Ruling on MCPS LGBT curriculum case coming this morning

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MCPS SHOULD just have the opt out kids stay home when they are too young to be unsupervised.

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t see how the teaching of evolution and science stands under this policy

This. We're going to re-litigate Scopes and people who don't see this as paving a way for that scenario and kidding themselves because they want taxes and white supremacy, but the acceptable kind.

[Anonymous]

I live in a neighboring district and am livid MoCo made decisions that led to this SCOTUS case. They should have seen this risk and backed down. Now we have a decision that is going to make life so much harder for public school teachers and administrators. This new complexity will distract from teaching fundamentals and so is bad for kids. As a democrat I am embarrassed moco dug in on this.

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t agree with parents who want to remove their kids from this portion of the curriculum, but I don’t think we should be limiting parents’ rights either. Honestly if you are shielding your kid this much from the true facts of how the world is, you’re not doing them any favors but it’s your right.

Comments like this show you don’t know all the policies in MCPS. They already allowed so many various types of exemptions but got hung up on this narrow pointless category.

Central offie is infested with LGBTQ lobby. I am horrified with tax payers money wasted by MCPS over this.

Infested? So dramatic!

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Anonymous wrote:I’d really like to keep sexual orientation out of the curriculum. Kids have no problem with the concept of love and marriage and will do whatever is in the culture happily. There is such broad support for gay marriage that I see no reason to keep beating the drum.

So no saying Bride and Groom because that teaches sexual orientation, right?

Bride and groom is normative.

it also is a sexual orientation I don't want my children exposed to.

Cool go live in a cult and not expose your children. In the public setting you don't get to decide that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I live in a neighboring district and am livid MoCo made decisions that led to this SCOTUS case. They should have seen this risk and backed down. Now we have a decision that is going to make life so much harder for public school teachers and administrators. This new complexity will distract from teaching fundamentals and so is bad for kids. As a democrat I am embarrassed moco dug in on this.

I’m not. They were trying to protect teachers. They lost.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I live in a neighboring district and am livid MoCo made decisions that led to this SCOTUS case. They should have seen this risk and backed down. Now we have a decision that is going to make life so much harder for public school teachers and administrators. This new complexity will distract from teaching fundamentals and so is bad for kids. As a democrat I am embarrassed moco dug in on this.

I’m in MoCo and a registered Democrat. I’m stunned by the hubris that went into MCPS’s decisions here.

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t agree with parents who want to remove their kids from this portion of the curriculum, but I don’t think we should be limiting parents’ rights either. Honestly if you are shielding your kid this much from the true facts of how the world is, you’re not doing them any favors but it’s your right.

Parents rights assume parents are always right and quite simply they are not. Parents rights also assume a silo around their own children which is impossible is real world practice and so my right as a parent for my kid to get taught about accepting all families is going to be trumped by the loudest bigots.

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Anonymous wrote:I live in a neighboring district and am livid MoCo made decisions that led to this SCOTUS case. They should have seen this risk and backed down. Now we have a decision that is going to make life so much harder for public school teachers and administrators. This new complexity will distract from teaching fundamentals and so is bad for kids. As a democrat I am embarrassed moco dug in on this.

I’m not. They were trying to protect teachers. They lost.

If they took Puppy Pride out of the curriculum or kept opt-outs, the teachers would actually have been better protected, as it turns out. There were lots of points to end this issue.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I live in a neighboring district and am livid MoCo made decisions that led to this SCOTUS case. They should have seen this risk and backed down. Now we have a decision that is going to make life so much harder for public school teachers and administrators. This new complexity will distract from teaching fundamentals and so is bad for kids. As a democrat I am embarrassed moco dug in on this.

+100

Embarassing to be honest. A poor situation created by MCPS.

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Anonymous wrote:I’d really like to keep sexual orientation out of the curriculum. Kids have no problem with the concept of love and marriage and will do whatever is in the culture happily. There is such broad support for gay marriage that I see no reason to keep beating the drum.

So no saying Bride and Groom because that teaches sexual orientation, right?

Bride and groom is normative.

it also is a sexual orientation I don't want my children exposed to.

Cool go live in a cult and not expose your children. In the public setting you don't get to decide that.

She does and she gets to decide that under old MCPS policy too. That’s what people don’t seem to get.

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Anonymous wrote:I don't believe in two-parent families. I need to opt my child out of reading any book, including those of historical fact, if a family is mentioned or described that has two parents. My child will also not refer to any teachers as Mrs, since this signifies that they are married and could be a part of a two-parent family!

Sure, keep them at home if that's what your religion teaches you. SCOTUS says you have that right.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I live in a neighboring district and am livid MoCo made decisions that led to this SCOTUS case. They should have seen this risk and backed down. Now we have a decision that is going to make life so much harder for public school teachers and administrators. This new complexity will distract from teaching fundamentals and so is bad for kids. As a democrat I am embarrassed moco dug in on this.

I’m in MoCo and a registered Democrat. I’m stunned by the hubris that went into MCPS’s decisions here.

+1

I have always voted democrat. I was shocked to see MCPS taking this stand. I suspect organization is very poorly run to reach to this point.

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Anonymous wrote:I don't believe in two-parent families. I need to opt my child out of reading any book, including those of historical fact, if a family is mentioned or described that has two parents. My child will also not refer to any teachers as Mrs, since this signifies that they are married and could be a part of a two-parent family!

Sure, keep them at home if that's what your religion teaches you. SCOTUS says you have that right.

Right, so this means I can exclude my child from virtually ever social studies class. How will they apply the curriculum?

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t agree with parents who want to remove their kids from this portion of the curriculum, but I don’t think we should be limiting parents’ rights either. Honestly if you are shielding your kid this much from the true facts of how the world is, you’re not doing them any favors but it’s your right.

Parents rights assume parents are always right and quite simply they are not. Parents rights also assume a silo around their own children which is impossible is real world practice and so my right as a parent for my kid to get taught about accepting all families is going to be trumped by the loudest bigots.

Unfortunately, the government can't tell parents how to raise their children, short of physical harm.

Parents can teach their children to be hateful, racist, religious, vegan, lgbtq friendly. Public schools can't decide how to raise children.

And that's why I disagree with public schools putting the Bible and 10 commandments in the school, even though I'm a Christian.