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Who is stopping any parents from raising their kids with traditional Christian values?
So schools should ignore the actual legal landscape that lies before them?
And schools are doing that, which MFL takes as having LGBTQIA+ issues shoved down children’s throats.
I guess an argument could be made that all children will equally get to learn that only heterosexuality is normal? Not to be confused with an argument to take seriously, of course.
Well one reason is in elementary schools some contain material that's too obscene to be read out loud by a parent during school board meetings. I don't want to get a warning for posting a video of that so folks can take their pick: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=parent+reading+book+at+school+board+meeting
Elementary school students can be taught to treat everyone equally and fairly, without being immersed in the ideology of a particular group. If an emphasis is being put on LGBTQIA+ that's not equality. The only way to make things equal would be to either drop the emphasis on LGBTQIA+ or put an equal emphasis on each and every individual group in society.
But recent (2015 onward) SCOTUS decisions have affected the legal bearing of LGBTQIA+ people and the schools are simply reflecting those legal realities in what they feel they need to inform their students on.
No, such "classes" are activist courses. It doesn't take long to tell kids to try and treat others without bias, a class on the subject is not needed. Teachers should be teaching English and math and not their spin on Supreme Court decisions.
That can be achieved without immersing elementary school children in LGBTQIA+ ideology and without extensively promoting LGBTQIA+ in public elementary schools.
What I don't get is the idea of not bullying anyone is supposed to be some new revolutionary teaching in elementary schools. I was taught that more than 50 years ago, and I'm sure you were taught it as well when you were in elementary school.
To be fair, there are large chunks of the Bible too obscene to be read out loud by a parent during school board meetings, but oddly enough Moms for Liberty isn't trying to get that removed.
It's doubtful the objection to those books being in elementary school libraries is limited to Moms For Liberty. It's very likely that quite a large number of parents overall consider those books inappropriate for elementary schools. Those books are obviously about sexuality, and there are probably no books about sexuality on that level that are really appropriate for little children.
It's obvious you know nothing about the books because two of them have nothing to do with LGBT issues or identity at all. Plenty of Hugs and Two Dads and even Tango Makes Three are about loving families, it just happens that the parents are of the same gender. Work loves worm might be borderline, but honestly it just seems silly.
It's highly unlikely that that's limited to Moms For Liberty, but rather there's a huge number of parents overall who don't want certain books in elementary schools, including the Bible. And it's likely there are a large number of books deemed inappropriate for elementary that virtually no one is campaigning to have installed.
