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Originally Posted by Calgaryborn
It is not an administrative nightmare. You notify parents by letter sent home with the child whenever an evolution section comes up. If a question comes up in class otherwise, the teacher answers it. I'm sure the child will survive without leaving the room.
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So I want to keep my kid out of social when WWII comes up, how do I get that letter? Either you allow an infinite # of letters for an infinite # of subjects, or you allow nothing.
At the very least it should be up to the parents to keep track of what's taught when, then they can inform the teachers when they'll be huddling in their basement in fear in case their kid hears something objectionable.
How many different sets of homework, quizes, and exams will teachers have to make to compensate for students that are excused? Cause an exam with evolution on it is still exposure to evolution.
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Originally Posted by Calgaryborn
Parents do write letters to excuse little Johnny or Jane from certain school activities. Why make this a bigger issue than it is? The reason why the Alberta government signaled out evolution and sex education is because these are issues with a significant amount of parents. Your elected representatives decided to respect the wishes of these parents. The result will be that more of these kids will remain in public school.
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More kids remaining in schools isn't a worthy goal in and of itself unless they are getting a good education.
So where do you draw the line (it's been asked multiple times)? How many parents have to object before the topic can be treated this way?
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Originally Posted by Calgaryborn
So what's your solution? Keep these children isolated from public school if their parents won't knuckle under or better still have their parents arrested for child abuse?
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My solution is to leave it the way it is.. if parents want to tell their kids that what they learned at school is bunk, then let them. If kids want to criticize evolution, shouldn't they at least understand what it says??