My daughter and many of her colleagues left the profession because every year they discard policies and start new ones, they had no input. This creates additional stress and work. Teachers are mandated to teach a subject they are not knowledgeable about like philosophy or math. It’s chaos. Add to that the lack of discipline and first in is first layed off, you get a shortage of competent teachers.
We have to stay engaged and push back. It seems like it has no effect but it does. I send the board email, articles and speak at the board meetings. In fact this was written primarily for the school board and superintendent. We need educators to step up. Particularly if they left the profession, they should go public and become a advocate for the children. I started C V Advocates for this purpose. You can follow the page on Facebook and make sure you share this substack as well. It's free. If you look at the archives there's something on most relevant subjects.
"History is meant to be learned from so the mistakes are not repeated."
If we don't teach children about those mistakes (slavery, segregation, Jim Crow, etc.), how are they supposed to avoid making those same mistakes in the future? Ronda Satans wants FloriDUH schools to teach a whitewashed version of black history that says that slavery was good for them because it taught them job skills. Not a word about slave-catchers, slave-breakers, the underground railroad, etc.
Also, parental veto of teaching about human sexuality is not necessarily a good thing. The sum total of advice about sex that I got from my parents was delivered as we finished moving me into my freshman year college dorm room. My father -- on the sly -- handed me a condom and said, "Protect yourself." TWO WORDS! The rest of what I knew about sex at that point came from classmates and random strangers. There definitely is a place for professionals in teaching children about human sexuality.
As for religion in the public schools, it has to be all or nothing. The schools can't support just christianity. If they are made to support christianity, they must also support judaism, islam, hindu, satanism, flying spaghetti monster, atheism and all the rest. It's only fair.
Lee I appreciate your response. From the beginning of this country there were people opposed to slavery. I don't think arguing that "slavery was good for black people" is a popular or credible argument. It's insulting at best on it's face. We are witnessing slavery on a global scale today. In China, the middle east and in our own country today! Political decisions and policies are enabling the exploitation and subjugation of people by eliminating our border, giving people false hope and driving them into the arms of some of the most ruthless people on the planet today, the cartels. I'm all for teaching the entire truth about slavery, historical and contemporary in hopes that people will unite to fight it put an end to it once and for all. Today in this country the "history" of slavery is used as political tool not only to divide the races but gain power and money for a small group of people. BLM is the perfect example. A few people enriched themselves while the the poor and working people were harmed by the destruction that took place in their communities. They can't name one community that benefited from their actions while the "leaders" enriched themselves and their families.
I'm not saying that there is no place in the public schools for sex education. Your experience (and mine) with parents that didn't have "the conversation" was and is common. It's a subject most people are uncomfortable with but necessary as you pointed out. The problem is, as with everything the government get involved with, is they go to far and promote special interest agendas from donors who keep them in office. This is a much larger conversation but in many cases the "special interest" agendas are over reach and rather then educating children are influencing them in way that lead to harm and misery. I do go into more detail in previous posts on my substack.
As far as religion (again I would direct you and others to my previous posts) in a very real sense it's a "free market". I personally am a Christian and unapologetically will do what I can to promoted the liberating message that we are designed to be in direct relationship with the living God. Many schools now have "religious" clubs and groups typically middle school and up. Given the dramatic rise in mental health issues that children are experiencing, the rise in suicide, gender confusion and host of other issues yes I believe a spiritual counter balance to the curriculum being taught is appropriate. If schools can teach someone that they can change their sex if they're not happy then why not be able to teach that you can be happy and fulfilled with the life and body you were born with. Seems fair to me. The basic point I'm making is, as with all of these subjects is an honest balance age appropriate message should be taught in our public school. And yes parents should have the first right of refusal with regards to what their children are being taught. Parents might not be perfect but they are the ones responsible for their children and it should remain that way.
St Xavier is rolling in his grave over what’s happening at Xavier Prep in Palm Desert.
My daughter and many of her colleagues left the profession because every year they discard policies and start new ones, they had no input. This creates additional stress and work. Teachers are mandated to teach a subject they are not knowledgeable about like philosophy or math. It’s chaos. Add to that the lack of discipline and first in is first layed off, you get a shortage of competent teachers.
We have to stay engaged and push back. It seems like it has no effect but it does. I send the board email, articles and speak at the board meetings. In fact this was written primarily for the school board and superintendent. We need educators to step up. Particularly if they left the profession, they should go public and become a advocate for the children. I started C V Advocates for this purpose. You can follow the page on Facebook and make sure you share this substack as well. It's free. If you look at the archives there's something on most relevant subjects.
"History is meant to be learned from so the mistakes are not repeated."
If we don't teach children about those mistakes (slavery, segregation, Jim Crow, etc.), how are they supposed to avoid making those same mistakes in the future? Ronda Satans wants FloriDUH schools to teach a whitewashed version of black history that says that slavery was good for them because it taught them job skills. Not a word about slave-catchers, slave-breakers, the underground railroad, etc.
Also, parental veto of teaching about human sexuality is not necessarily a good thing. The sum total of advice about sex that I got from my parents was delivered as we finished moving me into my freshman year college dorm room. My father -- on the sly -- handed me a condom and said, "Protect yourself." TWO WORDS! The rest of what I knew about sex at that point came from classmates and random strangers. There definitely is a place for professionals in teaching children about human sexuality.
As for religion in the public schools, it has to be all or nothing. The schools can't support just christianity. If they are made to support christianity, they must also support judaism, islam, hindu, satanism, flying spaghetti monster, atheism and all the rest. It's only fair.
Lee I appreciate your response. From the beginning of this country there were people opposed to slavery. I don't think arguing that "slavery was good for black people" is a popular or credible argument. It's insulting at best on it's face. We are witnessing slavery on a global scale today. In China, the middle east and in our own country today! Political decisions and policies are enabling the exploitation and subjugation of people by eliminating our border, giving people false hope and driving them into the arms of some of the most ruthless people on the planet today, the cartels. I'm all for teaching the entire truth about slavery, historical and contemporary in hopes that people will unite to fight it put an end to it once and for all. Today in this country the "history" of slavery is used as political tool not only to divide the races but gain power and money for a small group of people. BLM is the perfect example. A few people enriched themselves while the the poor and working people were harmed by the destruction that took place in their communities. They can't name one community that benefited from their actions while the "leaders" enriched themselves and their families.
I'm not saying that there is no place in the public schools for sex education. Your experience (and mine) with parents that didn't have "the conversation" was and is common. It's a subject most people are uncomfortable with but necessary as you pointed out. The problem is, as with everything the government get involved with, is they go to far and promote special interest agendas from donors who keep them in office. This is a much larger conversation but in many cases the "special interest" agendas are over reach and rather then educating children are influencing them in way that lead to harm and misery. I do go into more detail in previous posts on my substack.
As far as religion (again I would direct you and others to my previous posts) in a very real sense it's a "free market". I personally am a Christian and unapologetically will do what I can to promoted the liberating message that we are designed to be in direct relationship with the living God. Many schools now have "religious" clubs and groups typically middle school and up. Given the dramatic rise in mental health issues that children are experiencing, the rise in suicide, gender confusion and host of other issues yes I believe a spiritual counter balance to the curriculum being taught is appropriate. If schools can teach someone that they can change their sex if they're not happy then why not be able to teach that you can be happy and fulfilled with the life and body you were born with. Seems fair to me. The basic point I'm making is, as with all of these subjects is an honest balance age appropriate message should be taught in our public school. And yes parents should have the first right of refusal with regards to what their children are being taught. Parents might not be perfect but they are the ones responsible for their children and it should remain that way.