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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

So we should continue to make LGBTQ kids and family hide and pretend they don’t exist? Just so some small population can potentially not do what has been done throughout history, segregate itself until such time as they come to realize, oh these lessons really don’t do anything more than make individuals reflective and tolerant.[/quote]

Just like religion, don't discuss it in schools. No need. Just stick to academics. [/quote]

I’m liberal and far from a religious extremist. I am all for including books where it mentions in passing that sally has two moms, just like many kids books mention in passing that Johnny has a mom and a dad or that Lisa’s parents are divorced. I am not ok with introducing concepts of actual sexual acts in elementary school.  Any kind of sex - hetero included. [b]I don’t really need my kids reading about drag queens either although I wouldn’t opt them out, because it’s harmless[/b], but it makes me wonder what great classics foe that age group were sacrificed to make room.

And yes I have two current elementary and schoolers in MoCo. The curriculum for my now 5th grader has been pretty bad for years. The books they chose weren’t controversial but they were of lousy quality. My current second grader is using the newer curriculum and it’s so much better. The books she gets are already on par with what he got in fourth grade. [/quote]

I view positive kids books about drag queens as akin to positive kids books about blackface performers. I do not want my kids taught that drag queens are “harmless.” Womanface minstrelry is not “harmless.” I’m an atheist, by the way. This is not a religious objection.

In 100 years, drag will be looked at with the same revulsion that blackface minstrels are now. It is already aging out; Gen Z (the generation that grew up with drag queen story hour) largely doesn’t attend drag. It is the “entertainment” of old men now. Books like Pride Puppy are merely attempting to revive what is already headed to the trash bin of history.

Gorsuch was right to challenge the MoCo attorney on Pride Puppy. And it is embarrassing for MoCo that the attorney clearly hadn’t expected Gorsuch to have actually read the book.  [/quote]

Well said.  [/quote]

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