Comments by "J" (@jtgd) on "The Wall Street Journal"
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It’s funny cause when you ask for evidence of cases in Florida justifying the bill, and the examples seem to be ONLINE teachers with no verification of working in Florida not following a curriculum, or books not even affected by the laws.
What you do have is ambiguous language that allows parents to complain about something they subjectively disagree with, which puts teachers at risk of penalty over something that’s not even verifiably restricted in the law.
“Age appropriateness” isn’t objective in most cases. Surprisingly there’s lots of people who don’t know that 5 year olds touch themselves. And when there were controversy over an animated video shown to kindergartners informing them what they were doing regarding stimulating their privates, not to touch them in public, and to not let adults touch them there, people were outraged over “teaching them masturbation”, despite that actually being something that’s naturally observed for that level of development in youth.
I get protecting kids is important, but some are treating this like a witch hunt solely based on what they personally consider appropriate or not.
And there’s a difference in making kids aware of their actions when it’s literally relevant and natural for that action to happen, and actual child abuse.
Kids are naive, but they’re not incapable of comprehending literally anything.
Also, “uncomfortable” topics aren’t age inappropriate merely because they cause emotional discomfort.
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