Don't Say Gay?

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(03-29-2022, 08:33 AM)Crazyjdawg Wrote: These "You can't teach this" bills, the people who submit them always have one or two examples of an individual teacher whose curriculum was out of line and they use that as justification to try and make blanket statements around what can and cannot be taught in school.

I think it's just typical fear mongering behavior. A lot of conservatives already believe that college "brainwashes" their teenage/young adult children into leftism, so it's not going to be a far leap for them to believe that grade school is being used to radicalize children into....accepting non cishet people?

This ties perfectly into the conservative ethos that more people are trans now because liberals are "convincing" people to be trans. Like it's a trend or something. They seem to believe that humans are so weak minded that hearing anything that isn't their parents' beliefs will instantly turn their children against them in one way or another.

I have no faith that the conservatives in Florida did this out of the concern for children or their well being and just see it as yet another anti-LGBTQ bill formed around misunderstanding and/or hatred. I also don't think it will have that much of an impact on anything, as kindergarten to 3rd grade is pretty young. In my experience, no one even mentioned sex or the differences between boys and girls until 5th grade. So I'm not too bothered by the law, overall.

If kids are being taught about gender or sex from kindergarten to 3rd grade, however, I'm not sure why it's okay to teach them about heterosexual sex but not homosexual sex. I'd say it should be either both or neither.

Again, if they weren't doing this they wouldn't be so upset about the bill telling them they can't do it. Some of you need to get it through your thick skulls we are talking about a non-family member discussing genitalia, gender and sex with KINDERGARDNERS. If you think that is ok, there is something wrong with you. It is called grooming. That's what sex predators do. They have no business discussing sex with young children, they should be teaching ABC's. If I found a teacher doing this to my kids when they were that young, they wouldn't have to worry about not being able to say gay, because they wouldn't be able to say anything.