4-6th graders FLE all genders together and more

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Anonymous wrote:Anyone who thinks this is a good idea has no idea what FLE looks like, at least in grades 5 and 6.

Some examples:

illustraions of vaginas
explanations and discussions of wet dreams
explanations of what to expect when breasts grow

And the kids DO ask questions. Lots of them.

The lessons are painfully explicit and just plain embarrassing for us as teachers.

I can't think of anything more uncomfortable and downright humiliating than being in a mixed gender class of tweenagers for these lessons.

Talk about making girls and boys uncomfortable and embarrassed about their bodies. Sheesh.

Clearly, we need more modern teachers than this. ^^

Stop perpetuating your old timey, conservative values on children.

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Anonymous wrote:You don’t need to schedule an appointment. It was on blackboard, so I’m sure it transferred over. Every lesson, slide, script for teacher, student pages, etc. Everyone should be aware of what is in these lessons.

That is great it is now on blackboard. We used to have to go in to view the lessons a few years back.

Sounds like there is no excuse not to be aware of the sex ed lessons.

I know that for high school, the boys watch a video of a fully nude adult man taking a shower, then examining his male genitals in full view of the camera. According to my boys, it is very explicit and quite embarrassing.

They watched that video in sex segragated groupings.

Now boys and girls will watch it together in the same room.

My boys have both said there is no way in hell they would feel comfortable watching that video sitting next to the girls in their classes.

Seriously.

Not a single one of the adults involved in this decision would sit and wat h that video right next to their opposite gender coworkers.

Would Omeishor Cohen watch the naked man examining his penis in a shower while sitting next to Karl Frisch????

I hardly tjink so.

If they are asking kids to do this sitting next to their opposite gender classmates, then the school hoard must first sit together with each other and go through every single part of the sex ed lesson sitting together with the entire gatehouse leadership, n the same room, with a fcps grade level teacher and administering each lesson.

This is for 10th grade, 14 to 16 year olds.

Exactly. Muslims would probably opt out of the whole thing anyway.

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Anonymous wrote:There is no way I want boys and girls combined in elementary school for FLE.

There is no good reason to combine them. Each group gets the same information. It is way too sensitive and embarrassing for the young kids otherwise.

And why is that? Think about what leads to something natural being embarrassing. It doesn’t have to be.

+1. We, as parents, were raised in households where these topics were embarrassing and not discussed. Not what we wanted for our kids. We sucked it up in our house with a DS 2 years older than a DD. And adopted the “it’s biology” approach and encouraged discussion no separated by genders.. And we ended up with a high school aged boy who comforted his sister when he went to make sure she was up for school and discovered she had bled through during the night and came and told us (DH and I) that she needed some help. Who had no issues buying her pads when he ran errands if she sent him a picture of the box and picking up her BC (terrible cramps) when he gets. ADHD meds filled. And a daughter who could tell us at the dinner table she had a sucky day because of period cramps and who gave her brother first dibs at the washing machine when he appeared with a pile of sheets, in a no teasing, “you go ahead” way.

Kids take their cues from adults. If the adults are embarrassed, they will be to. If the adults treat this as biological facts and NBD, kids will too.

Put another way— do you want your daughter to marry someone who will buy pads/ tampons on the grocery list, be sympathetic when she has a period, attend OB appointments when she is pregnant? Do you want kids who have healthy sex loves and communicate with their partner when issues arise? Then raise kids that way. You can’t act like this is super secret and embarrassing until high school or college and expect a kid not to internalize it.

Sorry, but do you also discuss your son's "nighttime emissions" in front of your daughter? Do you ask her if her breasts are tender and display illustrations of penises and vaginas? Because FLE barely touches on tampons, if at all, but it does go into great detail in the other areas. The whole thing is uncomfortable, and I would call it one step from sexual harrassment to put the genders together for it. Certainly the reactions of boys and girls to various information would have a deep and negative impact on the opposite gender. Should girls really have to listen to boys asking questions and making comments about how gross menstruation is? Should boys have to sit there next to girls while the teacher shows a video about wet dreams and erections? It's just twisted to put them together, and not right at all.

Adults would never be combined for any of this ingormation in a professional setting.

Children deserve the same respects, if not more.

The people who are advocating for this have never taken the time to schedule an appointment to view the sex ed material for fcps.

Parents, take the time to view the infor at your kids schools so you are educated on what is being taught and what your kid will now need to learn in a coed section.

Then think if you would want to go through this material with creepy Bob from IT sitting next to you.

I suspect you will be opting out your kids and teaching the material at home.

+1,000

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Anonymous wrote:There is no way I want boys and girls combined in elementary school for FLE.

There is no good reason to combine them. Each group gets the same information. It is way too sensitive and embarrassing for the young kids otherwise.

And why is that? Think about what leads to something natural being embarrassing. It doesn’t have to be.

+1. We, as parents, were raised in households where these topics were embarrassing and not discussed. Not what we wanted for our kids. We sucked it up in our house with a DS 2 years older than a DD. And adopted the “it’s biology” approach and encouraged discussion no separated by genders.. And we ended up with a high school aged boy who comforted his sister when he went to make sure she was up for school and discovered she had bled through during the night and came and told us (DH and I) that she needed some help. Who had no issues buying her pads when he ran errands if she sent him a picture of the box and picking up her BC (terrible cramps) when he gets. ADHD meds filled. And a daughter who could tell us at the dinner table she had a sucky day because of period cramps and who gave her brother first dibs at the washing machine when he appeared with a pile of sheets, in a no teasing, “you go ahead” way.

Kids take their cues from adults. If the adults are embarrassed, they will be to. If the adults treat this as biological facts and NBD, kids will too.

Put another way— do you want your daughter to marry someone who will buy pads/ tampons on the grocery list, be sympathetic when she has a period, attend OB appointments when she is pregnant? Do you want kids who have healthy sex loves and communicate with their partner when issues arise? Then raise kids that way. You can’t act like this is super secret and embarrassing until high school or college and expect a kid not to internalize it.

Sorry, but do you also discuss your son's "nighttime emissions" in front of your daughter? Do you ask her if her breasts are tender and display illustrations of penises and vaginas? Because FLE barely touches on tampons, if at all, but it does go into great detail in the other areas. The whole thing is uncomfortable, and I would call it one step from sexual harrassment to put the genders together for it. Certainly the reactions of boys and girls to various information would have a deep and negative impact on the opposite gender. Should girls really have to listen to boys asking questions and making comments about how gross menstruation is? Should boys have to sit there next to girls while the teacher shows a video about wet dreams and erections? It's just twisted to put them together, and not right at all.

DP. We have discussed all of this - and more - with our mixed gender kids and it’s NO BIG DEAL. At least, if you don’t have your own weird insecurities or backwards belief systems.

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I hope there’s a mass opt-out.

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Anonymous wrote:Why shouldn't they combine everybody? Should only girls know about stuff?

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We were never separated out back in the 80s.

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Same here...and I was embarrassed to ask a question about period blood in front of other girls, there would be no way I'd have the courage to ask (or even write it down) a TMI question in front of boys.

But they can at least teach basics. Overall this is going to make people a *lot* more knowledgeable.

Can't they teach the "basics" in separated genders? That way, specific questions and details pertaining to gender can be discussed.

No questions are asked spontaneously. All questions are written down and vetted first by the teacher. You won’t have a girl embarrassed to ask a question in front of classmates about her period because won’t happen. There’s no reason to separate by gender. As another PP noted, you don’t separate for any other subjects.

They have the option to write them down, plenty ask in front of their peers by raising their hand.

Not in the FCPS elementary school where I teach. I’ve been teaching FLE for over 10 years at 5th and 6th grade. We teach the kids to write down their questions. It’s not that difficult. If a kid raises their hand, I simply don’t answer. I say, “I see your hand is up. You can write down your question and we’ll review them.”

I also have been teaching FLE for over 10 years, some write down their questions and some ask. Either way is accepted. It’s not that difficult.

Correct. And if boys and girls are combined, no one will raise their hand anymore or feel safe. This is outrageous.

What’s outrageous is your faux outrage and lack of basic comprehension skills. ALL STUDENTS CAN WRITE THEIR QUESTIONS ANONYMOUSLY. No one is stopping anyone from asking anything. All the kids are given blank notecards. They write questions. The cards are collected. Questions get answered. No one knows whether a boy or girl asked it.

Faux outrage is correct.

I thought FCPS was an educated area. What is with all of these ass-backwards parents and teachers? Are they even from FCPS? Might be outside agitators trying to stir up trouble.

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We were never separated out back in the 80s.

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Same here...and I was embarrassed to ask a question about period blood in front of other girls, there would be no way I'd have the courage to ask (or even write it down) a TMI question in front of boys.

But they can at least teach basics. Overall this is going to make people a *lot* more knowledgeable.

Can't they teach the "basics" in separated genders? That way, specific questions and details pertaining to gender can be discussed.

No questions are asked spontaneously. All questions are written down and vetted first by the teacher. You won’t have a girl embarrassed to ask a question in front of classmates about her period because won’t happen. There’s no reason to separate by gender. As another PP noted, you don’t separate for any other subjects.

They have the option to write them down, plenty ask in front of their peers by raising their hand.

Not in the FCPS elementary school where I teach. I’ve been teaching FLE for over 10 years at 5th and 6th grade. We teach the kids to write down their questions. It’s not that difficult. If a kid raises their hand, I simply don’t answer. I say, “I see your hand is up. You can write down your question and we’ll review them.”

I also have been teaching FLE for over 10 years, some write down their questions and some ask. Either way is accepted. It’s not that difficult.

Correct. And if boys and girls are combined, no one will raise their hand anymore or feel safe. This is outrageous.

What’s outrageous is your faux outrage and lack of basic comprehension skills. ALL STUDENTS CAN WRITE THEIR QUESTIONS ANONYMOUSLY. No one is stopping anyone from asking anything. All the kids are given blank notecards. They write questions. The cards are collected. Questions get answered. No one knows whether a boy or girl asked it.

Faux outrage is correct.

I thought FCPS was an educated area. What is with all of these ass-backwards parents and teachers? Are they even from FCPS? Might be outside agitators trying to stir up trouble.

No, not everyone is post-gender like you. Most of us are modest and are embarrassed by embarrassing things.

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We were never separated out back in the 80s.

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Same here...and I was embarrassed to ask a question about period blood in front of other girls, there would be no way I'd have the courage to ask (or even write it down) a TMI question in front of boys.

But they can at least teach basics. Overall this is going to make people a *lot* more knowledgeable.

Can't they teach the "basics" in separated genders? That way, specific questions and details pertaining to gender can be discussed.

No questions are asked spontaneously. All questions are written down and vetted first by the teacher. You won’t have a girl embarrassed to ask a question in front of classmates about her period because won’t happen. There’s no reason to separate by gender. As another PP noted, you don’t separate for any other subjects.

They have the option to write them down, plenty ask in front of their peers by raising their hand.

Not in the FCPS elementary school where I teach. I’ve been teaching FLE for over 10 years at 5th and 6th grade. We teach the kids to write down their questions. It’s not that difficult. If a kid raises their hand, I simply don’t answer. I say, “I see your hand is up. You can write down your question and we’ll review them.”

I also have been teaching FLE for over 10 years, some write down their questions and some ask. Either way is accepted. It’s not that difficult.

Correct. And if boys and girls are combined, no one will raise their hand anymore or feel safe. This is outrageous.

What’s outrageous is your faux outrage and lack of basic comprehension skills. ALL STUDENTS CAN WRITE THEIR QUESTIONS ANONYMOUSLY. No one is stopping anyone from asking anything. All the kids are given blank notecards. They write questions. The cards are collected. Questions get answered. No one knows whether a boy or girl asked it.

Faux outrage is correct.

I thought FCPS was an educated area. What is with all of these ass-backwards parents and teachers? Are they even from FCPS? Might be outside agitators trying to stir up trouble.

No, not everyone is post-gender like you. Most of us are modest and are embarrassed by embarrassing things.

All learned behaviors. Stop teaching your kids to be embarrassed.

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Anonymous wrote:Why shouldn't they combine everybody? Should only girls know about stuff?

+1

We were never separated out back in the 80s.

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Same here...and I was embarrassed to ask a question about period blood in front of other girls, there would be no way I'd have the courage to ask (or even write it down) a TMI question in front of boys.

But they can at least teach basics. Overall this is going to make people a *lot* more knowledgeable.

Can't they teach the "basics" in separated genders? That way, specific questions and details pertaining to gender can be discussed.

No questions are asked spontaneously. All questions are written down and vetted first by the teacher. You won’t have a girl embarrassed to ask a question in front of classmates about her period because won’t happen. There’s no reason to separate by gender. As another PP noted, you don’t separate for any other subjects.

They have the option to write them down, plenty ask in front of their peers by raising their hand.

Not in the FCPS elementary school where I teach. I’ve been teaching FLE for over 10 years at 5th and 6th grade. We teach the kids to write down their questions. It’s not that difficult. If a kid raises their hand, I simply don’t answer. I say, “I see your hand is up. You can write down your question and we’ll review them.”

I also have been teaching FLE for over 10 years, some write down their questions and some ask. Either way is accepted. It’s not that difficult.

Correct. And if boys and girls are combined, no one will raise their hand anymore or feel safe. This is outrageous.

What’s outrageous is your faux outrage and lack of basic comprehension skills. ALL STUDENTS CAN WRITE THEIR QUESTIONS ANONYMOUSLY. No one is stopping anyone from asking anything. All the kids are given blank notecards. They write questions. The cards are collected. Questions get answered. No one knows whether a boy or girl asked it.

Faux outrage is correct.

I thought FCPS was an educated area. What is with all of these ass-backwards parents and teachers? Are they even from FCPS? Might be outside agitators trying to stir up trouble.

No, not everyone is post-gender like you. Most of us are modest and are embarrassed by embarrassing things.

All learned behaviors. Stop teaching your kids to be embarrassed.

And it’s not “post gender” at all. It’s just being open about the human body.

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Anonymous wrote:Why shouldn't they combine everybody? Should only girls know about stuff?

Boys can still learn about girl stuff without girls being present. Just like girls can learn about boys without them being there. I remember being middle school and I would not want middle school boys sitting next to me when they talked about periods.

Separating out the kids by gender just reinforces the idea that girls need to be embarrassed about menstruation.

It’s 2022. It’s ok for boys to know that girls will get their periods. It’s ok for girls to know that boys get erections.

They’re all normal bodily functions. Nothing to be embarrassed about.

They’re not embarrassed because they get their cycle or erection. They’re embarrassed because they are 9-12 years old and don’t have have the maturity and experience to handle the feelings (and awkwardness) that accompany puberty…everything is embarrassing at this age. Why add to it?

This. The kids are embarrassed even in same sex groupings. They can barely look at the other gender afterwards. A lot of parents on here have no idea how difficult/uncomfortable teaching FLE can be.

Stop reinforcing that it should be embarrassing.

Does FCPS have a bunch of old or conservative teachers?

There are plenty of jobs open if you’d like to do it.

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Anonymous wrote:Why shouldn't they combine everybody? Should only girls know about stuff?

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We were never separated out back in the 80s.

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Same here...and I was embarrassed to ask a question about period blood in front of other girls, there would be no way I'd have the courage to ask (or even write it down) a TMI question in front of boys.

But they can at least teach basics. Overall this is going to make people a *lot* more knowledgeable.

Can't they teach the "basics" in separated genders? That way, specific questions and details pertaining to gender can be discussed.

No questions are asked spontaneously. All questions are written down and vetted first by the teacher. You won’t have a girl embarrassed to ask a question in front of classmates about her period because won’t happen. There’s no reason to separate by gender. As another PP noted, you don’t separate for any other subjects.

They have the option to write them down, plenty ask in front of their peers by raising their hand.

Not in the FCPS elementary school where I teach. I’ve been teaching FLE for over 10 years at 5th and 6th grade. We teach the kids to write down their questions. It’s not that difficult. If a kid raises their hand, I simply don’t answer. I say, “I see your hand is up. You can write down your question and we’ll review them.”

I also have been teaching FLE for over 10 years, some write down their questions and some ask. Either way is accepted. It’s not that difficult.

Correct. And if boys and girls are combined, no one will raise their hand anymore or feel safe. This is outrageous.

What’s outrageous is your faux outrage and lack of basic comprehension skills. ALL STUDENTS CAN WRITE THEIR QUESTIONS ANONYMOUSLY. No one is stopping anyone from asking anything. All the kids are given blank notecards. They write questions. The cards are collected. Questions get answered. No one knows whether a boy or girl asked it.

Faux outrage is correct.

I thought FCPS was an educated area. What is with all of these ass-backwards parents and teachers? Are they even from FCPS? Might be outside agitators trying to stir up trouble.

No, not everyone is post-gender like you. Most of us are modest and are embarrassed by embarrassing things.

All learned behaviors. Stop teaching your kids to be embarrassed.

Why? Because an anonymous rando says so? No, thank you.

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Anonymous wrote:Why shouldn't they combine everybody? Should only girls know about stuff?

+1

We were never separated out back in the 80s.

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Same here...and I was embarrassed to ask a question about period blood in front of other girls, there would be no way I'd have the courage to ask (or even write it down) a TMI question in front of boys.

But they can at least teach basics. Overall this is going to make people a *lot* more knowledgeable.

Can't they teach the "basics" in separated genders? That way, specific questions and details pertaining to gender can be discussed.

No questions are asked spontaneously. All questions are written down and vetted first by the teacher. You won’t have a girl embarrassed to ask a question in front of classmates about her period because won’t happen. There’s no reason to separate by gender. As another PP noted, you don’t separate for any other subjects.

They have the option to write them down, plenty ask in front of their peers by raising their hand.

Not in the FCPS elementary school where I teach. I’ve been teaching FLE for over 10 years at 5th and 6th grade. We teach the kids to write down their questions. It’s not that difficult. If a kid raises their hand, I simply don’t answer. I say, “I see your hand is up. You can write down your question and we’ll review them.”

I also have been teaching FLE for over 10 years, some write down their questions and some ask. Either way is accepted. It’s not that difficult.

Correct. And if boys and girls are combined, no one will raise their hand anymore or feel safe. This is outrageous.

What’s outrageous is your faux outrage and lack of basic comprehension skills. ALL STUDENTS CAN WRITE THEIR QUESTIONS ANONYMOUSLY. No one is stopping anyone from asking anything. All the kids are given blank notecards. They write questions. The cards are collected. Questions get answered. No one knows whether a boy or girl asked it.

Faux outrage is correct.

I thought FCPS was an educated area. What is with all of these ass-backwards parents and teachers? Are they even from FCPS? Might be outside agitators trying to stir up trouble.

No, not everyone is post-gender like you. Most of us are modest and are embarrassed by embarrassing things.

All learned behaviors. Stop teaching your kids to be embarrassed.

Why? Because an anonymous rando says so? No, thank you.

Because you’re harming your kids. No good comes from having your kids being embarrassed over dumb stuff.

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Anonymous wrote:Why shouldn't they combine everybody? Should only girls know about stuff?

+1

We were never separated out back in the 80s.

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Same here...and I was embarrassed to ask a question about period blood in front of other girls, there would be no way I'd have the courage to ask (or even write it down) a TMI question in front of boys.

But they can at least teach basics. Overall this is going to make people a *lot* more knowledgeable.

Can't they teach the "basics" in separated genders? That way, specific questions and details pertaining to gender can be discussed.

No questions are asked spontaneously. All questions are written down and vetted first by the teacher. You won’t have a girl embarrassed to ask a question in front of classmates about her period because won’t happen. There’s no reason to separate by gender. As another PP noted, you don’t separate for any other subjects.

They have the option to write them down, plenty ask in front of their peers by raising their hand.

Not in the FCPS elementary school where I teach. I’ve been teaching FLE for over 10 years at 5th and 6th grade. We teach the kids to write down their questions. It’s not that difficult. If a kid raises their hand, I simply don’t answer. I say, “I see your hand is up. You can write down your question and we’ll review them.”

I also have been teaching FLE for over 10 years, some write down their questions and some ask. Either way is accepted. It’s not that difficult.

Correct. And if boys and girls are combined, no one will raise their hand anymore or feel safe. This is outrageous.

What’s outrageous is your faux outrage and lack of basic comprehension skills. ALL STUDENTS CAN WRITE THEIR QUESTIONS ANONYMOUSLY. No one is stopping anyone from asking anything. All the kids are given blank notecards. They write questions. The cards are collected. Questions get answered. No one knows whether a boy or girl asked it.

Faux outrage is correct.

I thought FCPS was an educated area. What is with all of these ass-backwards parents and teachers? Are they even from FCPS? Might be outside agitators trying to stir up trouble.

No, not everyone is post-gender like you. Most of us are modest and are embarrassed by embarrassing things.

All learned behaviors. Stop teaching your kids to be embarrassed.

Why? Because an anonymous rando says so? No, thank you.

Because you’re harming your kids. No good comes from having your kids being embarrassed over dumb stuff.

Thank you for explaining your reasoning.

I'm not harming my children by teaching them about private things. We're good.

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Anonymous wrote:There is no way I want boys and girls combined in elementary school for FLE.

There is no good reason to combine them. Each group gets the same information. It is way too sensitive and embarrassing for the young kids otherwise.

And why is that? Think about what leads to something natural being embarrassing. It doesn’t have to be.

+1. We, as parents, were raised in households where these topics were embarrassing and not discussed. Not what we wanted for our kids. We sucked it up in our house with a DS 2 years older than a DD. And adopted the “it’s biology” approach and encouraged discussion no separated by genders.. And we ended up with a high school aged boy who comforted his sister when he went to make sure she was up for school and discovered she had bled through during the night and came and told us (DH and I) that she needed some help. Who had no issues buying her pads when he ran errands if she sent him a picture of the box and picking up her BC (terrible cramps) when he gets. ADHD meds filled. And a daughter who could tell us at the dinner table she had a sucky day because of period cramps and who gave her brother first dibs at the washing machine when he appeared with a pile of sheets, in a no teasing, “you go ahead” way.

Kids take their cues from adults. If the adults are embarrassed, they will be to. If the adults treat this as biological facts and NBD, kids will too.

Put another way— do you want your daughter to marry someone who will buy pads/ tampons on the grocery list, be sympathetic when she has a period, attend OB appointments when she is pregnant? Do you want kids who have healthy sex loves and communicate with their partner when issues arise? Then raise kids that way. You can’t act like this is super secret and embarrassing until high school or college and expect a kid not to internalize it.

Sorry, but this is just plain weird.

Why? He’s 19, home for the summer and picking up his own meds. Should a parent be making a second trip to CVS because he is too delicate to be handed a pharmacy bag with his sister’s BC pills inside? What about when he’s 29 and married? Should his wife need to make separate trip to CVS because my grown ass son is too squeamish to carry a bag with birth control to the car? Should she have to make separate stop because her husband is too embarrassed to pick up tampons with the toothpaste? Maybe if I am lucky enough to have grandkids, he should stay in the waiting room while his kids are born?

This is a college student on a co-ed hall using a co-ed bathroom. He’s not 11. Once he could pick up his meds at 18, it was time to start as we want him to continue. And we want him to be an adult and a spouse who doesn’t treat normal bodily functions as shameful. We want him to buy what’s on the grocery list. We want him to view female reproduction as normal and healthy, so he can one day support his wife when she is pregnant and start to bond with his children. So he can attend appointments and classes without embarrassment.

What’s next? Not having him get TP because he will have to deal with the fact members of our family poop?

All you 40+ who think periods are shameful, or picking up BC with other meds is embarrassing- don’t you ever wish you didn’t have this shame about your body?

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Anonymous wrote:Why shouldn't they combine everybody? Should only girls know about stuff?

+1

We were never separated out back in the 80s.

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Same here...and I was embarrassed to ask a question about period blood in front of other girls, there would be no way I'd have the courage to ask (or even write it down) a TMI question in front of boys.

But they can at least teach basics. Overall this is going to make people a *lot* more knowledgeable.

Can't they teach the "basics" in separated genders? That way, specific questions and details pertaining to gender can be discussed.

No questions are asked spontaneously. All questions are written down and vetted first by the teacher. You won’t have a girl embarrassed to ask a question in front of classmates about her period because won’t happen. There’s no reason to separate by gender. As another PP noted, you don’t separate for any other subjects.

They have the option to write them down, plenty ask in front of their peers by raising their hand.

Not in the FCPS elementary school where I teach. I’ve been teaching FLE for over 10 years at 5th and 6th grade. We teach the kids to write down their questions. It’s not that difficult. If a kid raises their hand, I simply don’t answer. I say, “I see your hand is up. You can write down your question and we’ll review them.”

I also have been teaching FLE for over 10 years, some write down their questions and some ask. Either way is accepted. It’s not that difficult.

Correct. And if boys and girls are combined, no one will raise their hand anymore or feel safe. This is outrageous.

What’s outrageous is your faux outrage and lack of basic comprehension skills. ALL STUDENTS CAN WRITE THEIR QUESTIONS ANONYMOUSLY. No one is stopping anyone from asking anything. All the kids are given blank notecards. They write questions. The cards are collected. Questions get answered. No one knows whether a boy or girl asked it.

Faux outrage is correct.

I thought FCPS was an educated area. What is with all of these ass-backwards parents and teachers? Are they even from FCPS? Might be outside agitators trying to stir up trouble.

No, not everyone is post-gender like you. Most of us are modest and are embarrassed by embarrassing things.

All learned behaviors. Stop teaching your kids to be embarrassed.

Why? Because an anonymous rando says so? No, thank you.

Because you’re harming your kids. No good comes from having your kids being embarrassed over dumb stuff.

Thank you for explaining your reasoning.

I'm not harming my children by teaching them about private things. We're good.

Ok. Then don’t betch about what FCPS does.