Very interesting…In the article it was noted that:
"Another parliamentarian from the People’s Party, Roger Köppel, said on his Weltwoche Daily video broadcast that the event was a “sexualisation of school lessons”. I can agree with this. Teachers should be teaching reading. writing, and arithmetic not subtly sexualizing young minds under the guise of “gender day.”
As I’ve written before the people who abuse children are the ones who have access to them. These days they’re doing it right under parents noses by using various professional titles such as gender-day and play-doctor to make it all seem legitimate. Adults (especially in professions where they have lots of contact with children) are starting to boldly cross the line and parents appear none the wiser. Reading the article I see that many can agree with me.
In fact, it would be good if they put cameras in all daycare centers so that a parent if they desire, can check on their little ones. A parent’s duty doesn’t stop because someone else is watching their child. But unfortunately today’s parents are extremely lax with their children and put them in total abandonment and trust into the arms of strangers.
You seem to be confusing daycare with school. There’s no connection between toddlers playing doctors, and school aged children observing a gender day or even learning about sex education.
This seems to be the root of most of the outrage; people who aren’t even involved in the school system hear ‘sex education’ and ‘school’ in the same sentence and immediately jump to the conclusion that toddlers are being ‘sexualised’.
It’s these weird, creepy types that appear to get off on finding some non-existent perverted angle, thinly disguised as their ‘well-meant outrage’, that are the problem, not the teachers, daycare staff or the curriculum.
I guess that’s the diversity of opinions that adds spice to life…
I’m not sure why people are not bothered by bugs in the creche; my kids were getting sick every couple of weeks.
OK, maybe not every other couple of weeks but it felt like it; it was way too often…and it was exhausting!!
I find this reply and its tone along with other “advice” given in this thread disturbing as if it were no big deal. Toddlers “exploring their bodies” does not belong in Kindergartens and this is not even up for debate.
Don’t beat around the bush; it’s called grooming and I find the responses here tone deaf at best and even disturbing. You’re absolutely justified in your concern; most people would be as well (this forum is not at all representative of the general population).
One thing that I’ve intuitively known and had it confirmed during Corona is that a significant minority will do whatever crazy or irrational thing you tell them as long as it’s approved by the regime. And they will do it zealously. We have no idea what awaits us this year but we can be certain that a certain segment of the population will subscribe to it as long as the “experts” recommend it. This includes jumping off a building…
I’m curious as to why you appear to have joined the forum specifically to join the debate on something you don’t think we need to debate.
Or do you just mean that you don’t want anyone who disagrees with you to be able to debate it but it’s fine for you to state opinion as if it were fact?
At our KiTa there was some rule about this. I don’t remember exactly, but something like that one person is not allowed to be left alone in the room with kids.
There are regulations in place to protect children and their well-being. I don’t understand the outrage against Kitas in Switzerland if posters have had no experience with children or Kitas.
I’m afraid this is a case of outrage for the sake of trolling or of vulnerable posters being manipulated by hyperbolic social media.
Really enjoy it when people present own thoughts and opinions as if they were facts.
Where does it belong to exactly?
Toddlers do not exactly think “Oh look at that, I will write in my agenda to be curious about it when and where it’s appropriate”. At that age it’s all about the here and now and whatever opportunity presents itself. Especially with lots of children around it’s where this curiousity and awareness of different bodies comes from.
Anyway… A whole bunch of nothing to see here it seems, just a few people with strong emotions about kids doing their own developmental stuff.
Just wait until you hear what they teach them at 6th grade sex ed class and pls come back and tell us about your thoughts, will be fun.
Yeah, if, for some reasons, you want to have control over your kids 24/7 but it’s not done here. As explained before there are strict regulations in place to protect the well being of kids. I guess when kids go to school too they’re “in total abandonment and trust into the arms of strangers”. Parents need to get used to it somehow. Also, maybe you have read about children going to kindergarten by themselves or with their peers, as a certain degree of independence and self-responsibility is encouraged from an early age. Nobody brings their kids to school here, also probably done in many other places.
I would recommend anyone who plans to move here to read more about the local culture(s) and customs in regards with the education system and childcare, otherwise they’ll be in for a big “disappointment”…and quite an unfounded one. There are numerous sites about the Swiss education system out there btw. Just google it. Don’t rely on the kindness of strangers ;); check out the official info.
The article states clearly that such a room was planned in Germany but after the shitstorm it caused the program has since been removed from their website.
Further, it states that in Switzerland such rooms are, at least theoretically, a reality.
To the OP, if you are still concerned I would talk to the people running the Kita and explain that you don’t want your child taking part.
“Hierfür gäbe es Rückzugsorte: «Es sind keine eigenen Räume, sondern etwas zurückgezogenere Nischen innerhalb der Räume, in denen die Kitakinder sind. Beispielsweise ein Spielzelt oder ein ruhigeres Eckchen.”
