Political Agenda in FX County Schools - How Much Critical Thinking in Level IV?

[Anonymous]

Do your Level IV teachers allow and encourage critical thinking as long as it fits their favorite narrative? Are Social Studies a way for brainwashing our children? What should be acceptable topics for discussion?

[Anonymous]

What are you worried about?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Do your Level IV teachers allow and encourage critical thinking as long as it fits their favorite narrative? Are Social Studies a way for brainwashing our children? What should be acceptable topics for discussion?

OP, if you have a specific, real-life example from your child's classes that you want to explain and discuss, please give it. If you think a particular text was "brainwashing," quote it and give your reasons. If your child wanted to discuss topic X and felt shut down by the teacher, tell us what happened.

Otherwise, if you're just tossing out vague "there's an agenda" theorizing, you're here just to stir the pot and bring out the conspiracy theorists.

[Anonymous]

Elementary or middle school?

[Anonymous]

Elementary school.

Well, I would love to give a lot of specific examples, but I'm afraid to be recognized. Last year the teacher read a book I think called 'glitter boy', which was teaching the children that you are what you like to be. I wonder how vast these choices will become. When I talked to the teacher about it, she gave me the schpeal about diversity and inclusion. There are many of these, and a lot of these topics are out of the grasp of elementary school children. There are endless politicized topics being discussed in elementary school, and these topics are discussed in the prism of the empathetic and generous individual, who should love and tolerance. It seems like a nobrainer, a child will most likely choose to be compassionate. ...

The question is, do people see this in most schools, or is it just an isolated case?

[Anonymous]

*spiel

Ps. I wonder how vast the choices of who we like to be will become!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Elementary school.

Well, I would love to give a lot of specific examples, but I'm afraid to be recognized. Last year the teacher read a book I think called 'glitter boy', which was teaching the children that you are what you like to be. I wonder how vast these choices will become. When I talked to the teacher about it, she gave me the schpeal about diversity and inclusion. There are many of these, and a lot of these topics are out of the grasp of elementary school children. There are endless politicized topics being discussed in elementary school, and these topics are discussed in the prism of the empathetic and generous individual, who should love and tolerance. It seems like a nobrainer, a child will most likely choose to be compassionate. ...

The question is, do people see this in most schools, or is it just an isolated case?

The book is Sparkle Boy. Beyond that, I can’t figure out what you’re trying to say here.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Elementary school.

Well, I would love to give a lot of specific examples, but I'm afraid to be recognized. Last year the teacher read a book I think called 'glitter boy', which was teaching the children that you are what you like to be. I wonder how vast these choices will become. When I talked to the teacher about it, she gave me the schpeal about diversity and inclusion. There are many of these, and a lot of these topics are out of the grasp of elementary school children. There are endless politicized topics being discussed in elementary school, and these topics are discussed in the prism of the empathetic and generous individual, who should love and tolerance. It seems like a nobrainer, a child will most likely choose to be compassionate. ...

The question is, do people see this in most schools, or is it just an isolated case?

The book is Sparkle Boy. Beyond that, I can’t figure out what you’re trying to say here.

Well, it's not very hard! The question was asked in the original post, and the quoted text was the example.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Elementary school.

Well, I would love to give a lot of specific examples, but I'm afraid to be recognized. Last year the teacher read a book I think called 'glitter boy', which was teaching the children that you are what you like to be. I wonder how vast these choices will become. When I talked to the teacher about it, she gave me the schpeal about diversity and inclusion. There are many of these, and a lot of these topics are out of the grasp of elementary school children. There are endless politicized topics being discussed in elementary school, and these topics are discussed in the prism of the empathetic and generous individual, who should love and tolerance. It seems like a nobrainer, a child will most likely choose to be compassionate. ...

The question is, do people see this in most schools, or is it just an isolated case?

The book is Sparkle Boy. Beyond that, I can’t figure out what you’re trying to say here.

Something deplorable.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Elementary school.

Well, I would love to give a lot of specific examples, but I'm afraid to be recognized. Last year the teacher read a book I think called 'glitter boy', which was teaching the children that you are what you like to be. I wonder how vast these choices will become. When I talked to the teacher about it, she gave me the schpeal about diversity and inclusion. There are many of these, and a lot of these topics are out of the grasp of elementary school children. There are endless politicized topics being discussed in elementary school, and these topics are discussed in the prism of the empathetic and generous individual, who should love and tolerance. It seems like a nobrainer, a child will most likely choose to be compassionate. ...

The question is, do people see this in most schools, or is it just an isolated case?

The book is Sparkle Boy. Beyond that, I can’t figure out what you’re trying to say here.

Did your children get read sparke boy in school as well, or do you read it to them at home? Or are you a teacher that is reading this book to your classroom?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Elementary school.

Well, I would love to give a lot of specific examples, but I'm afraid to be recognized. Last year the teacher read a book I think called 'glitter boy', which was teaching the children that you are what you like to be. I wonder how vast these choices will become. When I talked to the teacher about it, she gave me the schpeal about diversity and inclusion. There are many of these, and a lot of these topics are out of the grasp of elementary school children. There are endless politicized topics being discussed in elementary school, and these topics are discussed in the prism of the empathetic and generous individual, who should love and tolerance. It seems like a nobrainer, a child will most likely choose to be compassionate. ...

The question is, do people see this in most schools, or is it just an isolated case?

The book is Sparkle Boy. Beyond that, I can’t figure out what you’re trying to say here.

Well, it's not very hard! The question was asked in the original post, and the quoted text was the example.

Different poster: I don’t understand what you’re saying. Either.

[Anonymous]

Can you please explain what you do understand? It's pretty clear to me, so if you tell me where you get stuck, I will try to help you understand.

[Anonymous]

To answer your Q OP, no. FCPS isnt pushing the gay agenda on your kid.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:To answer your Q OP, no. FCPS isnt pushing the gay agenda on your kid.

That was an example of an older issue. Sparkle boy was not gay anyway. I don't know what he was, but he wasn't gay.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:To answer your Q OP, no. FCPS isnt pushing the gay agenda on your kid.

That was an example of an older issue. Sparkle boy was not gay anyway. I don't know what he was, but he wasn't gay.

Sparkle boy was a kid whose preferences didn’t conform with gender stereotypes. That was it.