I've been a client of mainstream daycares and public schools for 10 years now.  My experience matches Cleatwood's.
They do a "rainbow week" around October where you're supposed to wear a different color each day, but it's to teach the kindergarteners their colors, no sex or gender issue.  I asked the teachers and my kids. I've never had to object to any of the lessons that come home.

And it just happens to fall in the month of October, when in 1994 a coalition of education based organizations designated October to be LGBT Month.

If you are learning colors, why do you need to limit the selection to rainbow colors.  If my freaking kids are just learning the rainbow colors in kindgergarten there's something drastically wrong.   Most websites state that children learn the basic colors by 18 months and no later than 2 years old.

Yeah. My kid knows all of the basics already. Red, blue, green, yellow, pink, purple, orange, black, white, brown, etc. Working on his numbers now. He had most of that down well before three years of age.

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"What do I know of cultured ways, the gilt, the craft and the lie? I, who was born in a naked land and bred in the open sky. The subtle tongue, the sophist guile, they fail when the broadswords sing; Rush in and die, dogs - I was a man before I was a king."

I've been a client of mainstream daycares and public schools for 10 years now.  My experience matches Cleatwood's.
They do a "rainbow week" around October where you're supposed to wear a different color each day, but it's to teach the kindergarteners their colors, no sex or gender issue.  I asked the teachers and my kids. I've never had to object to any of the lessons that come home.

And it just happens to fall in the month of October, when in 1994 a coalition of education based organizations designated October to be LGBT Month.

If you are learning colors, why do you need to limit the selection to rainbow colors.  If my freaking kids are just learning the rainbow colors in kindgergarten there's something drastically wrong.   Most websites state that children learn the basic colors by 18 months and no later than 2 years old.

They spread it out over 2 weeks to add pink and brown and black to it.
I agree that the kids already know the names of the colors, but it is fun to see them all wearing the same color each day.  There are many "dress like this" days in school and the kids enjoy it.

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My fellow southpaw Mark Brunell will probably always be my favorite Jaguar.

This comes up frequently in multiple threads. 

Just wanted to cast the net a little bit wider. 

While I've spoken in defense of the alphabet soup "queer" community and believe that young people trying to find their way need to know they aren't alone, there are obvious limits where we all say "too much, too soon." 

That said, if we have people railing against Disney and attempting to make it illegal to perform in drag, can we go ahead and finally get rid of this bull [BLEEP]? 



I'm not even going to go down the road of dressing up your 5 year old in political campaign gear and posing them with an assault rifle in your Christmas card photo, but that's dumb as [BLEEP] too. Left, right or sideways. 

Anyway, I'd love it if we didn't force adult stress on kids until they are actually ready to begin accepting it in measured doses.

Totally agree. 'Beauty' pageants in general are ridiculous, but those aimed at children should be banned.

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"Remember Red, Hope is a good thing. Maybe the best of things. And no good thing ever dies."  - Andy Dufresne, The Shawshank Redemption