are you worried about what kids are taught?
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Anonymous
| Yes, I worry. I am troubled by the amount of political proselytizing I see in school. Can't wait to be *that parent* who tells the teachers not to talk politics (eg, "no human being is illegal,". Etc). Sigh. |
Anonymous
Nobody I know hates America. Many do not like Trump, but he does not represent America. Virginia is home to more founding fathers than any other state. We take pride in our history and America but still realize mistakes were made. Not sure what issue you had, but you seem to have a lot of conjecture in your assumptions. |
Anonymous
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Inhp that you're joking
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Anonymous
| I worry about what my kid is NOT taught due to lousy teachers and no textbooks in FCPS. If my kids had great teachers who took March 8th off I'd be ecstatic. All the teachers were there and a third of them may as well not have been. |
Anonymous
Where was your child subjected to man vs woman lectures on a regular basis? I'm as liberal as you can get, and would be upset by that. I think that disempowers young girls be teaching them women are victims. I've never had my kids come home saying they were taught that. I'd like you to name the school since you are no longer in the area. |
Anonymous
I am not joking. I am very happy with the secular education my child is getting in FCPS. I had previously been involved in legal action based on the teaching of creationism in school -- in another part of the country. |
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| I worry very much about what our children are taught. School is a place to teach them skills and knowledge it's not a place for children to be subjected to adult's opinions on culture, religion, politics, and so on. It's confusing; each year they have a different teacher with different opinions and values. I believe the best thing we can do for our children is to teach them the values in which we believe, teach them why we believe what we believe and help them understand the adult dynamics going on around them when those dynamics cause them confusion or problems. For the original poster, I understand your concern and I am sorry about some of the negative responses you have received. Responding to someone else's concern with anger is never the right thing to do. I realize you may not want to be "that parent" but graciously inquiring at the school about what goes on the your child's classroom may help resolve the problem. Standing by worrying about what is taught will not help you or your child. |
Anonymous
| Riot Day? Are you serious? |
Anonymous
| No, because I'm not terrified of the world. My kids are going into the world and it contains opinions that may or may not be aligned with mine. That's fine. I have enough confidence in my parenting that they will make healthy, kind choices in how they choose to live. I'm not insecure, like OP. |
Anonymous
| Did the teacher tell the class she was taking the day off to protest? Does she regularly speak about her personal views to the students? If so, then I would be worried. According to your post it sounds like she took the day off that happened to be the day of that particular protest. Maybe she was sick or had an appointment. |
Anonymous
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No. The world is a diverse and interesting place, where people have diverse and interesting opinions. They get their values at home. They understand why our family has the value system we have. And that other people can have different values. I am really not concerned that exposure to a different viewpoint will hurt them turn them into something they are not.
Then again, my kids are both debaters, with our encouragement. I love it it requires them to prepare and argue both sides of a case, and to rebut other people's arguments with fact and logic. That said, my kids have largely had very good, very professional teachers in FCPS. Although not much in the way of textbooks before HS, PP--it's all online now. I am a little grateful that I have not been exposed to the anti-"women's riot" OP, though. She sounds insufferable. |
Anonymous
| I actually like my kids being exposed to different opinions, cultures, races, ideas. Then I like to discuss that with them at home. We don't live in a homogeneous world. It seems ridiculous to me to worry that kids would be exposed to a different person with different viewpoints/opinions/ideas every year. Are you looking for a robot to teach your kids? |
Anonymous
Well of course you were! Welcome to D.C.! You will fit right in 
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Anonymous
+1776 |
Anonymous
This. Worried about what they're learning at school? Not really, or at least not "worried" in the sense that it frightens or upsets me. Opposed to or in disagreement with some things they're being taught? Occasionally. Concerned that some subjects aren't taught as well as I would hope and some things I consider important aren't emphasized as much as I'd like? Yes, fairly often. We do a lot to supplement and customize our children's education at home. In addition, we discuss their school lessons with them and in general tend to be a family that talks about a lot of things together. I think our family's approach to learning and thinking and the values we try to instill in the kids will have far more influence in shaping them than the schools will. |