Florida rejects 41% of new math textbooks, citing critical race theory among its reasons — CNN

“Children must be taught how to think, not what to think,” Margaret Mead.

SFC (Join to see) What is wrong with that question? My sister had two mom's; her mom and my mom, who was her step-mother. Now she has three, her mom, my mom, and her husband's mom. I have two moms, two dads, and had three grandfathers and grandmothers prior to their passing. Had my wife's grandparents lived until her marriage, I would have had 5 of each.

You are inserting your prejudice and interpretation.

SFC Casey O'Mally - I understand what you are saying. It still brings in the questions of sex and morals that young immature minds don’t need to be going through. School instruction isn’t the right place for this. Injecting questions like this are specifically designed to progress the “instruction” into sex/trans discussions before the student is mature enough to discuss it sensibly. For a math curriculum Billy has 2 apples and Sue has 2 apples are sufficient to teach properly. To inject anything else is disingenuous in my opinion. When my grandchildren tell me how children, who aren’t ready for these advanced discussions are getting confused and best, and warped at worse, our society better stop the bull. Sex and morals are not topics that should be taught to children until their characters are developed enough to be able to handle it. Parents need to be in the mix and have rights.

The bottom line is we have a small amount of activists attempting to change our society’s norm. Whenever someone tries to take something that isn’t theirs we will have arguments at best, and violence at the worst. Think about that girl that got raped by a boy going into the girls room. The school board wouldn’t talk to the father and police had to get involved. Do not steal what is no yours. Live in peace. Everyone will be healthier if we do.

SFC (Join to see) People with two dads is a fact of life. It is no less true than apples, oranges, or candy bars. There is absolutely no reason why this should be excluded from texts. It should neither be glorified, nor demonized. Remember that the targets of these texts are the school children - some of whom have 2 dads, 2 moms, or even three or four parents. Limiting things to strict heteronormativity excludes these students, and teaches them that THEY are different.

Now, is there a good reason to use 2 dads instead of 2 apples? Probably not. But there isn't really a good reason NOT to, either.

And if you think that using 2 dad + 2 dads = 4 dads is somehow teaching morality, then I think you may be hypersensitive. There is neither explicit nor implicit value judgment in that. Do you also think that the math problem 2 candy bars + 2 candy bars = 4 candy bars leads to obesity?

SFC Casey O'Mally - My one granddaughter has two mothers and two fathers, the Boss Lady and I adopted her because her mother and father were into free drugs, sex, booze, and whatever else they could get themselves into, there was a lot of pain involved. There’s nothing wrong with any of this just like your sister having two moms, only our situation may have a little more baggage. Depending on how the child is, in our case we didn’t feel it was beneficial to her to load her up with the stuff involved in everything before she could handle it. She’ll be graduating HS this year and is doing well. It was a long road of what she needed to know and when. It looks like we split the hairs right.

My points are there is nothing wrong with any of this stuff, and that goes for any situation. It’s the parent’s responsibility to take care of our children, know them, and bring them along (teach) them about life in a way that’s best for them. Children mature at different rates and each one is different. They learn about life through their family and friends with the guidance of their parents. When my granddaughter became sexually active I wasn’t thrilled about it, but we got through it and we are better equipped to handle the rest of life because of it. We didn’t need some teacher or curriculum filling her head about right from wrong, that is our job. Some will say “What about the children who don’t get what they need from their parents?” All I can say to that is that answer isn’t to teach “all children” about what may go against their family values. Life isn’t perfect and sometimes children don’t get what they need from their parents, but teachers and curriculum don’t know that, they don’t know what level my child is operating on. For better of worse our children are our responsibility alone until they are 18. For some medical issues laws have been made to protect children, in my opinion they do much more harm than good, but this is a discussion for another day.

The Department of Education and school teachers are not licensed doctors, therapists, or whatever to be instructing small children in this way. These teachers know nothing about the children’s family or what the situation is so in reality teachers who push some of these questionable curriculums are really practicing medicine without a license. Just because Education makes a curriculum for something doesn’t mean it’s legal. As a matter of fact, some of the stuff I see in the media taught in different schools would definitely be criminal. Teachers shouldn’t be teaching stuff to children that if other people approached the child about, they would be arrested, tried and convicted corrupting morals and/or worse. No one should tell you how to raise your children, no one should tell me how to raise my children.

Sorry to go on so long but this isn’t a topic where a one liner can explain properly.