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Originally Posted by KA24DESOneThree
The difference is that your child doesn't need to read a library book. Its existence means nothing if your kid doesn't pick it up.
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Why is this book in the
elementary school. Sex-Ed doesn't come until 8th grade or high school. Heterosexual, homosexual, trans, whatever: why is it in the reach of an elementary-school child?
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Originally Posted by KA24DESOneThree
But its existence means everything to a kid who gets no support at home and has no idea how to handle what they're going through. They get perspective and the knowledge that they're not the only person who has gone through what they're going through.
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...so back to the book being on the shelf. My kid has to have the ability to find this book because someone else can't do parenting right? I am tired of wearing a diaper because everyone else is shitting their pants. My empathy, regrettably, ends there.
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Originally Posted by KA24DESOneThree
Practical skills aren't the entirety of what it takes to be a functioning member of society. You don't get empathy from practical skills, and like it or not, empathy needs to be part of the repertoire of any American voter.
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I only brought up practical skills because you mentioned kids being 'pushed though; even when they were not performing. Empathy is fine. It should be taught at home. A math teacher teaches math, nothing else. That does not mean they can't have classroom tenets of being nice to others, but that's about it.
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Originally Posted by KA24DESOneThree
You have better-designed cities, less addicts, a more respectful society. Healthcare that makes sense, because empathy for people also means empathy for the hours they work to pay the taxes that provide services.
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Maybe you're talking about the most ideal form of empathy, but empathizing with everyone's needs (self-diagnosis for mental illnesses, over-indulgence in bad substances due to that) is how you arrive at this mess. When you validate everyone's 'depression' claims you're telling them it's okay to self-medicate. Somewhere, for some, far down that line, is the addict on skid row.
Shit man I was an emo kid. Talking about depression/suicide was part of it. Everyone thought I was lame. Nowadays I would be the average kid, save sikkkkkk emo hair.
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I was 5 and wanted to wear a dress, so my parents let me wear a dress and try to walk in high heels. I fell down, and it was hilarious.
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I also did this. There is picture evidence. Please see comment about how no one talked to you about hormone blockers or transitioning. That is a comment that warrants a response.
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What part of understanding one's sexuality isn't learning? There's this line of reasoning that books are the problem but social media's the real problem- a book doesn't have a hook, and a book doesn't have many thousands of likes/views to influence a young mind. TikTok doesn't have a librarian or counselor. Schools, for all their ills, have people in them who can ask questions, answer questions, or refer those with questions to more qualified professionals. I still firmly believe that hostile governments are using psyops on American children to weaken the next generation- and those same bad actors are trying to ban information availability in places where it can be contextualized.
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This is why my kids will not be addicted to 'screens'...and
this is the right answer. Blue-haired (sorry to use a simple stereotype to convey a point) science teachers are not qualified professionals...
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