or as i might say, inserting yourself into places you don't need to be.
my odd ramblings attempting to be cohesive
friends at music city bloggers are chatting away over proposed legislation prohibiting preschools & early education classes from 'promoting a homosexual lifestyle' by using inclusion-ary books or resources.
being trained and having worked as an early child educator for a number of years inclusion is a big part of a child's education. this inclusion 'best practices' covers, race, religion, disabilities, global issues, and lifestyles. since this conversation generally seems to stir around homosexuality this is inevitably about sex, not over lifestyle. now, i can agree with some comments that this should be taught in the family, but we would have to be honest in claiming that most families don't teach sex educations with their children and have been perfectly happy to relegate teaching that stuff to schools. why else would we need all this teen pregnancy education or your 7th grade sex/health class taught by your odd gym teacher.
since we give this teaching over to schools they have a particular responsibility to treat each person equally and by that we don't go overboard celebrating holidays that lift up a particular family and exclude another, not all teachings and toys are only resembling of a white perfectly healthy child, etc..
if this is a religious ideology thing then people have the option, send your kid to a private school that won't teach with these type materials or resources or teach against it. the religious ideologies has no place in the public education system. which might sound heretical to a fundamentalist point of view, but i grew up studying darwin and i am a pretty well adjusted and convicted Christian. children adjust and take on the influence of their family if the family wants to be the influence, they can give away their power.
what breaks my heart is that legislation like this is essentially sex morality issues and it dangles over the people the future of children which is absurd. you can not agree with homosexual lifestyle or same sex unions raising a child, but you cannot allow for hate of the child. and if you allow taboos and unknowns to be out there you perpetuate a fear and fear pushes hate and other terrible acts.
