Should Homosexual Men and Women Be allowed to teach in schools?

As a group, should homosexual Men and Women Be allowed to teach in schools?

This is a question of if the given teacher's sexuality should automatically disqualify them, or if they should be allowed to teach under similar conditions as any other teacher. For example:

If the teacher passes a background check, should they be allowed to teach?

If the teacher ahears to given curriculum, should they be allowed to teach?

Are there any other special qualifications they should pass, or should they be disallowed from teaching automatically?

 

Should someone who thinks "ahear" is a word be allowed to question a teacher's ability to teach?

 

Why would they not be allowed?

I would venture to say there have been homosexuals teaching kids since there were teachers.

I can not think of a single reason to have some sort of prohibition on teachers sexuality.

 

They should be allowed to teach.

 

I don't really see any reason why they shouldn't if that's what they want to do. My problem isn't with gay teachers. It's with PC activism in the classroom. As long as they are not engaging in any of that, then it's fine.

 

Should blacks be allowed to teach? How about fat people? Or Jews? Or whites?

Yes.

 

I don't see any reason why not.

 

Creationists shouldnt be allowed to teach Science, or History

 

Yes, but should not bring political or ideological or sexual preferences into the classroom.

Easy answer every one should agree with that was excluded from the poll choices.

 

People who raise this type of question tend to be ignorant of facts about pedophiles and their relation to Gays and the likelihood of Gays fiddling about with kiddies .
These are reasonable queries , but in this day and age you should have sorted out answers . The facts are clear .
Except for religious bigots , nobody should fear Gays being teachers .
From memory , most kiddy fiddling comes from within a family , invariably Dad , surrogate Dad or Uncle .

 

"Yes, after passing standard screening required of any teacher."

 

Yes, of course.

 

I consider that to be part of the first answer, "subject to the same screening as any other teacher" or the answer "yes but their curriculum should be examined". Not exactly the same, but that's basically the point - that they would be limited to the same restrictions and qualification as any other teacher, including any required limits on activism.

I consider that different than in-class debate, but the whole question of what should be allowed to be taught in schools is a different question.

 

Oh but that doesn't mean anything

 

LOL. And why only homosexuals, also we can put some restictions like limists on activism to conservative, liberals, women...

 

To the OP: of course. It doesn't matter what one's own belief system is, as long as it doesn't bias your teaching.

Which means that the poster to whom I am responding is a cut-and-dried bigot.

 

I wonder why the OP felt it was even necessary to post this thread. Did they expect to catch bigotry from the right on display against homosexuals?

It turns out that the OP instead caught bigotry on display on the left against Christians.

It's "Jeffersonian", btw. Let's not be both a bigot and a nincompoop, shall we?

 

Should people as foolish as the OP be allowed to post in this forum should be the question.

 

only in private schools.

 

All fair questions, but questions for a different debate. The op is just asking if homosexuals are too dangerous to even be considered for teaching.

 

No I was not trying to bait "bigoted" responses at all. This thread is essentially to test a theory proposed by another poster...that most people, and most PF members in particular are convinced that homosexuals are pedophiles, recruiting, or otherwise too dangerous to be around children. I was curious to get an actual feel from PF members. I expect some negative responses, but it was not my goal.

As for the anti-Christian responses, I take them as tongue in cheek, but perhaps those who post them do not. Such comments are equally as wrong, but expected nevertheless a thread of this type.

 

It could be a teacher. I'd bet he went to a public school and learning "adhere" would require homeschooling. I realize some take the position that no one can question any teacher about anything.

As to the original question, I think we should hire teachers who can teach and the sexual orientation is irrelevant. Teachers who have sex with students should be arrested and prosecuted. Some that have sex with students are gay and some aren't.

 

Not unless you raise your hand first.

Note to self - don't type the op of a new thread on your cellphone. Someone will find a mistake and make a point of it. Foolishly I thought I could review the op after I made the poll, but no luck. The OP posts even before the poll is made. So go ahead - use it to your pleasure to make a point.

 

I voted no but I agree with this. Don't ask don't tell. Simple.

 

I suppose I should have made another option, "Yes, but only if they're discrete - don't ask don't tell". But I didn't. That said, the second-to-last option gave the opportunity to say "yes" with qualification.

This position seems reasonable. Even among my (supposedly?) straight teachers I had growing up, few of them ever talked about their husbands/wives, or gave any indication of what sexuality or lack-there-of that they had. They didn't have pictures of their family on their desk, or otherwise bring up their personal life - they were almost always very discrete about their private life, with only the occasional incidental slip. Of course, nobody cares about these slips if it conforms to heterosexual relationships, but that's not really the point.

What I would disagree with is being fired for being found-out by administrators, not for conduct in the classroom. I would also disagree with being fired because some student or parent went out of their way to find out. To me, the policy of "don't ask, don't tell" should not apply when it's others that are making the overt action to find out (unless they do so with good cause, i.e. if the teacher did something wrong).