Hutterite Education Q&A | university, creationism or big bang, learning disabilities etc. vlog 188
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- I hope that this answers a lot of questions that you may have had, I tried my best to gather all the questions that people asked.
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This was very interesting but I did notice you didn’t answer the question of if a woman can work in the shops and a man can work in the bakery or kitchen. I’m guessing by omission the answer is no.
Oh boy I totally forgot...
Male and female roles are clearly defined on most if not all Hutterite colonies. And perhaps it's being born into this environment that sets the stage for teenage years if you will. However, we have had female students choose electrical or carpentry courses over home economics courses, but I've never run across a Hutterite male wanting to take home economics or cooking courses although some of our men do love to cook and are very good at it. I guess the long and short of it is that it would depend on the colony or individual.
I pinned your comment it will be the top comment, just in case there are other people that are wondering. :)
@@gisellewaldner9406 How is nurturing one's intellect going to lead to pride (comment below)? If a man lifts a car off a child, would you not let him because it might lead to him then being prideful? I doubt it, I believe you would honor the man's strength and be very grateful that he saved a child's life. A nurtured intellect might one day save your child and quite possibly millions of children. Sad that the responses below are so rigid.
@@InvisibleVisible793 Hutterite colonies aren't prisons, you know. If a Hutterite person prefers to live in the world, that option is open to them. I certainly understand why the world isn't welcome to take over the colonies, however.
@@gisellewaldner9406, thank you for clearing up that question. I believe you answered that beautifully.
Your school experience is very different from the colonies where I have taught for 5 years. I live in Alberta, and the students do not complete to grade 12, or have the chance to go to post secondary. Also, there are no computers in the local colony schools. All the English teachers are certified, and members of the ATA. They all come from off the colony.
I loved my time at 4 different colonies. I made some very good friends, and now that I have retired, I go back to visit quite often.
What a lovely little school and so well equipped, im often envious of your lifestyle, the workload is heavy but the certainty of cradle to grave care and company is wonderful
Of course! You are smart, and curious and appear to have an appetite for knowledge. It makes perfect sense that you would want to learn more about any subject including the brain and psychology ! Great Q&A! Thanks to you and the person that helped you answer the questions!
I'm so glad you like it and that it answered your questions.
Thank you, Giselle and the gentleman from the other colony. 🙏💜
Thank you, Gisele! Excellent!
I think your education system is eviable. I learned art from an ex soldier who survived the Vietnam War and so we had to listen to that kind of music which was not good as you can well imagine. I think children have to thrive when in a Christian teaching environment. I did have an awesome home-ec teacher who was very old school and we were taught etiquette and sewing and some cooking and baking as well as cleaning. Her name was Mrs. Himby. She died before we went back for Junior yr. I'll never forget her. Mrs. Bonjour as well. Awesome teachers. Shalom Aleichem Mishpocahs 🙌 thank God for you and others who follow the Shepherd Of Our Souls, Jesus Christ. 🙌❤️🕊️✝️🛐🇱🇷🇮🇱
Thanks Giselle ,it's wonderful to hear that you are doing on line course .Enjoy it .Bye for now .🤗💚☘️🙏
Loved the bloopers at the end! Thank you for taking the time to answer some questions we have had regarding the school and education. I knew you were a brainiac!!
Such an informative video Giselle. Thanks! Watching in the UK.❤
This is interesting. My daughter is autistic & after several tries, we tried a Mennonite curriculum and my kiddo has thrived.
I used some Amish curriculum when my children were very young. They liked it and it was what they needed for those subjects at that time.
We use the preschool books from Rod and Staff. Simple, farm based lessons for the little ones.
@@annasluka6708 we also used that. In the beginning I bought EVERYTHING!
that is wonderful. I'm so glad that it worked out for you ❤
@@annasluka6708rod and staff?? Seriously??? 😂
So interesting! Thank you Giselle! It's clear that you have an awesome colony (modern in all of the best ways) and also includes the needs and talents of individuals!!
Thank you Giselle. Very interesting.
That was very interesting Giselle! Thank you for answering so many questions! The school is set up very well. The colony addresses everything so that everyone has a chance to succeed. Thank you for sharing your time with us!
Great upload Giselle 👌 really informative,thank you for sourcing answers to all those questions! And thank you ro whoever it was who sat and actually answered them.
Giselle, you are such a good teacher. What a wonderful video on the lesser known aspects of colony living. The school looks like a place that my grandchildren would love to attend. No, I am not surprised that you are interested in neuroanatomy and psychology. I am as well and much more. Thank you for that tip about the free online courses. I am looking after my elderly husband and sometimes I feel the need to break the monotony. God bless you.
it is such a lively place, I think our kids can't wait to get back to school when they have a long break like summer and Christmas, which is a good thing. I like the course so far and I can go at my own speed. God bless you too ❤
loved the q&a interesting to learn how Hutterites educating their children.. loved the bloopers once in awhile all of us having hard time pronouncing certain words,it’s part of the left frontal lobe , (responsible for it)Broca’s area , good luck on a very complex subject (like the brain)you’re studying..
You answered the questions beautifully! Thank you so much for sharing this with us!
You are most welcome, glad it was helpful ❤️
Grand production and effort. Beautiful passage: Ecclesiastes 7:12. TY!
Thank you so much for this very interesting video on education (and all your blogs, I find it so relaxing and interesting to watch them and learn about your way of life).
I love this video!
Wonderful Q&A, Giselle. God bless.
Thank youuu and God bless you too ❤️
Yes your mic was working,I believe it it’s long telling thxxx Giselle ✌️👍🌹❤️🙏🏻🎶🎵🎶🙏🏻🙏🏻
Thank you. This was very interesting.
I loved your bloppers!!!!!!!!
I’m not surprised at all that you are interested in the brain and psychology.
I will check out Coursera, I’ve not heard of it before.
Thanks for a great Q and A, Giselle.
I loved this. And the bloopers were so funny 🤣
Very interesting vlog. Thank you for sharing. 👍
You are most welcome, glad you enjoyed it 😊
Thank you for sharing your customs and tradtions on education and school Well Done !! :) love your content ! you did an amazing job Giselle!!
thank you soo much :)
Very interesting and informative. Thank you for sharing, Giselle. ❤
Glad you enjoyed it 😊
Thanks so much for answering - it was a very interesting insight into the Hutterite educational system. I am not at all surprised that you are interested in neuroscience or film production - you are a very creative, open and curious person. I sincerely hope you'll have the opportunity to study one of these subjects at university.
Great job Giselle. As always you did a fantastic job. You do talk too fast sometimes. But I can just go back lol. O love learning about your colony. Thank you so much. Hi Priscilla.
Hi Giselle, Your school is much larger than I thought. You have many resources! I was a grade 7 math teacher. Your setup seems so much better than a public school system in my opinion. This video was very informative thank you!
Giselle, thank you for all the effort and hard work you made in answering everyone’s questions. You answered all the questions clearly and in a way that everyone can understand. Thank you for the school tour. I learned allot. Thanks for all the wonderful and interesting vlogs. See you next time.
@gilbaum ... What's happening on your Kibbutz during this current crisis? What are you doing to help ?
Shalom Gil, I was worried about you. I'm praying for all the people of Isra'el. I look for your comment and if I don't find it I worry. I told my husband about you so we always pray. Shalom Aleichem.
@@D.N..Hello DN, I'm praying for you and your people too.
Loved this q&a thanks much for sharing !
You are so welcome ❤️
Great job Gisselle and thank you to the gentleman who answered the Education questions. So very informative 😊. Your colony has a very nice school.
Thank you ❤
Very informative video Giselle....great job....take care....👍🇨🇦
Thanks so much ❤️
#34 was my question originally. The church I grew up in intertwined the two such as : "How do we know how long a day was to God? So the world being created in 6 days could still encompass the big bang theory while still holding to creationism." Thank you for using my question! 😊
that is actually a very good question, I didn't think of looking at it that way 🙂
Giselle- this is random, but I just wanted to tell you that I was listening to a podcast the other day. They said a study was done that having fun while doing hard work actually leads to better results. A group of doctors were given candy and asked to solve a problem. That group of doctors quickly solved the problem and more! Another group of doctors weren’t given candy spent a long time figuring out the problem while the others resolved it quickly. Not that the candy itself produced better results, but the fun it created. The point being.. having a fun, child-like (not childish but child-LIKE) approach to life is actually more productive! The reason I’m bringing this out is I see that in you! You have fun while working hard. Vlogging-while hard work I am sure- is allowing you to see the beauty in the life you have. Never allow anyone to condemn you or make you feel less than for making life and work fun your way! “Unless we become like little children we will not enter the kingdom of heaven.”
Do you remember what podcast it was? It sounds interesting.
Thank you for that, that was wonderfully said ❤️
@@gisellewaldner9406 you’re welcome!
More ending on bloopers! 😂 Love it! 😊
Thank you!
Our help is in the name of the Lord, the maker of heaven and earth. Psalm 124:8
Interesting video Giselle
Thank you, Giselle. Interesting for me to learn about the education in your colony. Math is my absolute worst subject, back in the day, and now. Geography remains my favorite. Toodle Doo.
Oh math is also not my favorite.
I really enjoyed this Q&A . Thank you 💜
You are so welcome ❤️
So very informative, ❤ it's funny how after watching the girls clean the school for years and seeing you with the palys etc.. it never dawned on me how large the building itself is!😅 i love how the elders are always so helpful to you in answering all of our endless questions! I truly believe that with greater understanding there is greater acceptance of different cultures. Have a wonderful week! Oh it finally got cold here..😂 instead of the 3 to seven inches of snow they predicted..we got ice! ❤
it is wonderful that I can snd your questions and have people help me, I will not lie I do sometimes still with explaining things in the English language, I can explain it in the Hutterite language but then I find myself quite often recking my brain wondering how one would say that in English. 😁 and we have warm here it's supposed to go into the + next week so we think that a lot of our snow is going to vanish.
@@gisellewaldner9406 I have never learned a second language so I'm very impressed by people that are able to do so, I recognize a few German words but to me it must be difficult because your brain is saying Hutterite and trying to come up with English. 🤣 I catch myself changing words that we use in the South because they aren't always understood by people in the Northern states so I know you would wonder what on earth a wors means!🤣🤣♥️♥️♥️
Would be cool if there was a doctor, lawyer, accountant, therapist etc. and they serviced many colonies.
Thanks, you answered a lot of questions but you skipped the "can women work in the shop if they wanted question." I have seen photos of Hutterite women running CNC machinery, which is something that someone needs to be taught in order to do it. My guess is a colony had a need and someone had the interest to do it.
So interesting! As someone who went to a small Christian high school (average of 8 kids in the whole high school) it's interesting to see another school of a similar size. It may sound difficult to some to get a good education at a small school, but it's very possible. I went on to do well at university, as did my classmates and didn't feel that my education suffered at all.
Wow my question was answer first! I loved the tour of the school. I am from a very small town and I think your school is bigger and has more resources. Made me wonder how many students it supports.
I always forget that, we actually currently don't have that many, with the high schoolers maybe a little over 20. 😊
Great video! I would love to see any research done between the Hutterite schools vs. public schools. Ex., what are the percentages of Hutterite vs public school students that graduate from high school and college. Or the percentage of licensed professionals is there between Hitterite colonies, etc.
You are so delightfle!
Thank you ❤️
Thanks for the info! I know you slid past a few things, but let’s face it,we know you’re Hutterite and the community is conservative! The main thing is that individual differences are addressed and needs met. ❤❤❤
I did answer one question i skipped over in the comments, it's the first one, but to be honest if there are multiple questions in a comment i sometimes forget some. ❤
Liked this one, must say you looked very professional sitting there. Until the bloopers give kona a cuddle from me
I have a friend in a Bruterhof community in England. I visited one in Pennsylvania. Your video is interesting!
Missing you terribly, though I understand totally! God bless you!
Very nice video, thanks for sharing with us.
You are most welcome ❤️
Good job
Thank you for answering our multitude of questions. The "I sure hope my mic is working" blooper made me actually LOL. 😂
It was my pleasure ❤️😊
Dear Giselle, two books I find absolutely amazing about the brain are Brain Saver and Brain Saver Protocol by Anthony William. Easy to read and talks about different fruits, veggies and herbs to heal different brain issues. I LOVE these books and refer to them daily. Maybe you would enjoy them too. Take Care 😊
ohh thank you for the recommendation 🙂
Thanks Giselle. I still wonder how decisions are made about higher education that might be less applied and practical. I think you said that artistic education would be decided by the colony. I guess my question is: is the decision made on the basis of whether the education someone wanted to take would be useful to the colony or just to the individual? For example, you are interested in the brain and, I think, psychology. Could you study to become a psychologist? What if you just wanted to know more about psychology without becoming a clinician?
There is a free course and certification through Alberta Family Wellness Initiative. It's called Brain Story. I think you would like it :)
Another excellent video! Did I read somewhere that the Hutterites created the concept of ‘Kindergarten’?
Your school system is better then many in the world now. In the US schools are experiencing challenges due to violence and substance abuse. Here we have teenagers the tutor others do you as well? Wonderful informative video. Thank you and God bless you 🙏
And focusing on political agendas instead of an actual education.
You skated right over the gender reversal issue. That's OK. I can understand how difficult of an issue it must be for you. I suppose that's yet another reason why some people chose to leave. For those of you who stay, it seems like a wonderful way to live, and I honestly envy you for it. As long as you aren't cruel to those who wish to live different lifestyles, I see no problem. Trying to make a community perfect for everyone is a fools errand.
I live in the Red River Valley of Manitoba and do business with at least 7 different Hutterite colonies. Gender roles are well defined without deviation. Women perform domestic duties and men do the rest. Most women do not drive and never obtain a driver’s license. It is common for women on farms in Manitoba to participate in every aspect of farming including operating farm machinery but Hutterite women typically do not. Hutterites will cite biblical reasons for this division of labor. In reality they have a large enough population to operate with distinct divisions of labor whereas others must take advantage a much smaller labor force as generalists, regardless of gender.
I am a Biologist, so i can let you know if you are confused.
Can you let me know what the question was, people ask multiple questions in one comment, which is fine, but I sometimes miss some by accident.
@@gisellewaldner9406It was the second and third question in #26
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I went to a very small Catholic school and my teacher said the same thing, "this is entry level history and I expect your work to reflect that!" I experienced multi-grade, too, and when we were finished with our work we'd hang out with someone in a higher grade in the classroom.
We had a similar experience.
there was a lot expected from us, I will say that.
Wonderful video, very informative. I was surprised to learn that your school provides education through grade 12. I thought I had seen in an early video where children went to school until age 15. I know some people will assume that children don’t learn as much when they attend a small school but in some cases it’s just the opposite. I’m an old lady (77 years old) and my first five years of school was in a one room school with one teacher and eight grades. Instead of learning less because the teacher had to teach eight grades I learned more since I wasn’t held back by other children my age. Do you know what percentage of children in your colony graduate high school? Thank you.
I am not surprised in the slightest to hear you say that you're fascinated by the workings of the human brain. I only wish we knew enough about it to truly satisfy your desire for knowledge. Sadly, we still have a great deal to learn... or... perhaps that can be seen as a good thing. It's your call.
I was just wondering how many students are at your school? It was a very interesting Q & A.
Giselle- I see quite a few cpmmpnalities and parrallells between Hutterites and Hasidic Jews. Please comment on this.
Giselle ❤
Do you ever think you should train as a teacher yourself?
I am very impressed with your school, thank you for the tour. Interesting that they can join classes with specialist teachers from other schools.
There are other organisations who offer free courses. Try the Open University for example. I used to do Future learn courses free, but unfortunately they now charge.
What happens to your earnings from youtube? Are you allowed to spend some on equipment?
I'm confused. If you do not teach Science - you teach creationism - how can you be in alignment with Canadian education standards?
Believing and teaching God created all life does not necessarily interfere with teaching sience in my opinion. Giselle also explained that science is taught.
You can teach evolution theory and tell children it's a theory and an option but that their school or colony feels the truth is in the bible.
That's what I was taught in school in the 70's and 80's too.
Do you have corporal punishment /dicipline in school or at home? Is it part of the hutterite way to raise children?
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Do you have your own doctors and nurses on the colony or do you go outside the colony for medical help?
She has stated that there are no doctors on the colony.
Lol by the questions I see people don’t understand that colony schools are part of provincial divisions. My division js 6 schools and there are only 2 colony teachers the rest are outsiders and they learn as all the other kids in our division do.
I am a Broadcast Communications Major myself. Maybe you can major in either Video Production and minor in Psychology or vice versa.
10:01 if you don’t mind sharing the website I would love to look into it as well.
10:22 Ah, coursera, you answered my question, thank you!!
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Gisselle is the poster with the original Canadian National Anthem available to purchase. ❤
I absolutely love you have the original 🇨🇦🇨🇦🙏🇨🇦🙏🇨🇦🙏🇨🇦🫶🫶👍👍👍👍👍. I would love to have a couple of this posters. I homeschool my nieces and nephews. This is a treasure. Where can we purchase this please✝️✝️✝️🥰🥰🙏🙏🕊️🙏🕊️
I don't know, we learned ours when we started school from hearing the other kids sing it, so I'm not entirely sure if there is a poster, or was there one on our wall that i missed? 😊
@@gisellewaldner9406yes. Its hanging on the wall in the school. Yes you just passed it. Around the the tour of the school. Around 15:00 to 17:00 mark. Its a poster. You go rather fast. Its hanging on the wall. It says All thy Sons. Command. Its our original national anthem.
@HopeLaFleur1975 ahhh ok I saw it, on a door right?
Unfortunately someone just typed jt out, put a picture of our colony on it and printed it bigger, so I guess a homemade poster and no not to purchase sorry about that.
Coursera is great! Which course are you following?
I think it's called understanding the brain, it's an eye opener 😊
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My husband is very dyslexic. He has two college undergraduate degrees,MBA and law degree. So proud of him and his hard work.
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I’m in Alberta ,surrounded by Hutterite colonies- the students all finish school when they turn 15- there’s no way any of them attend post secondary
There are three different groups of hutterites, and things change dramatically from one group to the next, I am from the schmeidleut group and you will however only find us located in Manitoba and the USA. To be honest I only found out about what you are saying a few months ago which really surprised me.
Why schmiedeleut women don't tie hair up like the dariusleut and lehrerleut women?
That was very good and very interesting Giselle and thank you for answering my question. I asked what would you study at university. It was coincidental you said Neuroscience. My son has just obtained a PhD in Neuroscience. He loves it too. Thank you for today’s video. 🤓🇬🇧🩷💜💚
You didn't answer #26
Boys cooking????? Girls learning to be mechanics?????
I'm so glad you teach biblical truth about our Creator. :) That just made a very difficult day much happier.
I'm so glad. sending you prayers and love ❤
Thank you! I'm glad other people thought of such great questions1 It was very interesting. i agree that evolution is irrational.😊
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I homed schooled my three daughters. I learned a long time ago the school system was not on our side. I'm pretty sure your children are far better educated then the kids out there in Public schools. I thing what all of you are doing for your kids is wonderful. As Christians we are responsible to educate our kids, not the government.
What happens to the money you make on you tube?
It’s hers to do with as she chooses. It won’t be enough for the colony to be concerned with.
If the objective of the vlog is educating about the Hutterites way of life, you should answer all the questions and in full. For example Q16 - your answer was: "leaders are voted into their positions" but you did not mention that ONLY the MEN are voting for the colony leadership positions such as the colony Manager or Minister .... Q26 - are boys can learn cooking or sewing - no response because the answer is most probably NO and the same is if a girl would like to work in the shop (i.e. as an electrician or plumber) - no response because I assume the answer is NO. So please, in the future give complete and accurate information or don't show questions that you are not interested to answer....
google amish baskets hutterites-vs-amish they have a great blog about the differences and similarities, both groups have a patriarchal belief system, women cannot vote on such matters. Most jobs are very gender specific but never say never, as the needs of the community always come first before individual pursuits, so if a colony needed a woman to do traditional male role job, she would probably be assigned to that job. The mix of males and females on the colonies means that most jobs can remain gender specific. While that seems restrictive to us, people choose to live their lives on the colonies of their own free will as adults, so it seems to work for them. There are so many ways to live and I find it so interesting to learn even if that lifestyle is not for me.
The higher power is HaShem, Noah, Abraham, & Moshe, and Torah. Because HaShem is everywhere.
Personally, with the way the public schools are going these days, I would think that it would be a good idea for the hutterites to not use the public school's curriculum. I live in a very woke state and I feel like I have to pay for my kids to attend private Christian/Catholic schools because of the Woke ideology. Wokism is a threat to Christian morals and the Hutterite way of life because it is antichristian in its roots. I know I don't want my kindergarten and first grade students to be learning about gender theory. I would like to think that the Hutterites wouldn't either.
Wasn’t Gregor Mendel the founder of the modern genetics? And didn’t that happen in the 19th century?
@@f2karin I don't know about that, but I do know that they were not teaching about many different genders in public schools in the nineteenth or twentieth centuries. I am a product of the California public schools from 1985-1998 + three years of junior college. It was not until my required gender studies class in junior college that I was subjected to gender theory. So, no, they were not teaching students about "preferred pronouns" , LGBTQIA+ studies, or anything of that nature in public schools in the 19th century. The readers from that time period (I own an entire set of them) are mildly Christian in nature. They have some stories that are overtly religious. Public schools did not outlaw school prayer until 1962. So, every morning, school would start with a Protestant hymn and the Lord's prayer. Girls wore dresses and pinafores to school and boys wore trousers and button down shirts. There was no mention of cross dressing or transgender. Girls were forbidden to play with the boys at recess and boys could not go to the girls' side of the playground. So, no, it doesn't matter that some dead dudes like Alfred Kinsley and others thought up these theories because it wasn't until the 21st century that such theories were being actively taught and promoted in the public schools.. and even more recently that this trickled down into the primary schools.
The Catholic objections to public schools in the 19th and early 20th Centuries was not that they were teaching things like gender theory and other subjects which violate the fifth , sixth and ninth Commandments of God. However , it was because they were trying to turn Catholic children into Protestants with their daily Protestant Bible study, their school prayers, and the readers which were, in the beginning of the mandatory schooling, overtly Protestant. Later , in the middle of the 20th century, it was because the public schools were teaching a form of religious indifferentism. So, Catholics set up their own schools to teach Catholic faith and morals to schoolchildren. They allowed Protestant children to attend on a limited basis (when there was space available) and exempted them from the religious education portion of the curriculum. This remained true until the late 1960's when Catholic schools started resembling Protestant Christian schools or even public schools from the mid half of the 20th century.
I pay for my kids to go to the Catholic school because they still speak about sex only from a biology perspective in 8th grade and do not touch on sex or sexualities or gender fluidity in the primary school level.
Your comment led me down a rabbit hole. I found out who Fr. Abbot Gregor Mendel was. His work was concentrated around plants and the different genomes of plant species found in his monastery. Fr. Abbot Mendel was a Catholic Augustinian friar had absolutely nothing to do with LGBTQIA studies or with woke ideology. What's more, all of his scientific papers would have been read and possibly censored by his ecclesiastical superiors within the Augustinian order. So, you can be assured that if his work passed the censors, that it was free from anything that would contradict the moral and doctrinal teaching of the Catholic Church. Furthermore, his works would have been studied at the collegiate and graduate school level and not the public or private primary and secondary school levels.
But isn’t wokism against any discrimination? And to know about discrimination you need to be aware about minorities. Isn’t it to learn empathy and equality? We did so very wrong things in the past even Catholic institutions did. There is many evil stuff in the Bible tho. And the sexuality isn’t told in school it isn’t inherited it’s not even a choice it ain’t a sickness it is given by nature. You can say it is a challenge but you can not vanish it. Of course I am not happy about to get to know that my child was learning about the sexual organs in elementary school and about sexual abuse… We have learned both the evolution theory in biology and the creation theory in religion class. In the ninth grade you can choose between ethics and religion. My kid has chosen ethics a downer for me cause I was raised in an Ecumenist household dad is catholic and mom lutheran. We was raised lutheran but we know also the catholic rituals. So for an European the issues with the curriculum is a forgein topic cause the curriculum is written in the law. If students fail the exams cause their teachers choose to get off the curriculum then it’s the principals fault. In Austria you have the right to homeschool but your child needs to go to the school to get an externist exam about the whole year in every subject. I don’t know what is threatening more, the knowledge about a minority or bad grades.
@@f2karin First off, as an American, we have the right to choose to educate our children according to our religious beliefs. Wokism is not about respecting all races, but about teaching a hatred for people who are of European ancestry based on the fact that some Europeans chose to enslave others. It is about making white people make "reparations" for the crimes of their ancestors even though they themselves have had absolutely no part in enslaving anyone or in segregation. This hatred is a direct violation of the fifth commandment which forbids all, anger, hatred, revenge, murder and bad example. It also discriminates against Christians by calling the Holy Bible hate speech and by saying that Christian beliefs are extremist and violent. This is despite the fact that violent behaviour is definitely prohibited by the fifth commandment. It is because we believe that God made two sexes and not a plethora of gender identities and that marriage is between one man and one woman.
The Catholic Church did not do anything wrong by trying to stamp out heresy and to drive the Muslims back who were kidnapping Christians, selling them into slavery, and r£ping their wives. They did not do anything wrong with obeying the biblical mandate to go out to all nations and preach the Faith, baptising them in the name of the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Ghost.
Wokism is also about forcing children to learn about graphic depictions of gay sex even as young as primary school. It has nothing to do with preventing sexual abuse. It has everything to do with celebrating the homosexual identity and forcing it on four, five and six year old children on up . The belief is that children, even at the youngest grades in school, are inherently sexual beings and capable of consent. That is absolutely not what Christian morals teach us. The 10 commandments and the new Testament teach us that anyone who looks at another to lust for them has already committed adultery with her (him) in his heart. The sixth commandment forbids all immodesty with ourselves or others and reading bad or immodest books and newspapers (or websites). The ninth Commandment forbids all impure thoughts and desires for anyone who is not your spouse. Therefore, showing a small child a picture book about the gay pride parade and men in BDSM fetish gear offends against both commandments. Having older children read books with extremely graphic gay sex scenes does not help them, but hurts their moral development. It also violates the parents rights to teach their children their faith.
The basic curriculum should be English language arts and English grammar, maths, sciences, and history. It should not include any references to political agendas. It should not include LGBTQIA studies at the youngest grade levels, and it should not put parents in a position where they are being lied to by the children's teachers and school principal because little Johnny changes into a dress and goes by Vanessa as soon as he gets to school while the school covers up the fact that he thinks that he's a girl in the wrong body. They also cover up the fact that female students have been sexually assaulted in the girls toilets by males who claim to be transgender.
I do not homeschool. I pay to send my kids to Catholic school. At that school, children are taught reading, writing, English grammar, maths, science, music, history and Spanish. As well as Christian doctrine. There are both public and private schools in the United States and Canada. Private schools are allowed to teach their students according to their church's religious beliefs. Public schools outlawed any form of school prayer, religious instruction of any kind, and ethics class as well. Students are forbidden to read the Bible on school property, to say a silent grace before meals, or engage in religious discussions. Teachers have been sacked for displaying Christian images, speaking about the Christian origins of Valentine's day, or taking a knee after a football match, Or for expressing their religious beliefs on their private Facebook page. So, I chose to pay for schools that I know will not be reading books that offend against Christian modesty and have pictures of sexual fetish gear that are written for very young children.
I have absolutely no problem with biology. I am not opposed to my 8th graders learning about human anatomy, where babies come from, and what happens during puberty. I am opposed to my six and seven year olds looking at gay pride picture books and learning about "preferred pronouns" and gender fluidity. Those things have absolutely nothing to do with biology or preventing sexual abuse. Kids can learn stranger danger from their parents. They can also learn right from wrong. I am teaching my little kids about the 10 commandments, the traditional Catholic Baltimore Catechism, and tutoring them in reading after school. I am not their main teacher anymore, but I am there to impart our family's religious beliefs and to help them with the subjects they need extra help in.