[Darryl_P]

I don't want to control my kids' minds or brainwash them. I just want to prevent others from doing it. They will grow up and make up their own minds eventually, so using force on them will only backfire anyway. There are some issues, like homosexuality, which are best left to a later age though IMO.

Quite frankly I don't trust a lot of teachers because they work hard for crappy pay, despite being well educated, so there has to be something in it for them. For some it's just a genuine desire to do good (those are the good teachers, hats off to them) but in a lot of cases (thinking back to my own schooling) that something is the ability to mould kids' minds in their own (sometimes warped and perverted) ways.

So rather than give them an issue which, bolstered by legal legitimacy, gives them free range to impart their subjective views on my kids, I'd rather the issue stay off the table in the school system and have them focus on the 3 Rs instead.