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Originally Posted by LordFu  I'd say bigotry most certainly plays a role in why some people object to the book. I'm just not sure that a topic I wouldn't broach with my hypothetical 7 year-old (really, what the hell does a kid that age need to know about any sexuality, gay, straight, or otherwise?), I'm far less comfortable with a public school attempting to address.
Maybe schools in your neighborhood/city/state/country are really that much better, localzuk, but they're pretty poor at doing much of anything, where I am. Most of the public-school teachers I know home-school their kids. What's that tell you when the teacher won't bring their own kids to the school they work at? |
The point is that they aren't broaching the subject of sexuality - the book simply mentions it in the form of characters. That's my point - why is it controversial if no-one makes a controversy out of it?
And yes, working in a school myself (not as a teacher, mind) I can say our schools do one hell of a job educating kids.