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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why can’t the state leave these sensitive topics for parents to teach their kids. I don’t want a government employee guiding my kids with their or the state sanctioned view on sexuality. [/quote]

Yet people want schools to educate children on manners, proper social behavior, and many other things beyond reading and math. But just not this--am I right?[/quote]

I teach my kids manners and social behavior. Teachers can stick to math.[/quote]

And when their education is disrupted by other kids who haven’t been taught that’s fine.  Right?  Because having any kind of community standards or norms is overstepping.[/quote]

Oh, this post right here tells me that you don’t even have kids in MCPS.  I’ll go a step farther and say that you likely don’t even have kids, do you?

You would know that there are very few ‘community standards’ in MCPS.  My kid’s MS has kids fighting at school and the kids never get suspended.  Kids vape AT school and there are no consequences.  Physical alterations on the bus, and the kids are back on the same exact bus I’m just a few days.  Thanks to restorative justice and a complete lack of discipline in MCPS, kids learn early that they can get away with atrocious behavior.

You want MCPS to promote ‘community standards’?  I would bet that 98% of the parents in this very thread would get behind that cause.  Yes, if a kid insults or harms another kid, for any reason (race/religion/sexual preference), I would like to see that addressed strongly and swiftly.

But forcing families to read a book like Rick is not going to do anything to ‘promote community standards’.  And to take it a step further, by forcing this book on families who are not supportive of this topic for 11 year olds will just breed resentment and further strife.  [/quote]

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