“I think we should throw those books in a fire,” [Spotsylvania school board member] Abuismail said

Anyone else notice how close Spotsylvania is to Pottsylvania? An accident? I don't think so!

keith99 said:

I have a feeling The Turner Diaries are garbage. But Mein Kampf is worth reading. A smart man knows his enemies.

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"Mein Kampf" is garbage. It's just not a good book, by any measure.

But it is influential garbage, and thus should be recognized.

rjs330 said:

This thread just goes to show how far we've fallen. That now sexually explicit material is being supported by ADULTS for children. What on earth have we come to when adults no longer seek to protect kids from this kind of material. What has happened in a society when almost anything goes for KIDS!?

ADULTS supporting this stuff. No wonder we are falling apart. This is no better than white supremacists teaching their kids to hate others because if the color if their skin. That is just as immoral. We would rail against that. But it's certainly okay for kids to fill their minds with this junk. Adults are supposed to protect kids not subject them to this stuff.

God help us.

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Would you rather children learn sexual material in the back of the family sedan? Don't we have enough abortions in America?

Hammster said:

No, we protected our children from the heathens, and didn’t let them act like ones. It’s called raising your children and not letting society do it for you. No regrets. My kids are just fine.

And it’s “years”, not “year’s”.

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From what I see about Conservative Christian. They preach to keep, what they perceived to be bad out. Even though they sneak around and do it. Watch inappropriate content, have affairs, abortion and all kinds over worse things.

Brihaha said:

Would you rather children learn sexual material in the back of the family sedan? Don't we have enough abortions in America?

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What part of sexually explicit material don't you understand? This is not a scientific discussion of appropriate reproductive science.

rjs330 said:

What part of sexually explicit material don't you understand? This is not a scientific discussion of appropriate reproductive science.

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To be perfectly honest, I cannot understand the fuss. The more you shield kids from things and disregard speaking about issues with children the more trouble they have adjusting when they ARE exposed to such things. I know kids who are in their 20s now who were home schooled and weren't taught things deemed inappropriate. Now they are still having trouble adjusting into adulthood and society. I always felt honesty and openness created the best environment to raise children. What part of raising children don't you understand? The kids probably see more sexually explicit things on their phones in one day than we were ever exposed to. If parents were truly concerned about their kids reading a library book with sexual material, why in the world do parents give their kids cellphones at such a young age? You don't need to answer the last question. I know the answer. Peace

Brihaha said:

To be perfectly honest, I cannot understand the fuss.

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The result of the puritan background culture in the USA. Everything related to sexuality is "bad", and needs to be hidden.
This attitude is always there, on some level, and in situations like that, it comes to the foreground.

Which is all the more weird if your consider the permissive attitude the general U.S. culture has in regard to much more harmful things.

CRAZY_CAT_WOMAN said:

From what I see about Conservative Christian. They preach to keep, what they perceived to be bad out. Even though they sneak around and do it. Watch inappropriate content, have affairs, abortion and all kinds over worse things.

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It's not just conservative Christians that preach about living for Christ. All christians do that.

And you simply pointed out the fact that there are Christians that are hypocrites too. Thus outlining why we all need Jesus. Christians will be the first to tell you that.

And this isn't just a Christian thing. Society used to recognize the psychological damage of exposing kids to explicit sexual material.

What happened to us when adults are no longer doing that?

Brihaha said:

The kids probably see more sexually explicit things on their phones in one day than we were ever exposed to. If parents were truly concerned about their kids reading a library book with sexual material, why in the world do parents give their kids cellphones at such a young age? You don't need to answer the last question. I know the answer. Peace

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Oh I see since kids see things they shouldn't we are just going to go whole hog and just make sure they have access to it. Sexting a thing? Well let's just gather all the naked and sexual photos ourselves and send them to the kids. And let's have inappropriate content in our house and let the kids view it as often as they like. In fact if they want to see a particular movie, we'll just download it for them.

And you know there are apps you can put on kids phones now a days.

I know plenty of homeschooled kids who are very well adjusted kids who are smart and wise.

Freodin said:

The result of the puritan background culture in the USA. Everything related to sexuality is "bad", and needs to be hidden.
This attitude is always there, on some level, and in situations like that, it comes to the foreground.

Which is all the more weird if your consider the permissive attitude the general U.S. culture has in regard to much more harmful things.

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The puritan culture doesn't really exist anymore. Christians have a very healthy understanding of sexuality and it's place in society and marriage. Sexuality is not bad, it was created for pleasure and the propegation if the species. Marriage is the place it belongs and where it is most productive in bringing people together.

The whole sex is bad mantra went away a long time ago. There may be an few hangers on, but they are a true outlier anymore.

Hammster said:

The error must be yours. Go back and read it.

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Nope, you are doubling down on your error.

So the rest of those here can check easily your error is in post 168 which quotes post 167.

Here is the part of post 167 bolding mine.

I'm going to guess they also missed out on the natural teenage rebellion that comes with the school years, experimenting with things your parents don't approve of, starting to build your own personality that isn't rigorously controlled by your parents etc.

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keith99 said:

Nope, you are doubling down on your error.

So the rest of those here can check easily your error is in post 168 which quotes post 167.

Here is the part of post 167 bolding mine.

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The typo was higher up in post #167.

Library?

Sooner or later parents are going to find out about this internet thing. And they wont be happy.

Pommer said:

The typo was higher up in post #167.

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Why are we fighting over a typo again?

durangodawood said:

Library?

Sooner or later parents are going to find out about this internet thing. And they wont be happy.

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Oh I got this one. There are programs and apps you can use to filter out sexually explicit content.

Would you buy inappropriate content for your kids?

Parmallia said:

But public education (aka 'government schools') is one of the greatest innovations by an American. Sure there are some hiccups as there always is in any established giant thing, but public education is the ultimate way to ensure all Americans have access to the American dream.

Free education to all to provide a stable background for an educated populace.

I don't see a reason to abandon them, perhaps reform, perhaps overhaul and fix, but never abandon. It's one of the things that made America great!

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Public schools are nothing of the kind. The US had a higher literacy rate before school became mandatory. They are for producing good workers who believe what they are fed.
Not for produce generations of well educated critical thinking individuals.

Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling
https://www.amazon.com/Dumbing-Down-Curriculum-Compulsory-Anniversary/dp/0865714487

This kind of ugly behavior gives Christians a bad name.