This would also be a good place to teach the kids “you can’t please all the people all the time”.
While our schools are treating MLK Day as tolerance and diversity training (nothing wrong with that) - our family will be having discussions of how far do you take tolerance and diversity.
Last night my 10 year old told us that raising your pinky in China is like the “middle finger” in the U.S. (Anyone know if that is true?) But - the idea of “relativism” peaked its head. And yes, for some things it IS relative. (Pinkies raised at tea-time in England - okay! China - no.)
Lots of this to me gets covered under good manners. Your friend is coming over for dinner and he can’t eat pork? Have the cheese pizza for him. Even if he sneaks a bite later!
Even Hitler, if he had had good manners may have been okay perhaps!? (”Well, I really want to get rid of all the Jews - but that wouldn’t be very polite”.)
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There are 2 problems here:
The first is Muslim immigration.
It is idiocy to allow Muslims into any free country. They will and are using the laws of free countries against freedom. One of the foundation stones of freedom is having a people of good will, who are committed to making freedom work. Islam is obviously not a religion of “good will”. Muslims WILL and ARE using government schools and every other rule of law of free countries against those who cherish freedom.
The second is government schools.
The education of a child is fundamentally the transfer of moral, ethics, and values, and these morals ethics, and values are never non-neutral. Government schools by trying to be all things to all people are diluting the Judeo Christian values that are essential to freedom. In essence, government schools are contributing to the destruction of freedom.
Solution:
1) Put an immediate stop to all Muslim immigration. Encourage those who are not citizens to leave.
2) Privatize universal K-12 education. In this way, those of us who do value the Judeo Christian values ( essential to freedom) can fully and thoroughly teach these values in an unadulterated way.