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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We like it OK - -one of the big three -- and our DC seems to like it, though he's very easy going.  One thing that bothers us, which we'd never see at DC public (and I doubt we'd see at a school with some religious affiliation), is the overt and trying-too-hard gay-friendliness -- e.g., the recent giant posters announcing "National Coming Out Week" along with books about gay teenagers in the library.  The designated gay-friendly "safe-places."  The assemblies with facilitators "having a conversation with the students" about diversity and acceptance of gay/lesbians.  It's just so inappropriate, in my opinion, to have such things in the presence of young children.  I'm not homophobic - -I just don't want my 3rd grader to encounter such things yet, but the school forces it on them -- on all kids. [/quote]

You know that you are a bigot, right?  You don't want your 3rd grader to "encounter such things"?  Seriously?  Were you born in 1927?   Loving families in the DC area come in all kinds of combinations, including two mothers and two fathers.  There is absolutely nothing inappropriate about teaching kids to accept people for who they are, and to make sure they understand that not all families look like theirs.   My kids have understood their whole lives that some people fall in love with the opposite gender and some with the same, and that although one is much more common than the other, both are a-ok.  
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I'm not the PP, but maybe she means that she doesn't think it's age appropriate for third graders to be learning anything hetero, homo, bi, or otherwise sexual.  That's that area of life is better left to discussion closer to puberty.  Believing that something is better addressed at a later stage doesn't necessarily translate into a bigot.[/quote]

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