Denying Children cause Parents are Lesbians

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Originally Posted by Ms Cyn

Nods, Nods...

My son went to a catholic hs run by Jesuits... They knew he was agnostic, they knew his parents were lesbians... He was allowed to bring his male best friend as his date to the prom..(His best friend went to public school) He was required to attend high masses, but did not have to attend daily mass. He was required to take the standard catholic history/tenents class as well as world religion classes.

They taught him how to think.. They didn't just prep him for the next test, but taught him how to learn...

Precisely right. I wish, oh how I wish, that the public schools were dedicated to the idea that the job of the teacher isn't to prep students for the next test, it's to teach people how to learn and how to be citizens and not just consumers. If we learned about citizenship, what it entails, why it matters, I think we would be a different and better nation.

Both the left and the right in America miss the boat, I think with the issues of education and citizenship. The left has, at best, an ambiguous relationship to promoting the idea that one is a citizen and that this is something meaningful. The right believes in citizenship but what is meant by the right is more along the lines of nationalism than what I have in mind.

Cheers
Aj