How about this for a 1st grade field trip

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*mouth hitting floor*

Not where I would send my 1st grader for a field trip.

 

You would not let your first grader attend your child"s favorite teachers wedding?

Don't know that that is the circumstances, but I would.

 

Ok I will say it... I will not let my child attend my gay teachers wedding but, a wedding is not reaaly a place for a field trip to me. I can and will teach tolorence however I will not teach to support something that is wrong to us.

 

I don't think they should have made it a field trip and involved the school. I wouldn't have any problems with the wedding or my child attending.

 

Am I the only one seeing a dichotomy in these two statements? :?

 

As a parent, I'd have the choice to allow my kid to go or not. Considering the city, this is not a surprise to me. I'm sure they had each and everyone of the kid's parents permission to attend or not. To each his own. I'm pretty positive, once again consider the city, that the teacher never hid the fact that she was gay esp. when you consider she was planning her wedding to her significant other around the attendance of her students.
Personally, I would not have let my child go because we have raised our children with the belief that God did not intend for women to be with women or men to be with men. So, to allow your child to participate with something that you teach against at home does nothing but cause confusion in children that young. But that's just our way of raising our kids, to each his own and its not up for argument.

 

The article stated only two students did not have permission to go and stayed at the charter school with another first grade class.

 

As a school field trip... no, I would not. And I certainly would not allow my 6 year old little Johnny or Suzy to wear a "No on 8" button.

 

tolerate and support? .... 2 opposites to me.
Tolerate as in not hate and you treat them as people. A wedding should only have guest and attendants that are there to support the marriage and I would not support that but only accept them as a teacher and a human of this great nation. I do not agree with gay weddings and that is due to my faith. Even the great Mr obama thinks a wedding os for a man and woman per Biden at the debate.

 

Good Lord

 

From the article...

I wonder if it was that parent's idea for the kids to wear those buttons as well.

 

Yes He is, Jesse!!!

 

agreed :hurray:

 

Dichotomy? No (the defintiion doesn't quite fit). Oxymoronic? Yes (with enphesis on the last half of the word). Highly contradictory.

I can't say as I see this as an appropriate field trip for either first graders or twelfth graders. The director said it was a "teachable moment", but I fail to see exactly what was teachable about it. I mean, aside from two people getting married, but then would they consider a field trip to a heterosexual wedding a "teachable moment"?

 

Chances are it was some left wing loon trying to push politics on the parents of the kiddies.

 

Which is just as bad as a right wing loon pushing their flavour of politics.

 

Who cares? It's a charter school, no parent is required to send their kids to that school. The field trip was optional, and two families chose not to send their children, so those two kids spent the day in another 1st grade classroom. They're not my kids, nor your kids, so what business is it of ours?

 

Good point. It also occured in a completely different state. However, it does raise some interesting philosophical questions that can be debated, which is why we're all here.

 

Stupid! Educational opportunity my behind. Kids that age don't know and don't care. I have a gay uncle, who is living with another man. DS has YET to ask me why he has two uncles instead of an aunt and uncle in that instance. But I need to have the conversation soon, LOL.