Who’s your daddy? DNA homework assignment gone wild
by Carder
The focus of the assignment is to teach student about D-N-A by having them perform an exercise called “Who’s the Daddy?” which poses a scenario of a woman trying to figure out who the father of the baby is.
The options to choose from are: A bartender, a guy at the club, a cab driver, or flight attendant. After the students finish this part of the assignment, they must also give reasons why the state took the child away.
~ News station KMOV reporting on a controversial homework assignment given at a Michigan high school, via Gateway Pundit, February 14
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Feb.17, 2014 6:00 am |
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Jill Stanek is a nurse turned speaker, columnist and blogger, a national figure in the effort to protect both preborn and postborn innocent human life.
This is what happens when we leave the indoctrination of our children in the hands of government and unions.
Let’s give this teacher the benefit of all doubts: The teacher is a good person and a professional, simply seeking educational exercises that will engage and entertain the students.
Even so, the teacher does not love the students the way that parents love their children. Parents want to teach children how to live well and be happy, against the face of bad economies, intrusive government, and other adversities. We want to pass down our cultural wisdom. We hope to see them happily married, and their homes filled with our grandchildren.
Public educators often teach against us. They do not respect us. They mock our traditional values in their staff rooms. They do not understand why we would be offended by an exercise that 1) giggles at promiscuity, then 2) assumes that welfare is inevitable and that 3) confiscation of our children is something to be tolerated.
Who would publish such an exercise on a website of teacher resources, in the first place?
Who would even think of incorporating government welfare and displacing children into foster care as part of a lesson in genetics?!?!
To me, the sad part of this story is that I don’t find it shocking at all.
Depressing.
In my last neighborhood a DNA testing van would sometimes come through. People could go and get paternity tested. I think mostly it was dads wanting to be sure the kid was theirs, not moms trying to start on a path to child support.
I think about those kids and how this kind of exercise would probably be more real and real-life to them than many others. How it would essentially be taking something they already know and saying, “hey, didn’t you ever wonder how they did that?” I don’t know, it makes me sad all around but I can also see some situations where this might actually be a relevant and engaging exercise, which is the saddest part of all I guess.
To me the second part of this exercise raises issues of concern more than the first. Public education system works against parents to such an extent one is almost afraid to parent. I know of so many complaints from CPS (Chicago Public Schools) employees raised to DCFS (Department of Children and Family Services) that can only be described as frivolous (child says mommy raised her voice at me, child says mommy grounded me, child says daddy gave me a spank on my bottom, child says I did not have the breakfast I wanted, child says parents forced me to to do homework when I wanted to sleep, and on and on). DCFS wastes valuable resources based on these teachers’ and counseling staff reports and parents are put through the wringer. Thankfully DCFS caseworkers have more training than they used to in the past.