TrueAnon

The American Mind ^ | 03/31/22 | Spencer Klavan

[PoliticallyShort]

I can imagine that chatting about home and family might be part of a normal day in Kindergarten. But what I cannot imagine is that it is impossible to educate small children without telling them about your love life and outlining prospects for theirs. The really damning thing about the reaction to Florida’s bill is not that some teachers think it’s appropriate to mention their after-school activities in class. It’s that LGBT maximalists think it’s mandatory for all children to know about and endorse every possible variety of sexual pursuit, parental attitudes notwithstanding.

This entitlement to other people’s kids is what convinces Disney executives that they not only can but must trans children’s psyches everywhere. Their aspiration is not simply that a small minority of adults should be able to make private choices in peace. It is that no person, anywhere, should be allowed to harbor reservations about any other person’s sexual habits, however unusual. So children must imagine and long for a world which is more gender-fluid even than the one we currently occupy. Hence the urgency of piping colorful fantasies of a sexualized future into television sets around the country. It all starts to sound very quickly like grooming (because it is) on a mass scale, glossed over with a sinister veneer of tolerance and fun. In other words, a hyper-powerful cabal of monied predators.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

I can imagine that chatting about home and family might be part of a normal day in Kindergarten.

Why?

I never remember even one of my teachers bringing up their home life.

I had no idea if they even had a home life or family. For all I knew at the end of the day they marched into the supply closet and climbed up on the shelf to hibernate until class should start again.

[brookwood]

“I never remember even one of my teachers bringing up their home life.”
Ditto, but my female French teacher was openly dating a 17 year old senior boy. Everyone knew but said nothing. The guy was 6’2”, if you said anything to him he would have decked you. In grade school I knew nothing about my teacher’s home life. In 8th grade there was one teacher smoking weed with students.

[Cecily]

Never mind kindergarten; I can’t recall knowing anything about the personal lives of my teachers all the way through high school. The only exceptions were knowing that certain teachers were married to each other, one elementary school teacher lived across the street from my grandparents and her daughter and I were young playmates, one girl in my class year had an aunt who was a teacher in our junior high school, another girl’s father was the boy’s basketball coach, and seeing a high school French teacher’s apartment once because a meeting was held there for a group planning a trip to Europe (she was a chaperone).

That’s it. My teachers didn’t socialize with students and kept their private lives private. I don’t recall any of them speaking about their spouses, children, hobbies, vacations, what they did last weekend or their political, religious or social views.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

My fifth grade teacher was the first one I knew anything about and that was because it was a very small community and you just about knew everybody. But even then it was just that she was unmarried and had a dog named Sam.

Ninth grade I knew a bit about my math teacher and that was because his son was a classmate.

It was never a "in class" sort of thing.

[tomkat]

Ditto!

[sauropod]

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[VinnieCCT]

The reason, of course, is because shame and guilt causes people to desperately seek approval from others.