What an odd attitude. As a parent, I think that having a disabled presenter would be a wonderful opportunity to talk to my child. The probelm isn't having to explain disability to a child, it's how to explain it when they don't know anyone who has one. Kids need concrete examples, they can't think hypothetically until they are about 11.
Here we have a preschool program that has a short segment each day in which a film of something happening in the community is shown. One such film showed a small girl being taken to a park by her two mothers. This raised a furore of angry criticism, including a mention in parliament, about the PC brigade thrusting homosexuality in the faces of small children. One mother wrote to a newspaper saying that she had recorded the program so watched it with her young children to check their reaction. After watching the film she asked them what they thought and all she got was "What a great park! Why haven't you taken us there?" They didn't bat an eyelid at the idea of two mothers. The really ridiculous thing about the whole incident, was that this was a repeated showing of the program. It's one of the highest rating preschool programs in the country and it was just one angry response on the second showing that caused all the uproar.
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Date: 2009-02-28 09:34 pm (UTC)Here we have a preschool program that has a short segment each day in which a film of something happening in the community is shown. One such film showed a small girl being taken to a park by her two mothers. This raised a furore of angry criticism, including a mention in parliament, about the PC brigade thrusting homosexuality in the faces of small children. One mother wrote to a newspaper saying that she had recorded the program so watched it with her young children to check their reaction. After watching the film she asked them what they thought and all she got was "What a great park! Why haven't you taken us there?" They didn't bat an eyelid at the idea of two mothers. The really ridiculous thing about the whole incident, was that this was a repeated showing of the program. It's one of the highest rating preschool programs in the country and it was just one angry response on the second showing that caused all the uproar.