APS looking to make sex Ed coed

[Anonymous]

APS is going to update its family life policies this summer, and one of the proposed updates seems to be (assuming I’m reading the doc correctly) making the classes coed.

https://go.boarddocs.com/vsba/arlington/Board.nsf/files/CTAJW34F1AEF/$file/I-7.1.8%20Combined.pdf

[Anonymous]

Ok? It’s 2023. Glad to see VA is finally catching up with the rest of the world.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ok? It’s 2023. Glad to see VA is finally catching up with the rest of the world.

Really? You honestly think that little girls should have to learn for the first time about periods with their male classmates? Shouldn’t we allow them the modesty to be able to ask questions privately without their boy classmates there?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ok? It’s 2023. Glad to see VA is finally catching up with the rest of the world.

Really? You honestly think that little girls should have to learn for the first time about periods with their male classmates? Shouldn’t we allow them the modesty to be able to ask questions privately without their boy classmates there?

For the first time? I assume 99% of kids have learned about periods at home.

My sex ed was co-ed 1 million years ago. It was fine.

Why are people such prudes in VA? It’s your period. Not crazy sex positions or anything weird.

[Anonymous]

Isn't it already coed? My 5th grader had sex Ed coed this year and I know they did it coed last year too.

[Anonymous]

Mine was co-ed at a Catholic school in the 80s. We only had 12 kids in our class and not enough faculty to break it up. Started in 4th grade with puberty stuff.

Pretty sure I am not scarred by anything except the "sex will kill you and send you to hell if you do it before marriage" lessons.

[Anonymous]

Why are they changing this?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Isn't it already coed? My 5th grader had sex Ed coed this year and I know they did it coed last year too.

That's possible but the topics are much more vague and generalized in ES than MS and HS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:APS is going to update its family life policies this summer, and one of the proposed updates seems to be (assuming I’m reading the doc correctly) making the classes coed.

https://go.boarddocs.com/vsba/arlington/Board.nsf/files/CTAJW34F1AEF/$file/I-7.1.8%20Combined.pdf

There are no boundaries anymore.

[Anonymous]

It was definitely co-ed for my fifth grader in APS. Reports from my kid and others was positive - no one made stupid jokes or laughed etc. Every kid got a piece of paper and had to write something on it, a question or otherwise, and they were collected ahead of time and answered. They could also raise hands and ask questions.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It was definitely co-ed for my fifth grader in APS. Reports from my kid and others was positive - no one made stupid jokes or laughed etc. Every kid got a piece of paper and had to write something on it, a question or otherwise, and they were collected ahead of time and answered. They could also raise hands and ask questions.

+1

It was coed for my kids and it was totally fine. No big deal.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It was definitely co-ed for my fifth grader in APS. Reports from my kid and others was positive - no one made stupid jokes or laughed etc. Every kid got a piece of paper and had to write something on it, a question or otherwise, and they were collected ahead of time and answered. They could also raise hands and ask questions.

+1

It was coed for my kids and it was totally fine. No big deal.

It was co-Ed for my 6 th grader this year.

It was co- Ed for me growing up MS and HS.

Not a big deal.

What is a big deal is if your kids are learning all this stuff for the first time in a classroom setting.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why are they changing this?

Why didn't they change this decades ago??

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ok? It’s 2023. Glad to see VA is finally catching up with the rest of the world.

Really? You honestly think that little girls should have to learn for the first time about periods with their male classmates? Shouldn’t we allow them the modesty to be able to ask questions privately without their boy classmates there?

It’s the human body.

Modesty is absurd. Boys should absolutely know a girls body and girls should know boys.

You are ridiculous.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ok? It’s 2023. Glad to see VA is finally catching up with the rest of the world.

Really? You honestly think that little girls should have to learn for the first time about periods with their male classmates? Shouldn’t we allow them the modesty to be able to ask questions privately without their boy classmates there?

It’s the human body.

Modesty is absurd. Boys should absolutely know a girls body and girls should know boys.

You are ridiculous.

I don't think PP is objecting to sex ed and to boys learning about girls or vice versa. The question/concern is them learning about it together at that young age. I'm glad to hear from those who had co-ed and whose kids have had it co-ed and hear there weren't any problems. But I fully understand the poster's question. Some people are more modest and shy than others and I think it can absolutely be intimidating for young kids (girls) to have these conversations with adults, let alone their young male counterparts. I'm thinking the poster is talking about the elementary and maybe middle school ages particularly;less so high school. Give her a break. It's ok to have some modesty.