Parents call police on teacher over LGBT book.

[lewisnotmiller]

It does raise the question as to why the book title itself was intentionally selected.

It's a shame other parents of other children are not included in this to express their view pro and con to garner more perspective as to appropriateness.

Maybe some of the kids in the room are LGBTQIA+?
Or maybe they're not, and she thought giving her kids the ability to choose for themselves a book with that theme might help prepare them for life outside the classroom (she alluded to something similar in the linked article).

 

[Twilight Hue]

The far right wants to only teach their religion in schools. Since they do that, we need to have other religions taught as well. Religion is individual and personal, so should really only be taught at home and in houses of worship.

It's interesting and even ironic that the very first school in the United States , was the Boston Latin School in 1635.

Puritan and Boys only.

 

[We Never Know]

Yup our hero of the left sure noes
his weapons. "Hole a foot wide"
Honestly, people in the Americas.

it seems many people who are against guns don't know much about guns IMO

 

[Evangelicalhumanist]

Yup our hero of the left sure noes
his weapons. "Hole a foot wide"
Honestly, people in the Americas.

Yes, please sneer away, if it makes you feel better. I have never had a gun -- never even held one. I wrote AK-15 instead of AR-15. Yes, in that I was incorrect. This is your opportunity to gloat over my obvious ignorance of all the important things in life, like how to kill people.

By the way, here is what Justice of the Peace Eulalio Diaz, Jr. had to say, when he was required to go into the Uvalde school and identify the bodies: "It's something you never want to see and it's something you don't, you cannot, prepare for. It's a picture that's going to stay in my head forever, and that's where I'd like for it to stay." He says he has no intention of ever sharing exactly what he saw.

The AR-15, which is the weapon used by the gunman at Robb Elementary, is designed to blow targets apart. It's a weapon built for war. And when fired into a human adult body, its bullets travel with such fierce velocity that they can decapitate a person, or leave a body looking "like a grenade went off in there," as Peter Rhee, a trauma surgeon at the University of Arizona, told Wired. The carnage the weapon leaves behind has become a signature of school shootings and other mass shootings across the country.

Unfortunately, Diaz has now seen first-hand what such a weapon can do to children with small bones and limbs, which made the process of identifying them even more agonizing.

So, yeah, @Audie, maybe the hole wasn't a whole foot wide -- but I doubt that any of those kids are any less dead, or that Diaz's trauma over what he saw is any easier for him because it's only half a foot wide, and a child's head only half blown off.

But as long as that comforts you...well, go with it.

 

[Evangelicalhumanist]

Many people who are against guns don't know much about guns IMO

Well, why not own grenades, or grenade launchers, or bunker bombs, or nukes? Is it only because you don't know enough about them?

Bah! Republicans. "Pro life" and even more "pro weapons that can take life."

 

[Evangelicalhumanist]

Psychologists say that children should learn love first.
And then, later on, they can be taught sex. There is no hurry for that.

I fail to understand why they are dying to teach them sex first.

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Kids explore their own bodies (and those of children closest to them) before they have any notions of romantic love.

 

[Audie]

it seems many people who are against guns don't know much about guns IMOi

It's like talking to creationists.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

it seems many people who are against guns don't know much about guns IMO

It seems those who hate the idea of personal accountability, being held responsible for their actions, and who believe in the myth that we're entirely in control don't like hearing about gun regulations, safety requirements and how problematics spontaneous violence with guns is.

 

[John53]

It's like talking to creationists.

Indeed. How dare people feel the right of children to feel safe in school is more important than a rednecks right to own a dozen semi autos.

 

[Estro Felino]

Indeed. How dare people feel the right of children to feel safe in school is more important than a rednecks right to own a dozen semi autos.

That's the 21st century, I guess.
It's absolutely irrational for a parent to be outraged, if a teacher makes sixth-graders read books with titles like "Mr. Glass takes it right where it rhymes".

 

[SomeRandom]

That's the 21st century, I guess.
It's absolutely irrational for a parent to be outraged, if a teacher makes sixth-graders read books with titles like "Mr. Glass takes it right where it rhymes".

Honestly that sounds tame compared to what they can find on the internet. Which kids can access at an age before they can even walk these days.

But in all seriousness. Why do people automatically equate homosexuality with gay sex?
It’s honestly a little perverted.
Like as soon as someone mentions homosexuality, it suddenly equates to gay porn. Ever notice that?
Are we reading porn to kids whenever we tell them about the Disney Rendition of The Little Mermaid? Hell Ariel and Eric even kiss in that version!! They even have a kid in the sequel!
(The OG is way darker lol)

 

[Estro Felino]

Honestly that sounds tame compared to what they can find on the internet. Which kids can access at an age before they can even walk these days.

But in all seriousness. Why do people automatically equate homosexuality with gay sex?
It’s honestly a little perverted.
Like as soon as someone mentions homosexuality, it suddenly equates to gay porn. Ever notice that?

You're right, but I was referring to that video I posted about that sixth-grader reading a book out loud.
If it's about romantic stories of two boys falling in love with each other, I don't find anything wrong with that.

 

[Audie]

Indeed. How dare people feel the right of children to feel safe in school is more important than a rednecks right to own a dozen semi autos.

Name calling, sarcasm, strawman.
Typical of creatinist rhetoric

 

[Audie]

Honestly that sounds tame compared to what they can find on the internet. Which kids can access at an age before they can even walk these days.

But in all seriousness. Why do people automatically equate homosexuality with gay sex?
It’s honestly a little perverted.
Like as soon as someone mentions homosexuality, it suddenly equates to gay porn. Ever notice that?
Are we reading porn to kids whenever we tell them about the Disney Rendition of The Little Mermaid? Hell Ariel and Eric even kiss in that version!! They even have a kid in the sequel!
(The OG is way darker lol)

Huh.
Does it always so equate? Porn?
That's new to me.

 

[Audie]

It seems those who hate the idea of personal accountability, being held responsible for their actions, and who believe in the myth that we're entirely in control don't like hearing about gun regulations, safety requirements and how problematics spontaneous violence with guns is.

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Really? I think you just made that up.

 

[John53]

Name calling, sarcasm, strawman.
Typical of creatinist rhetoric

I'll offer up some thoughts and prayers in that case. Best to stick to tradition.

 

[We Never Know]

It seems those who hate the idea of personal accountability, being held responsible for their actions, and who believe in the myth that we're entirely in control don't like hearing about gun regulations, safety requirements and how problematics spontaneous violence with guns is.

Really? Myself(I'm very proficient with guns) and many gun owners I know are for stricter gun regulations and safety requirements. I've said it hundreds of times..background checks should include minor and medical records for a start.

Personal accountability, being held responsible for their actions, and problematic spontaneous violence with guns are the nut jobs, not responsible gun owners.

 

[Subduction Zone]

It's why this nation abysmally fails in education time and time again.

This type of controversial crap takes precedence over actual essential subjects and topics.

I think most parents want their kids to actually learn. Not what can be done at the night club and bars in the off hours.

No, the problem is that this should not be controversial.. People should not have to suffer because of ignorant prejudice by the superstitious.

 

[mikkel_the_dane]

It seems those who hate the idea of personal accountability, being held responsible for their actions, and who believe in the myth that we're entirely in control don't like hearing about gun regulations, safety requirements and how problematics spontaneous violence with guns is.

Well, I was taught that differently, but then again I was a professional soldier.

 

[Subduction Zone]

Huh.
Does it always so equate? Porn?
That's new to me.

Almost any sort of sex ed is called "porn" by our creationist friends.