In the olden days girls were required to take home economics….broken into 3 categories for the school year. Cooking, sewing, and budgeting/running a household.
This was, of course, 1972…..women’s rights and roe were still a year or two away, and that was what was expected for us
I concur…I think ALL students, boy AND girls should learn to balance a checkbook, budget, cook, do their own laundry….etc….and my daughters were able to take shop classes….i was not allowed and I fought to take wood shop….but they wouldn’t allow it 😡
This is why winning the judicial fights with Trump will not accomplish much. It's a distraction from what Musk is doing. Elon has almost liquidated the federal government, at which point Curtis Yarvin's Technate dreams come true. Civil war is imminent because it's the only cure.
I live in Marsha-y-Land and it's quite cringey. The party of cruelty for the sake of nothing else holds a perfectly gerrymandered majority, and there is absolutely no level of inhumanity they will not visit upon anyone who threatens their reign.
you can wait for it being hot and dry.. and the day the wind is in the right direction... just drop a butt.. having been to the USA it seems to be another "god given right".. the right to throw your trash anywhere and everywhere.
Are they taking notes from the book of Warren Jeff's? FLDS prepares girls from a young age for their plural marriage and they are focused on pleasing their husbands and having children.
It’s happening because people did not vote or voted for a human being devoid of ethics and brains.
Sadly whilst in other countries hundreds of thousands protest on the streets a lot of your fellow countrymen do appear to be content with living under a nasty regime.
It was an elective by the time I took it in the 90s, home ec teachers never mentioned being married at all. Cooking and managing a budget, how to do household chores etc yes. But it was for both boys and girls. And we never had to do the "practice baby" thing.
So, instead of boosting literacy rates or mental health support, Tennessee lawmakers think the top priority is pushing a life script on students? This isn’t education—it’s ideological cosplay.
Well once they eliminate any non whites, they will have to populate their new white slave class fast. Since child labor will be a thing, school will only be a few years before they send the boys to labor camps and marry the girls off at 13.
Ok, now that is just WRONG.
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What demented thinking is required for us to want this bullsh*t for our kids???🤯🤯
This is 2025. This is supposed to be a modern era. A future full of possibilities. There will be girls who’ll be told to have babies even as every fibre in their body is saying NO!
As a teacher I can say with all confidence that teaching this in the classroom will push the kids to do the opposite! I can’t even get all my students to bring a pencil or a charged Chromebook to class daily.
Wait, so youre telling me that the people who were appalled that kids were taught sex ed in school and not abstinence are now teaching school kids how to have sex?
Good! Though sadly, I’m from TN & our “sex ed” in public school was just telling us to get married if we wanted to have sex. So they kind of already were doing it.
In states where abortion has been banned or heavily restricted, studies show that racially minoritized individuals, younger poorer women, and those without college degrees experienced disproportionately larger increases in fertility rates.
I'm only surprised their "success sequence" wasn't expanded to include "women: stay married NO MATTER WHAT your husband does" and "men: make sure your wife is properly submissive." and "Everybody: attend an approved evangelical Christian church every Sunday morning and every Wednesday night."
This is disgusting. Those far-right losers deserved lethal injection for their crimes. And yet they accuse the left "Groomers" (the Far-Right was the ones that started it) not a drag queen nor the LGBT wouldn't do things the right does.
Remember the far right accusation is a confession.
Interesting way to go about indoctrination. They’re not anticipating that when those kids grow up and also can’t afford a house that these lessons will amount to wasted time
To create a new generation of women being dependent on men for financial support, with men taking jobs, and future generations of consumers buying stuff to keep economy afloat.
I'm glad I'm not raising a family in Tennessee, and if I did live in Tennessee, for sure I wouldn't want my tax dollars to support this school curriculum.
Not a big fan of a lot of GOP policies, but I don’t think it is a bad idea to encourage kids to be self sufficient before they themselves have kids of their own. If they have a single image of what a proper family looks like, then I see the issues.
This is Hitler’s & Nazi’s 1930s Germany, except that it’s tRump’s and the Republicans’ 2025+ USA.
Hitler demanded and required the exact same teachings for school children in Germany.
Whats next...will they institute a 2 child policy??? And I'm not talkin China here... that's a two child MINIMUM! They'll probably give you cash-money to pop out a whole tribe to brainwash.
Every time I hear anything from a red state it's someone stupid like this. Or is a woman going to jail because of a pregnancy issue or some republican and fake christian going to jail for child abuse. Why do we allow this to go on? Are these fools really worth saving?
The poverty and political illiteracy is so high in Southern states. And a ton of them vote red because they believe the lies that their lives will get better. Some have even turned into some sort of moral superiority to vote red. However, many red states aren't as red as they think. Most Dems
Just don't bother voting because they've been told their votes don't matter in red states. In my state, half the population didn't vote in 2024. If they had, I think we might have seen it turn purple, if not blue.
Well... At least it doesn't say it has to be a heteronormative marriage. That has to count for something, right? Right? 🤬
F***ing idiots, all of them! In every single red state!
The catholic high school I suffered through in Oklahoma City had a mandatory "christian marriage" class. I am sure the graduates led happy and fulfilling lives.
This is the kind of backward thinking that southern states people always get negative criticism on. Not their place to tell people who they should marry when they should marry and What they do after marriage. These people have lost their minds and need to be voted out.😱👺
They can teach it, but I just don't see it happening with this generation!
I mean this generation knows more than any other generation before them.
Sex is no big deal for them and they don't wait til they're married.
Good luck getting them to marry!
This is preaching!
Save the preaching for church!
Since when is being married and being a single mom two different things? I was a single mom -- after my husband dumped me for an old girlfriend. "Success sequence"? For who?
As much as I'd like to have a kid no way can I afford to.
I mean not just expenses but also mentally you need to be ready to have a child. People shouldn't just have it thrust upon them. Some aren't just ready. Mistakes are made and accidents happen.
And they claim dems are grooming? This is text book. Given TN’s success rate with 40-50% of marriages ending in divorce I don’t really see why they’d promote a lifestyle choice with such a high failure rate. As my dad used to say, “the only ones than benefit from marriage are the lawyers.”
It is happening because people who were a public embarrassment and dumb as a rock would not run for office and certainly would never get elected. As a society we had guard rails.
Then Pumpkin Face with a dumpster full of past bad behavior and repeated xenophobic comments got elected.
“Next time you’re at a family gathering, look around. See anyone who might make a good daddy? Start up a conversation. Talk about fishing or NASCAr. Get things rolling.”
One word. CHRISTIANITY
It's NOTHING like being an actual Christian. Just like the GOP that hide behind the Bible and mock God's words and use them as a punchline. Or use one verse and ignore the rest of the chapter. They are the Devil's soldiers. God is watching and he WILL JUDGE THEM.
Monty Python did a wonderful job with this in Meaning of Life.
Taught a generation to pay attention to the clitoris, but start with a little kissing first.
So true. If this nation becomes a vaccine desert, they want more human stock because the mortality rate will increase and life span will decrease... even more than it has already. And all with the degradation of schools' ability to teach students to think critically.
This is the whole point of their anti-abortion laws and the push against LGBTQ people. They want to force people to live like Evangelical Christians. They want control, they think they know what's best.
Big corporations need slave labor for the future.
The GOP is working on repealing Child Labor Laws too.
They want to take us back to the beginning of the Industrial Age, where there were no environmental limits on factories and children worked 12 hour shifts.
It’s pure evil.
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This was, of course, 1972…..women’s rights and roe were still a year or two away, and that was what was expected for us
https://www.tn.gov/health/health-program-areas/statistics/health-data/marriage.html
It’s getting easier to decide NOT WHERE TO LIVE in the GREAT USA…
I completely don't have a problem with this sentence.
WTF?
Sadly whilst in other countries hundreds of thousands protest on the streets a lot of your fellow countrymen do appear to be content with living under a nasty regime.
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What demented thinking is required for us to want this bullsh*t for our kids???🤯🤯
This is 2025. This is supposed to be a modern era. A future full of possibilities. There will be girls who’ll be told to have babies even as every fibre in their body is saying NO!
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In states where abortion has been banned or heavily restricted, studies show that racially minoritized individuals, younger poorer women, and those without college degrees experienced disproportionately larger increases in fertility rates.
ALL kinds of families are successful and ALL kinds of families face challenges.
NOT EVERYONE is meant/wants to get married and/or have kids.
https://usafacts.org/articles/how-much-does-it-cost-to-raise-a-child/
Nobody told us to get married and have kids.
I no longer view that as a joke.
It is coming, to be sure. Just not all at once.
Remember the far right accusation is a confession.
73 million Americans thought stuff like this was no big deal.
It’s horrible, but this is who millions of Americans are.
Hitler demanded and required the exact same teachings for school children in Germany.
F***ing idiots, all of them! In every single red state!
I mean this generation knows more than any other generation before them.
Sex is no big deal for them and they don't wait til they're married.
Good luck getting them to marry!
This is preaching!
Save the preaching for church!
I mean not just expenses but also mentally you need to be ready to have a child. People shouldn't just have it thrust upon them. Some aren't just ready. Mistakes are made and accidents happen.
Then Pumpkin Face with a dumpster full of past bad behavior and repeated xenophobic comments got elected.
No standards
https://youtu.be/ejaWq2TXRXE?si=6FdT4tTr9UHsjkH2
It's NOTHING like being an actual Christian. Just like the GOP that hide behind the Bible and mock God's words and use them as a punchline. Or use one verse and ignore the rest of the chapter. They are the Devil's soldiers. God is watching and he WILL JUDGE THEM.
Taught a generation to pay attention to the clitoris, but start with a little kissing first.
Anybody recall Pete Seeger? „Little boxes“ … „Ticky-tacky“ … ? Back in the early sixties? Come a long way, obviously.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Boxes
Not an April Fool's joke????
But it says something about our times that this totally seems like something that can/will happen.
The GOP is working on repealing Child Labor Laws too.
They want to take us back to the beginning of the Industrial Age, where there were no environmental limits on factories and children worked 12 hour shifts.
It’s pure evil.
https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/lebensborn-program