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RickHworth

(124 posts)
Sun Jan 21, 2024, 10:31 PM Jan 2024

I have a neighbor that lives in a well-known Florida retirement community, part time.

In a completely sober conversation from her, I have learned that we have it all wrong about the education system of Florida.
The teachers are going to great lengths to teach with great explicit means just about every unusual and varied graphic sexual situation to primary school children.
Not only that, but there's also the library books issue. Evidently they are just rife with even more sexually explicit materials, complete with "how to" of all sorts of sexual behaviors. Again in the primary schools.
I started to ask how these books ended up in these libraries in the first place but, I deferred to my better instinct to take her for her word and that she believes this to be factual and not say anything.
I am not sure where she gets her information, she does believe it to be true.

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I have a neighbor that lives in a well-known Florida retirement community, part time. (Original Post) RickHworth Jan 2024 OP
As an educator this is so laughable ! kimbutgar Jan 2024 #1
I know! NJCher Jan 2024 #16
Stupid people know they are smart. Smart people wonder. OAITW r.2.0 Jan 2024 #2
Tell your neighbor not to worry the kids are safe from the books...the smut is much better on the internet. GuppyGal Jan 2024 #3
SO retired in May as a FL HS math teacher mcar Jan 2024 #4
snork. so who educmated her. AllaN01Bear Jan 2024 #5
I have volunteered in my kids' schools, Diamond_Dog Jan 2024 #6
The US has an alarming number of gullible morons. 3catwoman3 Jan 2024 #13
I just want to know where in the hell those lectures and books were when I was niyad Jan 2024 #7
I got a lot of my sex words and activities from the dictionary and the Bible. LiberalFighter Jan 2024 #10
Ahh, my fault then. I never read the bible after about half of genesis. niyad Jan 2024 #11
You missed all the breasts like fawns and harlots pining ArkansasDemocrat1 Jan 2024 #17
Apparently I did. And THAT book of political propaganda is not banned? niyad Jan 2024 #22
Here's a primer ArkansasDemocrat1 Jan 2024 #34
I got serious side-eye from my middle/school librarian EYESORE 9001 Jan 2024 #23
It was required reading in 9th grade for me. phylny Jan 2024 #32
Pretty sure she got it from Fox News. Last week I had an aquaintance from work tell me that GoodRaisin Jan 2024 #8
well moms for liberty teachers know all about group sex, adultery, the lot lol nt msongs Jan 2024 #9
I guarantee you she has good information... Patterson Jan 2024 #12
Yeah, those books with the disgusting perversion and incest Permanut Jan 2024 #14
They were gonna be tossed to the gangbang crowd anyway ArkansasDemocrat1 Jan 2024 #18
And there are millions more just like her out there. progressoid Jan 2024 #15
Why would teachers do this? yardwork Jan 2024 #19
Nope. TimeToGo Jan 2024 #20
you're lucky that snowbird (i'm assuming) flies away for half the year. orleans Jan 2024 #21
Looks like the kids will use the much safer Internet Emile Jan 2024 #24
Let me guess, they live in the Villages. Boomerproud Jan 2024 #25
Maybe. But plenty of dumbass MAGATS live all over the state. Trust me on this one........... machoneman Jan 2024 #27
People believe what they want to believe. Personally, I'm exhausted from all the bullshit. Joinfortmill Jan 2024 #26
I would have asked her how many of those books she has personally read. Lonestarblue Jan 2024 #28
Isnt that well known snowybirdie Jan 2024 #29
I have heard Traildogbob Jan 2024 #30
I've heard about The Villages for awhile now. Niagara Jan 2024 #33
But, I hazard a guess that she is perfectly fine with that pure innocent Bible. Ferrets are Cool Jan 2024 #31
That's when you say, AwakeAtLast Jan 2024 #35

GuppyGal

(1,748 posts)
3. Tell your neighbor not to worry the kids are safe from the books...the smut is much better on the internet.
Sun Jan 21, 2024, 10:41 PM
Jan 2024

I mean really LOL

mcar

(42,376 posts)
4. SO retired in May as a FL HS math teacher
Sun Jan 21, 2024, 10:45 PM
Jan 2024

Your neighbor is an idiot. Teachers barely have time to eat lunch.

Ask her where she gets this info -and, is she aware that the head of Moms for Liberty has admitted to having a 3-way with her husband an another woman? Also, does she have any grandkids in FL schools? If so, why? If they are so full of deviance, why are her grandkids in those schools?

Diamond_Dog

(32,091 posts)
6. I have volunteered in my kids' schools,
Sun Jan 21, 2024, 10:46 PM
Jan 2024

My mother was a reading teacher, my husband taught math for 31 years….I have helped with book drives and volunteered in school libraries. It’s a travesty that so many gullible morons have been brainwashed with this disgusting bullshit.

3catwoman3

(24,054 posts)
13. The US has an alarming number of gullible morons.
Sun Jan 21, 2024, 11:42 PM
Jan 2024

I’m never sure whether to feel sorry for or scornful of people who are so susceptible to obvious bullshit.

niyad

(113,587 posts)
7. I just want to know where in the hell those lectures and books were when I was
Sun Jan 21, 2024, 11:03 PM
Jan 2024

in school, and had complete run of the libraries??? All I ever found was "Tropic of Cancer", and as for sex instruction. . .

I feel soooooo cheated!!!

LiberalFighter

(51,104 posts)
10. I got a lot of my sex words and activities from the dictionary and the Bible.
Sun Jan 21, 2024, 11:07 PM
Jan 2024

Although apparently there was a lot more in the Bible than I realized.

GoodRaisin

(8,930 posts)
8. Pretty sure she got it from Fox News. Last week I had an aquaintance from work tell me that
Sun Jan 21, 2024, 11:05 PM
Jan 2024

“Biden” cost him $20k last year in the stock market. This was while we were on the speaker phone of another friend who was with me. I asked how did he know “Biden” did it and he told me it was Biden’s “policies” negative effect on his investments. I asked him from when to when he lost the $20k, to give me a start date and a finish date he lost it, and he said “wait a minute” while he looked it up. At this point my friend and I were sitting there giggling because she knew I was baiting him. Then he gave me two dates, which I used to pull up a graph of the S&P index off my phone, showing that the index was up about 100 points over the two dates. I rationalized to him that it must be his own poor investments because the broader market was doing fine “under Biden”. At this point he started to talk about how “Biden walks” and I quickly excused myself, telling this Fox News parrot I was needed in the kitchen.

These people are fucking morons and they will parrot almost word for word what gets said on that stupid network. There’s no use talking with them unless you just want to have a little fun when they reveal their ignorance.

Permanut

(5,653 posts)
14. Yeah, those books with the disgusting perversion and incest
Mon Jan 22, 2024, 12:32 AM
Jan 2024

For example, the one that includes the following:

"Come, let us make our father drunk with wine, so we may lie with him.."

The name escapes me, but give me a minute and I'll think of it

orleans

(34,075 posts)
21. you're lucky that snowbird (i'm assuming) flies away for half the year.
Mon Jan 22, 2024, 01:26 AM
Jan 2024

who the fuck wants to be around a dumbass like that?

Lonestarblue

(10,086 posts)
28. I would have asked her how many of those books she has personally read.
Mon Jan 22, 2024, 08:25 AM
Jan 2024

My guess is none. I remember the complaint from one parent about a perfectly innocuous book, no sex at all, because it was a graphic novel and she was too ignorant to know that the word “graphic” meant visuals, not graphic sex descriptions.

snowybirdie

(5,240 posts)
29. Isnt that well known
Mon Jan 22, 2024, 09:17 AM
Jan 2024

Retirement Village the place that has the highest number of Sexually transmitted diseases in Seniors? Boy those randy seniors sure have sex on their mind a lot.

Traildogbob

(8,827 posts)
30. I have heard
Mon Jan 22, 2024, 09:19 AM
Jan 2024

There is an STD epidemic in these senior homes. Maybe a little sex Ed early in life could have helped. Does the BuyBull condemn out of wed orgies for seniors? Not that I care, bang away granny, but don’t be judging reading material having no moral concept.
Viagra comes with each breakfast.

Niagara

(7,675 posts)
33. I've heard about The Villages for awhile now.
Mon Jan 22, 2024, 12:40 PM
Jan 2024

Allegedly they have highest STD cases in the country and they have non-public key parties.


A key party is where members of the opposite sex place their keys in a bowl and the other gender picks up the keys. The person who picks up the keys from the bowl is who the other person goes home with for a night of activity.


I heard about this again several years ago on a Buffalo radio show.

I don't care what retired people do with their spare time in The Villages or similar retirement communities, but I wonder if these people vote MAGA.

AwakeAtLast

(14,134 posts)
35. That's when you say,
Mon Jan 22, 2024, 01:28 PM
Jan 2024

"Oh my goodness! That is terrible! Why don't you sign up to be a volunteer in the schools? Or better yet, a substitute? It's obvious that they need you!"

You'll see at that point just how much she cares about schools...

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