I see a lot of people reading something into this that really isn't there. I'm a 25 year old college graduate and recent participant of the California public school system. Kids in middle and high school call each other names all the time including "anti-LGBT" ones.
I see this as an attempt to achieve a preemptive strike against calling each other bad names for the purposes of keeping behavior under control. Not all actions of the school is "instruction" on the academic matter but rather a large portion of school actions are for the purposes of keeping kids behaving long to learn something and possibly not emotionally scar each other. This is the latter.
This is not "teaching kids to be gays and lesbians" this is "teaching kids not to call each other hurtful names." I can see nothing wrong with a school delivering a message of moral behavior. I'm sure some people condone being hurtful to people based on their sexual orientation to the east of me, but not on the ground under my feet.
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Let me pull out a good example of ignorance:
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Originally Posted by 1480
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Since you know and have a child, tell us, at what age should a child be taught these things?
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About non-NORMAL homo sapien physical relationships? NOT AT SCHOOL. |
This is where ignorant people do not understand the distinction between "instruction about X" and "teaching X." The job of a school is to educate the student about the subject matter. Human sociology in reference to sexual orientations is a perfectly valid academic topic if taught as such. "There are such people as homosexuals, this is what they are, what they do, their society and history" is certainly the place of a school to inform. Facts are never offensive.
While I'm a scientist and an atheist I think that teaching certain things in school like The Bible and Creationism is great, in history or social studies class where it belongs. For example The Bible is a very important book (as is religion) in the sense of human history and it would benefit any one, regardless of religion, to know
about it.
Similarly I think you can teach Creationism (heck, what would that take, a week?) in school, just not in science class... because, it's not science. I can never understand why people get all up in arms wanting to teach creationism in science class. We don't teach Creationism in science class for the same reason we don't teach French literature in science class... BECAUSE THEY AREN'T MOTHERFLIPPIN' SICENCE!