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Are you going to raise this with the school? It seems highly inappropriate on their part
by anjc 3y ago
Are you going to raise this with the school? It seems highly inappropriate on their part
- withinboredom 3y agoWhy would I bring my son’s opinions up with the school? Because they learned about global warming? Nah, we had a sit down talk about it and how it isn’t “any one specific person’s” fault.
- anjc 3y agoMaybe I misunderstood but it seemed that he learned it was your fault, rather than this being an opinion he formed.
- withinboredom 3y agoI mean it slightly is. I leave lights on, take long showers, drive a car, and lots of other things.
- AnimalMuppet 3y agoBecause from the description, one of two things probably happened: Either the school taught a secular version of a "put the fear of God into them" lesson, and your kid came home in feeling like he literally should not have been born, or another kid talked to him with the same result. That's a really unfair message to hand a 9-year-old.
- withinboredom 3y agoIt seems like a natural conclusion: 1. Teach: humanity has done X to the environment 2. Teach: if we don’t do something Y will happen 3. Conclude: I was not alive to do X 4. Ergo: the adults in my life did X 5. Ergo: the adults in my life will continue to do X which will cause Y because I can’t affect meaningful change I don’t automatically assume they start at step 5 at school. I’ve seen his math homework. Is that a normal way of thinking though? To automatically assume that with my son would teach him (likely, inadvertently) that what he learns at school may not be right (which isn’t true, for the most part). Rather I want to teach him that he takes ownership of the words that come out of his mouth. That his opinions are his own and he has to defend them, and further learn what is an opinion and what is a fact.
- balfirevic 3y ago> what he learns at school may not be right Wait, you don't teach him that?
- withinboredom 3y agoNo, because it is obvious past a certain age or once you know enough about the world. At his age, I want him to learn, enjoy learning, and trust his teachers to answer questions. I want him to learn, more importantly, that he can misunderstand something and it isn't the other person's fault. Schools teach the basics of the world, so by definition, are always wrong; but, with just the basics, you can make it quite far in the world...