How can we say that children are more confused about their gender? Few of us openly explored our gender in the past because we all knew that if we did, we’d get bullied.
A parent recently stood up in a School District 57 board meeting and shared his opinion. He said, “Our education system is not doing a whole lot to provide our children with the necessary life skills and the education that they deserve…We are here to … make our children have purpose again and be confident in who they are and get the education they deserve without the confusion.”
Up as compared to what? Bullying went largely unreported in the past. What was once considered tolerable behaviour, for example, making racist and homophobic slurs, would rightly result in school suspensions today. Bullying has not been eliminated from our schools or in the lives of our children, but we are hopefully more mindful of forms of harassment, and more proactive in dealing with these issues.
When it comes to helping young people find meaning and learn valuable life skills, I do have some data that can be analyzed and scrutinized. In my Social Justice 12 class, we remove the pretty wrappings from the history lessons many of us learned in the past. We seek to understand how social injustice can lead to genocide, why genocide happens, how we can respond effectively to genocidal tendencies in society, and ultimately how we can prevent genocide in the future.
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