In kindergarten, children begin to question who they are, where they come from, and how they fit into the world around them. As a part of this learning process, children inevitably compare themselves with each other. For this reason, it is important to teach children that a family is a group of people who love each other and take care of each other, and that they can look very different. Some families have a mom and a dad, some have only a mom or a dad, and some have two moms or two dads. Sometimes moms and dads don't live together. Sometimes kids have parents and stepparents. And sometimes kids live with their grandparents or another person who takes care of them. Other families include grownups who don't have kids. But they are all families.
Originally posted by Adam_PoE
In kindergarten, children begin to question who they are, where they come from, and how they fit into the world around them. As a part of this learning process, children inevitably compare themselves with each other. For this reason, it is important to teach children that a family is a group of people who love each other and take care of each other, and that they can look very different. Some families have a mom and a dad, some have only a mom or a dad, and some have two moms or two dads. Sometimes moms and dads don't live together. Sometimes kids have parents and stepparents. And sometimes kids live with their grandparents or another person who takes care of them. Other families include grownups who don't have kids. But they are all families.
That reminds me of the last scene of Mrs. Doubtfire.
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?
There's no better friend to the fabulous gays than the fabulous The Tex. 🤺
But there's a time and a place for everything.
Given the age of the children I think that was inappropriate. The only thing more inappropriate was your removal of your child from school.
The kid will now forever associate homosexuality as something negative; to be feared and avoided. Which you probably agree with.
Worst of all he'll have horrible nightmares about well dressed and perfectly groomed men! captainpolice
The horror! cry
Re: Re: I withdrew my son from school
Originally posted by Tex
There's no better friend to the fabulous gays than the fabulous [b]The Tex. 🤺But there's a time and a place for everything.
Given the age of the children I think that was inappropriate. The only thing more inappropriate was your removal of your child from school.
The kid will now forever associate homosexuality as something negative; to be feared and avoided. Which you probably agree with.
Worst of all he'll have horrible nightmares about well dressed and perfectly groomed men! captainpolice
The horror! cry [/B]
Predators? I'm not saying I know enough about the situation to comment on the subjectivity of it, but I don't really see much of a problem if it was shown from a relationship standpoint, as opposed to a sexual standpoint.
However, and I'll do my best to make this sound as little like a slight as I can, sheltered children seldom make tolerant adults. It's pretty gray, as children with very"topic-open" parents don't always grow up to be the epitome of tolerance, nor do all "sheltered" children grow up intolerant. However, I see it as a signal when schools must take up the role of the "teacher of values" for children. I'd like to see the day when GLB&T's are not treated as second-class citizens, but if so many parents preach the same rhetoric about how it's wrong, that day will never come, and we'll be disgracing all of the civil rights pioneers who have blazed the trails of equality, liberty, freedom, and justice for all.
Seeing as though I'm not a parent yet, though, I'll stop short of flat-out saying you were wrong to withdraw your child from school. You're the parent, and the family is the normal source of values for children, not the school.
It's sad, though, where preference is given (at least, here in FL) to a "straight" family with, for all we know, an abusive alcoholic father and a battered mother who turns to drugs, over a gay couple who is demonstrably loving and caring.
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 done the same as you 🙂
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?