I have lived in my house for over 30 years. I have had a (as in one) Christmas light stolen and the occasional doorbell ditcher in all of that time. Now that we have Facebook and Nextdoor and Ring you would think I live in a crime-ridden hellhole. Every Amazon porch theft and car break-in gets reported on social media with the attendant cries of “what’s happening to our little town?”. This stuff was always going on (well, I guess not the Amazon thefts) we just didn’t have the platforms to hear about it.

There are media outlets and bad-faith actors who scour the internet for every nutjob and extreme example of someone acting badly and then extrapolate into the country is going to hell. This poll speaks to that. Most people think that their schools are fine. But OMG! look at the internet and just what is going on with this country! The extremes are getting disproportionately amplified.

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I doubt it.

Me: Okay, if first we accept all your assumptions about the midterms being an unprecedented bloodbath for Democrats, and can we discuss your reactions to the polling?

Answer: No.

All these posts, and not one live nude girl.

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Pretty much, only a minority are happy with what’s being taught in schools?

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As a parent with kids school, most of the answers in that poll do not surprise me.

The biggest hair on fire culture war posters here dont even have kids in school anymore.

In my kids school district part of the curriculum is Health and Human development, first the kids are sent home with a permission slip if they prefer to opt out. Second the lessons and materials are public both the written and audio visual materials. Lastly there are lesson preview’s that parents can attend review and ask questions.

This from liberal South Cali

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How many do you think ACTUALLY look at that material?

Based on how many parents will continue to ask what day such and such is happening, never look at what papers are sent home and the return rate for such based on personal experience. I’m thinking very few even take a glance and the note is signed hastily when thrown under the parents nose the day it’s due as the kid is running to catch the bus.

I would hope most, especially if you believe the current “hysteria”

Personally I review it every year, but if other parents don’t that is on the parent :man_shrugging:

My public school district sends emails, letters, slips with students, access to the material and hosts mock classes of the material what more can be asked?

Is this a response to the poll?

Trust me, you can send them everything in every mode possible. It won’t guarantee they see a thing, so using the ‘but it’s all available so they can’t complain’ reasoning for these types of issues is rather lame. That’s why I don’t accept that when given as an excuse (not that you are, to make that clear). I’ve seen how little parents do when it comes to reading and reviewing materials.

I can see your point there are some parents that don’t pay any attention to their kids, I imagine those are the same parents that come back screaming later…

I still don’t see how that is on the school though, bad parenting is bad parenting if they aren’t paying attention to their kids schooling they have bigger issues.

The school is ensuring they are doing everything possible short of grabbing them by the neck to look.

I think the poll bears that out to a degree, as “Don’t know” is an important category, e.g.,

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I never said it was on the school. :woman_shrugging:

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I was agreeing with you.

I know. I don’t think I responded to you much less said you were wrong. :woman_shrugging:

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Oops. Misread the notification. Got it.

So in this formulation, the only parents engaged and paying attention are the ones that you happen to agree with.

Rather convenient, that

Where the hell did you get that?

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It’s the rationalization phase. It’s not about Brandon, failed policies are bad, bad governing. It’s normal.

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