Posted December 9, 2015 4:56 pm by Comments

By Jenn Jacques

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I don’t shy away from many topics with my children. Religion, gun rights, politics, social issues, news headlines, even gender rolls and race relations are typical conversations in our household.

My son, being an outspoken 17 year old senior in high school, is great at discussing a wide range of current issues, especially in school. As he frequently does, he sent me a text last week asking me a question:

While I’m always happy to discuss my area of expertise with my firstborn child, I pressed him when he got home as to how he could ask me why I support guns and/or the NRA for his project since he should already know. He told me that his Social Problems class was doing a project on gun control and he had to find three people for and three people against it for his project. While I was happy to be a part of his “against gun control” group, he also told me he also had to add his homeroom teacher’s remarks to his “for it” group.

“Oh really? What were her remarks?”, I asked him, although I already had an idea of what she would say.

I have to point out here that this …Read the Rest

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