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Matchmaking Middle School Angers Parents - Culture, Family, Travel, Consumer Reviews - Posted: 4th Mar, 2010 - 11:34pm
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Matchmaking In Middle School Angers Parents
Well, at least there are some parents with a little common sense. Now days, kids young as 8 talk about having boyfriends and girlfriends with full consent of the parents and they don't see absolutely wrong with it.
QUOTE Matchmaking Web sites have become immensely popular on the dating scene for young adults, but how would you feel if your elementary school-age child was participating in surveys to find their "love connection?"
The Elwood Community School drama club in Elwood, Ind., is using their own matchmaking Web site for fundraising. The Web site was created by the school, and students in grades six through 10 can pay to find a compatible boyfriend or girlfriend, WISH-TV reported.
Parent Michelle Everett found out about the fundraiser when she found a match survey in her 11-year-old daughter's book bag. The fundraiser takes place without parental consent slips, like most other school fundraising campaigns.
"I don't believe that at 11 years old a school should be promoting opposite sex matching," Everett said. "A tenth-grader matched with a sixth-grader? And the school is promoting it, and it's inappropriate."
Everett saw red flags when she read the survey that said it listed all the compatible matches of the opposite sex.
Despite Everett's alleged phone calls to the school, the superintendent said he has not received any official complaints from parents. He claimed the survey is harmless, and has been raising money for the school for the past 15 years...
The Elwood Community School drama club in Elwood, Ind., is using their own matchmaking Web site for fundraising. The Web site was created by the school, and students in grades six through 10 can pay to find a compatible boyfriend or girlfriend, WISH-TV reported.
Parent Michelle Everett found out about the fundraiser when she found a match survey in her 11-year-old daughter's book bag. The fundraiser takes place without parental consent slips, like most other school fundraising campaigns.
"I don't believe that at 11 years old a school should be promoting opposite sex matching," Everett said. "A tenth-grader matched with a sixth-grader? And the school is promoting it, and it's inappropriate."
Everett saw red flags when she read the survey that said it listed all the compatible matches of the opposite sex.
Despite Everett's alleged phone calls to the school, the superintendent said he has not received any official complaints from parents. He claimed the survey is harmless, and has been raising money for the school for the past 15 years...
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Potentially homosexual or asexual or other differently identified children seems would seem to throw a pretty significant wrench in this, as well as potentially cause them a lot of unnecessary stress and anxiety and confusion, being blatantly confronted with an issue they might otherwise slowly come to terms with. I think this is a bad idea unless the organizers and cognizant of and make adjustments for such things.
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Asexual and homosexual children? I don't think it is even an issue I think the problem is that the school have done this for a number of years and find it cute. I think is a little disturbing.
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