Health Education Unit: Family Life and Human Sexuality

[Anonymous]

Would you opt your child out of the Family Life and Human Sexuality unit offered at middle school? Just received an opt-out form from the school...

[Anonymous]

No, I would not (and I did not). I believe that it's better for my children to be informed than ignorant.

[Anonymous]

No, why would you want your child to be ignorant about human sexuality and their bodies?

I grew up in a conservative, religious home, and my parents never talked to me about any of this stuff. I grew up ignorant about it all. I would not want that for my child. As a matter of fact, we had the "birds and bees" talk with them starting when they were 8.

[Anonymous]

Yes

[Anonymous]

Definitely not. I have two who have gone through that curriculum, and one that's still too young, and it's all perfectly normal stuff that I have shared with them already about how human bodies work and what changes are happening in their own bodies as they go through adolescence.

[Anonymous]

Why? Also, why crowdsource this question?

[Anonymous]

No, I didn’t opt my kid out. Even though I do have some concerns about how MCPs teaches gender identity. But I’d rather my kids have more information and not less.

[Anonymous]

No, it’s standard stuff.

[Anonymous]

Link to discussion on 5th grade Ed
https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/15/857738.page#25804622

[Anonymous]

No. Their peers will be talking about it. Better to have them hearing it straight from the teacher. I have 2 Middle Schoolers.

[Anonymous]

I mean, I’d opt out because I am absolutely confident that my DS’s middle school peers and the internet have a way more well-developed, accurate curriculum to offer him as he enters adolescence!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I mean, I’d opt out because I am absolutely confident that my DS’s middle school peers and the internet have a way more well-developed, accurate curriculum to offer him as he enters adolescence!!

[Anonymous]

Just know that the 7th grade FLHS curriculum is new this year (at least at DCs school), so educate yourself on the updated standards and decide whether this is appropriate for your student.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Just know that the 7th grade FLHS curriculum is new this year (at least at DCs school), so educate yourself on the updated standards and decide whether this is appropriate for your student.

so what is the change?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Link to discussion on 5th grade Ed
https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/15/857738.page#25804622

This thread isn’t about the 5th grade Family Life unit which is different from the middle school (7th grade?) unit. I’m not OP but I would be interested in more information about the middle school family life unit