[TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig]

Slightly off subject.

I am in a career that requires me, at times, to search for missing children, respond to alarms, and investigate crimes.

I work for a large municipality in WA state.

I was investigating an 11 year old girl who did not come home after a public school event and was going through her classroom trying to find her best friend’s full name so we could attempt to get a phone number and address for that family.

On the teacher’s desk was an assignment journal that had an assignment’s written description.

This assignment was about a movie the class had watched about “families.”

On the first line it had written, “to be done in classroom/not to be taken home.”

It then had a list of questions that the students should answer about the movie, which would be written out.

The assignments had been turned in and were stacked under the journal page.

One of the questions was “what are some of the types of families depicted in the movie?”

There were about 5 or 6 acceptable answers written on the journal page. One of them was “two dads.”

The kids then had to explain why each type of family ended up like that....”dad died so their is only mom” or “daddy is gay and loves a man.”

I just shook my head and patted myself on the back for sending my kids to Catholic school.

Not only is this stuff going on, but the school is purposefully hiding it from the parent(s) by keeping the work “in house” so the few parents that look at their kid’s homework won’t see it.

This one reason why school vouchers work so wonderfully. If you don’t like your kids being taught about certain things, shop your dollars somewhere else.

[rhema]

. . .There were about 5 or 6 acceptable answers written on the journal page. One of them was “two dads.”

The kids then had to explain why each type of family ended up like that....”dad died so their is only mom” or “daddy is gay and loves a man.”

I just shook my head and patted myself on the back for sending my kids to Catholic school.

Not only is this stuff going on, but the school is purposefully hiding it from the parent(s) by keeping the work “in house” so the few parents that look at their kid’s homework won’t see it.

This one reason why school vouchers work so wonderfully. If you don’t like your kids being taught about certain things, shop your dollars somewhere else.

And this book was in the school's library, no doubt:

[goldi]

Why do parents send their children to schools that usurp parental authority? Do they truly not know what is going on or do their children go along with the program just to get through the day, laughing all the while and mocking out the teachers and administrators with their crazy ideas about life, not telling their parents because, hey, it’s just some more crap you have to get through and you can have some fun with it?

In my county, a well regarded public school system decided to question middle school students and high school students about their feelings about sex through a survey by an outside agency. The school said they needed the kids’ input to develop curriculum. The kids treated the whole thing as a joke (even though they were threatened if they refused to take the survey or didn’t treat the survey seriously). Long story short, the kids decided to treat it as a joke, one kid didn’t answer the survey and took it home to show her parents, and the survey was a dismal failure, of no use whatsoever. The parents of the girl made a stink and the state legislature got involved saying that parents had to opt in (not opt out) to further surveys.

Kids know when they are being used.