GAYNESS, MULTICULTERAL EDUCATION, AND COMMUNITY
BY CARLSON
Quotes:
1. “No state currently recognizes gays and lesbians as legitimate minority or cultural groups to be considered in textbook adoption or to be included in multicultural education; and a number of states explicitly prohibit teaching about homosexuality.”
· Making fun of someone for their sexuality is the same thing as making fun of someone for the color of their skin. It’s called racism. If we want to teach these kids that racism is wrong then we can’t pick and chose which type of racism to teach, we need to teach all of them.
2. Like communist states, they have been based on the presumption that if students in the school community can be kept shielded from “bad influences” and provided only positive representations of community life, that they can be molded into good well adjusted citizens and workers.
· To me there is no such thing as bad influences. There are only bad influences if you let it be. The more we learn the better we will be. No matter if it’s good things we learn about or bad things we learn about it makes us more educated.
3. For the first time in their lives, they begin to talk openly about sexual feelings with peers and friends of their own age and adult role models, whom they can admire. Their worst fears are that they are out of their minds, full of sin and sickness, that they are doomed to dress as transvestites, molest children, hate the opposite sex or contract AIDS.”
· People who are homosexual think that because they are different they are a bed person or that they will do bad things. When truly that’s not true, you can be different and still be normal. Without difference in the world it would be very boring.
This topic is a very emotional topic for me. This was a thing that always bothered me. Kids in my school never understood anyone else besides them self. A lot of my friends were gay or lesbian and they were picked on all the time. I don’t think that people should pick on anyone for who they like. This article was an easy read just very emotional.
Before this reading, i never even though about implementing gayness into multicultural education. And i guess you are right, if we teach children that racsim is bad, why not put as much emphasis on eliminating the sterotypes for gayness. I know how you feel with this as a topic of interest. I have a Cousin and really good friend on mine who are both gay, but my family and friends wouldnt be the same without them.
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