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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You should have known that going in at GDS.  You'd probably be more comfortable at one of the several other privates that teacher love and compassion for everyone without explicitly addressing issues like same sex marriage in PK/K.  I voted for same sex marriage in MD when it was on the ballot, but I'm not sure this is an issue I want my school to address to specifically cover with my 5 y/o.  I've pointed out that some kids have two mommies or two daddies, but prefer that that type of discussion is between our family, not the school.[/quote]

First, OP hasn't said if the school addressed it or it came from the kid in the class with two dads (though it seems like the latter). And second, even if a school addresses it, there's almost no chance it would go further in the PK class than what you've just described: some kids have two moms or two dads. End of story. [/quote]

The school talked very formerly about different families.  I support same sex marriage, but I am not sure I would like my 6 years old in a school which emphasize this in the curriculum.[/quote]

06:32 back with another perspective. Our kids’ school recently talked about family structures as well, including theirs, with their two moms. That was pretty much the extent of it. It may surprise you to learn that that’s as far as I want them to go in school right now as well. It goes without saying that any explicit discussion is inappropriate, and I don’t even want their school to discuss the history or gay rights or the battle for marriage equality or bathroom laws or whatever, certainly not in Pre-K.

Our kids know that most boys marry girls and that most girls marry boys (as evidenced by the mostly heterosexual couples in the world, our neighbors, their grandparents, aunts and uncles, etc); still, they know that sometimes, a boy marries a boy or a girl marries a girl.

Our kids do NOT know that that woman who was at my mom’s funeral recently was my sister, their aunt, with whom I haven’t spoken in more than 16 years because she thinks Jesus hates gay people.

My kids don’t know those young adults there were the nephews I used to adore and babysit and take to Chuck E Cheese before my sister decided I wasn’t allowed to see them anymore – and those boys are their cousins. They don't know that my voice used to catch in my throat when I told friends how much I missed my nephews, but that all these years later, they're strangers to me now, so I just wish them the best from afar. They don’t know the younger girl is also their cousin, but I’d never even seen or met her before my mom got terminally ill.

They don’t know they have another grandmother – my partner’s mom who is their biological grandmother – who doesn’t give a shit about them because, nearly 20 years after we got together, she still isn’t over it. Or that when we go to the city where she lives semi-regularly, my partner calls to see if we can stop by, and the answer is always no.

They don’t know that their moms have been together for nearly 20 years (since college) but only married a couple of years ago because it was not legal before.

They have no idea there are entire organizations that exist with the sole purpose of stopping us from getting married (now, apparently, just bitching about the fact that we are).

They will learn these things in due time, but they’re happy and healthy and thriving, and I see no reason to burden them with these facts now.
So let me assure you that I have more at stake about this sort of information than you do. And right now, talking about different family structures is entirely appropriate. After all, the kids see us at school functions, birthday parties, etc already. We simply can’t – and won’t – pretend like we don’t exist.[/quote]

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