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Hi Carlotta,
I just noticed that you did not write the article. Sorry–I didnt’ realize that other people were contributing here. So please direct my comments to Tammytg.
Tammy–I read that link you provided. It states that schools only have to give a 45 minute lesson, once a year! That is really nothing, at least to me. And that link is nearly a year old. Is this why you decided to take your kids out? Because of 45 minutes/year teaching them about bullying?
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No problem Kevin! Tammytg, the busy mom will answer your comments soon!
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Kevin I do want to add to your comment you made here:
It’s not the school’s job to teach tolerance to anything! If they will spend time teaching tolerance to gays, then they will have to teach tolerance to the fat kids, the skinny kids, the kids with pimples and the list goes on and on. It is indoctrination for the Christian for a school to teach children that “it’s ok to be gay” when for the Christian it isn’t ok to be gay. Usually, along with the tolerance teachings is the teaching that “it’s ok” and that’s where the buck stops as the saying goes!
Hello Kevin, I am new to Christocentric. Thank you for your comments and insight. We have been homeschooling now for 3 years. Our daughters
are getting a very good education. While we instill Christian values in them, we do not shelter them from other cultures. I realize the article linked
to this post is older and the lesson to the children is short, however this is just the beginning. This particular issue is not the reason we decided to homeschool
as we are not residents of California. These are one of a many issues we are concerned about. Both my husband and i are personally homeschooling
the girls and they take yearly exams as well. We are both educated and my husband is a professor in the college of education. We have a lot of resources too.
Our daughters are college bound.
There is nothing wrong with teaching about other cultures and of course we are suppose to live with respect to everyone regardless
of our differences. When schools decide to teach children about values based on what they believe are truth and important, I think they have
usurped the parents authority on those issues. Since they get our children for 8 hours a day most of the year and are shaping their values in matters
they shouldn’t be involved in, this in my opinion is indoctrination. We teach our children Christian-based values as well as how to be kind, respectful,
and sociable with many who do not share our views.
Hi Carlotta, I was a bit surprised when you wrote ” then they will have to teach tolerance to the fat kids, the skinny kids, the kids with pimples and the list goes on and on.” This list contains the type of students that are regularly picked on. I’m sure you don’t think it is right for fat kids to be picked on. School is a place to educate kids on being good citizens–that includes, in my opinion, how to deal with people who are different.
I think the problem here is the definition of ‘indoctrination.’ 45 minutes a year is not indoctrination in my opinion. In fact, my guess is that most children will forget what they even talked about if it really is just 45 mintues!
Hi Tammy, that is nice to hear about all the effort you are putting into your daughter’s education. I think it is a great thing when parents invest time like this. I would seriously consider doing the same if I didn’t like what the schools were doing.
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Kevin, you said:
Public school isn’t the place to educate kids on being good citizens. The teaching of right and wrong is morality, and belongs in the home or one’s church. School should be a place where kids are taught to abide by rules, any rules that the school may have. So picking on kids – ANY kind of kid would not be allowed. There would be no need to break it down on the different types of children as long as the rules are in place and unruliness and bullying are not tolerated at all.
Indoctrination is brainwashing children into believing a particular thing. Teaching children that “it’s okay to be gay” is indoctrination as far as the Christian is concerned. There is no need for that type of teaching as all children should be taught to be respectful of anyone – according to the school’s rules.
I teach my children to respectfully and openly confront any teacher who attempts to tell them anything affirming of homosexual conduct. Then, if they get in “trouble” call me. I will handle it from there.
We cant allow our children to become passive, sitting ducks in the classroom.
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Completely agree GCMWatch!
Hi Carlotta, I think you are absolutely wrong about not teaching kids to be good citizens. What rules do you think schools are teaching? I hope you can see the parallels between those rules and how they should be applied outside of school. Funny enough, I was just reading a journal I receive. Here is what Professor Mary Armstrong had to say: “But practicing classroom equity has profound consequence because it highlights something critically important within the pedagogical endeavor: We are teaching more than the subject we teach. In our interactions, in our decisions, in our adherence to ethical standards, we are teaching our “second subject”: setting an example of open-minded fairness, demonstrating honest critical inquiry, modeling the best form of authority, and exercising power that recognizes justice and practices respect for others and their rights. Classroom equity promotes ideals that underlied the foundations of productive civic life and good gloabl citizenship: equal treatment, non-bias, respect for facts, decisions driven by logic and reason.” I couldn’t agree more.
No child should have to be an empty bucket that facts are dumped into during an 8 hour day. It just doesn’t work like that. That is not the reason for getting an education. The whole history of education is that you get better citizens the more they are educated.
So DL–do have your kids contact you if the teacher talks about divorce in a good way? Just wondering how you decide for them what is education. By the way, do your kids know of your ex-gay history and what your ministry is about?
So DL–do have your kids contact you if the teacher talks about divorce in a good way?
DL: NOPE and since when have teachers told their students that getting a divorce is normal and should be accepted by society? Cite some examples, if you can.
Just wondering how you decide for them what is education.
DL: Im their father. Biological type. Education is what the teacher is contracted to teach per stated expertise and degreed training. If its math, teach math, etc. They’re not contracted to teach my child sexual morality. I also decide what time my children go to bed at night.
By the way, do your kids know of your ex-gay history and what your ministry is about?
DL:If that’s what you wanna call it, YEP and YEP.
Hello Kevin, thank you, we really enjoy spending the quality time with our daughters.
In response to your post:
Funny enough, I was just reading a journal I receive. Here is what Professor Mary Armstrong had to say: “But practicing classroom equity has profound consequence because it highlights something critically important within the pedagogical endeavor: We are teaching more than the subject we teach. In our interactions, in our decisions, in our adherence to ethical standards, we are teaching our “second subject”: setting an example of open-minded fairness, demonstrating honest critical inquiry, modeling the best form of authority, and exercising power that recognizes justice and practices respect for others and their rights. Classroom equity promotes ideals that underlied the foundations of productive civic life and good gloabl citizenship: equal treatment, non-bias, respect for facts, decisions driven by logic and reason.” I couldn’t agree more.
This is precisely why we educate our children from home. We do not trust the perspectives of teachers. This only supports the concern we have that children are being indoctrinated in schools. The “second subject” is taught based on what the teacher feels is ethical, open-minded fairness, and whatever they consider is respect for others.
gcmwatch, i agree. Educators need to stick to their expertise.
Hi Tammy,
I should have pointed out that this is a professor who teaches at college.
DL–How do I decide what education is? I have already answered that.
To Tammy and DL: You can’t possibly expect teachers to go into the classroom and not have an impact on their students outside of the specialty that the teacher has. Kids (and college students) watch how you act towards other people. If you are rude to students, the students will react (usually in a rude way). If you act respectful towards them, they will act respectful back. A teacher acts how they want their students to be. As I said before, students are not just empty buckets who soak up only what you tell them to and ignore everything else. I sincerely hope your children aren’t like this.
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Kevin: “Hi Carlotta, I think you are absolutely wrong about not teaching kids to be good citizens. What rules do you think schools are teaching?”
What classes would that be in school Kevin? There’s history, math, english, social studies, and etc. For a parent that doesn’t have the choice of homeschooling or the very expensive private schools, they send their kids to the schools for the purpose of learning the above topics. Most of character building education has to begin and end with home because the school does not develop that at all.
Public schools are the last choice for many because of the amorality and the indoctrination of whatever school system that child is a part of. Indoctrination such as birth control clinics on campus, sex-ed classes that scorn abstinence, and just the whole godless atmosphere altogether. Kids are taught in public school that success is all about money and not about life in general and a relationship with God.
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Kevin:“No child should have to be an empty bucket that facts are dumped into during an 8 hour day. It just doesn’t work like that. That is not the reason for getting an education. The whole history of education is that you get better citizens the more they are educated.”
I do agree with you there but that’s exactly what’s happening in most of our schools! Children just can’t learn ethical standards by just watching their teachers in a classroom setting. A teacher’s example is very shallow without actually telling their students WHY they must behave a certain way. That’s why I don’t like abstinence teachings in a public classroom setting. Abstinence without God leaves many children with the “well why should I abstain?” Morality, ethics without God is pointless.
Hi Carlotta–I was more thinking of the rules that are set down in school which then apply to everyday situations outside of school (thereby creating better citizens). These would be–be polite, don’t push, no fighting, take your turn and so on. These are things that schools teach, regardless of the course they are taking. These are examples then that the teacher and the principal and everyone else that works in the school should be following. It is hoped that then when the child leaves the school grounds, they will then act in a decent manner. Sure, parents should be teaching this as well (and if the behavior of children these days is any indication–parents are failing miserably), but kids have to go to school. It is where they learn about many different things, and that includes more than just what subject they are taking.
About abstinence and sex education courses–as far as I know, parents have to give permission for kids to sit in on these courses. They don’t have to attend. And schools in California are not required to teach about sex (http://www.cde.ca.gov/ls/he/se/faq.asp) but most do. Here is what the California code states: “The law recognizes that while parents and guardians support the teaching of medically accurate, comprehensive sex education in schools, they have the ultimate responsibility for teaching their children about human sexuality; they may choose to withdraw their children from this instruction.
EC sections 51937 and 51938 explain that parents or guardians must be notified (passive consent) by the school at the beginning of the school year about planned comprehensive sexual health education and HIV/AIDS prevention education, be given an opportunity to review materials, and be given the opportunity to request in writing that their child not participate in the instruction.”
So if parents don’t like this being taught to their kids, it is their choice to take them out.
Carlotta,
Is it your view that public schools should be careful not to teach anything that is opposed by any religion in the country, or are you of the opinion that schools should carve out special exceptions for Christian parents and their children?
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Phil, public schools should just concentrate on teaching their subjects without any political correctness. Math teach numbers, English words, history historical facts and so on and so on. Leave all the spiritual and political discussions for the home. Is this possible? I think so.
Carlotta,
It’s safe to say that there aren’t a lot of social/religious controversies in math. But when you say that schools should teach their subjects without any political correctness, I think you misunderstand what “politically correct” means. Sure, it’s become a buzzword for harebrained attempts to avoid offending anyone. But you are stating that schools _ought_ to avoid offending parents, so what you’re asking for _is_ a form of political correctness.
Don’t get me wrong; I don’t think that “political correctness” is inherently good or bad, as practiced. I think there are good examples and bad examples. No teacher in the country would show up on Halloween dressed in blackface, for example, and I think that’s an example of _good_ political correctness.
But it’s also a little simplistic to suggest that schools should just teach facts in each subject, because various religions object to certain facts. No class, at any grade level, is just an organized dissemination of facts: creating a curriculum also involves choosing what to leave out.
The book you’ve chosen to illustrate this post is “And Tango Makes Three,” a true story of a same-sex penguin couple which hatched an egg. Does that book pass muster, because the book is factual and it contains words? Or should it be banned in schools because it contains themes that some religions find offensive and some don’t?
And, if “Tango” is not acceptable in schools, then should schools also ban books that depict people eating ham and pork? Should schools ban books that depict women getting jobs or running households?
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Children in public schools always presents a quandry to Christian parents. Of course we want school to be more than a just a stockpile of facts but for the parents who can’t afford private school or unable to homeschool, they hope their children aren’t learning anything contrary to their faith. Tango is a book that tries to get children to accept homosexual families as normal and of course that runs contrary to the Christian faith. That is indoctrination plain and simple no one should have be subjected to anything offensive to their beliefs.
Phil you ask if schools should also ban books that depict people eating ham and pork and women getting jobs running households… the question should be is it indoctrination? A book exclusively about homosexual families acceptance as normal is indoctrination. A book trying to persuade folks that ALL meat is good and everyone should eat it is indoctrination. Books teaching that women who stay home to raise their children is not good but working women should be the only norm is indoctrination. Schools need to leave indoctrination alone and stick with education that will prepare them for college and the work world.
School SHOULD be about teaching character and morality and that’s the advantage of private schools and homeschool. And I encourage any parent to seek those avenues first. But many can’t and public schools are the only choice available.
Hi Carlotta–so if I understand you correctly, the teaching of just one way is indoctrination? If kids in public school were taught that Christianity is the only religion, would that be indoctrination to you?
Teaching about other people (sexual orientation, different faiths, different social characteristics) is part of preparing kids for college and the work world. Whether some people like it or not, gay families exist. Whether some people like it or not, other religions exist. I personally would find a work place intolerable if someone stated that gay people (or people of other religions) are evil and shouldn’t be considered a family or told people that they shouldn’t be tolerated. It is likely that people who aren’t taught about different people are not going to succeed in most work places in this country.
“Tango is a book that tries to get children to accept homosexual families as normal and of course that runs contrary to the Christian faith. That is indoctrination plain and simple no one should have be subjected to anything offensive to their beliefs.”
But surely we can both agree that people who hold other religious viewpoints–views different from both yours and mine–might find books to be offensive that both you and I find perfectly innocuous.
I certainly think it’s wrongheaded for someone to be offended by “And Tango Makes Three”– it is, after all, a book based on a true story. Beyond that, of course, I see nothing immoral about same-sex relationships.
But it’s easy to envision parents taking issue with all _kinds_ of children’s books, based on their religion. What if a strict muslim family is offended by a story about a determined and plucky young girl who studies hard in school and becomes the mayor of her city? Who are we to tell them they shouldn’t be offended?
My point is not to force you to quibble about the various ways that books might be offensive. Rather, I have two pretty simple points:
1. It seems reasonable that we can both agree that people who follow other religions might be offended by books or lessons that neither you nor I find offensive.
2. As such, does either of us believe that schools should ban _all_ books and lessons that a parent might find offensive for religious reasons?
Some religions preach against interracial relationships. Is it reasonable for parents who adhere to such religions to expect public schools to eschew all lessons that might paint interracial relationships in a favorable light?
Or is it reasonable to suggest that, if we are going to treat all religions equally, then we shouldn’t ban or censor public school curriculum based on things that religions find offensive?
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Kevin:“–so if I understand you correctly, the teaching of just one way is indoctrination? If kids in public school were taught that Christianity is the only religion, would that be indoctrination to you?
No, the teaching for the APPROVAL or ACCEPTANCE of a subject is indoctrination. Better yet, the dictionary’s definition:
I don’t mind teachings about subjects such as the different religions and even homosexuality, but if it’s taught for the purpose of someone’s point of view or belief then that’s what I have a problem with Kevin.
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Phil, refer to my response to Kevin. Same deal – teach to educate not to indoctrinate!
You’re right…people seem to forget the moral reasons one should not have sex before marriage…in the book I’m writing, which is geared toward teenagers, I hope to address that issue…I’m curious about how much “sex talk” is allowed in a Christian fiction young adult book so I plan on reading some myself
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Sounds like you are addressing a very great need Eileen – fiction books that address young adult sex! But good question on how much “sex talk” should be allowed in Christian fiction and a question I can’t answer myself. There are some pretty good Christian non-fiction books about teenage sexual purity and perhaps any of those can provide the backdrop you need for your book.
But do keep me posted on your book’s progress!
You ask some good questions. My daugher and I talked about teenage pregnancy this summer. I felt it was imporatnat to talk about it before she started high school. When I started high school I was not prepared to see all the pregnant teenagers. My parents had explained the bird and the bees to me, but they didn’t tell me each year I was in high school I would see more and more pregant girls.
It was diffcult for me to talk to my daugther about abstinence because I have been guilty of sexual immorality and I have been very public about. Not that I could hide it much being that, I have a child that was born out of wedlock. I think both abstinence and safe sex should be taught. I think abstinence with out the christian perspective is not as effect. I think it’s important for teenagers and people to understand that sex sex outside of marriage is not God’s will and when you go against his will there are consequenes. The consequences of sex outside of marriage are not just psychical.
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Yes, good insight Ly and I wouldn’t worry much about your past sexual immorality as long as you are a living example right now of being chaste. That will be of utmost importance as a single-parent, having your child see you as that very example you preach and teach about. I wasn’t always successful and did slip in moments of immorality, but that was very brief and in my honesty I did let them know that I wasn’t perfect and made mistakes but corrected those mistakes.
I taught about contraceptions but it wasn’t kept in the home. That’s the difference from what many parents are doing these days. They firmly believe that their teens are going to have sex anyways so get them contraceptives! That sends the wrong message entirely! We teach about drugs and alcohol, but we don’t have the attitude that “since they’re going to drink and get high, we might as well get it to them!” No, not at all should we do that for sex education as well! Teach but don’t encourage by having contraceptives available!
I was strict and told my children no sex and no contraceptives. And I told them having sex was like breaking any other rule in the house – not only physical consequences such as STD’s or pregnancies, but mom’s wrath and punishments to go along as well! That worked because as teens, there are no unplanned babies at all in my household!
I started the sex talk with my girls as early as 4. We have been able to have a very open discussion about sex since. They do not have any shame and i made sure i spoke to them with confidence that sex is not shameful, but is a beautiful expression of love in a marriage. Some may not agree with me, but i was very honest with them about sexuality and acknowledged the natural desire by all to have sex. So when this desire comes upon them, they will no it is normal and that certain safeguards must be present to help them be chaste.
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Tammy, you have everything going great for your family and I do see much success even beyond their teen years! They have a spirit-filled mom and dad, they are home-schooled and you communicate with them starting when they are very young, and with you being a stay-at-home mom they will have all the supervision they need! You see how Tim Tebow and his faithfulness is right now. I envision that with your family as well!
Any child’s success at remaining chaste begins with a strong support base from home and yours is a great example!
I think the childcare in the school is a bad idea. Most girls have a natural desire to have children one day. Having this childcare in the school and watching other girls become moms can be enticing to girls who lack focus and goals. Clearly, the daughter of the conservative mom lacked goals and only dreamed of having children with her boyfriend. The childcare helps make it look easy to have children.
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The school was probably thinking that having a childcare on campus would motivate the young mothers to finish school. But unknowingly they were creating a culture of where these girls were fantasizing in having babies!
I totally agree with you on that being a BAD idea!
Yes, I’ll keep you updated about my manuscript…so far the first young adult christian fiction book I read was tame, not even a cuss word, and the main character gave her heart to Jesus halfway through…the second book, however, has details about sex she has with an older man and I can’t believe the library filed this under Christian!
One thing that isn’t taught in schools about birth control that even if you use birth control, you can still get pregnant or get someone pregnant and/or get an STD.
Micah(the same prophet that predicted the excat city Jesus was to be born!)in 7:15 says that ‘according to the time it took you or Israel to leave Egypt’ or 40 years will be the same amount of time God will ’show Israel miracles or signs.’
Tongues are called ‘a sign to unbelievers’ in lCo.14 (even though it is mostly done towards and among believers!).Jesus was baptized in AD 30 and Jerusalem as Jesus predicted was destroyed in AD 70. That is 40 years the number of testing or probabtion in the Bible!
Tongues and the like signs then ‘ceased’ as Paul predicted in Corthinians as they were miracles or signs for that 40 year span of time for the Jews,but they rejected the gospel.
“Tongues of angels”is an abused statement to.What tongue did Mary hear Gabriel speak to her? What tongue or language did Daniel her Gabriel and the many others who heard angels speak in the NT? ARAMAIC of course!!!That’s the language or tongue they spoke and they understood the angels too.