Allow Students to Opt Out of LGBT Curriculum

I came across this article (http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,521209,00.html?test=latestnews) today that had me belittled on how a school board will not listen to the parents or even take into consideration that not allowing parents to opt their children out; is against their rights.

What could I possibly be talking about you might ask. They want to teach children as young as 5 years old about LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and trans-gender) issues, all because they feel that this will lessen or even stop bullying on the playground. How the hell is teaching LGBT issues going to stop children from bullying each other? 

Bullying has been around since the beginning of time. No matter what people do it will always be around. Yes, it has taken a step up since Internet has been introduced. But I also feel parents are protecting their children too much, because they don’t want their self-esteem to be ruined. How is a child going to learn how to voice their opinion and handle being rejected or how are they going to learn to stand up and learn that they themselves are the ones that make their own happiness. Yes, being bullied is hard, I was bullied, but I learned how to accept that I was different than them even; though I was the same race, financial background and so forth. The teasing and taunting went on even through high school. Where I was called worse and even meaner names. But you learn to look within yourself to find out who you are and not to find who you are through what people think or say about you.

But how does teaching LGBT even to children as young as 5 going to stop bullying? It won’t it will actually teach them newer words to call people. I remember when we learned the word gay, and from there we would call each other gay if we did something stupid. Or when we learned about sex and we considered the word “It” to mean sex. So any time someone said the word it, we would sit back and snicker and think of sex.

How is that parents are able to opt their children out of sex education but when it comes to LGBT issues the parents will have no rights and their children will be forced to listen to the book the school board wants to read to the students.