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Anonymous
“Graphic sex” doesn’t mean illustrations. |
Anonymous
Exactly! What people are objecting to is the illustrations (drawings and pictures) of explicit sexual acts that can be easily seen by any students, including those who can barely read because we have those students even in HS, and they would be the most vulnerable. |
Anonymous
Tell that to the PP above complaining about “graphic sex novels”. Only one of the LGBTQ books that is the focus of the conservative nutters is a graphic novel format. |
Anonymous
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Paul - you say you are running to represent the original interest groups -- students, parents, and taxpayers. Then why are you excluding the students, parents and taxpayers who support the books and programs you dislike? Why aren't you representing my interest in keeping those books and programs in schools? While I understand you don't think those books and programs are appropriate for your kids, I think they are appropriate for mine.
1) Have you read the books fully through, or have you just heard the excerpts on YouTube? Passages have context. FCPS did a review of "objectionable" books and deemed them appropriate. Maybe read one from start to finish? 2) Teens have sex; some have been raped; some are engaged in troubling relationships; some are gay and don't know how to navigate it. These things don't go away if you hide the books that talk about them. 3) The SEL does not talk about sex -- as a PP mentioned, that was a youth survey done years ago. Maybe get off the social media and actually do some factual research (the SEL questions are posted on the FCPS website). 4). Regardless, why do you think questions about sex are objectionable? Do you really think teens (even 8th graders) don't think about sex? It is literally what their bodies are made to do (hormones are raging for... what, if not sex?) -- our job is to give them the right tools to make the best decisions. Again, not talking about sex doesn't make it go away. |
Anonymous
Are you a parent or an activist? Because one book is too many for the former, as for the latter it’s just not enough. BTW, it’s not the only book, but of course, you already know that! Good thing we have Paul Bartkowski, a parent, willing to do whatever it takes to replace ideology and indoctrination focus on academics, the way it should be! |
Anonymous
What are the other graphic novels under debate? I’m a parent who I think it is great having books with diverse stories available to HS kids. Gender Queer is a story of an LGBTQ+ kid’s journey of self-discovery. And is very tame sexually compared to what kids see daily on the interwebs. |
Anonymous
… with focus on academics instead… |
Anonymous
| I wish others would stop answering questions/inserting their opinions on questions for Paul in this thread. This was a great chance to ask Paul questions and get his replies. Everyone else’s opinion is already available in other threads. |
Anonymous
Is he still answering questions? Seems like he went quiet when the questions got hard. |
Anonymous
People get busy. They have lives, so I understand that. There were definitely very reasonable questions that he obviously did not want to address and skipped over while answering others. |
Anonymous
That is exactly what Robin Lady said in one of the debates! According to her, LGBTQ students need to be represented that way in our schools. No mention of encouraging these students to find their identity in other areas besides their sexuality, otherwise other books with different approaches to Gender-affirmation would be available in our school libraries as well. As for justifying the presence of this pornography in our libraries with the fact that students are already exposed to that and more outside of school, I can see your point, however where do we draw the line, and who gets to decide on that? Because one can also say that kids are exposed to alcohol, tobacco, and arms outside of school, and yet FCPS doesn’t have these illegal (for under 18) substances readily available at the school cafeterias so that students can consume them. Nor do RO’s have weapons (knives, guns, etc.) available in their offices for students just because some of them are already using them outside of school. |
Anonymous
Haha that post about Dem trolls is so ridiculous. This site is trolled by MAGA around the clock. As a parent and an educator I'm tired of hearing about Covid. So many other issues in education R's want to ignore as usual. |
Anonymous
Why would Chantilly HS be in the Springfield district? |
Anonymous
It does look like a great curriculum. Will FCPS pay so parents can send their child with similar needs to WTMA too? https://www.wtmacademy.com/ |
Anonymous
Agree. Jumping in to critiquing the professional librarians' decisions IS literally the definition of being a Culture Wars candidate. Let the professionals do their jobs. If people don't like that information is available, they can send their kid to private school like you chose to do. |