Grade School Sex Ed
Gets a federal appeals court’s nod.
Thank God for forward-thinking courts that can legislate an appropriate morality for us, and establish that teaching about princely love is appropriate for the lower grades, as long as it violates someone’s medieval religious beliefs. Now we can move on to explaining to grade school kids that some women are born with penises, so we can finally begin to rid this world of oppressive, backward ideas about Y chromosomes and the prison that is biology.
Topics: kids
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 8:14 am Comments (4) on Friday, February 1, 2008
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February 1st, 2008 at 8:57 am
“Public schools are not obliged to shield individual students from ideas which potentially are religiously offensive,” the court said.
So, would this mean that schools can have a morning prayer even if the idea of that is potentially offensive to a students religious beliefs? Or lack of religious beliefs?
I’m really confused.
February 1st, 2008 at 10:29 am
Soon they will begin to teach that there is no god but the Moon-God of Mecca and that Mohamed Atta is his profit.
February 1st, 2008 at 12:10 pm
I suppose it means that non-religious ideas that might offend students of a given religion cannot be excluded on that basis alone.
So, this would also stop somebody from trying to remove The Three Little Pigs from the reading list because it might be offensive to Muslims. (Silly example? You would think, but it’s already happened in Britain. Ironically, Muslim groups are not usually behind these moves – they are being made preemptively by “multicultural” fanatics, who are terrified by the thought that something might somehow offend somebody, somewhere. Unless the offended is a WASHM or a conservative, of course.)
I understand why these parents are concerned, but it seems like the best reaction would not be to sue, but to use it as an opportunity to talk to their children about what they believe and why. There is always the question as to whether this is age appropriate, but that’s a tricky issue anyway because parents, whether religious or not, have widely varying opinions about what age is proper to introduce a given idea.
February 1st, 2008 at 4:34 pm
Well, I’m not religious and I’m offended by the teaching of homosexual love to elementary school children, just as I am offended by any kind of indoctrination of beliefs by elementary school teachers to young, unformed, innocent minds. This is gross social-engineering and has nothing to do with teaching the foundations for the whole edifice of knowledge required for a successful life, AND any consideration a person might give to such topics when they are able to think for themselves.