Brody's Scribbles...On Gay Guiena Pigs & Teaching The Wee Ones

By Brody Levesque (Washington DC) Dec 19 | In yesterday's edition of BN&S I ran an op-ed on a story first published by the WASHINGTON CITY PAPER  last Tuesday, dealing with a complaint by an irate parent over the actions of a primary school teacher in a local school here in the District.

This morning I received a comment that I found expressed an extremely well reasoned response and observation that I am reprinting it here unedited & verbatim:

My wife teaches 5 and 6 year olds in the UK state system. Instead of handling sexuality per se she teaches the children in her care how wonderful it is that we are all different. She doesn't believe that sexuality of any sort should arise in that age group's teaching. She also believes in fairy tales where the princess leaves with the prince. This is normality for the majority of the population.

However, if a child asks about Elton John and his wedding to a nice gentlemen she deals with it happily and with confidence. If a child comes in with a book where the prince marries the prince, she deals with it happily and with confidence. And she explains that some boys love girls, some girls love boys, and some girls love girls and some boys love boys, and that is one of the things we should all celebrate.

Photo By The BBC

Children need to learn and understand how to recognise and appreciate differences in a positive manner, not to be afraid of them or to disparage them. What matters is the quality of the teaching and of the teaching aids used.

A couple of years ago she had a boy in her class who probably has gender dysphoria. He, perhaps she, is just a kid, and the others treated him as such, even when he came to school wearing feminine clothes. Fred (not his name) was respected for his differences, for his love of pink unicorns, and for his joy in drawing and telling tales about fairies.

This is the type of environment we want our children to be taught in, not an oppressive one. We want them taught that bigotry and hatred is bad, and that respect for all mankind is good.