Anyone home school or know of someone who home schools? (Year 1 update) (1 Viewer)

[Jim14510]

I just don't want them to be in a position where they are ostracized for having a dissenting opinion

That's part of life though. Have to let them figure out if their dissenting opinion is really their opinion too. You don't want your kids to just absorb all of your opinions as the correct ones either.

I mean I do but most people shouldn't.

 

[Baron Winnebago]

Just use rain as an instrument.

 

[BingoDingo]

Just use rain as an instrument.

...use prayer as a proxy for rain.

 

[Jim14510]

Apples and oranges, nerd.

I don't think it really is. It's a way of life that someone is choosing to follow.

 

[DrumMonkeyRobot]

I don't think it really is. It's a way of life that someone is choosing to follow.

I don't believe it's a choice. Most in the LGBTQ+ community will tell you the same. They are born as they are. Pride is a celebration of all they've overcome to be accepted as they were born.

See post #52 in this thread to further explain my view.

One can argue to the contrary, but without any experience as an actual gay person, who are we to tell them their reality?

 

[iruletheskool]

Most educational research doesn't take the estimation of causal effects all that seriously

True

 

[iruletheskool]

I don't believe it's a choice. Most in the LGBTQ+ community will tell you the same. They are born as they are. Pride is a celebration of all they've overcome to be accepted as they were born.

See post #52 in this thread to further explain my view.

One can argue to the contrary, but without any experience as an actual gay person, who are we to tell them their reality?

I'd prefer no sexuality is "celebrated" around children. Jmo

 

[1HuskerDad]

Agreed trying everything we can to send our kids through private school for the remainder and do major research for college because they have poisoned those too.

College profs have brainwashed a whole generation of would-be teachers who have taken over HS and elementary schools and made their classroom their own individual fiefdom.

 

[DrumMonkeyRobot]

I'd prefer no sexuality is "celebrated" around children. Jmo

I would as well. That said, I don't believe pride is specifically sexualized when presented to the general public. Especially in a classroom. It's just as easy to say, "We're celebrating that we live in a country that allows us the freedom to love who we want without persecution."

Pretty easy for a kiddo to understand without sexualizing anything.

 

[DrumMonkeyRobot]

@Jim14510

I respectfully ask: Do you honestly believe that your sexuality is a choice that you're following? That you consciously choose every day only to be attracted to women?

 

[KidsSeeGhosts]

I don't think it really is. It's a way of life that someone is choosing to follow.

I disagree.

/s/ The United States Constitution

 

[Jim14510]

I don't believe it's a choice. Most in the LGBTQ+ community will tell you the same. They are born as they are. Pride is a celebration of all they've overcome to be accepted as they were born.

See post #52 in this thread to further explain my view.

I think a good percentage of gay people are born that way. I think we're in the stage of the normalization period that it's promoted as cool to be LGBTQ and a smaller percentage are doing it for that reason. That really doesn't have anything to do with it.

I think with religion or gender/sex or anything along those lines the teacher shouldn't be "pushing it" ever. I don't think it's a big deal to have a cross hanging from the wall or a Pride flag. The problem is kids are curious and ask questions. Rather than directing conversations towards something inappropriate for public school just leave it out.

 

[Jim14510]

@Jim14510

I respectfully ask: Do you honestly believe that your sexuality is a choice that you're following? That you consciously choose every day only to be attracted to women?

I get why you took it that way but that wasn't what I meant.

 

[Jim14510]

I disagree.

/s/ The United States Constitution

If a bunch of gay people left Europe to start over here because they were being killed in Europe for being gay it would have been.

 

[Jim14510]

That's a really poor comparison but I think you get what I meant @KidsSeeGhosts

 

[RedSeaRising]

That's part of life though. Have to let them figure out if their dissenting opinion is really their opinion too. You don't want your kids to just absorb all of your opinions as the correct ones either.

I mean I do but most people shouldn't.

I don't want them to have my opinions and beliefs. Won't ever push that onto them. Analogously I don't want their belief systems on nuanced & complex issues to be shaped by someone else's personal views at a young & impressionable age in their lives.

 

[Baron Winnebago]

...use prayer as a proxy for rain.

Just use OLS because it's a natural experiment. Plausibly random

 

[KidsSeeGhosts]

That's a really poor comparison but I think you get what I meant @KidsSeeGhosts

Idk man, hard to imagine a bunch of gay people being killed in Europe 500 years ago

 

[Jim14510]

I don't want them to have my opinions and beliefs. Won't ever push that onto them. Analogously I don't want their belief systems on nuanced & complex issues to be shaped by someone else's personal views at a young & impressionable age in their lives.

You do that whether you intend to or not. If you avoid the topics the only thing you're doing is not giving your children your point of view to consider. If there is no right or wrong answer the best thing is for them to experience the question from multiple sources and multiple angles.

 

[Jim14510]

Idk man, hard to imagine a bunch of gay people being killed in Europe 500 years ago

Yeah but they didn't get on a boat together.