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On the other hand
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This PC crap is just going way overboard. Let's see, it's age inappropriate for ten year-olds to see a science project on mummifcation, yet a ten year-old did it?
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My mother is a rather frank-speaking woman. When I was about ten, I heard the word "prostitute" on the radio, and asked her what it was. She told me in rather graphic and anatomical terms what a prostitute does.
So, as far as my mother was concerned, it was okay for her 10 year old to know exactly what a prostitute does. And she probably wouldn't have cared if I had gone home and written it down on a piece of paper. But if I had brought the paper into school the next day and asked the teacher if I can read it to the class for social studies, do you think the school should have allowed me to give my presentation? |
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EFLtrainer
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| Posted: Sun Apr 23, 2006 9:24 am Post subject: |
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| Are you seriously suggesting a science project on prostitution and one on mummification is a realistic or useful comparison? |
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On the other hand
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| Posted: Sun Apr 23, 2006 9:51 am Post subject: |
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Are you seriously suggesting a science project on prostitution and one on mummification is a realistic or useful comparison?
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I was responding to your post, which read...
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Let's see, it's age inappropriate for ten year-olds to see a science project on mummifcation, yet a ten year-old did it?
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According to this logic, it should have been acceptable for me to tell my classmates about what a prostitution, because some parents(eg. my mother) don't have a problem with their kids hearing graphic descriptions of it.
If you think anything that kids discuss with their parents at home is fair game for classroom discussion, I don't see how you could object to me giving my classmates a graphic description of prostitution. But in the post I quoted at the beginning of this, you seem to indicate that prostitution is in a somewhat different category than decaying corpses, despite the fact that ten years olds hear about both. |
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EFLtrainer
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| Posted: Sun Apr 23, 2006 10:01 am Post subject: |
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Are you seriously suggesting a science project on prostitution and one on mummification is a realistic or useful comparison?
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I was responding to your post, which read...
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Let's see, it's age inappropriate for ten year-olds to see a science project on mummifcation, yet a ten year-old did it?
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According to this logic, it should have been acceptable for me to tell my classmates about what a prostitution, because some parents(eg. my mother) don't have a problem with their kids hearing graphic descriptions of it.
If you think anything that kids discuss with their parents at home is fair game for classroom discussion, I don't see how you could object to me giving my classmates a graphic description of prostitution. But in the post I quoted at the beginning of this, you seem to indicate that prostitution is in a somewhat different category than decaying corpses, despite the fact that ten years olds hear about both. |
I think you're stretching my comments well beyond the scope of this thread. The situation defines the parameters, does it not? Mummification is not an inappropriate topic for a ten year-old, nor for a science fair. We continue to reduce individual responsibility by trying to protect everyone from themselves. Let those that wish to see it do so, and let those that don't do as they wish. Science fairs are not places ten year-olds go alone. They go with a parent, no? The parent can't figure this out for themselves? Hell, the kids can! If this were with human cadavers you might have a point, but piglets? Please. They see bacon and ham on the table all the time. They don't know where it came from? (Yes, I know the example is over-simplified, but c'mon. ) |
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