mariacostel wrote on Mar 11
th, 2016 at 6:24pm:
Melanias purse wrote on Feb 29
th, 2016 at 2:47pm:
The one place homophobia hasn't been tackled yet is in schools. Young males are very homophobic. Institutions, workplaces, the corporate world, film and TV, the law - all have reformed homophobic attitudes and practices. Boys, to a large extent, haven't.
I'm not sure whether education can fix this, but if schools don't try, they're not addressing a major social shift in attitudes towards homosexuals. Bullying is toxic. It stays with kids for life. Gay kids continue to commit suicide at a huge rate - even kids who've merely been accused of being gay.
Realistically, the only place this can be addressed is schools. We've done it everywhere else - why not school?
Because it isn't about 'acceptance'. It is not about ending bullying. It is about encouraging diversity itself, not the acceptance of that. Questions of morality, especially sexual morality have no place in the school curriculum. They are taught in the home.
You've hear the outcry about Christian SChools teaching abstinence and heterosexual normalisation.
It's not - unless it discriminates on the basis of sexuality. Then it's against the law.
Schools are part of civil society. I'd argue they form the very basis of civil society. If schools can't at least attempt to end discrimination, what hope do workplaces, corporate boards, the public service, the military?
Teaching abstinence and heterosexual normalization is already the norm. Kids learn this from a very young age. You wouldn't discourage schools from teaching about stranger danger or prohibiting grown-ups from touching you "down there" any more than you'd discourage schools from teaching about morality.