Teachers shouldn't share personal lives

While I believe a person's personal life is their own business unless it infringes on my life, I don't think teachers should share their personal lives with their students, especially young children. Most people are very accepting of anyone's lifestyle but when a teacher shares their lifestyle with students and then gets offended when the students comments are less than what they want to hear that is their problem.

Even if a parent is accepting of their child's teacher's life choices that does not mean they want the teacher teaching them about it. Why do teachers today think they have the right to "enlighten" their students regarding life style choices. That is the job and right of parents, not teachers. The teacher who received flowers from his husband could have just responded that the flowers came from someone special to him and left it at that.

My kindergarten granddaughter had a pregnant teacher who thought nothing of letting her 6-year-old students know she isn't married but she and her boyfriend plan on getting married. Another granddaughter had a junior high teacher who posted her personal information regarding her and her wife's wedding for all her student s to read. Is this appropriate?

When it comes to these situations, I believe parents are the ones who have the right to "teach" their children according to their personal beliefs yet we have teachers who think they are the ones who think it is their right to brooch these subjects with their students. Teachers need to stick to the curriculum they are hired to teach and let parents handle values and morals as they see fit to "teach" their children.

Janet Lumm

Schaumburg