It’s no secret that schools have been trying to push woke ideologies and expose children to adult content in recent years. One 11-year-old student from Windham Middle School in Maine took a stand against this by reading an explicit passage from a book about gay sex featured in his school library.
Knox Zijac read the page word for word, complete with graphic language and swearing, in order to make sure that the school board would hear his point. The passage he read was from “Nick and Charlie,” which is a novel featuring two gay characters having sex.
When Zijac checked out the book to show his father, the librarian even asked if he wanted more books or perhaps a graphic novel version! It’s no wonder why Zijac had enough of this situation and felt like he needed to speak up about it.
After reading the passage, Zijac’s father gave a three minute long speech saying: “This is the smut that he is finding…I don’t care whether it’s gay, straight, bisexual, whatever terms are for all this stuff; doesn’t need to be at our school, doesn’t need to be at my 11-year-old’s library.” He then went on to bring up another book called “Gender Queer” that has been circulating around different schools across the nation which includes discussion on how boys can suck dick. His final words were: “You may think that schools know the best for our children. You know who know the best for our children? The parents.”
The fact of the matter is that while kids should definitely be exposed to different types of ideas as part of their education process; they shouldn’t be exposed too early before they’re ready or without parental consent first.
That said, children should never be exposed to sexually explicit adult content—PERIOD.
To expose them too early could cause confusion and harm their development but also hinder their ability form strong opinions on those topics when they do become older due being desensitized by them too soon. It’s great that Knox stood up against what he saw as wrong and his father listened and supported him through it – both should certainly be praised for doing so!
Parents are ultimately responsible for what kind of content their child comes into contact with whether it’s online or offline – so its good see parents speaking up when something like this happens as well as taking action against it if needed (which in this case did).
We must remember though not only does our responsibility include protecting our kids from inappropriate things but also educating them on why certain things may not always be appropriate depending on age or other factors such as maturity level etc..
