Pretty lame
A man in Massachusetts was arrested for taking an interest in his son’s education:
The book, “Who’s in a Family?,” teaches preschoolers about “multicultural contemporary family units” including nuclear, intergenerational, mixed-race, and lesbian and gay arrangements. David Parker, father of a 5-year-old boy in Concord, Mass., was arrested Wednesday at his son’s kindergarten over a disagreement about the appropriateness of the material for his child.
His crime:
Parker said he met with school officials to gain those assurances and then refused to leave until he got them.
Dumbest thing I’ve heard in a while. Sure, you may not agree with his objection but he was being a responsible parent.
May 2nd, 2005 at 12:31 pm
I’m very definitely socially liberal, but I’d be upset if my kid came home from preschool asking about “lesbian and gay arrangements.” If on parents’ night the other kids discover little Ralphie has two mommies, deal with it then. Otherwise, a kid doesn’t need to know about that until puberty, at least.
May 3rd, 2005 at 12:26 am
Parker said he met with school officials to gain those assurances and then refused to leave until he got them. Parker stayed at Estabrook School for more than two hours, according to Superintendent William J. Hurley, as officials and Lexington police urged him to leave. Finally, they arrested him for trespassing.
Nothing wrong with taking an interest in your kids education, but if you refuse to leave, what else can they do?
May 3rd, 2005 at 12:30 am
Otherwise, a kid doesn’t need to know about that until puberty, at least.
Why? What difference is there between gay and lesbian relationships and straight relationships that young kids shouldn’t learn about? When they hit puberty, they’ll learn the more, shall we say, functional differences, but until then little kids aren’t going to infer anything if someone has 2 mommies or a mommy and a daddy. I would argue that teaching them that its o.k. from an earlier age will de-stigmatize same-sex relationships. It won’t be something weird that they learn about later in life, it will be something that will be normal to them.
May 3rd, 2005 at 10:10 am
Manish ,
I am suspecting that when you parent said “Because I said so.”, it never set right with you did it.
The reason why kids should learn things when their parents want them to is because that is when the parents want to them.
I know it is circular logic, but you are searching for an explanation for reasons that do not need explaining.