From what I remember about Valentines Day in Elementary School is that everyone bought a package of pre-cut printed cards and envelopes and addressed them to everyone in the class. Boys and girls alike. By the time we were in the sixth grade we were still not sexually motivated. By the time we got into junior high school the valentines day cards stopped and the Valentines Day Dances started. In my opinion it was appropriate to start some socializing at the point. Of course sex was all that anyone wanted to talk about. But most we still under the impression that naked was nasty as prescribed by parents and pastors. So little action. The very thought that someone was sweet on a girl was cute but came with a lot of ridicule. So sexual connotations. I don't know, It does suggest to a young male that there is an accepted way to express his emotions to members of the opposite sex. It also introduces us to the ever-present reality of rejection. If either of these are ignored it usually translates to domestic trouble.
Crazy moms out there right now complaining about little Timmy trying to kiss little Suzie in grade school so abolishing the patriarch is their goal.
Not for its sexual connotations because I disagree that it has those for every person.
It should be removed because it unnecessarily causes hurt. And, no, I'm not one of the people who thinks that everyone deserves an award and a gold star. But Valentine's Day is RUTHLESS. Kids have enough uncertainty in their lives as it is. Valentine's Day is a bad addition to the horrors of being ages 11 through 18. Just look at the terror we've seen on GaG with adults worrying about it -- why do we think that kids can better deal with it?
Well many parents think it teaches kids to hit on women by giving them candy and construction paper I LOVE YOU"s... it all starts on Valentines Day and ends up in the streets lol
Yes they are loyal. lol
No, I planned out my Valentine’s Day lessons already. It’s a fun day for us all. Don’t take this away from us. The rest of the school year is already soooooo fucking dull… they are testing these kids to the roof…no fun!!
They will make heart shaped cards, cut, coloring and graph heart candies and eat some chocolate candies. Don’t take this little innocent sweet day out!
We can’t stop how attraction works. I see them as young as kindergarten, first grade…I have two kids 5,6 years old who have been inseparable since the beginning of the school year. I swear they are made for each other!!! I put them in two opposite corners, they somehow found their way to chit chat.
I wonder what they’ll do on Valentine’s Day… I’ll follow up if I remember.
we are only teaching to show love to our parents to thank them for their hard work.
No. Who even thinks up such nonsense? Probably some butthurt parent or teacher that got rejected or dumped and now wants kids to be miserable like they are...
Now most of the long time members on here know I've been single forever, and know how I feel about Valentine's day.
But I'd never be malicious or spiteful enough to take it out on others, or try to ban a holiday from kids because some people's minds are in the gutter... or they're not getting any.
Some people really do get triggered over every little thing. I guess they figure if they're unhappy, let's make others unhappy too: those people need to get a life.
This teaches young boys how to hit on young women from early on and men shouldn't approach women anymore so need to remove this insidious holiday lol
Valentine's Day is NOT a holiday, luv. Is there really any REASON to perpetuate in public schools with children? I'm not worried about sexual connotation, it's just simply not a holiday. About all I'd want to get out of the day is perhaps " let's write something to someone we love" or talk about what love is and what it means to you.
Who thinks of this stuff? It’s some guy who needs to constantly publish polls in order to promote himself as a “dating coach.”
@Paul_in_Indy Coach is very entertaining! He doesn't claim expertise in that area, as far as I know.
@loveslongnails a quick search on wikipedia shows it is technically a christian holiday. Just most countries dont give you a day off. There were actually numerous martyrs called Valentine
@Fromdusktilldawn It's not an official public holiday anywhere in the world currently, as far as I can determine. Yes, there was a "St. Valentine" and there is a connection to Christianity and martyrdom, but it never evolved into a Church celebrated day. Guess they weren't big enough martyrs! LOL
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Basically I always thought Valentines was a bullshit holiday anyway. Even as a young kid, I didn't see the piont of it when I was in school.
The origin of "Valentine's Day" traces back to the initial jailing and persecution of early christians. 'Saint' Valentine would write messages of encouragement and comraderie to those being persecuted, especially if they'd been marked for public torture & execution. Initially expressing their deity's love and Valentine's awareness of their sacrifice on their deity's behalf. Its modern evolution has 'crept' from that psych support.
"Do not despair! I CARE for and about you..." <3
Parents don't want their children falling in FAKE love in the 3rd grade with their classmates. Also teaches young men to hit on women from an early age with heart shape candy and construction paper made love notes. This is their argument by the way not mine.
Valentines day reinforces the idea you should be in a relationship. That person who doesn't get a card stands out as an object of pity, a person you look at and think if I don't brush up I could be a loner like them.
Another thing is now we have umpteen genders you could get cards from anyone and that could prove awkward.
ROFL. Valentine's Day is about showing LOVE to people YOU LOVE or feel affection for. In other countries it's even a day devoted to showing you appericate your friends.
It's only simple minded uneducated perverts that think it's only about sexual content.
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That's why there's gifts for mothers & father's on Valentine's Day. Sisters & brothers.
Hell aside from Mother's Day Valentine's Day is the BIGGEST seller of gifts for mothers. And I am not talking about your baby's mama, I'm talking about your actual mother.
TEACHERS are the people who receive the MOST Valentine's CARDS EVERY YEAR.
It does not have a direct sexual connotation as far as I know just a relationship connotation? Whether a relationship involves sex is a different topic to me, obv. a lot of relationships do but not all. The main complaint I have seen w V-Day is that it makes you feel bad if you are not in a relationship which I think is a better complaint. JMO!
I think Valentine’s Day should be removed for other reasons. It’s a big commercial ploy that guilt trips men into spending gobs of money on women.
Also how often do you hear guys complaining that their girlfriend/wife never did anything for them for Valentine’s Day? Virtually never. Marketers know how to manipulate women to squeeze money out of men.
Wait... It's sexual? Is love always sexual?
I love my dog but I don't have sex with her!
There’s a few parents out there thinking it teaches young kids how to objectify each other with fake love, candy and secret live messages created out if construction paper
The fringe psychos out there, obviously!! For most people that know how to think, it's just a fun, harmless gesture that MIGHT spread a little love.
@FunkyMonkee exactly
@coachTanthony I think they’re just projecting because their marriage sucks.
no love isn't always sexual but in America the lines are blurred
@NatalieKeller95 In America? 😂 Would that be North America, South America, or Central America? All three?
And St Patrick's day because it glorifies drinking...
https://th.bing.com/th/id/OIP.hq6ChZT1ZvxenQbjaVEMJwHaIQ?pid=ImgDet&rs=1
Damn!!! That's cultural appropriation of the Irish!!! Call the FBI!!!
They are teaching all kinds of sick sex stuff to our kids and they want to get rid of Valentines day?
LOL yup
No. It never was that big of a deal in school anyway. During my early elementary school years, every kid got a Valentine from every other kid in the class (an unwritten rule I guess). There was nothing sexual or romantic about it. It beats those who want to commemorate (Saint) Valentine's Day by taking seven gang bangers into a garage and gunning them down with a couple of submachine guns. Which will you have?
It should be removed, I just think Valentine’s Day is like a favouritism contest, the more Valentine’s Day cards you get to more attractive or popular you are. It’s another Hallmark holiday of pointlessness. I never understood it. I don’t consider valentines a romantic day it’s just another day.
I just dont think it has a sexual connection so dont think that be a reason to remove it, same as not to remove choet day becouse of its sexual connection 😅
Valentine’s has always been a thing in schools and no one has complained once about it when I was in school. People are just too sensitive 🙄
Everyone is sensitive these days that’s is for sure
What sexual connotations? Valentine's Day isn't about sex.
Some perverts try to make it that. But that's not what it's about.
Teaches young men to approach women and hit on them. Starts in kindergarten and ends up in the streets where women get approached by men.
@coachTanthony But I thought women wanted to be approached now. Or is it back the other way again? I swear, women's preferences change like fashion styles in the department store.
Whoever is currently in charge of Feminism needs to make up their minds and get everyone on the same page and the same program.
See, that's why I don't even mess with them. Let them do their own thing. I don't have time for that nonsense.
You know how it is now. Everything is offensive lol
Lol. I guess so.
Would prohibiting anything end teens’ exploding emotional and sexual urges? No. Education about it will stop them from making mistakes though,
No but why start discussing love in the 3rd grade?
Parents don't want their kids coming home saying little Timmy and Gary say they love me and want to marry me and gave me candy and a card and tried kissing me and grabbing me all because the school wants to celebrate heart shaped candy day. That is their argument. If you disagree cool.
Only a disturbed child’s valentines card would say that….
This is just a blog post I Googled with kids Val cards. “Peas be my Valentine” … “I’m donuts about you.”
Why do you conservatives always go extreme?
www.naturalbeachliving.com/.../
Lol that’s more a woke liberal view not conservative
How about we make it a serious Catholic holiday where we venerate the real St. Valentine who died a martyr?
It should actually be removed from our culture.
lol I think that ship has sailed.
YES!!! When your in love every day is a Valentines. Honestly this holiday is only for those that need a day on the calendar to pretend that they are in love; or to give them a reason to forgive their SO one day a year for all the fucked up shit they do on the other 364 days; or as a day to remind them there is love in the world, even if you can't see it.
So shit, all I know is that I wouldn't miss it if it was done away with.
It should be removed period, it's a stupid bs holiday
I dont see why it needs to be in schools. It's not a proper holiday in same way as Easter/Christmas/thanks giving etc.
me waiting for American muslims to complain about Easter, okay well let them have school on ramadan then, if we can't celebrate our religious holiday's then they can't celebrate their religious holidays either
No, it is because some kids don't get valentines and feel left out. Kind of like in the song "At 17" where the says "and valentines that never came". How would you feel if everyone in class was getting valentines from classmates while you got none?
I think it’s alright the way they used to do you send a friend or you know a crush a little note and a treat they have to read and approve the note or if not they won’t send it so I think those measures are ok.
The mistake is thinking they know nothing about sex in a super sexually charged media driven society. Valentine’s Day is completely ok, they celebrate Halloween anyways might as well have something positive to
It already has been in some states. In Nevada CCSD has Palintines day to celebrate friendships
If that's the reasoning, then prom needs to be removed first.
No. Being someone's Valentine isn't a sexual thing!!
Yes, it shouldn't be in schools in the first place.
WHAT sexual connotations?
5 people here don't understand what Valentine's Day is!
Just trolls 😈
I know, not worth the effort.
Let's get rid of transgender shit first than we can talk about Valentine's Day.
Every day is a day to lean about butt plugs and big tranny penises. Lmao
@Exterminatore And how grade school teachers are assigning gender to children.
That’s unbelievable. Can’t they just let these kids play with HotRods and Barbie Dolls and let them figure that stuff out for themselves later in life?
It's romantic, not sexual
Holy, FIVE people spammed this thread with dislikes
LOL Those are my haters welcome to my world.
Not for sexual connotations but it discriminates against the lonely miserable kids showing that they are just going to be alone for the rest of their lives.
aka the special needs kids
Also it is colonist, racist, and part of White Supremacy
While they continue to teach crap like "gender fluidity"? Are you serious?
No. We should be using Valentine’s Day to teach kids about big tranny penises and butt plugs just like every other day of the year.
Most kids have access to pornhub these days... i think Valentine's day is no issue compared to the sexual shit they are regularly exposed to.
A couple of girls got sexually assaulted at our school cos of this day so maybe
No, what the hell? This is nonsense who even thinks of it like that school is for kids. No need to sexual it like that what’s wrong with you dude
Lollolol
Just like many other holidays it needs to be taught its true meaning academically.
whaaa.. where is this?
It's everywhere men not being allowed to approach women anymore this is where it begins lol
holy fucking shit
Probably California lol Read it online can't remember thought it would make a good convo.
people of california really need to start an armed uprising against that dictator newsom
Like what’s the worst thing that can happen in a school? The kids would expelled if anything happened
what you mean it’s just kissy kiss that Puss in Boots
What sexual connotations? Isn’t it suppossed to be about love?
Lol nah its fine
Literally anything could be sexualized.
It hurts those who always face discrimination.
Might as well get rid of prom
Why me worry!
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