Should Lgbt Issues Be Introduced In Lessons From As Early As Reception Classes?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2813481/2million-drive-teachers-say-gay-class-fight-homophobic-bullying-schools.html

/// Schools can make a ‘positive impact’ by incorporating lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people into the curriculum from reception class up. ///

[sp1814]

divebuddy

You wrote:

"So it isn't surprising that they think of them as little more than vermin."

Who are the 'they' that you refer to?

A remember about a month ago, when discussing gay hate attacks, you mentioned that because gay people flaunt their sexuality, some people have the attitude that this is just 'giving them the hiding that they deserve'.

I'm sure that you would agree the people who feel that attacking gay people simply because they don't like them, are filth and perhaps the country's best advert for planned parenthood?

[andy-hughes]

jack - I admire your restraint - I am incandescent with outrage, but i appreciate that, thanks to the view of people like divebuddy, then muddled inappropriate predjudiced nasty offensive rude and ignorant posturings are something you have had to learn to live with.

But that does not make it any better.

[sp1814]

I think it's commendable how posters are responding to some of the more 'prosaic' comments on this thread.

Now this is the way that bigotry needs to be tackled.

Perhaps this thread could be printed off and provided to teachers?

[anotheoldgit]

sp1814

/// LBGT issues cannot and will not be taught to reception age kids, because it's a topic which is far too complex for them to understand. ///

/// This is not what is being proposed ///

I suggest you read the report sp.

*** Schools can make a ‘positive impact’ by incorporating lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people into the curriculum from reception class
up. ***

*** The report’s authors suggest that children as young as four or five should be taught about LGBT issues. ***

[Postdog]

No

[jackthehat]

Are there many people whose sole experience of meeting gay people is in the circumstances you describe?

[andy-hughes]

divebuddy - "jackthehat, If you read back you'll see that I didn't say normal people were justified in viewing gays as vermin. I said that if that was their only experience of seeing gays it wasn't surprising if they felt that way."

Actually divebuddy - if you apportion the rest of society with a rather wider and more tolerent view of behaviour than you have hitherto exhbibited on this thread, you might find that they don't tend to catagorise any one section of society based on the unpleasant behaviour of an extremely small minority.

If they did, all 'normal' people could be viewed in the same way that most people think of 'doggers' - it's not standard behaviour, some do it, the vast majority don't.

I think you have serious issues with homosexuality - your continued use of the word 'normal' to distance yourself speaks volumes of fear.

Don't worry, with the hostility and vitriol you almost physically radiate with your opinions on here, i am sure your body is safe from any 'men on the prowl'.

[Baldric]

If you object to Gays being insulted, take a look at the end of "Alan Turing's Nickname" thread!

[tamborine]

Intersexuals ?

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intersex

[gness]

Jordy.....that was about my children....the ones I brought up.

My point is that it is needed in school because there are parents who use words like deviant, vermin, poofters and who are bringing up children to be the same....as did yours.

[sp1814]

divebuddy

I did not accuse you of saying that.

Please reread what I posted.

However, if you did not say that some people feel that gay people deserve a kicking for flaunting their sexuality, I retract.

[Zeuhl]

/Intersexuals ? /

tambo

i'm beginning to think you are just 'avin a larf ... :-)

[andy-hughes]

divebuddy - "Produce a link where I said it or shut up."

Please remain polite when responding to posts, in the spirit of the AB.

Thank you.

[anotheoldgit]

divebuddy

/// Perhaps AOG (I think it was) was right saying that some people revel in a victim status. ///

I think it was "who revel in their minority status".