Hot take: people spend way too much time talking about issues that don't matter, like LGBTQ and race (note: not to say that LGBTQ and race are unimportant issues. In fact, there needs to be equal rights and treatment in both categories. Just, comparatively, they are not as important), and way too little talking about things that really matter for the survival of humanity, like climate change and space travel.
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I think the main problem is that whatever talk that DOES happen usually doesn’t go anywhere
It’s just people arguing but not reaching a consensus or compromise of both sides
Like, if you’re going to have bibles in class (even though religion should be separate), then you should allow books about equality and stuff too. It’s not equal to only allow books on an opinionated basis (whether they support your beliefs or not).
Personally, I don’t think either of those books should be introduced until much later. Sure, the point of books about equality is to teach children to be more accepting of people different from them. That behavior starts at home, though. If their parents teach them to only favor people with similar beliefs, the same race, sexuality, etc. then no amount of books will change that. It will make the parents angry and provide them an argument point, though.
This is just my perspective on it. Sorry it deviates quite a bit from the original topic.
I do think there’s talk about climate change / space travel, just not colloquially. But I’m sure scientists have been scrutinizing it for a while now, it’s just much more complicated (as it’s not simply a social problem), so it has fewer appearances in casual chats.
why do we need subjective stuff in school? just give books that contain facts (engineering, some science, math) and let the kids decide the rest for themselves
Then what about the kids who like the subjective stuff? They teach everything because different kids may have different interests and may want to do something different in future (unrelated to highschool science)
How will they even have the interest if they aren’t exposed to it?