A wedding as a school field trip? HUH?

Has everyone heard about the lesbian school teacher who got married and took her 1st grade class to her wedding as a field trip? Apparently there was parental approval of this as well and was one parent’s idea.

Here is the article: Class surprises lesbian teacher on wedding day

Problem 1: This became a school sponsored event the moment the school approved of this field trip. They took time out of school to go see their teacher get married.

If the teacher had invited the parents and children to her wedding and it was a weekend wedding and most of her class showed up that would be okay by me because it would not be a school sponsored event. Or if the parents had surprised the teacher during a non-school day or after school and attended the wedding it would be okay by me.

Problem 2: This is not how you should deal with homosexual issues in elementary school.

If there’s a sharing day and you ask the kids to bring in a family picture to talk about it and then one kid has same gender parents that’s fine. I have no problem with that. No child should be excluded from such a sharing activity. THAT is the appropriate way to deal with such things! Allow them to come up naturally during those times when the class talks about their families!

Problem 3: The after field trip activities related to the field trip.

Making this whole homosexual marriage issue part of a school or class curriculum is inappropriate. While the parents were allowed to opt out of this field trip (two families did) it does not stop those children from being exposed to the contents of this field trip in other ways such as the after field trip activities relating to the field trip.

Homosexual marriage is a moral issue. As such public schools should not promote either for or against homosexual marriage.

In high schools you can have the gay club if a teacher sponsors it, just as schools allow the Christian club and the Muslim club. There is no reason to pound our young children’s head with this. They’ll figure it out eventually, when they are cognitively ready and able to!

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