Head of Office of Safe and Drug Free Schools Expresses Regret for Controversial Incident

The guy needs to tossed, its an outrage!

I am a conservative and not a supporter of Barack and all of the weirdos around him but….
The man was a 24 years old at the time and admitted he made a mistake. He tried to counsel the boy in the best way he could, given the tools he had at the time.
Maybe counseling the boy to be safe and encouraging him to respect himself was a better plan of action than putting him through the shame of making statements, getting grilled by cops/lawyers and testifying in the courts during the 1980s?
Let’s not be partisan for the sake of it people.

In the late ’80s, teachers and physicians (among others) were obliged to report supsected physical or sexual abuse of children in the State of Illinois. Presumably, there were similar statutes in the Commonwealth of Massachusettes at that time. If that is so, how could he NOT know that he was obliged to report this incident?

‘…in his high school years he “got stoned more often and went out to the beach at Bellows, overlooking Honolulu Harbor and the lights of the city, to drink with my buddies on Friday and Saturday nights, spending hours watching the planes take off and land at the airport, which is actually quite fascinating when you are drunk and stoned.”‘
Really stoned – Bellows is on the opposite side of the island from Honolulu and the airport. Stoned indeed!

Has anyone ever before seen an administration peopled with such controversial figures who, despite their “exceptional” backgrounds, such as Van Jones, and now Kevin Jennings, are so ardently pursued and defended, at least initially, by their bosses?
Literally, it’s all unbelievable.

reminds me of BO’s other friends at ACRON – turn a blind eye to moral outrage because they don’t recognize it as such.

“Where does the POTUS dredge up these losers, pedophiles, tax cheats and racists?”
You will be known by the company you keep…

The Current Occupant has managed to surrounded himself with some real characters. It seems like every day there’s a new revelation regarding yet another knucklehead.

Face it, America. Obama and his people were completely aware of this guy’s past when they hired him. It’s not that they didn’t vet these people; it’s that they did vet them and find nothing wrong with the behavior. In fact, they agree with it.

Drugged-up sexual deviate advising schools…that’s the “change” we voted for?

Why was it necessary to include “has been criticized by social conservatives” in this story? Is ABC News inferring that don’t find anything wrong with this guy’s actions? Why not the standard ‘has come under fire recently’? Why do you find it necessary to label?
Is this what journalism is coming to? The credibility of the source rests on whether it was a right-wing extremists, conservatives, liberal, left-wing extremists (oh wait, they don’t exist)?
Incredible.

We can forgive a dog-murdering football player.
We can forgive a pedophile director
But we can’t forgive a teacher who in good faith tried to help a student. Yes, his advice and counsel was poor, but he has admitted that. Of course all of us are perfect all the time. As a straight man, I am almost certain this wouldn’t be an issue if a straight teacher had given the same advice.

The press didn’t do their job? Now they are supposed to have to vet all the potential kooks that the Current Resident has appointed? In case you haven’t noticed, Hannity has been on the case for awhile, but look, isn’t there any responsibility on the part of CR to make sure decent people are being brought in in the first place? Oh, that’s right, in HIS world, they are decent. Takes one to know one, etc.

I am just tired of hearing about stuff like this and then hearing that his ‘higher up’ has ‘full confidence in him’. That immediately removes all credibility from his boss.
We’re supposed to feel sympathy for this 24 year old for having just had his companion die of AIDS? That is simply no excuse for his lack of morality and common sense in this particular situation. He obviously has no decency and his sense of ethics is deeply flawed.
Boot him out along with the rest of Obama’s colossal misfits.

Kevin Jennings isn’t who Barack Obama thought he was. Whatever… another depraved, unqualified America-hating thug hired by our President. Alert the media. Oh wait, they don’t care.

So we look as far back into someone’s past as possible in the attempt to disqualify them from-everything? How long before the Perfection Police get you?

Another in a long list of hand-picked Obama officials to go up in flames! Kind of like “it wasn’t like rape-rape…….Whoopie!!!!

Perverts you can believe in!

This is what you get when you vote for someone that never has been checked out by the media. Because the media loved him so much they overlooked everything to get him elected. Good luck Liberals your going to need it.

“Teachers back then had little training and guidance about this kind of thing.”
Pure BS. That’s a blatent, bald-faced lie. No journalist going to follow up on that? No? Figures.

In an article today, Gore Vidal said the US could become a military dictatorship under Obama. Wouldn’t surprise me if some of our generals who are patriots and who love this country would make such a move. At least, there would be discipline and no sleazy, scumbag appointees such as this guy Jennings.

Yet another example of the finest that humanity has to offer…. Next we will be expected to believe that this guy didn’t realize there was anything wrong with the teacher’s conduct. This sicko needs to be fired at once. Does Barack Obama know anyone that doesn’t belong in a carnival or a freak show?

We have truly been taken over by the liberal nut minority. We have HOllywood telling us how to let perverts use our kids and just walk away. They want to us give up our healthcare. They want to let our troops be in harms way without support. They don’t want people to be able to choose the school they want for their kids. They want to abort babies, and then if they survive, let them die. Glenn Beck is right. It is lunacy.

“So we look as far back into someone’s past as possible in the attempt to disqualify them from-everything? How long before the Perfection Police get you?”
Beats me, why don’t you ask Dan Rather and Mary Mapes?

So, what have you been up to, Sharon, that you somehow equate Jenning’s mistake with the behaviors of the rest of us?

I cannot believe the spin on this story.
This man must go.

The government education/indoctrination system is another bloated, broken, union run disaster that should be put out of it’s misery. Talk about TARP money, tax payers have been bailing these failures out for decades. This should push another half million families to homeschooling and at the same time, deprive our insatiable federal government from unearned tax revenues when folks decide to stay home and take care of their children.

Hey Sick of Hypocrisy,
Would you put a “dog-murdering footbal player” in charge of an animal shelter or the entire SPCA? Would you put a pedophile director in charge of a daycare or child protective services? Why in the hell would you put this piece of crap anywhere near the Office of Safe and Drug Free Schools. You’re right, if he was straight it would have been handled differently. He would have been fired and would never have been allowed to teach again, even if he was lucky enough to avoid jail. There’s no rational excuse for defending this guy. But then again, Obama’s flock of sheeple don’t think rationally anyway.

“I can envision a day when straight people say, ‘So what if you’re promoting homosexuality?’… That is our mission from this day forward.”-Kevin Jennings, “Looking to the Future” panel discussion, GLSEN Mid-Atlantic Conference, New York, October 25, 1997; cited in Brian Burt, “GLSEN’s Jennings: ‘That is our mission from this day forward’,” Lambda Report, Jan.-Feb. 1998
“We have to quit being afraid of the religious right. We also have to quit-… I’m trying to find a way to say this. I’m trying not to say, “[F---] ‘em!” which is what I want to say, because I don’t care what they think! Drop dead!”
Source: Kevin Jennings, speech at Marble Collegiate Church, March 20, 2000; quoted in Peter LaBarbera, “When Silence Would Have Been Golden,” Concerned Women for America, April 10, 2002
Does this suffice as an “agenda”?

@sharon – It doesn’t disqualify him from everything but it certainly says enough about him that we should question whether he is the right person for this job. He doesn’t have to be perfect either but he probably should have his ethics in place especially those that pertain specifically to his profession. Do you not think there are many others out there who are equally qualified for this position who have not acted in this manner? The real problem is that these were all “political” appointees and no one really looked at their merits, flaws, and qualifications. Sad truth about how our politics has seeped into every aspect of government.

“All teachers should have a basic level of preparedness”
Kevin you do not lack “training and preparedness” you lack common sense and a moral compass. “Training and preparedness” will not help you find morality and common sense… and you should NOT be placed in a position to protect children.

Let’s see… Obama and his Admin hang with and include… Terrorists, Communists, Marxists, Socialists, Racists, Truthers… and now PEDOPHILE ENABLERS!
Patter? Anyone? Anyone?

Putting this guy in charge of anything to do with schools is like putting Charlie Rangle at the head of the Ways & Means committee. Oh… wait…

Who was the young women “who knew he was gay and brought the student”? Someone needs to find out her identity. I would love to have been a fly on the wall in that classroom. Was the young woman a student? How was the young women one of the only people who knew he was gay and randomly knew that student was engaging in this behavior? This story has huge holes. Would it make more sense if the young woman was really a young man?

By his own account this guy expresses a total lack of concern for the child’s safety and well being. He states his concern was that the kid use a condom because his friend just died from aids?! WHAT?! The kid just said he was cruising for sex in bus stop bathrooms for Christ sake!! Not exactly the best of places. The kid could have been KILLED, or worse yet he might have hooked up with a Senator. What was this guy thinking?!!

He sounds like he has grown up over the last 20 years and has been a great professional. I see the Drudge sludge is here with their usual verbal diarrhea. Hey ladies!

“Teachers back then had little training and guidance about this kind of thing. All teachers should have a basic level of preparedness.”
I became a teacher in the early ’80s. I know of no teacher back then that would have handled this so poorly. We didn’t need common sense training.

I believe that the law is very clear that a teacher must report ALL incidents of sexual abuse to law enforcement. A 15 year old boy having sex with an older male is illegal and should have been reported to the police. Kevin Jennings should be brought up on charges of endangering a child, and he has no business being in charge of the safety of school children.

“Teachers back then had little training and guidance about this kind of thing. All teachers should have a basic level of preparedness.”
I became a teacher in the early ’80s. I knew of no one back then who would have handled this so poorly as this person. We didn’t need common sense training.

Things were a lot different back then. 25 year old’s dating 15 year old’s was quite common. Say what you will but that is a fact. it wasn’t until the early 90′s that they started cracking down on this.

Am I the only one that realizes that Bellows AFB doesn’t overlook Honolulu? It’s on the eastern shore and if anything, it overlooks Kailua.
Not that it really matters…

Hmmm…I wonder if Jennings would be getting such easy treatment if he was a Catholic priest???
What a double standard!

All of you crazy so called “Christians” need to realize that Jesus had 1 message he preached, which was to love your neighbor. The old testament is full of contradictions and (which all of these homophobic quotes come from) and doesn’t appear to be divinely inspired at all.
Also, I highly doubt that Jesus would be degrading other human beings as many are doing with their posts. I like Jesus but I am not a fan of a lot of Christians.

In Obamaland who is responsible for protecting students from the Director for Safe Schools? I believe that Kevin Jennings was thinking of what can he do to get some of the stuff sitting across the desk from him.

An endless parade of losers. Is there anyone that Obama knows with some integrity?

And this is the man that will have say on what will happen in our schools. Don’t beleive that he won’t because he is one of Obama’s picks and we all see how Van Jones was vetted! How about all the other left wing radacals, oh wait can I say that!

451 Your entire drivel says it all, you have no clue whatsoever of morality. Your liberal (do anything you want) views of life are of a classic immature mind. A 24 year old teacher should know better. If he didn’t he is also clueless. He shouldn’t be in any position of taking care of kids.

IT WAS A TEACHABLE MOMENT. ALL FORGIVEN. THAT’S THE NEW OBAMA MANTRA FOR ALL HIS FRIENDS MISTAKES/CRIMES.

The bus for Mr. Jennings is right on time. I can hear it now…

Bunch of Dale Gribbels on here I swear

It really says something about today’s Democratic Party that Mr. Jennings is the best available person it can come up with to head an office for “safe and drug free schools.”
Or maybe it says something about the uselessness of this office that it doesn’t deserve anybody better than Mr. Jennings.

Disgusting. This entire Administration is filled with crooks, liars, tax cheats, etc.
To think I actually voted for this guy…amazing. It won’t happen twice.

failure by a teacher to report such is and has been a crime in most states for many years….but nowadays it’s all
o-bama-k

Every criminal I ever met had an excuse for not doing the right thing. I knew thousands of them – professionally. In each case the person felt he was entitled to his behavior and thought he could get away with it. In fact, that is common to all crooks. Jennings is no different. He should have been prosecuted.

“Again, depending on his age, he shouldn’t be trying to pursue it, but you can’t blame him for being attacted.”
Posted by: Paul | Sep 30, 2009 5:49:41 PM
Judge Jennings by HIS ACTIONS–or in this case his willful FAILURE to act to protect this minor while in a position of authority over youth.
The lesson as always, Obama Cultists Spin.

By safe schools, he means “did you wear a condom”!

Imagine if this had been a Republican. Wait, Mark Foley, that was a similar case. He was run out of town, and rightly so. Where is the outrage for Mr. Jennings? Is his best explanation really that he lacked the specialized training to properly counsel the teenager? How much training does anyone need to know that you protect teenagers from adult predators no matter what? This guy should have never been hired, but as we all know, anything goes with regard to any liberal occupying any position in the ever-expanding governmental conglomeration of The One.

Obama you and your staff I got one word for you GOOGLE. It might save you some embarassment.

The absolutely prototypical democrat.

If Roman Polanski is guilty and needs to serve time, how can it be that Kevin Jennings isn’t held to a high standard as well? Mr. Jennings should never be allowed to have this post.

Well then, he regrets it..enough said, were all ok with this guy now.

This revelation comes at a time when Roman Polanski is back in the news for his rape and escape. A ground swell of hollywood support has come out for Mr. P. There is no denial of the crimes. There are questions of impartiality in the prosecution and intended sentencing but no denial of the crimes. Here there is no denial either. He did not report the rape of the 15 year old. The justice system hasn’t prosecuted this man for his neglect of duty. The liberal community says we have lost civility and right wing lunies will cause violence with their mean words. How can you say that and then not pursue actual criminals? If the justice system allows suspended sentences or community service for these long past crimes, at least due process would be served. You shouldn’t try to squelch debate by fear mongering and then participate in circumventing due process. Do you really want to be accessories to the rape of minors?

Is there any vetting process at all in the Obama administration, or are these the type of people they actually looking for?

Jennings went to school in Hawaii (on Oahu where Bellows Field is located where he admitted smoking dope) in the 1980s. Obama graduated from Punahou on Oahu in 1979.
My question is Jennings a Punahou alumnus and has Obama taken cronyism to new heights by hiring his high school chums?

In the vast empty brain cavity of a Liberal, there is no right or wrong. This enabler of a “teacher” should be banned from associating with minors FOREVER!!!!

Can we REALLY be surprised by this non-answer and spin? 20 years ago teachers didn’t know any better my fat ***! 20 years ago he was thinking of his own personal agenda and preferences instead of doing his job of protecting a young CHILD. Now today he’s in a role of even greater responsibility and he says “Teachers back then had little training and guidance about this kind of thing”. So, according to him and his wonderful case of hind-sight, 20 years ago teachers didn’t know that an older man having sex with a teen was illegal? Funny, but 20 years ago it was STILL called statutory rape. Do you think they just invented it for Roman Polanski??
GIVE ME A BREAK YOU LIBERAL IDIOTS!

If it were a priest this guy would be in jail..he should resign immediately and be made a sex offender…a priest from my high school was sent o jail 20 years later and the statute of limitations had been up for what he was charged with..even tho the junior at the time 17 followed the priest place to place for 15 years…this guy enabled a predator sex offender.trafficking..oh but libs are ok with child sex..and Polanski didnt rape-rape the 13 yrear old..the age of Obarry

Do you think he would have said the same thing to a 15 year old girl who had done the same thing with an older man? Probably, for it is all about sex with people like him. Kinsey studied sex perverts, and brought that to mainstream of American culture, then Public schools pushed by the liberal NEA pushed that perverted idea of sex on students, liberal News media pushed the “you can’t legislate morality, and you can’t stop them from doing it, so we must teach safe sex.” The same liberal agenda made pornographic films then TV mainstream. Now we have a sex pervert advising the president who BROKE THE LAW by not reporting a rape, we have liberal Hollywood pushing for the release of a man who drugged and raped a 13 year old girl.
You wonder why conservatives look on liberals with disgust. Well, now you know.

Never in my life have I seen such disaster in an administration. I am equally angry at Congress for clearly not properly vetting these people.
These people have no moral compass.

So I guess those Catholic Priests weren’t doing anything wrong, after all.

Good grief. Is our country going insane. SAFE School Czar condones underage sex with adults??? I was around 20 years ago, and I knew what the reporting law was. Anyone involved with youth knew it! I am so sad for our nation. With leadership like this, where are we going?

RP: Few of these posts have anything to do about the facts. They’re intend to slam Obama, as if he actually had anything to do with a low-level employee in Education.
+++++++++++++++
Low level official? This is a senior official at Education and this position is considered a czar position, at least informally. So who are you kidding? Before you accuse people of being loose with facts, it’s good to get some to back up what you write.
Fact is Jennings shouldn’t be in this post with his bizarre past…now Obama has to defend him or throw yet another one under the bus…his choice.
And not any of our faults.

It’s about time that Americans awoke to the reality of what they did to our once great country when they gave complete and dictatorial power to the Democrats in the White House and Congress.
They’ve had control of Congress for 2 1/2 years – how do you like what they’ve done with the economy?

Another point in favor of home schooling.
Most teachers never have to grow up, and everything is someone else’s fault.

The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Wednesday shows that 28% of the nation’s voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. Thirty-nine percent (39%) Strongly Disapprove giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -11.

The new moniker for pres zero is President Polanski. Period.
You libs are sooooooo sick……

Your all a bunch of hypocrits. If this 15 year was holding your family at gunpoint you’d all be screaming for his head on a platter. Funny how all states will certify a 15 yeat old as an adult in a minute when it suits their needs. Everyone needs to face the facts that teenagers are sexually active. If we would deal with issues honestly and with a level head we wouldn’t have half the problems.

Yeah, this happened over 20 years ago when Obama was running around in diapers. That’s when all the bad stuff done by his associates took place.

Curious….. has Whoppi commented on this issue yet?

Whattaya mean Dear Leader Obama should re-vet his employees? He’s obviously doing this On Purpose. These monsters Want to destroy America from within. With MSM as his loyal allies in this effort done from their centralized, corrupt DC-NY axis they have little to stop them, except “We The People”.
Go To It People!

While he probably should have been more forceful in discouraging the student from such liaisons, if anyone is foolish enough to believe that a teacher can actually control the voluntary actions of a 15-year old outside of the classroom, you are clearly delusional. They don’t even listen to their own parents, and the kid came to him for advice in confidence. His advice was the same any sex ed teacher would recommend to any sexually active student: if you’re going to do something stupid – at least use protection. A priest or counselor is generally supposed to keep the advice seeker’s problems secret, I’m not sure how this case was any different – if the kid was being actually raped or abused, that’s when he should go to authorities. He might have been able to handle it better, but calls for his resignation over a minor mistake that he was honest about and admitted to early in life strike me as little more than homophobia.

Can you believe the moron debunking the story because an airport was on the other side of the island?
Yeah, gee, I guess they don’t have cars OR BICYCLES IN HAWAII?
SHEESH…… how low will a lib stoop?
ANSWER: INSIDE OUT!

Because it is said that no one can control the sexual urges of a 15 year old this guy should get a pass? Please. Saying it is ok as an adult it ridiculous as the ACORN people supporting the pimp in setting up underage girls as prostitutes. I will be glad for the day when people who worship all things Obama wake up to the reality of how far left and how corrupt he really is.

This GUY is just as BAD / WORSE
than POLANSKI who Sodomized a
13 yr. old girl.
He should RESIGN and Obama IMPEACHED

And this guy is one of the less dangerour administration officials! This just keeps getting better and better. Whats behind the next door? I can’t wait to find out!

For a man of supposed high “intelligence”, Obama sure as hell can NOT tell a person’s character or more likely he does NOT give a rat’s arse if the degenerate will help little ole Barry.
Wright, Klonsky, Rezko, Blago, Jarrett, boy you idiots picked a real “winner” this time.
Can Mr. Tapper please regale us next on the time that the “messiah” stood up with his often self-proclaimed other worldly principles and exposed graft and corruption in the ugly world of Chicago politics? Opps, that’s right Barry NEVER did!!!!
But yet you yokels thought his crackpot was going to “save our souls”. Bahahahahhahahahhhaa

It was posted above that “teens are sexually active.”
This is not the case across the board. While some certainly are, none of my friends in highschool were. I went to a Christian school and we had moral standards. Every one of my friends believed in abstinence before marriage–as conviction, not just obedience to our parents or teachers.
My husband and I were both virgins when we got married and we are very thankful we didn’t carry bad memories, diseases, or guilt into our marriage.

The guy must have been a youthful drug abuser, like our juvenile-delinquent president, Barack “New Lies for Old” Obama. These types just never grow up.

I do not believe in homosexuality as unavoidable.
I believe instead that as “perception is reality”, circumstances convince the individual of its homosexuality, which becomes then a no return trip.
Said that, I see this case as a huge milestone precisely to promote the value of abstinence until the age of consent.
Specially to adolescents insecure of their sexual identity.
This teacher was wrong, not raising a rape case against the adult. What is worst, I’d say teacher let his own fanthoms consolidate damage into the 15yo abused child.
Laws erected in the (mostly) whole world recognize the inability of the adolescent to discern reality of circumstance, on sex. Why he did not act in the spirit of the law? It is for him to answer that.
I do not oppose homosexual rights, I simply compel them to look at life with the same sharpeye as they are vigilant of discrimination: it is inconvenient for adolescents to practice sex, be it straight or homosexual, and homosexuals must act mature and support society as they demand support from society themselves.

For this, I doubt he would pass the necessary qualifications required for any volunteer to work with children.
So, why is he on the public dole?
Are we truly that stupid or just that degenerate?

Is Jennings a closeted advocate of NAMBLA too?
Hey, too bad Obama didn’t appoint Polanski to the position. Oh wait, 13yr old girls, isn’t that ACORN advisory territory? Or how about Gerry Studds, Democrat male intern rapist, or how about John Phillips, daughter rapist. My oh my, such upstanding liberals. They’d have made fine Obama czars too.
Why is Jennings still employed by this administration?

“A senior official of the Department of Education” or Obama’s Safe Schools Czar!?
Your article is trying to distance him from Obama by presenting him as an anonymous bureaucrat.

Obama is evil, along with his cronnies.

FInding problems in the past lives of these czars is easy. All it takes is a little digging around – you know, like journalism is supposed to be.

I guess by safe and drug free schools he means, Safe for sexual predators and drugs don’t cost anything…
This is what happens when you allow deviants into the mainstream… you can expect a lot more of this in the future.

this guy should not resign, he only made a minor offense, of course he should resign

Getting stoned and watching planes fly by is a far cry from encouraging an illegal statutory homosexual rape relationship, not only not reporting it, but condoning it. I don’t care how long ago it was, this guy needs to go.

Jake Tapper,
Is any of this kind of reporting (that journalists used to do) going to make it anywhere besides just the web page?
This guy Obama has problems, and to not vet these people, or prepare him with the usual press gauntlet of criticism is not good for his staff, for him, or ultimately for the country. Obama is too much the neophyte to be president, and it is embarrassing that others are coming to this realization months after HE HAS ALREADY BEEN ELECTED.

I’m sorry, but please put into perspective what he did. I don’t know if he is qualified or not, but nowhere does it say he encouraged the 15 yr old to have sexual relations with the man. Also, how far do we go back to judge someone. Should we go back to kindergarden and see if he ever drew a naughty picture?
Please, hold a civilized level of discourse and stop bashing for the sake of partisanship. Disagree with measures, policies, and decisions made, but stop throwing stones because everyone will stop listening.

I think the Catholic church should get their money back if Jennings is appointed. Why pay the victims? Pedophile priests should get behind Jennings. Old dirty men loves young boys.

You can’t see either Honolulu Harbor or planes taking off from and landing at Honolulu International Airport from the beach at Bellows Air Force Base, because the Koolau Mountain range is in the way. If this guy can’t even get his facts straight about where he got stoned in high school, why should anyone believe ANYTHING he says.

Myna, Management Training Program at Target sounds more like it.

Another stellar Maobama appointee. His entire administration is infested with deviants, racists and America haters. America, you are seeing the true face of the Radical Left and Obama is their king. They want to make him yours too. Don’t let them. Vote in 2012! Get involved. Vote, if not for yourselves, then for your children.

Another stellar Maobama appointee. His entire administration is infested with deviants, racists and America haters. America, you are seeing the true face of the Radical Left and Obama is their king. They want to make him yours too. Don’t let them. Vote in 2012! Get involved. Vote, if not for yourselves, then for your children.
Posted by: JT | Sep 30, 2009 8:28:34 PM
Indeed. The administration should GOOGLE someone every now and then before appointing them.

I wonder if Obama knows anyone who
is ‘normal’or who pays their taxes.
He seems to only know perverts,
tax evaders, America haters,
and crooks.

This is beyond sickening. I just cannot believe this whack job Obama is my president. He could not have possibly picked a more pathetic group of people to represent him. This scumbag having any influence on schools in America is absolutely beyond believable Obama. What can you possibly be thinking? And today the Dems also say that illegals will get health insurance and not even need an ID. This administration is out of control and is going to destroy this country.

I was a ‘young teacher’ in the late 80s in Florida. I was told there are two hard and fast rules that a teacher cannot violate without expecting to be prosecuted as a criminal. One was to strike a child. The other was to fail to report the physical or sexual abuse of a child to the proper authorities. This guy is another sham.

The same people that say Jennings is just fine for the job, are also excusing Polanski saying he did not “rape rape” a 13 year old girl and then SODOMIZE HER!
You liberals are absolutely disgusting!

I ask??
To become a Bus Driver takes more vetting than it takes to get into the “Dear Leaders” Administration…..hmmm
Now why is that??
Is anybody Really SURPRISED at this Latest Revelation??? I’m not
Disease goes to Disease.

When I worked in a teenage alcoholic group home setting as a counselor back in 1984, one of our charges was a 15-year-old gay boy. The funny thing was that his lover -a thirty-something-year-old man – would have him over to his house on the weekends. Sort of like checking out a library book or something. The other counselors were fine with that. I was not. Needless to say, I didn’t last there very long. “Mustn’t judge” was their credo. Counseling centers are notorious for these type of occurrences. From personal experience. I did call the law on occasion, or at least threaten to. As soon as I did, the behavior stopped. But then I was asked to leave.

So, can you tell the character of a person by the company that he keeps? Even though I disagree with President Obama’s political views, I was hoping that he might prove to be somewhat responsible. However, the character of his associates seem to indicate otherwise.

As a gay college student who has been involved with men who were both “reasonably” older (2-5 years) and “significantly” older (20-30), and in some instances while I was still underage. I feel like most people commenting here don’t understand this issue well enough to have an opinion.
From what I’m reading, this boy was not forced, abused, or coerced into having sex with anyone.
As someone who has hooked up with people at bars, clubs, and yes, on the internet, it is obvious how a situation like this could easily arise without anyone intentionally doing anything wrong. From what I’m reading here, it appears that Kevin Jennings was trying to do what was in the child’s best interest. It sounds like he should be applauded for doing what was right, even if it didn’t align with the law.

Looks like the upper tier of government are rotting from metastatic Obama.

“Judge me by the People I surround myself with”….Barrack H.Obama
Yes Sir Ms.-ter Pressy-Dent, That I shall!!

First of all
@ Kevin McDonald’s comment that “we just don’t understand”- does that mean that it is ok for an adult to have sex with a minor as long as it is gay sex??? That sure sounds like NAMBLA to me. So gay children should not fall under the same protection and laws as straight children??
Second- I don’t think our President knows anyone who is an upright person. I am not perfect- but I sure do know how to pay my taxes, report sexual abuse of a child and I was never a communist, black panther or in bed with unions and corrupt community “organizing group”. I think that these people are so corrupt that they no longer recognize it as corruption. Lets boot them all!

Once this was released… I have to ask – why does he still have his job?
Gay, straight, otherwise… if we are going to live by the rule of law and some sense of morality then why is this acceptable? Why is this man still employed after admitting to this?
Public officials are to be held to a higher standard, for people of all ages to look up to… not to pretend they don’t make mistakes or have faults – everyone does but it is inappropriate for this man to hold this position. It is down right hypocritical. “Safe and Drug Free Schools” should mean more than this – should it read: “Safe and Drug Free Schools, excluding sexual exploitation of minors?”

Just this week we have people defending ACORN despite their willingness to help a Child Sex Slave ring with the Congresssional Black Caucus voting to continue fundind . Next we have Hollywood leftists backing pedophile rapist Roman Polanski and now this pevert Kevin Jennings. Whats going on in America?

Amazing. Simply amazing. Will Obama appoint ANYONE with normal views and background? Must all his czars and appointees hold either radical, fringe, or way outside the mainstream views? Didn’t Obama want to unite people- and yet as soon as he gains office he starts appointing a gang of leftists, communists, perverts, and oddballs!

Where is the astute Ryan C.?

I’m not gay, but I’m pretty sure gay 15 year old boys are very much like straight 15 year old boys when it comes to their sex drive.
If I found an older woman to take me home when I was 15, I would have been thrilled. I have no idea why it would be different for gay boys, except the difference would be an “older man”.
Is it just that we can’t get past men as being sexual predators, whereas women don’t come off the same way?
It’s a complicated situation in that I don’t really understand the dynamics of gay relationships.
If I was the boy and the older person was a woman, this would not have been a story.

Yet ANOTHER classic example of of the Liberal oath….
DO as I SAY, NOT AS I DO!!!!!!
The Administration said Van Jones was great and qualified guy too. After all he wrote a book!
Of course all that video of his super extremist values and ideology were not really important!

Pretty sad that a 24 yr old wouldn’t know to report the incident to police. If you are that ignorant you don’t need to be a teacher to anyone. It seems the Obama administration has not one person that know right from wrong or anyone with morals or values. Hmm much like today’s media

O.K. folks, this is an underage child….not a mature man. When will these sleazy people stop oozing out of Obama’s closet? They ALL have alibis for their behavior. Every day I am torn between crying and puking over our country.

Good idea guys, rat out the suicidal 15 year old homosexual, in the 1980′s. That would have been a great idea. In todays world Im sure any counselor would have done something. But in the 1980′s being a homosexual was much different than it is today. You probably would have pushed the poor kid over the edge. But hey dont let me rain on your outrage parade.

“I’m sick of this ‘let them eat cake’ attitude from our hope-and-change elected officials regarding deep moral faults within. Remember what happened in FRANCE! Look around, more and more are waking up!

What a sick man bogusd bama must be to hire such irresponsible people. bogus bama hinself is incompetent. A prime example of The Peter Principle”

Is nothing sacred today. First we have Whoppi calling rape not really rape, and now this. Before you know it our society will be accepting the practice of consent by young teens as depicted in Lolita. What this Guy is all about is indoctrinating your children on homosexuality period under the label of preventing bully behavior. Yep he has just the job he wants don’t let him fool you. The liberals are going to destroy this country because no one is standing up against this total disregard for moral sacredness. And anyone who is beating up the Catholic Church they have had their turn, neither one justifies the other. Perversion is available and evil is everywhere no one is exempt. Another choice of Obama’s that needs to step down.

This man is in charge of keeping our schools safe and drug free??? He is the worst possible choice! He condoned homosexual rape and bragged publicly about being a drug head. I DEMAND that he be removed immediately from his position of influence! NOW!!!! What in the hell is wrong with you people? No wonder you will never earn our respect. This is like letting a pedophile run a daycare center.JHC!!

How radical is this Administration? Are we now at the point where we just shake our heads in disbelief every time some new crazy story comes out. This is freaking nuts. They are so far out there and stand and defend the indefensible and we listen and its just crazy. Wait until you hear about Obama’s Rove, Valerie Jarrett. You may just give up.

Good idea guys, rat out the suicidal 15 year old homosexual, in the 1980′s. That would have been a great idea. In todays world Im sure any counselor would have done something. But in the 1980′s being a homosexual was much different than it is today. You probably would have pushed the poor kid over the edge. But hey dont let me rain on your outrage parade.
Posted by: Bobobobob |
It is a crime! You can spin it any you want with the whole gay thing, IT IS A CRIME!
Would you want a teacher today to start “evaluating” the particulars of a situation rather than reporting it?
People like Jennings are NOT what this country needs in this government department! More evidence that this administration either doesn’t care or is totally incompetent at vetting its own!

Isn’t that special?
Rape isn’t rape according to The Big-Whoop.

He must have really been high even when he wrote his book. Bellows is on the eastern side of Oahu and mountains divide the area from the south where the Honolulu airport and the harbor are located. Ain’t no way he could watch planes take off and land.

“How radical is this Administration?”
You know, there was a time when real journalists (like Tapper) actually did their jobs. But today most are content in burying any news that’s unfavorable to Obama (Van Jones, ACORN, Obama’s constant lies and hypocrisy, etc.).
I’m really looking forward to the day the New York Times goes under. It’s what they deserve for deciding that being Obama sycophants trumped journalistic integrity, ethics, and competence.

Excuse me, didn’t Jennings admit in retrospect that “Twenty-one years later I can see how I should have handled the situation differently. I should have asked for more information and consulted legal or medical authorities. That sounds like maturity to me. He shouldn’t be sanctioned now for poor judgment 21 years ago–when he was 24 years old.

It figures this guy would be working for the government since the government thinks that a 12 yr old child can be certified as an adult in a court of law now.

Note very carefully that Kevin Jennings “…should have handled it differently, but that society could benefit from his error”. Just exactly what would he have done if that happened today? No admission that this was a crime. No elaboration on what he would do today. It seems clear that Kevin Jennings is all about change – just not change which in moral. Remove him from office immediately. There is no way that a person with this kind of lack of judgment should EVER be given such responsibility. Having the experience of being an irresponsible person of authority NEVER qualifies you to receive more authority. The only right and honorable thing to do is to quit. We don’t want you to keep us safe – we feel unsafe just listening to the story of your life. Hiring a person like Kevin Jennings shows an incredible lack of moral integrity (unless ignorance can be established). Not firing the same is just another reason why we should not trust Obama.

I agree with most of the posters here. Jennings should resign. If he really knew right from wrong , he never would have shared this story with anyone. He would have been ashamed of himself for not reporting the crime.

“The result? The result you can see — most of the people who graduated in the 60′s, dropouts or half-baked intellectuals, are now occupying the positions of power in the government, civil service, business, mass media, and educational systems. You are stuck with them. You can’t get rid of to them. They are contaminated. They are programmed to think and react to certain stimuli in a certain pattern [alluding to Pavlov]. You can not change their mind even if you expose them to authentic information. Even if you prove that white is white and black is black, you still can not change the basic perception and the logic of behavior. In other words [for] these people the process of demoralization is complete and irreversible.”
Soviet Subversion of the Free Press (Ideological subversion, Destabilization, CRISIS – and the KGB)
Edward Griffin and Yuri Bezmenov ^ | 1984 | Edward Griffin and [KGB Defector] Yuri Bezmenov
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2095202/posts

The government is crawling with these immoral sleezy characters. I expect the fire and brimstone storm anytime. Obama said we should look at the people with whom he surrounds himself. Everyone should remove their children from school until all these people have been run out of town on a rail!

Suddenly after 20 years, he now knows how the situation should be handled. He did not have a clue of what was wrong in these 20 years until now. He has no moral and should be fired.

I have read this and other related articles over and over, looking for seeds of the truth. He has told this story more than once using different names for the boy. Could it be that the “older man” he speaks of really is himself? Pyschologically, this is often the case when offenders confess using a third person reference. Just sayin…

If this guy does not get fired, what is this country coming to?

This new liberal child policy is quite something. First liberals defend child sodomy as not “rape-rape” and now this.
BTW:
Toys-R-Us: ”I’m Whoopi Goldberg and I love kids.”
The View: “I know it wasn’t rape-rape. … It was something else but I don’t believe it was rape-rape.”
Oh, my.

With the title ABC gave this story it is like they are trying to bury it but then say see we reported it. This is Obamas Safe School Czar ABC.

The lying Republican/Democrat politician critters, along with the Federal Reserve,(which is neither federal nor a reserve) since 1913, have printed (counterfeited) money out of thin air to fix problems.
Unfortunately the dollar is doomed.
My fellow Americans, trade your green toilet paper for gold, and lots of silver coins before it’s too late.
If your not petrified, you aren’t paying attention.

It seems odd to ask for this guy’s resignation over something that was known before he was confirmed in the first place. Family research Council and others notified Congress and the administration about how far outside the mainstream this guy is before he was confirmed and they confirmed him anyway. This guy did receive a vote, after all. Which goes to show how little vetting gets done even when the constitutional process is followed.

I wouldn’t call it sexual abuse if the kid was trolling the bus stations looking for old men to pick up. I’d save that term for those (like teachers and priests) who use their authority to take advantage of minors. The ability to consent to sex (or anything else) is not all or nothing, it’s a matter of degree. A 13 year old is hardly helpless in this situation. It was, none the less, illegal, as well it should have been. The most serious problem was that the sex was without a condom, which could have exposed the kid to the risk of death. That makes it hard to justify ignoring the situation. Having ignored it, Jennings does seem like an odd choice for “safe school czar”.
PS: Do we really need a dedicated “safe school czar”? Aren’t safe schools supposed to be the goal of all education officials at all levels? If so, how about a “pure doughnut czar” or a “clean swimming pool czar” too?

He regrets getting caught.
That’s about it.

What do you expect. Just another sicko in the Obama Adm. I’m not shocked nor surprised one bit. Show me a mans friends and associates, and I’ll tell you who he is.

“Incompetence rises to the top…”
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We haven’t forgotten the repressed Republicans and their daliances in airport washrooms and with legislative page boys . . . and that wasn’t 21 years, that was within the last few years.
The hypocrisy and repression of the right continues to be appalling.

Gay…Straight..Ummmm who cares!!!! BUT, as a teacher, BY LAW, you have to report any criminal activity that might befall a MINOR BY AN ADULT..GAY OR STRAIGHT IS NOT THE ISSUE HERE…Thank goodness nothing happen to this kid at the hands of a stranger….

For what it is worth, I have met this man and his Bush-appointed predecessor. He has spent much of his adult life focusing on the prevention of bullying in schools (a HUGE problem that leads to other problems like suicide, violence, etc.). Jennings is very involved and LISTENS to what educators and parents have to say. His predecessor was a nice woman, but she was not the least bit engaged in school safety…she was a purely political appointee. So which is better for children?

tierra wrote: “We haven’t forgotten the repressed Republicans and their daliances in airport washrooms and with legislative page boys”
I haven’t forgotten. Both men lost their jobs. Will Jennings?
More importantly, why should the federal government have any role whatsoever in school safety?

Human behavior, like this, does not change. He said what is “politcally correct”. That doesn’t change his life style or how he would influence the president.

This discussion appears to be only about politics and not about facts. Does anyone here know what the mandatory reporting laws were in Massachusetts in 1988? Jennings is not a “czar” (his position existed during the Bush years) nor has he been accused of anything remotely like what Sen. Craig or Rep. Foley got caught doing. It appears that he abused drugs and alcohol in his youth, but has turned his life around…much like President Bush did. In my school safety work, some of the best directors I’ve observed were not perfect in their youth – reform school, arrests, etc. gave them the perspective and the passion to help troubled kids. If we could set aside politics and focus on what is best for our school children we could fix and perhaps prevent some of our biggest social problems.

I love all the assumptions that the commenters are making in these comments: that the kid was 15 — other media reports say he was 16, in which case the affair was legal in MA at the time; that the “older man” wasn’t, say, 18 or 19; that the kid’s parents wouldn’t have kicked him out of the house for being gay; that the kid, who seems suicidal, wouldn’t have immediately committed suicide after being involuntarily outed to the school, his parents, and the community (in 1988, a VERY different world); and what exactly Jennings did all do about the situation.
Frankly, not enough is known about this situation to know if this was a major lapse in judgment.
It’s also worth noting that the people who are all pushing this story have been after Jennings from the start because he’s openly gay, interpreting everything about his past in the worst possible light and saying horribly slanderous things about him.
I agree we should hear Jennings side of the story about this. But this hysteria strikes me as not about this situation, but about some irrational hatred of Obama and all things liberal. If we’ve learned ANYTHING from the past few years, it’s the Hannity, Beck, and Fox News are propagantists, not journalists in any sense of the word.

Posted by: Brett:… The student was not 15 — he was either 16 or 17. Given the years Jenning’s teached…
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Perfect example of a typical public school graduate. A teacher is a MANDATED REPORTER of sexual abuse. They are REQUIRED to report any suspicions of abuse of the students the “teached”. Duh.

Wow, the “messiah” surely hangs with some of the most bizarre and crazy crackpots.
Again, America needs to know is there even one associate of Barack Obama who is not a bigot, criminal or crackpot?
And what is the Left’s fascination with pedifiles, from protecting and glorifying to boozing\drugging up 13 year old girls then raping them to covering up for adult gays abusing teenage boys.
But what really would you expect from Barack Obama and his co-horts who never had a second thought about letting a man who advocated blowing up his fellow Americans for his agenda have a role in educating our children, William Ayers. Most moral and ethical people would never consider let such a small, stupid man near our children, but not Barack.
Sick people.

It didn’t take more than two minutes for me to find out that Jennings himself unquestionably put the boy’s age at 15. NOT 16 or 17.
So gee, who’s making assumptions, getting facts wrong, being partisan, prejudiced, clearly dumb, etc?? How about those dumpster diving into name calling and character assassination try to get your facts straight before delving into abuse and name calling? Better yet, get your facts straight, and avoid the latter regardless.
* Jennings HIMSELF STATED THE BOY WAS 15 (see below after the ::: divider)
* State law at the time required reporting emotional harm or substantial risk of harm to the child’s health or welfare – e.g., NOT just sexual abuse (see below after the ::: divider)
The boy was having suicidal thoughts, that clearly qualifies as a major issue requiring far more help than Jennings was in a position to give. The risks of going to a bus station bathroom then going home with an older man you meet there clearly qualifies. That would be every bit as true if it had been a girl and heterosexual sex as for the boy and homosexual sex – except the added risk of AID in the latter case. Consider the risk of the older person turning out to be a someone into murder, torture, kidnapping, abuse, stealth drugging, etc etc etc.
How would you feel about it if the boy were your loved one; a son, nephew, godchild? Jennings implying that no one knew better at the time is absurd. The lack of judgment displayed in his handling of the situation is abysmal – even MORE so to then brag about it in a book 6 years later, and then rationalizing it here so recently.
Its one thing when its an elected official, but quite another and vastly worse when its an appointment by the president. Particularly when this wasn’t even a well hidden skeleton in the closet, but rather something wide open that you’d be hard put to avoid stepping in. It calls into question the judgment of the president himself, just as the Van Jones appointment, the tax cheat appointments, and a number of others do. The pattern of multiple highly questionable appointments is even more disconcerting, if that’s even possible. So many of these in a single administration has got to be unprecedented in recent history.
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MA State Law at the time required notifying Dept. of Social Services if teacher or counselor had “reasonable cause to believe…that a child under the age of EIGHTEEN years is suffering physical or emotional injury resulting from abuse inflicted upon him which causes harm or substantial risk of harm to the child’s health or welfare including sexual abuse…”
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Brewster was missing a lot of classes; he was in the boarding school so I said to his teacher, his first period teacher, I said, ‘next time Brewster misses a class I want you to tell me that he’s missed that class and, uh, I will go find him.’ So I went and found Brewster one morning when she had called and he was asleep in his dorm room. And I said, “Brewster, what are you doing in there asleep?” And he said, “Well, I’m tired.” And I said, “Well we all are tired and we all got to school today.” And he said, “Well I was out late last night.” And I said, “What were you doing out late on a school night.” And he said, “Well, I was in Boston…” Boston was about 45 minutes from Concord. So I said, “What were you doing in Boston on a school night Brewster?” He got very quiet, and he finally looked at me and said, “Well I met someone in the bus station bathroom and I went home with him.” High school sophomore, 15 years old. That was the only way he knew how to meet gay people. I was a closeted gay teacher, 24 years old, didn’t know what to say. Knew I should say something quickly so I finally said, My best friend had just died of AIDS the week before. I looked at Brewster and said, “You know, I hope you knew to use a condom.” He said to me something I will never forget, He said “Why should I, my life isn’t worth saving anyway.”
(apparently, according to Jennings there were a number of other suicidal indications/statements by the boy also)

It’s interesting – from a Canadian perspective – how one’s opinions on matters such as this, seem to come down to one’s personal political agenda. All of the right-wing “bible-thumpers” look for issues such as this to latch onto as a way of demonstrating to the rest of America about the “evil” left wingers. Chill out…….you’re preaching to the choir. The teacher in question was a teacher-in-training.No crime was committed and the boy left with the sense that was listened to. With all of the recent news about gay teens & suicide that has to be reported as a success story. I say to the right-wingers, put away your bibles and use a little common sense for a change!