To the editor: I’ve heard some absurd faculty insurance policies in my time, however this one is up there with the very worst (“Dad and mom can now choose youngsters out of LGBTQ+ classes. How colleges are bracing for the change,” Sept. 4). Dad and mom can withdraw their kids from classes that battle with their non secular views (however the youngsters can’t choose out themselves).
Isn’t it among the many objectives of schooling that we develop into wiser, extra broad-minded and enlightened? This ruling permits dad and mom to maintain their kids at midnight concerning the realities of life, presumably even shielding them from science, as Yale Legislation College professor Justin Driver factors out. May dad and mom choose their kids out of science class the place they be taught the origins of the universe, the age of our planet — that our planet is a sphere?
And the fact is that 9.3% of the U.S. inhabitants identifies as LGBTQ+. Shouldn’t kids know what meaning, and know that human beings are a really various species and are allowed to dwell as they see match right here in America?
David Tempest, Mar Vista
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To the editor: I can see it now: a handful of kids leaving the classroom in order that they don’t should be uncovered to matters their dad and mom object to. Most of those must do with sexuality and LGBTQ+ points. Has anybody considered the idea of forbidden fruit? Inform a baby one thing is forbidden and that solely will increase their need to find out about it.
So inform me please, what youngster isn’t going to depart that classroom and instantly begin asking questions and speculating concerning the matter? Oh, the chatter on the playground. I clearly bear in mind among the “secret” issues I realized there. Maybe these youngsters could be higher off listening to these points mentioned with educated lecturers reasonably than within the playground hypothesis of different kids.
Barbara Rosen, Fullerton
