Cooper Parents Complaining Again

[Anonymous]

Anyone else seen the articles and posts about a few parents (including the daughter-in-law of a late Supreme Court Justice) complaining and running to the press because Cooper MS administrators allowed families to opt their students out of a guest lecturer on the Holocaust?

It must be hell to work there with the parents second-guessing every decision and trying to make Cooper staff look bad. And the irony is that the people complaining that the speech wasn’t mandatory for all students are the same people who insist on “parents’ rights” when it comes to other opting their kids out of sessions on other topics like family life education.

[Anonymous]

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/education/2923759/fairfax-students-allowed-to-opt-out-of-holocaust-survivors-lecture/

[Anonymous]

The opt-outs are there for a good reason.

[Anonymous]

What are the good reasons?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What are the good reasons?

It’s pretty obvious, isn’t it?

[Anonymous]

It seems like they had to put in an opt-out because middle school students in the past were actually using the lessons to bully Jewish students. So the “opt-out” was actually aimed at Jewish families who might be concerned about bullying/harassment.

https://www.nationalreview.com/news/fairfax-school-allows-students-to-opt-out-of-holocaust-survivors-speech-to-protect-jewish-students-from-bullying/amp/

[Anonymous]

Opt out is appropriate so Ms Scalia and her right-wing buddies at WJLA can pipe down.

[Anonymous]

The opt-out is a disgrace. Kids shouldn't be able to opt-out of difficult topics.

And if the Jewish students need to opt-out because they're being bullied, then the answer can't be to have the Jewish students remove themselves from education about Jewish history. The answer needs to be better Holocaust and antisemitism education and consequences for bullying and harassment.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The opt-out is a disgrace. Kids shouldn't be able to opt-out of difficult topics.

And if the Jewish students need to opt-out because they're being bullied, then the answer can't be to have the Jewish students remove themselves from education about Jewish history. The answer needs to be better Holocaust and antisemitism education and consequences for bullying and harassment.

Agree.
Any students they allow to opt out should still be required to learn about the Holocaust.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The opt-out is a disgrace. Kids shouldn't be able to opt-out of difficult topics.

And if the Jewish students need to opt-out because they're being bullied, then the answer can't be to have the Jewish students remove themselves from education about Jewish history. The answer needs to be better Holocaust and antisemitism education and consequences for bullying and harassment.

Agree.
Any students they allow to opt out should still be required to learn about the Holocaust.

It’s already part of the standard FCPS curriculum.

[Anonymous]

I was about to get ready to roll my eyes at the Cooper parents based on the title. But outside of extreme circumstances, kids need to learn about the terrible things that happened in history and cope with however it might make them feel. The flip side for the right wingers who might be up in arms is that terrible things include slavery or that the US isn’t a knight in shining armor saving the world with its foreign policies.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I was about to get ready to roll my eyes at the Cooper parents based on the title. But outside of extreme circumstances, kids need to learn about the terrible things that happened in history and cope with however it might make them feel. The flip side for the right wingers who might be up in arms is that terrible things include slavery or that the US isn’t a knight in shining armor saving the world with its foreign policies.

How much time do they spend on the cultural revolution? The terror famine? The Bengal famine? Now that people are starting to turn on Israel, there's a push to learn more about the Holocaust and people are rightly skeptical about the motives

[Anonymous]

I don’t understand why right-wing people are upset about people being able to opt out. I can see why this topic could be upsetting for any student, and anyone should be allowed to opt-out.

[Anonymous]

And students should be given more opportunities to learn about other major historical events too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The opt-out is a disgrace. Kids shouldn't be able to opt-out of difficult topics.

And if the Jewish students need to opt-out because they're being bullied, then the answer can't be to have the Jewish students remove themselves from education about Jewish history. The answer needs to be better Holocaust and antisemitism education and consequences for bullying and harassment.

You think parents are opting their Jewish kids out of Holocaust presentations at public school are hiding the Holocaust from their kids? Dumbest comments of the day.