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Wednesday, February 10, 2010

This article is about a documentary that was made about how elementary schools shoud teach about homosexuality and should be able to give kids all the facts about gay people to tell kids that homosexuality is right and completely acceptable. What the movie showed was that most children at an early age are open minded to controversial issues and usually take a more liberal stance on the issue. One 7 year old boy even went as far to talk about homophobic parents. "And a second grade boy in Cambridge, Mass., says an adult who is opposed to lesbianism is not very 'open minded' and in fact is downright 'prejudiced'." This just shows how kids today are being corrupted by their parents ideas. Children don't start out being prejudiced and "homophobic", ideas kids get to make fun of kids who are different usually come from their parents' ideas of what is right and wrong. What the article was arguing was that parents should not be underminded if they believe that is what they should raise their kids to believe. This would also not be good for the children if they are being told two completely different opinions at once. What I got from this article is that kids should be given all the facts in school about life and different people of different cultures and beliefs. School should not be biased and have a responsibility to give kids all the facts in order for them to make their own educated opinions. Parents can still talk about what they believe about homosexuality but children should have the right to look at both sides of this issue.

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