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You wouldn't believe how far my jaw dropped when I saw the trailer for this movie. You'll understand how amazed I was at what I was seeing once you see the video below.
"It's Elementary, the groundbreaking film that addresses anti-gay prejudice by providing adults with practical lessons on how to talk with children about gay people." The film first aired in 1999 on public television, yet I have never heard of it and schools are still scared to even mention the letters, "LGBTQ." This film brought to you by GroundSpark.
This shows just how much we underestimate youth and their capcity to understand something as simple as some boys like boys and some boys like girls and vice versa. I would have never had any of these lessons taught to me in my elementary school. These children are so smart, yet when children are brought into the same-sex marriage and LGBTQ rights discussions they are treated as if they are the victims of "the radical homosexual agenda" when really they are the benefactors. People need to learn that the teachers are not the ones teaching children about LGBTQ people. If children aren't being taught about LGBTQ people in the classrooms, they will learn about them the same way I did through friends, family, and the internet. One of the teachers said that she felt that she was a better teacher because she felt that she was affirming her students. By teaching about LGBTQ people and discrimination, she is saying to those children who are LGBTQ or whose parents are a same-sex couple that they matter just as much in the world and in society.
The film makers hope that the documentary will educate adults by showing them how easily children can understand LGBTQ issues. I hope so as well.
"A new scientifc truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it."--Max Planck
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