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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]NP. What the people who brought this suit don’t understand is that mandating this education was helping their cause, not hurting it. Having the weirdest, most cringe middle school teacher heavy-handedly preaching to kids about how they are mandated to think essentially just has the effect of turning kids in the exact opposite direction.

The younger half of Gen Z — the ones who got these lessons — are sharply more conservative (particularly socially) than their older peers. That is not a coincidence.

Bar the lessons, and you make them cool again. Not that these plaintiffs understand kids, of course. [/quote]

lol that is actually true.

That said I fear the collateral damage. My kid is LGBT and is one of those kids quietly supported by an awesome librarian. [/quote]

Yes, it is a shift. The younger half of Gen Z is much more conservative, including on social issues. The causes are complex but I think one of the issues is actually how social justice education in elementary and high school has been handled. It has become dogmatic and practically religious, and if there is one thing that kids are born to do, it’s fight the establishment. By turning LGBTQ+ education (and other social justice education) into a very heavy-handed, excruciating establishment curriculum that brooked no dissent, educators all but guaranteed rebellion. The plaintiffs don’t seem to understand that in many respects their lawsuit hurts their side, and doesn’t help it.

https://www.newsweek.com/democratic-pollster-shocked-gen-z-conservative-shift-2049107

I’m hoping that what comes out of this is a mellowing of the messaging and a reduction in religious dogma, but still support for LGBTQ+ kids. [/quote]

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