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If that excerpted post is real,  the teacher who made the artwork and posted it on Facebook noted that IT WAS SNARK.  And deservedly so, just because it's a distortion of reality for the Rs to make a potential apocalypse over anything that speaks to acquisition of an education designed to help rather than prevent kids from learning about the world they live in.


Kids aren't born with red or blue politics in them and they're curious about everything, but not in a political way.  The brain is wired to ask "what the heck is this?" as a matter of self preservation, but after a few more detailed inquiries (can I breathe? is my heart beating?) then that uber-parental brain often decides "ok, not life threatening" and then it's up to the kid to explore more about whatever has prompted a question,  or move on to the next compelling mystery in today's landscape. 


Ever heard some kid ask an elder on a train or bus,  "So is that lady gonna have a baby or she's just really fat?"   It's a kid's question, probably based on recent acquisition of the information that pregnant women develop big bellies for awhile before a new sibling will show up.


It's no different (to the kid, anyway) to asking why lemon curdles milk but sugar doesn't.


You're a parent, you get it.   Kids are a trip and a half every day, and they're not the only ones learning things by the seat of their pants either.  Teachers and librarians get 20 times the education about kids compared to any parent, for  every hour that they run a classroom.


In the best of all situations, the educators and librarians have been afforded a good education themselves, including teaching to encourage, not close down, a kid's curiosity.   We're better off working to ensure that kids grow up with inquiring minds,   rather than messing around with lesson plans to constrain discussion to politically filtered ideas of suitable topics or methods of presentation.


 I think Florida's legislators do the kids in their state a really big disservice with this bill.


Number of states in our country minus the number of Supreme Court Justices?
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