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More evidence that gay witches are running Tennessee’s public schools
Posted By katie allison granju
Rep. Stacey Campfield points to a KNS article as evidence (at least I think this is what he’s saying) that his recent attempt to make a law banning teachers from mentioning homosexuality was needed.
The article is about a parent in Oak Ridge’s complaint that an online encyclopedia called BrainPOP offered to elementary school students contained mention of things like lesbians and Wicca. The parent’s second grader ended up reading about something the parent didn’t want him/her to read.
Some of the commenters below the KNS article make the excellent point that no second grader should be browsing any online information - period - without a parent basically helping to click the mouse.
Aunt B. weighs in on the issue, saying:
I, for the life of me, will never understand this attitude, though, that there is knowledge that should be off-limit to kids. If a kid is bright enough and curious enough to search it out, that’s the time it’s time to introduce the subject to them. I get steering them towards age-appropriate content, but banning them from an encyclopedia?
It’s so foreign to my understanding of what one does to and for their children that I really don’t know how to make sense of it.
Keeping your children from knowing things just seems like a form of child neglect–just like we’d frown on you for keeping your kids in a bed that was too small for him or shoes that were too small for her, this seems like keeping your kid in a little mental box that’s too small. And yet that seems to be a regular pastime of folks.
Mar 13th, 2008
