Ruling on MCPS LGBT curriculum case coming this morning

[Anonymous]

Maybe we’ll somehow return to a reading, writing and arithmetic sort of learning like we used to have.
Says someone who is accepting of all.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Maybe we’ll somehow return to a reading, writing and arithmetic sort of learning like we used to have.
Says someone who is accepting of all.

And hooray the suicide rates are going to go up! And bullying rates! Exactly what we want for our kids.

[Anonymous]

Gender ideology is a faith-based belief system that has no business being taught in schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Maybe we’ll somehow return to a reading, writing and arithmetic sort of learning like we used to have.
Says someone who is accepting of all.

What do comments like the even mean? Do you think they don't teach reading and writing in schools? Do you think they don't teach arithmetic? Is this something you actually believe?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It does make me
Pause about having my kid around the religious kids at school.

They are identifying themselves as the intolerant.

And this is why we’re stuck. No one wants something forced on them. Everyone needs to understand that. But people refuse to see the whole picture.

Nothing is being forced on anyone. No one is being asked to change their religion. No one is being forced not go to their religious institution. We’re saying in the public square we acknowledge everyone and are kind and supportive of them. We don’t shun them or pretend they don’t exist. We protect them just the same. If your religion disagrees with something you are well and fine to teach that value at home.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Maybe we’ll somehow return to a reading, writing and arithmetic sort of learning like we used to have.
Says someone who is accepting of all.

You you can learn to read using books with both heterosexual and lgbtq characters. The books were embedded into the curriculum

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Maybe we’ll somehow return to a reading, writing and arithmetic sort of learning like we used to have.
Says someone who is accepting of all.

What do comments like the even mean? Do you think they don't teach reading and writing in schools? Do you think they don't teach arithmetic? Is this something you actually believe?

The strategy is to pick a really extreme position and then make the rational side defend it

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It does make me
Pause about having my kid around the religious kids at school.

They are identifying themselves as the intolerant.

And this is why we’re stuck. No one wants something forced on them. Everyone needs to understand that. But people refuse to see the whole picture.

Nothing is being forced on anyone. No one is being asked to change their religion. No one is being forced not go to their religious institution. We’re saying in the public square we acknowledge everyone and are kind and supportive of them. We don’t shun them or pretend they don’t exist. We protect them just the same. If your religion disagrees with something you are well and fine to teach that value at home.

The problem with this argument is that it fails to acknowledge all of the situation in which MCPS allows an exemption. I cannot believe that the county decided books for circle time for elementary schoolers was the line they were going to draw, especially since most of the books were already pulled from the curriculum. It was an absolute loser of an argument in the face of all of MCPS’s other policies. Cannot believe they let it get that far.

[Anonymous]

I see the censorship of this thread has begun!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Maybe we’ll somehow return to a reading, writing and arithmetic sort of learning like we used to have.
Says someone who is accepting of all.

What do comments like the even mean? Do you think they don't teach reading and writing in schools? Do you think they don't teach arithmetic? Is this something you actually believe?

The strategy is to pick a really extreme position and then make the rational side defend it

Which is why my child needs to have only pregnant teachers.

[Anonymous]

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?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I see the censorship of this thread has begun!

What was censored?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Does that mean keep heterosexuality out of the curriculum? It's going to be hard to find books where children have neither same sex nor opposite sex parents.

What on God‘s green earth are you talking about? Sexual orientation has nothing to do with love and marriage. There’s no need to “teach” sexual orientation. Just live your damn life!

The case is about whether parents should be able to opt out of teachers reading books to their students that feature LGBTQ characters. Ones that fall in love and get married.

We should also opt out of teachers reading books about hetero couples getting married.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Groom and groom is normative.