What do you have against parents making the choice not to put their children in public schools? What's not American about their choices?
Public schools have an enormous job, and that is to teach an approved educational curriculum. They do that and they do please parents. Get back to teaching, instead of trying to interfere with the parent's value system, or take the place of the child's parents. Schools are not indoctrination centers.
But schools
are a prepatory step to being a useful member of society. I mean, how much of the curriculum you were taught do you / have you used after school was done? Evenutally we specialized, based on the type of career we were hoping to get, but all that general learning means a lot never gets used again.
Does that mean the curriculum is useless? No...the biggest skill learned in school is how to learn, along with how to complete, how to improve.
We are also taught our history, our laws, how our government works. I assume it's the same in the states. Why learn these things? To be a useful member of society, and be able to exist in it, of course.
A lot of what I see get called "indoctrination" is merely an extension of that. Kids need to learn that people different from their parents exist, and that they will be called on to not only tolerate them, but work along side them, buy or sell with them, share society with them. This isn't to make some trans person happy, or some gay dude, or whatever the latest conservative hysteria is about, it's creating a functional society based on the reality that people are different, and that a lot of our problems come not from those differences, but a lack of understanding.
What better venue to roll that out than in schools? Given the opposition to it, it's beyond clear that some parents are not up to that task. Why should society be less efficient and productive to protect the hatred of a few ignorant people?
Now if
actual indoctrination is / were taking place, I would stand right beside you. No one should be told they MUST be gay or trans any more than they should be told they MUST be straight. But while the latter appears to be taking place, I've never seen a clear example of the former. Do you have any to bring up? I would be interested to see them if you do. I have, for example, been convinced that there are some books in libraries that clearly contain content that is not age appropriate, and I'm not for that either. Age rating should be respected, and restricted material should be controlled to ensure that only those
In lieu of that, though, I'm thinking that parental "Ew" isn't a good enough reason to stop teaching kids how to get along in world that grows more and more complicated and diverse. Certainly it wouldn't be the first time schools instructed children on morality. The part that some people appear to be having difficulty with is that we are / have been in a period of moral transition. Attempting to prevent kids from learning about that is simply hamstringing them in an inevitable future that will leave them behind as indifferently as it has their parents.
If one loves their children, they would not want to see that happen. The majority of this isn't about kids, it's about parents. I question the parenting ability of anyone who prioritizes their own prejudice over their child's ability to make a place for themselves in the world they live in.
Just my opinion, I'm interested in how you might respond to it.
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