I didn't realize who the topic-creator was until shellie pointed that out. Nice work! thumbup
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1. This event definitely did not occur.
2. This would not happen in a kindergarten class, and you would be hard-pressed to find this happening in high school.
3. Teaching tolerance should always be encouraged, though this (in a hypothetical situation) is a bit too early for such complex matters.
4. Cosmic_Beings is full of it. ✅
5. See #4
Originally posted by Darth Surgent
I didn't realize who the topic-creator was until shellie pointed that out. Nice work! thumbup----
1. This event definitely did not occur.
2. This would not happen in a kindergarten class, and you would be hard-pressed to find this happening in high school.
3. Teaching tolerance should always be encouraged, though this (in a hypothetical situation) is a bit too early for such complex matters.
4. Cosmic_Beings is full of it. ✅
5. See #4
Re: I withdrew my son from school
Originally posted by Cosmic_Beings
I'm really frustrated right now. Yesterday, my son came home from kindergarten. Unbeknownst to me, yesterday they brought in two gay men and explained to the children that it's ok to be homosexual. My son came home and asked me questions about marrying boys, and I had a talk with the teacher, and finding out that it's true, I withdrew him immediately. What do you think of this, and what would you have done?
Originally posted by Lydia_J
That was way too young an age, i can see that they want to teach them to tolerate homosexuals but teaching them that it is completely normal at such a young age is not a good idea
Tolerate? No one is asking you to tolerate anything. Don't hurt yourself on my account.
Originally posted by Red Superfly
Kids don't even get taught about marraige anyway. Why should gays get special treatment? That's not equality. It's a subject that doesn't lie within a schools responsibilty, in my opinion. When my primary school did sexual education, I had to get a consent form signed by my parents. The same thing should have been done here. That's sloppy and arrogant to ignore it and assume it's all fine.Kids at that age don't care. Most boys think girls have diseases until puberty anyway, and vice versa. My mind boggles to think how teaching kids at such a young age about homosexuality is a good idea. It's so counter productive too.
Why are kids being taught about homosexuality anyway? Is it to educate them and therefore try and prevent under age pregnancy like conventional sex education? How? Since same sex relationships mean there is no pregnancy risk involved - whats the danger? Sure, HIV and AIDs is a problem - but it's the same risk that hetero relationships face.
Gays, bisexuals and heterosexual issues should be discussed at the same time, under one big umbrella. Segregating them into little clubs like this and educating gay relationship stuff one day, then about hetero stuff another day, does nothing to unify people, it just keeps them in their own little bubbles. Doing something like having a "gay day" like this school in question went about EVERYTHING totally backwards. It just makes the kids in question view homosexuality as a little club you can join - when in actual fact there should be no "clubs", Schools should be educating tolerance at an early age, not sexuality.
Just as children learn to crawl before they walk - kids should not be told about this stuff until they have the base layers of "tolerance" to first understand it and take it on board. The fact that your kid came home asking awkward questions proves how much of a failure it really was. I just think it's very wrong, at that age. It won't achieve anything apart from making many parents severely embarrassed, and angry. What a stupid thing to do. This is PC gone mad - this world is a joke.
While I agree with you, many other people do not. People in this country want to pretend that knowledge equals tendancy. Just because you know what a gay man does, doesn't mean that you assume that that knowledge becomes a threat to you. So many ignorant people want to believe that because a 10 year old is introduced to the concept that two men can love each other, that that means that said ten year old is going to be attracted to men. Such is not the case. And the people that want to leap to that conclusion are short sighted. I mean, did they become gay when the learned what that meant?
That being said, I don't agree with th esupposed truth of the original post. Kindergardeners shouldn't be taught about sex. Straight or gay...it doesn't matter. It doesn't belong in the classroom at that stage.
I think I just broke a record for number of times you can use the word 'that' in a post.
Re: I withdrew my son from school
Originally posted by Cosmic_Beings
I'm really frustrated right now. Yesterday, my son came home from kindergarten. Unbeknownst to me, yesterday they brought in two gay men and explained to the children that it's ok to be homosexual. My son came home and asked me questions about marrying boys, and I had a talk with the teacher, and finding out that it's true, I withdrew him immediately. What do you think of this, and what would you have done?
i would have said
"yes son, it is ok to mary guys and it is ok to be homosexual. there is absolutely NOTHING wrong with it!"
its true 🙄
Yes it is, none thed less if I had a kid I would want to teach them aboot Heterosexuality as well as homosexuality myself.
Later in High School they can have secual education in biology or something, but it is the responsibility of the parent to teach them that and surely not that of the kindergarten.