hubiestubert: You know who abuses kids more often than teachers? Their own parents. There's a reason that teachers are taught to identify signs of abuse, at every level of public school. It's not just to spot bullying, or abuse by colleagues, but more often than not, to spot kids and young adults who are getting abuse at home.

If we listened to these sorts of parents, kids would be locked into a cycle of violence and abuse, and the State tends to think that isn't the best way to deal with the issue. Parents' have a certain degree of latitude, but it ends when the safety and health of the student is in jeopardy. Trying to limit curriculum based on what the parents think a kid should know goes back a ways. Like teaching daughters how to read. Or limit science classes because the too much science might mean that God wasn't mentioned sixteen times when talking about the forces at the moment that the universe began. It all boils down to wanting to limit their children, because they fear that they can't control those kids lives and limit their opportunities. It is a form of abuse. And we have set precedent over and over again, that abuse at home isn't tolerated, and we train our teachers, and they have a very real responsibility to report such abuse to the State. And when teachers fail in this, because of pressure from their own Administration, city officials, or other organizations, that doesn't free them of that legal responsibility.

Teach your kids what you want at home. But in schools, there is a set curriculum for a reason. You don't get to choose what that is. Take them out of the system if you REALLY feel that is right thing to do to preserve your 'values' but ignorance isn't a value, it's just a damn weight around your kids' necks.

lordjupiter: [Fark user image image 502x336]

Someone tell this puddle of clown piss it's not appropriate for adults other than an instructor to be hanging out in the classroom, leering about and making kids uncomfortable while they learn about sensitive, personal subjects.