Health Education Unit: Family Life and Human Sexuality

[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.

As part of your decision, ask yourself whether you prefer for your student to hear the information directly from the teacher, or second-hand from other students.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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

Yes but page 2 of the 5th grade thread did have info about middle school health units.

[Anonymous]

Of course not. Seems like important topics to learn.

[Anonymous]

No. Absolutely not. No reason to opt out.

But it would be good to understand what is covered, so that while they are covering that unit at school you can discuss it at home as well and make sure that you are doing the heavy lifting when it comes to setting expectations and discussing values, etc.

[Anonymous]

If you opt out, your kid will be “that kid with the weird parents who wouldn’t let him take sex Ed.” Please don’t do that to your kid.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you opt out, your kid will be “that kid with the weird parents who wouldn’t let him take sex Ed.” Please don’t do that to your kid.

parental peer pressure

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

As part of your decision, ask yourself whether you prefer for your student to hear the information directly from the teacher, or second-hand from other students.

This!

[Anonymous]

To the PP who wants more info, reach out to the school and ask for it.

[Anonymous]

Why bother with class? There's plenty of info on the interwebs your kid can google.

[Anonymous]

How much are you tree aching your kid about sex? If nothing then let them go. If you prefer to actually do it, please do so.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

As part of your decision, ask yourself whether you prefer for your student to hear the information directly from the teacher, or second-hand from other students.

Or... directly from the parent. I share age appropriate information directly with my kids. I provide books for additional reading that are in line with my values. This is not the responsibility of unrelated strangers/adults to discuss sex with my minor child.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

As part of your decision, ask yourself whether you prefer for your student to hear the information directly from the teacher, or second-hand from other students.

Or... directly from the parent. I share age appropriate information directly with my kids. I provide books for additional reading that are in line with my values. This is not the responsibility of unrelated strangers/adults to discuss sex with my minor child.

That's great. However, in addition, they will also hear information second-hand from other middle-schoolers. If you prefer for them to hear the information second-hand from other middle-schoolers, rather than directly from the teacher, that's your decision.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

As part of your decision, ask yourself whether you prefer for your student to hear the information directly from the teacher, or second-hand from other students.

Or... directly from the parent. I share age appropriate information directly with my kids. I provide books for additional reading that are in line with my values. This is not the responsibility of unrelated strangers/adults to discuss sex with my minor child.

That's great. However, in addition, they will also hear information second-hand from other middle-schoolers. If you prefer for them to hear the information second-hand from other middle-schoolers, rather than directly from the teacher, that's your decision.

They are going to discuss sex with their peers regardless of whether an adult talks with them or not. So, I'll skip the teacher or unknown educator talking about it with them, coming from a place of authority rather than peer group conversations.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

As part of your decision, ask yourself whether you prefer for your student to hear the information directly from the teacher, or second-hand from other students.

Or... directly from the parent. I share age appropriate information directly with my kids. I provide books for additional reading that are in line with my values. This is not the responsibility of unrelated strangers/adults to discuss sex with my minor child.

I do the same but I'm not naive enough to think my kids are going to be in this traumatically sealed bubble and they're never going to learn anything from peers

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

As part of your decision, ask yourself whether you prefer for your student to hear the information directly from the teacher, or second-hand from other students.

Or... directly from the parent. I share age appropriate information directly with my kids. I provide books for additional reading that are in line with my values. This is not the responsibility of unrelated strangers/adults to discuss sex with my minor child.

That's great. However, in addition, they will also hear information second-hand from other middle-schoolers. If you prefer for them to hear the information second-hand from other middle-schoolers, rather than directly from the teacher, that's your decision.

They are going to discuss sex with their peers regardless of whether an adult talks with them or not. So, I'll skip the teacher or unknown educator talking about it with them, coming from a place of authority rather than peer group conversations.

There are probably not a lot of people who deliberately decide it's better for their kids to learn about sex from other 7th graders (!) than from teachers, but apparently there's at least one person.