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originally posted by: Saloon
a reply to: quintessentone
Maybe this is where it all stems from, the belief that holding on to backward ways of doing things is the best way because one has been indoctrinated to believe it to be. As society progresses and changes we all need at the very least to try to understand others' experiences and not give in to false beliefs or fear-based propaganda from the usual sources.
We were doing this and all was just peachy.
Then Drag Queens started showing up at school to teach P.E.
And the schools started claiming that our kids were their
kids or all of our kids by people to ugly to have kids.
And that's likely a good thing.
The school administrators and parents invited drag storytellers in to tell a particular kind of story, a particular kind of reality, a particular kind of message that we are all people and deserve respect and understanding.
originally posted by: Saloon
a reply to: quintessentone
The school administrators and parents invited drag storytellers in to tell a particular kind of story, a particular kind of reality, a particular kind of message that we are all people and deserve respect and understanding.
So a woman mocking drag queen is teahing the children?
Respect and understanding?
God help us
And this distraction on top of so many others like covid are more important
than reading writing math civics economics etc? How horrifying this world
is becoming. Little kids being threatened by confused lurching men in
drag? All being done with one goal in mind.
Tyranny
Nevermnd the nightmares!
Is respecting others in society not an important thing to learn?
it's about kids exploring their own sexuality, without shame or hush-hush, that includes adults talking about theirs without shame and hush-hush.
originally posted by: Saloon
a reply to: quintessentone
Is respecting others in society not an important thing to learn?
Yes and it's important that their parents teach them that. Not some
sexually disoriented spectacle freak show.
Can't even leave the kids alone. What a sick demented world.
originally posted by: PorkChop96
a reply to: quintessentone
Who are you to decide who are "toxic" parents and who aren't?
Where I grew up, all of the kids my age were taught that respect is earned not given and I still stand by that. I will show you respect when I first meet you but if you treat me like crap for no reason you have lost my respect forever until you prove you earned it.
originally posted by: PorkChop96
a reply to: quintessentone
There is also the fact that it could be a lack of parenting causing these issues. One where the kids develop no social skills and when put into a class of other kids they act out for lack of attention to them, they don't share well, and can be verbally and physically abusive to others because they have not been taught any different. Dealing with this exact scenario in my personal life with some of my wife's "friends"
It could also just be the kid themselves, not wanting to do what the parents teach/preach. Seeing the "tolerance" their parents have and how they get pushed around and used and abused in society for not having their own original thoughts and the kid doesn't want to be treated like that.
This can't just be nailed down to your idea of "toxic" parents and that's that. Not everyone in the world is trying to corrupt kids like they do in your mind.
originally posted by: PorkChop96
a reply to: quintessentone
Thank you for regurgitating almost exactly what I just said....
Minus the psychological assessments that is a little overstepping of boundaries IMO. Just because a kid acts out does not mean they have a mental disorder or deserve to be suspended.
You can't sit here and tell me you never acted out, even once, in school. And when you did, did you deserve to be suspended and have psych test run on you for what you did? I know the couple times I did, suspension might not have been off the table but there was no reason for mental tests.
originally posted by: PorkChop96
a reply to: quintessentone
I never did any of those either, but I still did what some would consider acting out. Did I need to have a psychological test when I was 14?
I will let YOU define that, since you are the one saying it's needed.
originally posted by: PorkChop96
a reply to: quintessentone
Then why go directly to suspension and psychological test, rather than a home visit or a family meeting at the school?
Since you want to say they are needed, what would tell you, by meeting the parents, that a kid needs psych tests for a mental disorder?
Toxic parents don't teach respecting others that are different from yourself.