How young is too young to talk to kids about bias, racism, sexuality, and hate? In Florida schools it seems that the sixth grade is too young.
Daryl Cox’s students at Fox Chapel Middle School in Spring Hill were supposed to read statements on the survey and respond according to how comfortable they were with each scenario. – theblaze.com
Sixth graders are 10, 11, and 12 year old children. Do you remember back to when you were around that age? I know kids at that age can discriminate, they know what hate is, and some of them practice prejudice. But what about some of these questions. Are they appropriate?
- A friend invites you to go to a gay bar.
- You go to the gay bar and a person of the same sex invites you to dance.
- You discover that the cute young man/woman that you are attracted to is actually a woman/man.
- You discover your teenage brother kissing a male friend.
- Your two next door neighbors in your hall are lesbian/gay.
- Your mother ‘comes out’ to you.
What are your thoughts?
Should these be asked of sixth graders?
When should they be asked? High school? College?
h/t: theblaze.com, WTSP-TV
I find it sad, that in our
I find it sad, that in our society, it is "inappropriate" to talk about the reality of people's lives. Their loves and their real struggles, to our precious children. How sad that it is wrong to show how all people are, not just some straight Xtian fantasy. But it is okay to sit them down in front of violent movies, violent video games, quiz them on straight people's behavior, fake religions, Dr. Oz, or anything ugly. When you fail to discuss reality, people grow up to become Republicans…
These questions are totally
These questions are totally inappropriate for 6th graders. Not about bring up comfort or diversity tolerance of gay people, but in the frame that they were asked. They are not age appropriate questions even if you change the question to a straight question. Kids should not be asked questions about going to bars.
Exactly, when I first read
Exactly, when I first read the questions I felt the same way. It's not that the conversation shouldn't take place, but about having that conversation in an age appropriate way.
I think some of the questions
I think some of the questions are foreighth or 9th grade depending on their town and some are 11th or 12th grade.
The question about what you do with why people move next door is okay for 6th grade in the north maybe. And at least half of Florida the answer would be "buy rope"