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I'm sure they did, but again, you're only looking from your perspective. There are tons of parents out there who don't do their jobs as parents. Even if they do their job, teaching them more can only help.
Learning life skills is more important than learning the Pythagorean Theorem or the symbolism in The Scarlet Letter for 99% of students.
Learning to read and write is the most important thing for a child to learn, at 5 years old you don't really need to know about reproduction. Teaching them whats important is the key to success and when we have high school kids who can't read we are failing at the most important part of teaching.
Did you read the title of the thread before you posted? Why would you even be here if it bothers you so much?
It's not the governments job to teach the things parents are suppose to, the family unit has failed and that is what needs to be fixed. nothing the government does has anything to do with common sense.
Yes, but not all families DO teach the kids what they're supposed to. I really DID think I had been shot, maybe when I was tying my shoe or putting on my little roller skates. You should have seen the resultant hysteria! Sex was NEVER mentioned in my house. Even the picture of Michaelangelo's David in the family encyclopedia had a bandaid over his nether regions.
It just made me more and more curious and confused.
Learning to read and write is the most important thing for a child to learn, at 5 years old you don't really need to know about reproduction. Teaching them whats important is the key to success and when we have high school kids who can't read we are failing at the most important part of teaching.
I simply cannot believe you are still beating that poor dead horse.
It has been pointed out over and over to you that that is not what will be taught at that age, yet you completely refuse to see or understand that.
Why?????
Learning to read and write is the most important thing for a child to learn, at 5 years old you don't really need to know about reproduction. Teaching them whats important is the key to success and when we have high school kids who can't read we are failing at the most important part of teaching.
Great, but teaching these other skills isn't getting in the way of teaching English. Reading and writing are still taught. If someone can't read by high school, it's the child's fault. Maybe he or she has a learning disability, in which case it is still not the fault of the school's. Any capable student willing to learn will have no problems learning academics while also learning life skills.
Education, or life for that matter, isn't black and white or right and left as some of you try to make it. You can have both.
Teaching health and consumer education are two very important parts of advancing in life. At the very worst, your kids will be exposed to more information beyond what you already teach them. If you're so concerned, you can have them tell you what they're learning and you can feel free to tell them what to believe and what not to believe.
Tell me, for what purpose does a 5 year old need to know about sex and be taught this in school?
Tell me, for what purpose does a 5 year old need to know about sex and be taught this in school?
For the last time...
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Originally Posted by kshe95girl
I simply cannot believe you are still beating that poor dead horse.
It has been pointed out over and over to you that that is not what will be taught at that age, yet you completely refuse to see or understand that.
Why?????
One thing is great. There are Christian schools so the left cannot have power over all 5 year olds.
Can you prove this has anything to do specifically with "the left?" Didn't think so, especially based on how you ignore all of my points. Btw, I know lots of liberals who went to Christian schools - myself included, if you count a Methodist-founded college.
One thing is great. There are Christian schools so the left cannot have power over all 5 year olds.
And it your option to send your children to those private schools. Go for it!
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