Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” Bill

JinCA said:
I don't believe it's about church with most people, as you said most people are turning away from church anyway. I think it has to do with people wanting to feel like they have some say in what's being taught to their kids and when. I know there are some who do it just to be a******s and others who just want their kids to be allowed to enjoy their childhood without all of this heavy stuff being put on them so young.

I'd hate to be growing up right now, a kid a the elementary school my sister works at was almost suspended for making a "pee pee" joke in front of a girl. The fact that they consider that sexual harassment at that age is insane, neither kid comprehends what that even means.

There is a culture war element you are right but I also don't think this needs to be a fight, kids that age shouldn't really be taught anything other than respect and not to call people names etc. If a parent wants to have a talk like that with their kid that's up to them. I can see doing that in middle school but let kids in elementary school keep their innocence for as long as possible, the world will rob them of it soon enough.
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It just sounds like a manufactured problem. Are kids really having a tough time? I kind of doubt it.

There are countless school districts in the country, yet we're generalizing and assuming things are going on. There's a school in Florida teaching vaccine shedding. My friend works in Alabama and people would be shocked at the way the Civil War is taught. I have no doubt there are some schools teaching more left leaning things.

When I was in elementary school in the 80s, the teacher showed us the movie Wall Street as a lesson on what the business world was like. :laugh:

Having a national discussion about it just seems absurd. Our education is far from perfect, but the populists want to use it like a lightning rod.

Before we solve a problem, let's see if there really is a problem and how big it may or may not be.
 
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Kerosene31 said:
It just sounds like a manufactured problem. Are kids really having a tough time? I kind of doubt it.

There are countless school districts in the country, yet we're generalizing and assuming things are going on. There's a school in Florida teaching vaccine shedding. My friend works in Alabama and people would be shocked at the way the Civil War is taught. I have no doubt there are some schools teaching more left leaning things.

When I was in elementary school in the 80s, the teacher showed us the movie Wall Street as a lesson on what the business world was like. :laugh:

Having a national discussion about it just seems absurd. Our education is far from perfect, but the populists want to use it like a lightning rod.

Before we solve a problem, let's see if there really is a problem and how big it may or may not be.
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In 49 states winged horses are illegal….































But in Alabama they allow peg-a-sis

































I’m out, thank you and good night
 
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karmakid said:
those out there in other countries, menace-uk- starseeker Swede DriedMangoes i know we got a kiwi and maybe a few other countries (French Canadian?)

Anyways, at what age and grade were you in when you were taught about sex-education
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I think... maybe... 7 or 8th grade? That'll be around 14 yo.
I don't mind teaching kids how it all works with the chromosomes etc... I actually think we got to try putting condoms on bananas or something. Strange af lol, but I guess it's good that they kind of take the taboo out of it .
Homosexuality haven't been something we really cared making a big deal about here, at least not when I grew up, I think it was regarded normal that it existed... no one cared if someone was h*** really... Can't remember any bullying etc and we had a few open openly gay guys at school.
 
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Swede said:
When he entered the "Xbox vs PS" thread
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karmakid said:
those out there in other countries, menace-uk- starseeker Swede DriedMangoes i know we got a kiwi and maybe a few other countries (French Canadian?)

Anyways, at what age and grade were you in when you were taught about sex-education
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We don't have a course for that lol.

So I don't recall ever being taught that.

Hormones and sexuality probably in grade 9-10 science? So 14-15 years old.
 
Swede said:
I think... maybe... 7 or 8th grade? That'll be around 14 yo.
I don't mind teaching kids how it all works with the chromosomes etc... I actually think we got to try putting condoms on bananas or something. Strange af lol, but I guess it's good that they kind of take the taboo out of it .
Homosexuality haven't been something we really cared making a big deal about here, at least not when I grew up, I think it was regarded normal that it existed... no one cared if someone was h*** really... Can't remember any bullying etc and we had a few open openly gay guys at school.
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When I was in school nobody would have dared come out, they'd have gotten beaten up and harassed all the time if they had. I think when I was in high school the only person who really even supported gay people on a regular basis publicly was Madonna, soon after that you'd see it here and there but things have changed a lot in a relatively short amount of time.
 
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hrudey said:
I would have been the same year as you and I don't remember if I ever had sex ed. I know I would have signed up for the lab.
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We had it in health class so it wasn't really a "sex ed" class it was just a week where our health teacher talked about reproduction and brought in all kinds of condoms and sponges etc to show us what they were.
 
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