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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]

I think what you’re saying is that you have to pick your battles. Yes, but that is a two way street. Require the lesson and you’ll accelerate parents moving on to private and sectarian schools as well as home schooling—reducing funding to public schools and further eroding support for public schools.  [/quote]

That is true, I think.

It feels to me that school districts could make these lessons less doctrinaire, less inappropriate (we should all be able admit that in some districts, some of the material was grotesquely inappropriate), and less flatly weird, and they’d have widespread support. But the problem is that when you have your weirdest, most obviously unstable teachers preaching shrilly at middle schoolers, not actually educating them on civil rights, you accomplish the opposite of what was intended. 
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