights by asking her, along with her classmates, to join him in chanting Hindu and Buddhist mantras.
The North Carolina mother says Orr, on one particular occasion, "had climbed on top of three desks that he had pushed together and lay down on his stomach, and was sticking his tongue in and out and humming." She says she was "concerned" about this because she "didn't understand what that meant and how it related to a world history class."
And Moon contends the teacher's behavior is not only unprofessional at times, but also immoral and inappropriate for a high school classroom. "When he lay down on the desk that day," she says, "he handed out a handout that told the students if they got into that position, it would enhance the function of their sexual organs." And reportedly, she notes, Orr has been known to show his students sexually suggestive yoga poses and raise questions disruptive to the learning environment in class.
The rest of this WEIRD story found here: News from Agape Press (http://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/3/312005d.asp)