Wow, I missed a few pages.
Sorry, it took a minute to get the proxy running. I'm caught up now. In fact it's kind of interesting reading the whole thread at once. Here's what I notice:
The point of this thread was that the Democratic Party is sponsoring the sex camp people. Maybe y'all knew that already, I didn't, I was like "whaddya know".
And, reading the 8 pages I missed, there's a lot of specific posts I'd like to reply to - but generally the two parts of this thread that leap off the page are the diversions by the lefties and the Bible thumping by parts of the right.
A couple of the left leaning members started talking about sex education, and pedophilia, and the thread isn't about that. (Although, those are interesting topics and I'd like to reply to some of the posts).
The right... how can I say this... things like social understanding and Bible based social rules, those are what I call "morality". I'd prefer that morality be kept out of K-12 education, because it's an advanced topic.
Children, on the playground, learn their own social morality. It's part of letting a child be a child, and develop his or her own way. In my view, Bible thumping is exactly equivalent to, say, leftists teaching CRT (whether openly or surreptitiously). It's "morality", and the only time teachers should step into that is to define boundaries. Like, if two kids are beating each other up, the teacher steps in.
I'll address this to those on the right - let's turn the tables and let's say we have a Christian teacher in a public school, who has either a trans gender student in class, or say a student with two mommies. My claim is, this teacher "should not" tell the child that they're living in sin, or that parents are living in sin. Any more than a leftie teacher should tell the child it's "okay". Public school teachers need to stay out of the morality business, is my take. (Generally speaking, Christian teachers are pretty good about that, they're well aware of the issues surrounding religion in the classroom).
Well, I'll just reiterate what I said "as a parent", which is my only political position really. (I live for my kids, I'm "codependent" on them ha ha).
My boundaries as a parent are:
1. My child is not your business. All this stuff about sex education, is NOT YOUR BUSINESS. It's => MY <= business. And my wife's. We are responsible parents. We talk with our children. We know what's going on in their lives. We don't want them 'educated' about morality, we want them to learn to read and write and balance their checkbooks. You don't talk to children about inappropriate touching IN SCHOOL, you don't do that. It puts anyone who HAS actually been abused in a miserable state. You need to respect the childrens' privacy. They're not your political playthings.
2. Anything that happens in school - ANYTHING - you need to ask the parents first. The parents are in charge. Always. 24/7, 100% of the time. It is the school district's JOB to keep the parents informed. That is exactly what we pay them for. If they fail to do that, they need to be replaced