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Homosexuality in the Classroom.

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Darcey1 · 25/11/2009 13:40

My daughter is nine. Yesterday she came home from school and said that her teacher had told the class that she was a lesbian. The teacher is about to have one of these civil partnerships and according to my daughter told the class that girls could marry girls and boys could marry boys if they wanted to.It was according to her entirely natural. This seems like corruption to me. I don't want my daughter exposed to this kind of lifestyle.

I am very upset about this and don't know what to do. Am I over reacting? Should the school have warned us that the teacher was going to do this? Do you think I should make a complaint to the school?

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whoisasking · 27/11/2009 10:55

Gah! took so long writing a post I missed the bit about confession and forgiveness.

That's alright then, I presume homosexuals are entitled to the same get-out clause?

QuintessentialShadows · 27/11/2009 11:00

oh, I see DP has gone all ancient over the issue, and I say the evidence of homo-erotic love in the ancient world is pretty clearcut

For Plato, the only type of real love is the love between two men, and he has dedicated two of his dialogues to that subject: the Symposium and the Phaedrus. After all, homo-erotic love is related to education and gaining knowledge, and this makes it superior to other types of love.

daftpunk · 27/11/2009 11:04

i think you can pick out the bits you agree with actually....some issues are alot more important than others..

i'm not saying just because i can go to confession that gives me the right to break every rule in the book..

i'd never kill anyone or commit adultery..

badietbuddy · 27/11/2009 11:11

Killing and adultery aren't the same as homosexuality at all. And yet are the same on this imaginary 'sin scale' you obviously have in your head.I have to say I love that you pick and choose which bits you obey. Especially since your arguement is 'It's in the bible, it's my religion, it must be true'. I'd love a trip round M and S with you. 'Hmm, polycotton. Only a small sin. I'll take one!'

PerArduaAdNauseum · 27/11/2009 11:11

I don't think you can pick out the bits you agree with, if your reasoning for finding something abominable is that it's written in a rule book. You either think for yourself or you don't. Which is it?

Chickenshavenolips · 27/11/2009 11:14

I thought that all sins were equal in the eyes of God?

whoisasking · 27/11/2009 11:14

Ha! OK, then if we're allowed to pick and choose I think I might pick theft. Yeah, I'm going to get myself a stripy top, an eye mask and a bag with SWAG written on it, and I'm going to rob your house.

Y'see, I've decided the bits of the bible which are important, and I think that robbing people is A-OK! They were only mucking about when that one went into the commandments. Moses was having a laugh.

stillfrazzled · 27/11/2009 11:17

I'm going to go and covet my neighbour's house. Maybe their donkey, too.

Chickenshavenolips · 27/11/2009 11:18

I covet my neighbour's garden. I covet it a lot.

stillfrazzled · 27/11/2009 11:20

I covet anyone's house with a working boiler in it. But I would never hoover on a Sunday, the commandments do say it's wrong, after all...

LeninGrad · 27/11/2009 11:20

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daftpunk · 27/11/2009 11:21

trying to think of the ten commandments....

can't remember

"you shall not eat shellfish or mix fibres"

but there's always one i forget...

whoisasking · 27/11/2009 11:21

When I was 14 I told my mum that just because she happened to give birth to me, that didn't give her the right to tell me what to do.

I'm pretty sure this counts as NOT honouring my mother and father.

I like to shake it up a bit.

Chickenshavenolips · 27/11/2009 11:24

Ha! whoisasking, you're a lightweight! My parents hated the name I'd picked for DS2. And...I called him it anyway! Sometimes, I even make jokes about their love of dado rails! Bloody hardassed rebel, me

whoisasking · 27/11/2009 11:27

DP - you are either being deliberatly obtuse, or you're not reading the posts correctly.

"Thou shalt not be a homosexual" is NOT one of the 10 commandments. It is in the book of Leviticus which is also where the shellfish/mixed fibres/dirty periods "laws" are.

I'm finding your "I'm a Christian, this is what I believe" sctick very difficult to align with your perceived lack of knowledge of the Bible...which you are quoting from.

daftpunk · 27/11/2009 11:40

LG;

tbh...no one really spoke about it...i was never told "don't you ever become a lesbian" or anything like that, but i was brought up in a very strick catholic enviroment, i went to an all girls catholic school (they were all boy mad)....have really spent all my life surrounded by people like me..

you know LG, you are the closest i've got to having any sort of relationship with a lesbian, that's how sheltered a life i must lead.

i have sensed from a few of your posts lately that you may possibly have had enough of me....and i wouldn't blame you, i'm sure when you see my name you feel slightly sick....y'know... ..sort of thing..

i really like you LG...i make time to talk to you...but i feel now that i irritate you..

i'll make this easy for you ok....i promise you i wont talk to you anymore...i know a talk bollocks sometimes, but i am a woman of my word...

good luck with FF..

LeninGrad · 27/11/2009 11:58

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QuintessentialShadows · 27/11/2009 12:22

Yup, I also call for a lesbianization of DaftPunk.

Groupsnog.

scarletlilybug · 27/11/2009 12:33

I was thinking about this a bit last night.

I was surprised to find out that civil partnerships have only existed under UK law for the past 4 years (If you'd asked me to guess, I would have said 7 or 8 years - checked by googling). I also looked up the statistics of civil partnerships and wedding (7169 in 2008, compared to 231 400 weddings). So statistically, one is much less likely to come across a civil partnership than a wedding.

I've been to a few weddings, but never to a civil partnership ceremony. I don't know (personally) of anyone who has attended one. So, DP, maybe we both lead sheltered lives together.

Thinking about it in these terms, I can see why the OP might have been a bit "surprised" by her dd's teacher's news. It might well have been her first RL experience of a civil partnership happening to someone she actually knows. All the same, I think the teacher making that sort of announcement is comparable to telling her class she was getting married - perfectly proper and understandable, even if a bit "surprising".

Blu · 27/11/2009 13:07

DP - there you go again - no-one said there was a law saying you had to 'agree with hmosexuality', and you have gone off at a tangent and not engaged with the mian point. Everyone is entitled to their opinion, but it is difference in opinion that makes discussion. All you do is say 'I would copmplain., it isn't right for the teacher to do that' BUT YOU DON'T OR CAN'T EXPLAIN WHY.

Math has explained her pov, and maybe you feel the same as her/him, I don't know.

I don't happen to agree with Math, to take an example of Math's post, in fact I am no great supporter of marriage (and am not married), but I am actually pleased that DS hears fom people who are married, and also people who are having civol partnerships - because i WANT him to have access to the diversity in the world and experiences beyond what happens in our particular family. I believe that this is good in every way. And at 9, children will be coming into contact with the things anyway - the newspapers and TV are full of references to same sex couples etc, you would have to live in a sealed bubble with a child who cannot read to keep this knowledge from your kids.

LeninGrad · 27/11/2009 13:27

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agingoth · 27/11/2009 13:38

lolol @ shotgun wedding Leningrad!!

daftpunk · 27/11/2009 13:42

Blu;

you are so hard to please....

i would have complained because i don't want my 9 yr old hearing about homosexuality from anyone other than his parents...i don't buy into this, "it's just two people who love each other"...sure it is...but homosexuals have sex...maybe i have serious sexual hang ups....(...i wont have sex infrount of my cat...i'd be embarrased for both of us)....but that's not really the issue...this is about an adult talking to children about a life style that some parents would object to.....who is in control here..?

the lesbian teacher or the parents..?

homosexuality was not invented by nulabour in 1997 (although they would have invented it)..it's been around since the beginning of time, yet still people are uncomfortable with it....that will never change, and it's not all my fault.

somethings have no explanation, i'm glad i can't explain everything...makes my life interesting.

agingoth · 27/11/2009 13:44

but most (though not all) people who love eachother have sex dp?!

telling 9 year olds about sex is different to telling them about love relationships. The teacher said nothing at all about sex with her partner, she said she was marrying her.

Blu · 27/11/2009 13:48

DP - Thank you, that is the clearest and most coherent explanation about your pov you have given!

LOL re your cat!

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