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**Maddy** · 9th Sep 2010, 10:54 PM

So as you might know, I've spent the last two weeks as a student teacher at a local primary school. My class was grade 5/6, so the kids are about 11 and 12. I was working with a small group, giving them various statements and asking them to come up with arguments for and against, and somehow we got onto the topic of gay people. And got the following:

"I don't have any problem with gay people, bi people, transvestites, I'm accepting of all of them."
"If my brother said he was gay I wouldn't hate him. I'd give him a coming out party."
"Some people are homophobic but that's stupid."
"People shouldn't get bashed for being gay, it's just who they are."

This is a bunch of preteens. I sincerely hope that more kids out there are like them, and that they keep on feeling the same way

x2x2x2x2y2 · 9th Sep 2010, 10:57 PM

Awwww. That's pretty awesome. I don't remember my peers being that accepting when I was their age.

9th Sep 2010, 10:54 PM	#1
Maddy Free Hugs EC Admin Gender: - Orientation: Into girls Location: Melbourne, Australia Age: 21 Posts: 7,704 Join Date: Mar 2008	My warm fuzzy of the day. So as you might know, I've spent the last two weeks as a student teacher at a local primary school. My class was grade 5/6, so the kids are about 11 and 12. I was working with a small group, giving them various statements and asking them to come up with arguments for and against, and somehow we got onto the topic of gay people. And got the following: "I don't have any problem with gay people, bi people, transvestites, I'm accepting of all of them." "If my brother said he was gay I wouldn't hate him. I'd give him a coming out party." "Some people are homophobic but that's stupid." "People shouldn't get bashed for being gay, it's just who they are." This is a bunch of preteens. I sincerely hope that more kids out there are like them, and that they keep on feeling the same way __________________ how strange it is to be anything at all [Victor] 2:09 pm: and then halloween happened and I was outside in a skirt.

9th Sep 2010, 10:57 PM	#2
x2x2x2x2y2 PARAWHORE!!!!!! Full Member Gender: Male Orientation: ~I like guys~ Out Status: Everyone, pretty much. Location: Wonderland (and California, USA) Age: 18 Posts: 3,971 Join Date: Oct 2009	Re: My warm fuzzy of the day. Awwww. That's pretty awesome. I don't remember my peers being that accepting when I was their age. __________________ "THINGS ARE LOOKING UP, OH FINALLY!!" "I believe that there's hope buried beneath it all and...Hiding beneath it all and... GROWING beneath it all!!" -Paramore ...and the lesbians

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