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Comparing being gay to the KKK or polygamy (which is basically a form of female slavery when practised by certain religions) is absurd and offensive.
Seriously, all it is gonna take is one gay kid in Tennessee killing him or herself, and every one of the politicians who supported the bill will no longer have a political career.
The bill says that homosexuality will NOT be an official part of the curriculum.. Stopping here, not sure if anyone actually read the bill yet? It says nothing about not being able to talk about homosexuality in Tenn schools, only that it will not be a focus for education, like it appears to be in some other states..
Tim-
It's an irrelevant top to be discussed below 5th grade. Humans begin dating generally around 12 and 13. They probably didn't need to restrict it from middle school.
well, remember, Haymarket was a public school teacher, and a union rep for public school teachers. so he would also be the guy implementing this kind of thing.
not that "consistently fair and nonpartisan" aren't the adjectives that immediately spring to mind when I think of haymarket...
People... focus. In general, researchers agree that sexual orientation... ANY sexual orientation is most likely caused by one or some combination of the following factors: genetics, biology, biochemistry/hormones, social environment. Ultimately, there is no proof that sexual orientation is innate or chosen.
Would you say those words spring to mind concerning you? :coffeepap
I would say I am not partisan, but rather an ideologue. I can recognize when my side errs and call them on it. But either way the point is moot, my intention is to teach at the collegiate level, not K-8.
I'm not sure you can, but I would agree that you're an ideologue. What do you intend to teach?
You are not an ideologue, Boo Radley?
I thought people were born gay...why do they need to be taught gay in school?
I thought people were born gay...why do they need to be taught gay in school?
Sure lets be teaching our 5 year olds about gays, and while we are at it .. lets teach them about the KKK, or polygamy* and remind them that we should be tolerant of those people at well.
This is just another thing liberals and conservatives will never agree on, children ages 5 to 13 should not be being taught such things in school, that is the parents responsibility not the schools. Liberals coming up with this idea that it's our school systems responsibility to be teach the morality of this nation is just absurd.
Only a liberal with limited thinking, could even come up with saying that our school system not telling a 5 to 13 year year olds about gays is going to be harmful to gays overall. They (liberals) with their superior intellect apparently feel that any other parents are incapable of teaching their children what is right or wrong.
In today society if a person is gay and growing up miserable, then that is his/her problem, being gay is widely acceptable, in truth probably as widely acceptable as believing in God. After all our school teachers are not to mention God either now are they?
I'm not sure you can
but I would agree that you're an ideologue. What do you intend to teach?
No so much. I lean liberal, but can change my mind if the facts warrant it.
then you must forget the debates we had when I was castigating the Bush Administration for the original stimulus package, or the bailouts. When I criticized his soft-approach with Iran and North Korea. Apparently you missed me being furious with House Republican leadership for deceitfulness when the "cuts" they claimed to have gotten turned out to be nothing of the sort, and so on and so forth.
There I am torn. My Masters is in Poli Sci; but I do well there only because of my solid grounding in History. Likely I will focus on American history while picking up the Western Civ / Middle East Gen Ed courses.
interesting. On what major issue would you say you have changed your facts to the non-liberal stance?
I know longer belong to a party.
Unbelievable. Well at least it wasn't my home state that did it. :roll:
I guess don't talk about being gay and maybe less people will turn out gay, is the idea?
It's right there under the Education Clause. :lol:Have any of you people ever thought that maybe it isn't so much the school system as it is the attitude of the children and how they are being raised by their parents?
I am a product of public school and have very little problem reading or writing or even doing advanced math and knowing quite a bit about science and history, plus a little bit of French. My 5 siblings all seem to have very few problems with reading and writing, except for maybe the one with dyslexia, but even he is quite capable of reading and writing it just takes a little more concentration and time, and his dyslexia is certainly no fault of the school system. Schools do just fine teaching children who want to learn.
But outlawing the teaching of any subject in school just because some parents feel that it is offensive or immoral is just wrong. Common sense and local rules can be used to ensure that inappropriate material and parts of certain subjects is much better than outlawing discussion of an entire subject. And I'm pretty sure that this is not going to hold up very well under the freedom of speech part of the Constitution.
The bill is designed to stop them from pushing their politics ("gay rights") on school kids. It's a sound law.
It's an irrelevant top to be discussed below 5th grade. Humans begin dating generally around 12 and 13. They probably didn't need to restrict it from middle school.
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