I know...i know. I was of course sickened at this (and so was she) I think I was more sickened that she knew something about sex that I didnt.
trisexuality

No!

I live in WNC!
Want-a-fight about it?
LOL

You cant force your beliefs on other peoples children.
Whether it be religious or homosexual!

informing is not forcing

But you dont have the right to be the informer on certain topics when it pertains to another's children!

You can inform your own by your views all you want, but you dont hold a universal right to the values another parent wishes to instill in theirs!

It is if its in a public school!

Have you ever heard of truancy laws?

I agree. it should be the parent's rightsto decide whether they want their child to be informed. most sex ed classes i know of, send out a notice to the parents in case the parents don't approve...then they can pull their child from the course if they wish to

And since its a publicly funded school they should give the parents who choose to keep their kids at home a pro-rated tax deduction.

Or better yet!

Keep the chit out of public schools altogether.

IMO...they need to offer an alternative choice

ya i got a paper that I signed in order for my daughter to get sex education at school..


and yes i signed it ans she attended. and NO they didnt talk about homosexuality at all.

thats fine, your right its the parents choice.

but this is a very sex motivated society that we live in. clthes. tv. radio. friends. let alone natural hormones. I choose to have any informed child rather than a misinformed or uninformed child

yup. i would get in trouble if my child did not attend school regularly i believe. not sure i get the point

That will work!

I have already said I didn't personally have a problem with my son learning...whether it's sex, religion, whatever. but I know there are some parents that do.

That depends on the definition of what is informed, and what is disinformed, and what is uninformed.

Myself?
Id tell the truth!

Homosexuality is unnatural and its a personal choice!

Let's keep our personal opinions about values out of public schools.

The problem with this situation is that I am tired of parents, politicians, teachers, School Boards, ( and other so called names that can all fall under the same category called guardians)-having to feel that they are best on what is the correct way of teaching young kids on sex, and courses in sex orientation. No matter what, the role of an educator is not to provide indoctrinaire methods of informing a child on how they ought to percieve the subject, but to do the opposite. Let the teens (supposing that age 12 ought to be the appropriate time) inquire on the subject with little or no interference by the guardian, and have the guardian guide them on exploring many pluralites of opinions of homosexuality and other sexual preferences for to let them come up with their own judgment.

me and the tarheel agree

now i didnt say what I told her about homosexuality...jsut that she knows. although close to what you just said

and your right as a parent its OUR chocie what a kid learns. but im also saying a KID will learn many many things on their own. and many things from school. and from parents/family. and from friends. and from tv.

I know my daughter learns when we have educational night at home and watch the history channel or something, lol..even if she hates it. thanks for reminding me tonight is educational night. yayyyyyyy

YAY!!!

Nope, not in the mood for fighting today.. grin. WNC? I assume you mean Western NC? As if that changes anything.. LMAO

Anyway I agree that forcing one's beliefs on anyone's children is wrong, sexual or religious, and especially at that early age. Not sure where the force was here, but then I am not even clear on the whole issue and I suspect that if it's interpreted by a religous organization I won't get the whole story, nor might I if it came from the other side.

So it your view that it is ok for you to force your beliefs onto your children? If so, then children is not something of a person who will later be an adult who had the education of coming up with their own set of beliefs, but someone who were force fed with set of beliefs because their were once a property of their parents.

Sad thing is that those parents who prevent children from learning that there are homosexuals in the world and they are normal too, just like heterosexuals run the chance of having a gay or lesbian child that does not feel really accepted at home.

I taught my kids about homosexuality early. I have gay friends and the kids wanted to know. So I told them that some people fall in love with the same sex, nothing wrong with it, it is perfectly normal.

Now if my children had been gay or lesbian, they would have known that I did not judge them for who they love. My relationship with my children would have been solid from the get on it.

My children have experimented but they are attracted to the opposite sex so they luckily will not have to deal with the prejudice on that level in this world. But I would have loved them the same regardless.

This is my view on it. But I have to reiterate the graphic explicit stuff is not necessary at any level and that should be pulled from the curriculum if they are teaching at that level.