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If anyone here is still thinking about homeschooling you need to know the local laws so that you don't get a truancy visit from CPS. Here is an excellent resource. http://www.hslda.org/
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I've always been a dolphin, now my appearance matches my identity.
Except for a few very rare cases (chromosome abnormalities, mostly), folks either have indoor or outdoor plumbing. This is biology, not fantasy.
When you're an airplane, but identify as a tank...
Light a fire for a man, and he'll be warm for a day, light a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life...
Discussion is an exchange of intelligence. Argument is an exchange of
ignorance. Ever found a liberal that you can have a discussion with?
I'm not looking forward to dealing with this kind of junk as my son gets older. Fortunately he's got a pretty good head on his shoulders so far.
- The Wit & Wisdom of Bishop Fulton J. Sheen, edited by Bill AdlerIn the order of nature, not many things are capable of being trained. Water, for example, is capable of assuming only three different forms: vapor, ice, and liquid. Crystals have their shapes rigorously determined by the law of nature. In the animal kingdom, it is very dubious whether fleas can be trained, though elephants and dogs can. No one ever says to a little pig, "What kind of hog are you going to be when you grow up?" But one does ask a child, "What kind of man are you going to be?" Children are either trained by us toward a fixed goal and destiny, or trained in spite of us. The parents never have the alternative of deciding whether their child's mind will be full or empty. It cannot be kept empty; it will be filled with something. Passions, television, movies, streets, radio, comic books -- all of these contrive against a perpetual vacancy in the mind of the child. Like a little octopus's, his arms are reaching out either for food or poison.
The book described in the OP is simply poison. It's poison wrapped up in the sugarcoating of emotionalism, yes. But when the coating of the narrative is stripped away of its sweetness (a saccharine one at that), it's poison. It's poison written by adults to stultify the innocence-cum-wonder of a child in the educational buffet which school should be: discovering where one fits in, how to excel, how to listen, how to eat one's intelligence vegetables, to learn to drink milk before they settle into the meat, and how to appreciate desserts rather than gorge on simple sugar. As the Integrated Humanities Program at the University of Kansas motto stated: nascantur in admiratione (Let them be born in wonder). The book in the OP is a poisonous diet pill, taking the place of food and stripping away the natural desire for that which is filling and fulfilling. It's not education, but social education -- a socialist education.
And it's clever too, diabolically so. At a time when young boys and young girls are going through a range of changes, confused, curious, and mortified at their own bodies and those of their peers, it plants a seed which causes them to contemplate their own selves in the context of sex and gender and confusion at the changes. Even if these changes are explained, what on earth but solid, traditional training in roles can assist a young boy or girl for the switch from pre-pubescence to puberty?
At a time when reality is paramount to a successful transition into manhood, fantasy is unhelpful. Particularly fantasy which is becoming the façade of reality, aping reality, and yet is entirely unrealistic.
Going back to Abp. Sheen, no one asks the piglet what sort of horse it wants to be when it is older. No one plants a watermelon seed expecting a rose. Yet, somehow, we have moved as a society into a place where it is socially acceptable to ask a little boy if he wants to be a girl, or must accept it if he says, "I'm a girl in a boy's body". That's absurd as saying the watermelon in the produce section is a rose in a watermelon's rind. Try giving your wife basket of watermelons for an anniversary and let me know how that goes. This moving away from metaphysical realities, substance and accidents (separable and inseparable), is ridiculous and insane. If I dye my hair (what little remains), I'm still blond. If I put in colored contacts, I'm still blue eyed. If I get my entire body tattooed "tan", I'm still pale underneath. If I lop my genitals off, I'm still chromosomally a male. I will always be male because the accident of my sex is inseparable and rises from the consequence of matter -- in the case of my body, a matter formed and grown due to male chromosomes.
The poison pills the left would like us and ours to swallow won't magically turn a boy into a girl. It'll just kill his soul and mutilate his body.
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It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged. - The Cleveland Press, March 1, 1921, GK Chesterton
This is a 180 from when I was in school just 15ish years ago. I remember a kid came to school in a dress and the staff sent him home. Of course many of the students were upset because "he isn't hurting anybody!" and other similar arguments. In the end, everyone got over it by the end of the day. I don't think it's unreasonable to have kids, especially kids, manifest in their assigned sex while in school. If you make it all the way through school and still feel differently, well now you're an adult and can make your own choices in life. Trying to simplify the lives of kids in school by setting expected standards with which to comply is just good parenting/role modeling.
Wow, and I remember having to get a permission slip signed just to learn about the male and female anatomy, my how the times have changed. I'm dreading having to send my two boys to school.
You don't have to send them to public school.Originally Posted by hurley842002
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It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged. - The Cleveland Press, March 1, 1921, GK Chesterton
Who says you have to send two boys?
Honestly, I don't have a problem with it. There are always going to be people who aren't from your walk of life. Different color, different orientation, different plumbing, different mindset about the plumbing they have vs the plumbing they want, etc. Exposing your kids to these differences won't turn them gay. And everyone who is sitting in prison right now cause they thought it would be funny to bash a gay person got a lot of the same "indoctrination" at home that some people here are preaching now.
Just live and let live.
I guess I'm not so much against the topic at hand, but more so the "agenda" and or double standard being dished out in public schools, not to mention the seemingly "sneaky" tactic being used in the OP to expose the issue. The whole LGBTQ thing is a very real topic in todays world (ask any .gov employee about AA, and I don't mean alcoholic's anonymous), and I believe at a certain point, children need to learn about the real world, and the things or people they may run into. Now flip the script and insert any other important yet "taboo" (by today's standards, i.e. Freedom of religion, 2a rights, etc.) topic into the subject line, and watch the liberals throw a fit.
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