This article is an excellent example of how badly we have lost our way. Children are humans in a state of becoming and a 1st grader is at a totally different stage than an 11th grader yet we want to believe they are the same, child not adult, as if it were binary. As if any of it were binary.
The right rejects face masks which protect against the spread of disease but demands social masks contorting children into shapes made in minds from the before times. Into bullet-proof closets filled with blank history books behind teachers with guns to shield them from a world their parents don't like but actually exists.
The mistakes of the left pale in comparison to the right but we do lean into obedience over care too often, into learning how to comply over learning how to be positive agents in their own lives.
It is an inescapeble truth that if we want what our children to be happy and healthy in the world that we built they must be capable of undoing what we have done. Good news is, these are the children that broke the gender binary. They are capable in maybe exactly the way the world requires them to be.
The question is will education help them build their capabilities or will we be just another hurdle in their way.
Submitted September 10, 2023 at 08:51AM by conchesmess https://ift.tt/Vy4Gzfd
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