Film With Same-Sex Parents Splits School District

A good question (though letting parents opt out and/or moving the age to 4th or 5th grade might be a reasonable compromise):

 As Mary Ellis, a parent of a 10-year-old son at Rice, put it:
 
“People who don’t want the school to show the video say, ‘We can teach our  own kids.’ Sure you can. But who’s going to teach you?”

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September 14, 2007
Film With Same-Sex Parents Splits School District
By RICHARD G. JONES
www.nytimes.com/2007/09/14/nyregion/14sex.html <http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/14/nyregion/14sex.html>

EVESHAM TOWNSHIP, N.J., Sept. 7 — The children talked among themselves about their parents — children of interracial families, children of divorce, children who had been adopted — and that did not seem to cause a ripple.

“It’s not your fault,” says Montana, a first grader whose parents are divorced.