[JohnWhigham]

Funny thing is that I guarantee a lot of the parents in support of dumb shit like this lose their minds at sexual education classes in public schools. Just shows that most people don't have the IQ necessary to be competent parents.

[_gabe_]

If you lose your mind about a sexual education class, I agree that's misguided, but saying they have a low IQ because of that? Maybe a low EQ if they can't control their emotions, but it's absurd to automatically equate emotions with intelligence. We've all acted stupidly because we've been emotionally invested in an idea. To pretend otherwise is disingenuous at best, and probably indicative of a low IQ at worst ;)

Anyways, lots of people and religions have wildly different ideas on the sanctity (or lack of sanctity) of sex. Some people don't like it when a public school decides to teach their child something different. Whether that's a school teaching that heterosexual monogamy is the one true way, or homosexualism or polygamy or whatever. People have very different opinions on this and that's OK.

[JohnWhigham]

Don't think you got my point. I'd wager most parents that don't like sexual education courses don't see the hypocrisy in supporting this bill. They're essentially letting the state do the parenting for them.

[RobertRoberts]

Which do you prefer?

1) We should have school districts teaching _Republican_ ideals because the local schools support it.

2) We should have school districts teaching _Democrat_ ideals because the local schools support it.

3) No to both 1 and 2.

You simply can't have it both ways, therefore the reasonable option is to say no to both.

[veilrap]

The problem with this is that Republicans in power today equate things like evolution with Democrat ideals.

When facts get labeled as bias it's impossible to remove both from the classroom and still have a functional classroom.

[freemint]

Well i could wish for correct ideals to be taught which happen to be overwhelmingly not the republican ones.

[vineyardmike]

If 3, what are schools teaching? Hopefully students learn something beyond the reality that their education is a political pawn.

[mbg721]

There are plenty of school districts in localities where there's no meaningful Republican presence; how are they doing?

[joe5150]

good luck teaching much beyond colors and shapes without overlapping with some "Republican ideals" or "Democrat ideals". especially given the ever-widening scope of what so many Republicans claim constitutes Democratic political indoctrination in schools.

[8note]

2) is actually "We should have school districts _not_ teaching _Republican_ ideals because the local schools support it.

3) is then a contradiction, in that there is nothing that could be taught, since everything is either republican ideals or not-republican ideals