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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]To the LGBTQ poster.  I don’t care about your sexuality but my kid doesn’t need to explore their sexuality in public school through assigned reading and adult intervention.  The fact you jump to a nasty term like “bigotry” makes me think you’re the one who needs to learn about the rights of others and respecting others.  My kids can respect others but at the end of the day it is not the role of public schools to teach that, that is my role as a parent.  [/quote]

Newsflash: your kids already know. Wake up.[/quote]

+1.  You want other people to hide or be quiet about their sexuality or gender identity. You do not want to allow schools to recognize their lives in the same
way that the lives of straight people are represented - through stories. That is bigotry. You have a right to believe what you want but you don’t have a right to insist that other people’s voices, identities and presentation be silenced.  [b]It is the role of public schools to teach about the world we live in[/b] and LGBTQIA people are a [b]full and equal part of that world[/b]. [/quote]

I'll wait patiently for the novel that encourages kids to explore Christianity...[/quote]

If we’re going to define a book that mentions something as “encouraging kids to explore” that thing, then MCPS has a ton of books that encourage kids to explore Christianity.  Certainly anything that mentions Pilgrims, or founding father or the Civil Rights movement, or a character celebrating Christmas would count.  [/quote]

+1. Not to mention you can take a World Religions class in high school.   You can join an afterschool prayer group or, as SCOTUS just decided this term, your football coach can pray with the team on the 50 yard line. [/quote]

Is the World Religions class mandatory?

Reading this book is mandatory for 11yo kids at this school.

Personally, I don’t think they should even offer the World Religions class in public high school, but whatever.  The difference is that the class is not mandatory for graduation.  [/quote]

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