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this evil crap needs to stop
originally posted by: shooterbrody
So uh
Hey Brits are these your values?
originally posted by: infolurker
a reply to: Astyanax
Ummm... we didn't have crap like this.
We had Math, reading, writing, history, etc.
If someone had pushed this when I was in grade school, someone would be getting arrested.
Ummm... we didn't have crap like this. We had Math, reading, writing, history, etc. If someone had pushed this when I was in grade school, someone would be getting arrested.
You who are so “tolerant“ lose all that when challenged... There are people who believe that is wrong. Why are you not tolerant of their beliefs?
Very vile and disgusting. What a nasty society to allow children to be subjected to that.
Here I have EVERY RIGHT to decide what schools expose my child to.
Sex education is compulsory in secondary schools. Parents can ask to withdraw their child from parts or all of sex education taught as part of relationships and sex education. Parents cannot withdraw their child from sex education taught in science
originally posted by: infolurker
The UK seems to be worse off than we are on all this insanity. In this video, a student records the crazy teacher who threatens them. So I assume this will be common here soon, you have no right to refuse or not participate.
No joke, this evil crap needs to stop. Forced imposing of their beliefs on an unwilling population who rejects this crap.
Teacher CAUGHT SCOLDING Students For REJECTING LGBTQ Lesson
originally posted by: Astyanax
a reply to: infolurker
Did you have a choice over the curriculum you were taught in school? You may have had the option to choose among subjects in secondary school, but once you were in a class you had no choice but to learn, and be tested on, the whole syllabus taught in that class. This is precisely the same thing.
Of course every child needs to learn the values of their society. They are free, thereafter, to reject those values if they disagree with them, but they do not and should not be given the liberty to pick and choose what they learn. That is emphatically not how education works. It never has been and never will be.
originally posted by: Astyanax
a reply to: infolurker
Ummm... we didn't have crap like this. We had Math, reading, writing, history, etc. If someone had pushed this when I was in grade school, someone would be getting arrested.
You also had plenty of instruction in the values of your society. You received it in history class, social studies, civics class (if you took one), literature, etc; some of it came bundled with the communal activities you partook in along with the rest of your class or school. This is no different; I didn't bother to watch beyond the recording of the supposed 'offence', which was played right at the start of the video, but it's pretty clear this must have happened in some kind of social-studies class.
What disturbs you is simply that what is being taught is not what was taught in your time, and perhaps goes against what you believe to be right and proper. Ever since schools quit teaching the same subjects and syllabuses they had followed since the Middle Ages, this has been a common reaction between every generation and the next. But once it is agreed in principle that education must be suited to the times in which its recipient grows up and may be expected to live (and that is hard to disagree with), the content of education has to change with the times. And we'll hear complaints like yours all the time.
I shan't go into the rights and wrongs of LGBT+ education or awareness-raising for children, because that isn't the point I'm addressing. I'm not saying whether children should or shouldn't be taught about these things; all I'm saying is that, after the decision (to teach or not to teach these things) has been taken by the relevant educational authorities, pupils have no right to refuse instruction in them. Neither do they have the right to be taught any subject they desire. And no more have parents; but that is a different argument, and we can have it another day.
originally posted by: Astyanax
a reply to: infolurker
Did you have a choice over the curriculum you were taught in school? You may have had the option to choose among subjects in secondary school, but once you were in a class you had no choice but to learn, and be tested on, the whole syllabus taught in that class. This is precisely the same thing.
Of course every child needs to learn the values of their society. They are free, thereafter, to reject those values if they disagree with them, but they do not and should not be given the liberty to pick and choose what they learn. That is emphatically not how education works. It never has been and never will be.