There is a lot of controversy nowadays about schools teaching about homosexuality and having gay books in schools, etc. Personally, I don't have an issue with it. Obviously, I don't mean straight up teaching them about gay sex. But I mean teaching them that gay people exist and that some people have two moms or two dads, etc.
Some would argue that it should be kept out of schools, but I don't see any problem with it as long as it is kept age appropriate. It might help combat bullying against gay students by teaching acceptance. My brother is a teacher, and I asked him for his opinion on this. He said that a big part of his job is supporting students, and part of that is supporting his students' identities. (Meaning he would be there for them if they came out as gay.) That makes sense to me. In my opinion, teaching kids about gay people would cause no harm and could only do good.
I don't think the issue is with the range of lessons. If we only focused on math, we'd still have kids failing math.
While it is a good point that the school system needs work and help before we can really revamp anything but that, I don't think it's an argument that has merit.
Because, what if we fixed the system, would it still be wrong in the future? Arguably, this is something that's going to come up in the future, is the only reason we're not doing it now because the school system sucks? Is it morally wrong or is it just a matter of what is politically incorrect for the time?
I think if we look at this question as a matter of what OP's title is, there still isn't anything wrong with it, there are just things that deserve more attention currently. I wouldn't give him a delta, but that's just me.
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I think the problems with the US education system aren't because we haven't figured out the right ratio of lessons, it's deeper than that so I don't think caring about whether it's the right thing to teach matters in an argument about how to effectively teach.
I bring up only teaching math to point out that reducing the number of subjects to 1 wouldn't fix all of the issues with the education system, especially when failing children is more of a resource issue rather than a lesson plan issue--so if the issue isn't fixed because of a low range of subjects, then it wouldn't make sense to say that there's an issue with a specific blend that includes learning about gay and straight people.
It's a different argument altogether than "is it wrong to teach someone about gay people?"