FCPS new FLE curriculum

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Why are we teaching FLE anyways? Shouldn't parents teach that stuff? Not everyone will agree on that stuff.

Parents can opt out. I think factual material is fine. Language like “assigned at birth” and concepts like gender identity in elementary school are reflective of a non-factual, non-scientific approach.

Exactly. Very glad my kids are almost done with the lunacy that is FCPS.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why are we teaching FLE anyways? Shouldn't parents teach that stuff? Not everyone will agree on that stuff.

Because schools educate children and part of being educated is knowing about one's body and about other people's bodies as well.

Maybe they should teach them to spell instead, so many other things they can teach. Why FLE? Parents can teach that stuff.

Because many parents don't! My mom got pregnant at 15 because she did not know what sex was or how pregnancy happened! Her parents would not speak of it and it was not taught in her Catholic schools.

No one is talking about getting rid of sex ed. It’s all the other nonsense that needs to be omitted. Parents can discuss “gender issues” (or not) with their own kids.
DP

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why are we teaching FLE anyways? Shouldn't parents teach that stuff? Not everyone will agree on that stuff.

Because schools educate children and part of being educated is knowing about one's body and about other people's bodies as well.

Maybe they should teach them to spell instead, so many other things they can teach. Why FLE? Parents can teach that stuff.

Because many parents don't! My mom got pregnant at 15 because she did not know what sex was or how pregnancy happened! Her parents would not speak of it and it was not taught in her Catholic schools.

No one is talking about getting rid of sex ed. It’s all the other nonsense that needs to be omitted. Parents can discuss “gender issues” (or not) with their own kids.
DP

PP was ....

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why are we teaching FLE anyways? Shouldn't parents teach that stuff? Not everyone will agree on that stuff.

Because schools educate children and part of being educated is knowing about one's body and about other people's bodies as well.

Maybe they should teach them to spell instead, so many other things they can teach. Why FLE? Parents can teach that stuff.

Because many parents don't! My mom got pregnant at 15 because she did not know what sex was or how pregnancy happened! Her parents would not speak of it and it was not taught in her Catholic schools.

No one is talking about getting rid of sex ed. It’s all the other nonsense that needs to be omitted. Parents can discuss “gender issues” (or not) with their own kids.
DP

Well the leftist wackos probably won't agree with what you are going to discuss with your child about these issues, so they want to put it into their righteous path.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why are we teaching FLE anyways? Shouldn't parents teach that stuff? Not everyone will agree on that stuff.

Because schools educate children and part of being educated is knowing about one's body and about other people's bodies as well.

Maybe they should teach them to spell instead, so many other things they can teach. Why FLE? Parents can teach that stuff.

Because many parents don't! My mom got pregnant at 15 because she did not know what sex was or how pregnancy happened! Her parents would not speak of it and it was not taught in her Catholic schools.

That part of FLE is fine. Get rid of the gender identity stuff and the other nonsense that interferes with family values.

[Anonymous]

Are they surveying parents about the changes?

[Anonymous]

There may be teachers who aren’t comfortable with the changes and who won’t want to teach mixed gender classrooms. Has anyone even asked them? They are the ones who have to teach it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why are we teaching FLE anyways? Shouldn't parents teach that stuff? Not everyone will agree on that stuff.

Because schools educate children and part of being educated is knowing about one's body and about other people's bodies as well.

Maybe they should teach them to spell instead, so many other things they can teach. Why FLE? Parents can teach that stuff.

Because many parents don't! My mom got pregnant at 15 because she did not know what sex was or how pregnancy happened! Her parents would not speak of it and it was not taught in her Catholic schools.

That part of FLE is fine. Get rid of the gender identity stuff and the other nonsense that interferes with family values.

Since when is gender identity a family value?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Are they surveying parents about the changes?

From my understanding of the post on the FCPS website they will get community input, however I am 99.99% sure that this won't matter and those changes will happen regardless.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I assume it was deleted because there was a lot of misinformation.

This is the truth. it was all clickbait lies.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There may be teachers who aren’t comfortable with the changes and who won’t want to teach mixed gender classrooms. Has anyone even asked them? They are the ones who have to teach it.

Teachers are not stakeholders. Neither are parents.

I used to think they were, but I learned otherwise during the pandemic.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why are we teaching FLE anyways? Shouldn't parents teach that stuff? Not everyone will agree on that stuff.

Because schools educate children and part of being educated is knowing about one's body and about other people's bodies as well.

Maybe they should teach them to spell instead, so many other things they can teach. Why FLE? Parents can teach that stuff.

Because many parents don't! My mom got pregnant at 15 because she did not know what sex was or how pregnancy happened! Her parents would not speak of it and it was not taught in her Catholic schools.

The existing sex ed is very comprehensive, factual and addressed all these things in a clinical, biological and mostly age appropriate manner. In my opinion, some of the topics were taught earlier than I would choose, and some were taught later than I would prefer, but most were fine.

These proposed changes are unnecessary and not based on biological accuracy or known standards of child development. They are political changes. The FLE curriculum is already VERY comprehensive. There is no need to make these changes, except to appease special interest groups that are mostly not parents of school aged childrren.

That is where I an many parents have issues.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I assume it was deleted because there was a lot of misinformation.

This is the truth. it was all clickbait lies.

That's not even what clickbait means. Smh

[Anonymous]

Please everyone, contact your school board members and tell them you disagree with the proposed changes. We cannot allow this to happen!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I assume it was deleted because there was a lot of misinformation.

This is the truth. it was all clickbait lies.

It was mostly the exact text of the proposed changes, plus links to the actual FCPS announcement and proposals.

The last post I saw was someone complaining that this information was shared by fcps 2 weeks before the election. Perhaps someone from the politics forum got the thread shut down over possibilityof it becoming an election issue? Other than that twist, most of it was fairly tame factual discussion between actual fcps parents with kids in school.