I want your opinion on something...?

Question

I have to do a debate on this topic: homosexuality being taught in elementary schools. Do you think it's right or wrong? Why?

Answer 1

Let children be children. Answer questions if they ask, but introducing sexuality- any sexuality- in elementary school is potentially harmful. Sexuality is an adult topic. Whether it's homosexuality or heterosexuality has no bearing on the issue.

Answer 2

Introducing homosexuality in elementary is a bit taboo for those individuals who grow up and say that they knew from a very early age that they were gay.In my opinion,I don't think it should be taught in elementary schools,but then again I would have to ask myself,how do you teach about homosexuality? I think it would wrong to teach it this young in age as in some cases the child might grow up to be very confused.Nonetheless,stranger things have happened such as middle schools prescribing birth control to adolescent girls!

Answer 3

I don't think anything about sex needs to be taught in elementary school. Sex is a topic to be discussed by the child and their parent. As a mother I would be highly upset if this were discussed in school. Yes, sex ed is good but not so young. Also, sex ed should strictly be taught with keep girls from getting pregnant and about STD's. Not about the actual deed or with whom should be participating.

Answer 4

I have absolutely nothing against gay people and have several good friends that are gay (you know when a shpiel starts like that it is going to be a bit controversial lol). I don't think homosexuality should be taught in schools. I think questions should be answered honestly and unbiased if and when they arise, but I do not think it needs to be "taught" per se. Why? The fact of the matter is that I find it to be - for lack of a better term - unnatural. I know there are many arguments for and against that, but that is my (educated) opinion. I feel like if it is physically impossible for two people of the same gender to conceive a child, then it is thus "unnatural". I don't know... maybe one day in a couple thousand years we will evolve to that point. If and when that does happen, then I will definitely rethink my stance. :)

Answer 5

School is for learning. However, I dont feel that homosexuality is meant to be taught in elementary school...... But rather a subject meant for teachings in one's home, along with sexual subject matter, manners in general, & consideration for others. Such qualities are family matters that one should be comfortable with in order to move on in school and in life.

Linah, I would be inclined to disagree with you. I dont believe one who is homosexual, MAKES that choice. I do believe it is determined/realized at a very early age, for whatever reason.

Answer 6

Talking to kids about homosexuality does not turn them gay. Nor does it mean describing sexual practices.

Regardless of whether parents believe homosexuality is biological in origin or a lifestyle choice, it is their responsibility to teach their children it is not their place to pass judgment on others. If parents teach intolerance to their children, those children will bring that intolerance to school. They will bully and tease anyone who is different, or whose family structure is different, than their own. Now it becomes a disciplinary problem for the school to deal with.

Homosexuality exists, whether the intolerant like it or not. Educators, in their struggle to create and maintain safe environments for children while in school, are forced to go beyond basic academics and address more global issues, such as divorce, pregnancy outside of marriage, and homosexuality. Why? Because children will express learned hatred toward others both verbally and physically. The teaching of tolerance becomes a form of preventative discipline against hate crimes committed at school.

Parents who teach their children tolerance, who teach their children that everyone is of value, and that whether someone is heterosexual, bisexual, or homosexual, it's not their place to pass judgment, are contributing to the betterment of society.

It is the responsibility of parents to teach their children how to live in this world, not in some hermetically sealed microcosm of selective ideology. It begins with elementary school; children learn about the depth of differences between people in this environment more than any other thus far in their lives. If the core values of their home life are those of tolerance, understanding and love, children will contribute those values to their environment.

Should parents see homosexuality as a sin, as an aberration of nature, they certainly have the right to express that belief to their children. But if, along with those beliefs, they pass on hatred for homosexuals, and that hatred manifests itself in the school environment, those parents have now abdicated the right to deny the school to teach their children about homosexuality, or at the very least, tolerance.

Parents lead the way in teaching their children about homosexuality, but its what the children take to school with them that determines the school's role in the furtherance of their education.

Answer 7

I think kids need to know, but not in elementary school.
Let them be kids man!

Answer 8

It is wrong for the same reason that Bestiality is not taught at schools...............