November is Parents Month, which has been observed annually since 2000. As per usual the omission of LGBT families and or children was evident yet again this year. In addition, the Ministry of Education, in 1991, designated March 10-15 as Parents' Week, using the theme: You can make a difference to your child's education.
An series of extended radio discussions by mostly the parent teachers associations, religious leaders and others only sought to reinforce the exclusion in their ideas of a perfect world, namely Reverend Clinton Chisholm and others; they want to supposedly 'purify' the stream as is in their eyes LGBTQI children are an anathema.
The objectives of Parents Month for this year include:
To celebrate and recognize the achievements of our parents and guardians
To create opportunities for parents to further develop their parenting skills
Support the strengthening of the home-school relationship
To encourage our men to be more involved in the role of parenting
To remind our youth that parenting is a serious responsibility that should be undertaken only by prepared and mature adults
To encourage parents to join the PTA so that they too can have a voice in the transformation of the education system and the running of schools
To develop an awareness in parents that they are their child's first teacher so they should be good examples and mentors to ALL children
To encourage communities and ALL adults to protect our children, support parents in their role and be partners in the raising of children
To promote family life and health education in schools, as preparation of tomorrow's parents begins with the education of children
Create networks among parents for their own support and that of their children and the schools the children
Inform parents of the material and human resources that are available to help them to become effective parents
The objectives of Parents Month for this year include:
To celebrate and recognize the achievements of our parents and guardians
To create opportunities for parents to further develop their parenting skills
Support the strengthening of the home-school relationship
To encourage our men to be more involved in the role of parenting
To remind our youth that parenting is a serious responsibility that should be undertaken only by prepared and mature adults
To encourage parents to join the PTA so that they too can have a voice in the transformation of the education system and the running of schools
To develop an awareness in parents that they are their child's first teacher so they should be good examples and mentors to ALL children
To encourage communities and ALL adults to protect our children, support parents in their role and be partners in the raising of children
To promote family life and health education in schools, as preparation of tomorrow's parents begins with the education of children
Create networks among parents for their own support and that of their children and the schools the children
Inform parents of the material and human resources that are available to help them to become effective parents
Nowhere in the mix is anything was any reference to LGBTQI kids save and except for the reparative therapy ambit. Children can be broken as it were once they display any non conforming behaviour and then we expect unity!
Buoyed by the Trump win some of these religious fanatics are more emboldened to support anti LGBT sentiments while ignoring the open misogyny by the said presumptive President then they also ignore the disgraceful nude parading of his THIRD wife; they claim God is using Trump to change the status quo and gay marriage in the USA will be defeated despite a Supreme Court judgement.
The general tenets of the objectives are noble but we are now in a different day and age and they MUST be way more inclusive than before.
Think on these things
Peace & tolerance
H
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