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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For those parents who object -- email the school and ask for an alternative or suggest an alternative. We used to do that, routinely unfortunately -- mostly because the reading selections were so dark, violent and depressing, to a one. That's not what I wanted my children, who are forming their opinions of the world, to be digesting.[/quote]

Isn't this what some parents on the forum call as indoctrination of students?

What are the benefits of these topics at an early age of 10-12? [b]Are there any disadvantages when the kids learn about these topics when they are 15 and 16?[/b]
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Those aren't the choices.  The choices are that kids learn about these things in a context where they're encouraged to talk to their parents, and there's some control over the information.  Or they learn about them from their peers and tik tok.

If you actually click on the links and look at the assignments there are pieces that pretty clearly give the message that it's normal to have confused feelings, to want privacy, for your thoughts and feelings to evolve.  That gender is just one piece of your identity.  That you should talk to trusted adults in your family.

It seems that the right wing doesn't want kids to get those messages.  Instead they want kids to think that once you've made a decision it's permanent, so you might as well modify your body to match.  That gender is the most important piece of your identity and that adults can't be trusted.  Ironically, those are the same messages that kids are getting from tik tok.  So, if you're OK with those messages to your 11 - 13 year old (note there are no 10 year old in middle school in MCPS unless they skipped a grade) then I would object to this assignment.  It seems like both the far right and the far left, and the idiots being manipulated by either would want you to do that.  [/quote]

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