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Rep. Phil Gingrey (R-Ga.) said grade-school students should be taught classes about traditional gender roles in a floor speech on Tuesday.
"You know, maybe part of the problem is we need to go back into the schools at a very early age, maybe at the grade-school level, and have a class for the young girls and have a class for the young boys and say, you know, this is what’s important," Gingrey said.
Gingrey was speaking is support of the Defense of Marriage Act, currently under review by the Supreme Court.
"This is what a father does that is maybe a little different, maybe a little bit better than the talents that a mom has in a certain area. And the same thing for the young girls, that, you know, this is what a mom does, and this is what is important from the standpoint of that union which we call marriage."
GOP lawmaker: Teach grade-school classes on traditional gender roles - The Hill's Blog Briefing Room
So, the question would be do you think we should teach a class similar to what Gingrey is suggesting, promoting traditional gender roles and marriage roles?
GOP lawmaker: Teach grade-school classes on traditional gender roles - The Hill's Blog Briefing Room
So, the question would be do you think we should teach a class similar to what Gingrey is suggesting, promoting traditional gender roles and marriage roles?
So, the question would be do you think we should teach a class similar to what Gingrey is suggesting, promoting traditional gender roles and marriage roles?
Teaching traditional gender roles is (unfortunately) what causes transgenderism.
Absolutely not. It's a terrible idea for reasons ranging from sexism to exclusion of the increasingly significant chunk of our population that rejects traditional gender roles and marriage.
GOP lawmaker: Teach grade-school classes on traditional gender roles - The Hill's Blog Briefing Room
So, the question would be do you think we should teach a class similar to what Gingrey is suggesting, promoting traditional gender roles and marriage roles?
The vast majority of what makes up traditional gender roles is not based on sexism.
No, because very few children have traditional families anymore. Most have step-families and half-families, some even have things like step-extended families, others have single parent families, and now some have same sex parents and/or other extended family members.
I don't think the schools should be teaching gender rolls at all. They should be teaching the usual RRRs, history, gym, arts, sciences, even woodshop should come back before the public schools find resources to teach "family". That's clearly a family job.
Personally I'd disagree, other than the childbirth stuff. That's just physiology.
The vast majority of what makes up traditional gender roles is not based on sexism.
Eh, I dunno. I'm thinking stuff like that might be best left to the parents.
I am, of necessity, not exactly in a "traditional gender role" situation.... been raising a kid with no wife/momma around for most of two decades. Gotta work, cook, clean, parent, all that. You do what needs done regardless of your plumbing.
I might be more enthused about a class that taught middle-schoolers more about how serious marriage and children are, the economic downside of single-parenthood, and all the damage a bad marriage can wreck on the children so enter into all this only with the greatest of care and the most serious mind...
It's a matter of history, not a matter of opinion, Gipper.
Although I will say this, it should be the parent's first and foremost who are teaching their kids about gender roles and family and not the schools. In a perfect world this should be the case. However, I don't have a problem with schools stepping in and encouraging this or discussing it in social studies classes or in other applicable places.
Although I will say this, it should be the parent's first and foremost who are teaching their kids about gender roles and family and not the schools. In a perfect world this should be the case. However, I don't have a problem with schools stepping in and encouraging this or discussing it in social studies classes or in other applicable places.
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