Should you be worried about what your kids do in school?

[NooNoo]

If you have kids, then the school uses them as a postal system. All kinds of letters come home with your kids, some informing you of school trips, others about policy and some about the work your kid is expected to do for a project or a part of the curriculum.

This one came home the other day...

Dear Parents

As a part of year 10 P.S.H.E. course, we are currently looking at relationships, and this includes some elements of Sex Education and is a continuation of the work of the visiting "Learning Through Action" group earlier this year.

If you would like any more information about the P.S.H.E. course, please do not hesitate to contact me.

[name removed]
Head of Year 10

[jaeger]

Ya'll don't pay teachers enough over there either, do you?

[houseisland]

"Learning Through Action"

LOL. Well, in the end (pun intended), isn't this how we all learn?

But in this specific instance, I doubt that there is any real cause for concern for your kid.

I would have more concern over the letter writer's inability to appreciate irony. The UK has developed irony, refined it, and honed and polished it to a point where it is almost a weapon of mass destruction. The writer's inablility here would seem to be grounds for imprisonment, perhaps even a revoking of citizenship. You should go to your local police station and raise concerns about non-ironic subversives in the school system undermining the Government and the British way of life.

In a general sense, you should always be worried about your kids. It is your job. But you can't put them in bubble wrap. They would suffocate.

There was a man on the CBC speaking to a group of parents. He asked them how they would like their childern to grow up. The general consesus was that parents wanted their children to grow up to be strong and independent. He asked them about how children should behave. The general consesus was that they should be passive and obedient. He asked them about how they looked after their kids. Generally the kids were sheltered, protected, insulated, isolated, etc. He asked the parents how they expected their children ever to develop into strong independent adults. There was general silence.

I have a fifteen-year-old daughter. She looks like she is twenty one or twenty two. She goes out on her own on public transit. She now has a boyfriend. My heart is in my mouth every time she steps out the door. I would like to pack her in bubble warp. In my patriarchal anxiety, I think about chastity belts -- I know what I was like as a teenage boy . But I do think, that fledglings must be allowed to flap their wings a bit before they have to make the leap from the edge of the nest. It's not easy to let go, though.

[slgrieb]

Well, Noo, I'd be pretty concerned if I thought "Learning Through Action" actually meant what it says, but I'd just chalk it up to Administrative stupidity. Of course, there is some slight chance that it could reflect sly and subtle humor, but that raises the truly frightening prospect that your school could be teaching your children to think!

[TripleRLtd]

Should you be worried about what your kids do in school?

NO!
By year 10, I would think that "learning through action" would be the natural next step. And, of course, some of that next step should have already been learned...the good and the bad, no?

[NooNoo]

Oh good grief... you think I am serious? jeez...

[slgrieb]

Noo, do you think we're serious? jeez.

[TripleRLtd]

Noo, do you think we're serious? jeez.

Geesh.

[Guts3d]

I remember taking Sex Ed, and it wasn't nearly as much fun as I thought that it would be...

[slgrieb]

I'm with you on Sex Ed, Guts! Sex Susie was a different story...