I do not think the schools should be teaching tolerance by singling out deviant behavior to tolerate. Be general if you must, but don't include immoral behavior in your list of things to tolerate. That's just stupid. Given the stats on childhood sexual abuse, I don't think sexual anything should be included in the list of things to tolerate. You're just setting a kid up to be even more vulnerable.
My 4th grade child came home with a story to read for "ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS" that was a story with how to read ARABIC words like Hello etc.
One questions was..if I were talking to so and so and wanted to say hello and the 4 choices were 4 different Arabic words.
I dont see how this helps with ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS.
"I don't think sexual anything should be included in the list of things to tolerate."
Certainly not in kindergarten, certainly not before puberty. Who's so nosy about everybody else's family, anyway. I'm pretty sure if Heather has two mommies in real life this can be handled between members of the community without the school system becoming involved.
The only thing about this widely reported story that I do not understand is why these parents are leaving their child in this disgusting school.
Maybe I should write a children's book about jimmy's parents being ex-cons. They were in prison for meth production and child pornography, but they are his parents and have paid their debt to society. We should be tolerant of them because everyone has different parents with different backgrounds. (sarcasm)
I do not understand why these topics need to be addressed at all. Kids need to deal with kid things like the alphabet, numbers, sight words, beginning writing, simple math, painting, etc. They do not need to be addressing social/moral issues. I taught kindergarten in 96 and we never did that stuff. I am not sure how I, as a teacher, would have handled it, I doubt she even has a choice. You can bet that I would have let a parent opt out if they sent a note to me. There would be no need for me to involve the administration. If his parents got the bag, and called me, I would have let them opt out. Once they involve the prinicipal in the liberal school system, you are at their mercy, the individual teacher (yes, there are some of us) is at their mercy too.