Don't Say Gay?

[Sociopathicsteelerfan]

(03-30-2022, 02:51 PM)Crazyjdawg Wrote: I appreciate the kudos.

Regarding this bolded section, I am fine with this as long as it's consistent. If parents want sexual education to be 100% family oriented, then sexual education should just be removed from school entirely. If parents are uncomfortable with any sexual education for kids under 9, I don't know why they'd be more comfortable with it for 11 years olds or 13 years or 15 year olds. If they believe schools should not influence their children's exposure to sexual education, then an age range should be immaterial.

Really?  You're kind of swimming against the current on this one, as there is an enormous developmental difference between a nine and a fifteen year old.

Quote:As the bill stands, I don't think it will actually change anything because I don't believe that any school has sexual education in their curriculum for kindergarten through 3rd grade. Speaking from personal experience, I was first taught sexual education in the 5th grade when I was about 10 to 11. It was a very general course. We looked at a cutaway of a penis, a cutaway of a vagina and the act of sex was briefly described. It was mostly met with the class laughing when the teacher put the penis cutaway on the magnet board.

A fifth grader is also two years older than anyone affected by this law.

Quote:If, at the end of that sexual education, the teacher said "Oh, and by the way, while it is most common for men and women to be attracted to each other, there are some men who are attracted to other men and some women who are attracted to other women, and there's nothing wrong with that," I don't think that would be crossing any line. But I'm just a filthy liberal (or whatever conservatives call people like me nowadays).

I think that what you just stated would be a superb way of handling it, regardless of your being a filthy liberal. 

I also think that's a conversation far more appropriate for an older child.

Quote:If you ask me, I am not convinced that this bill was even created with the intention of legislating it. I think it's a realistic possibility that Republicans passed this bill with the explicit intention to call anyone who is upset by it a pedophile. We already have the hairbrained conspiracy theory of QAnon that Democrats are baby eating pedophiles, so it's not exactly a stretch for them to link this to that. After all, Sled's already doing it in this thread haha.

I have no doubt there is some truth to that and if that is the case then they couldn't have asked for a better response.