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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There is so much time for them to grow up, why are SO many people rushing it?[/quote]

Because they are growing up right now, even if you wish they weren’t.  Many kids going into sixth grade are going to have crushes, even if they don’t act on them.  When you have a crush that doesn’t align with your parents’ very clear expectations for you, that can be very stressful, anxiety provoking and upsetting.  The kids whose parents have a very narrow view of the “right” way to be need this book the most, to know there is nothing wrong with them if they don’t fit a certain mold.[/quote]

Not all 10yo kids have crushes.  It’s fine if the books are available in the library, but forcing kids to read them is another story.  [/quote]

What are you so afraid will happen if your 10 yo reads this book?[/quote]

The issue is not fear and bigotry to me. Those terms are too often used as a cudgel to kill any debate on this topic. It is what parents feel is appropriate concerning a sensitive subject. Public schools seem to have a one size fits all strategy for how to handle the topic of gender/sex. Not everyone subscribes to the same belief system which is fine so long as everyone is respectful of other people.

Let’s face it, we’ve come a very long way in a very short time on these issues - most people I know could care less anymore about a person’s orientation and judging by the ubiquity of Pride flags in the area I don’t think being gay has the stigma it once carried which is great but I ultimately believe parents, not the government or public schools, should handle these issues with their kids. [/quote]

Okay, I will rephrase.  What are you concerned will happen if your child reads this book?  There’s no reason to oppose it so vehemently if you think it will have no impact on kids, so clearly there is something that troubles you about it. [/quote]

How about: I want to discuss issues of gender and sex with my child within the confines of my family?  I don’t see it as the place for the government and it’s employees to educate my child on these issues. I prefer public schools focus more on traditional core subjects like math, english/literature/grammar, science etc. Personally speaking, i would not “fear” my child reading this nor do I think they’d be adversely affected by it, rather i just don’t see it as the state’s place to infringe in how I educate my kids on such subjects. I believe in teaching tolerance and respect for everyone but that does not mean I go along with every with every position on sex/gender/trans issues as espoused by some public schools. [/quote]

DP. When you elect to send your kids to public schools, it becomes the state's place to educate them, and there's no way to educate them for 13 years without teaching something that contradicts someone's sincere beliefs, especially in literature classes. When I was a kid, literature was where we were exposed to feminism, pacifism, religion, and politics, all of which was contrary to the belief of at least one person in the class.

You're still free to teach your kids what you believe, just like everyone with any kind of minority opinion has had to do since public education began, but in class you have to expect that they're going to get the community consensus beliefs as well. I think most parents are in this position on one issue or another.[/quote]

I agree with you. I like the schools to teach and expose them to tons of interesting stuff.
I’d rather then teach HOW to think, than teach WHAT to think.

Expose them to all the religions. Expose them to challenging ideas, communism, pacifism, authoritarianism, cannibalism, theocracy, dadaism. Whatever.

But don’t force feed what their opinions should be. In addition, they have so much schooling ahead. 5th and 6th and 7th should be starting to play with fire, not burning it down.[/quote]

Yes!  I don’t want my kids’ teachers pushing any kind of politics on them, but my MS had lessons on BLM last year in MCPS.  And not just as a part of a ‘current events’ type class - it was teaching the kids the values of the BLM movement and pushing propaganda on them.

None of this has any place in public schools.  [/quote]

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