Schools

The latest controversy from the schools revolves around teaching transgender to first graders. This is just one more responsibility to place on teachers taking away their time for academics. Social items like this or things like the death penalty, abortion, drug use and homosexuality are in the purview of parents. If some parents fail in this regard it should not be palmed off on the teachers and maybe the test scores would improve. Teachers want to spend their time covering the subject matter they were trained to teach. In most high schools there is a course called health where these areas are explored. The teachers main duty is to cover the 3 R's but they also provide role models for how to treat others with dignity and respect. The Minneapolis teachers are on strike and one of their demands is lower class size. That would help but also having more time to spend on the subject matter would help.