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And to force schools to disclose information that their children don't feel safe revealing to them (like LGBTQ status), knowing that it could cause their religi
by deanCommie 4y ago
And to force schools to disclose information that their children don't feel safe revealing to them (like LGBTQ status), knowing that it could cause their religious parents to completely destroy their lives through things that are banned in most of the civilized world but not in the US (conversion therapy, etc)
It's a tough balance.
- thucydidesofusa 4y ago[flagged]
- 64bittechie 4y ago[dead]
- awesomeMilou 4y ago> It's a tough balance. Sarcasm? We have both privacy and free roam rights for children in germany. Talk about sane legislature!
- rendall 4y agoAgreed. As an American raising a child in Europe, it's also strange that what I believe to be perfectly reasonable positions like "My child should have the right to play outside unbothered by police or busy-bodies", are not only opposed, but opposed because of other unrelated culture-war reasons. The reasoning seems to be that because (e.g.) some states allow parents to hit their children or otherwise do things that (I agree) are reprehensible, therefore parents should not have the right to allow their children outside. Baffling.
- coryfklein 4y agoAnd yet home schooling is completely illegal in Germany, something that would be a complete deal breaker for me. But perhaps that speaks more to how bad public school is in the US, maybe it's freaking amazing in Germany?
- ihaveabeardnow 4y agoI'm with you on this. Maybe it speaks a bit to opinions on public schools in the US, but even free access to the best public school in the world doesn't (imo) give someone the right to force it on others.
- wolfgangK 4y ago[flagged]
- Macha 4y agoConversion therapy is the process of industrial scale bullying LGBT children into presenting as straight, with many such places going miles past the line of child abuse. It's nothing to do with SRS, which is not offered to children anyway, so your dislike of that is irrelevant.
- hubankub 4y ago[flagged]
- SauciestGNU 4y agoConversion therapy is a form of torture usually based in Christianity that uses coercion and psychological pressure to force queer people to "fix" themselves and identify as cisgender heterosexual.