Maybe you should ask your children what they prefer? I asked my daughters - one that has gone through sex ed in elementary school, and one who gets it next year and both said they would feel more comfortable in a group of girls with a female instructor. My older daughter said boys were already such jerks about sex ed that it would be horrible if they had to go through it together. I trust my kids. You and the school board should, too. |
The people pushing coed sex ed don't have kids in fcps so tgeir focus is entirely a political agenda, not anything kid centric. |
| Make it 'opt-in' solves the issue. |
You are correct in that they had focus groups. Those focus groups showed that students overwhelmingly supported the idea of integrated Family Life Education. You are conflating an open-access Google Form that is incorrectly called a "survey" here with the focus groups. Your statement is true that there were focus groups. Your statement is exactly the opposite of what those focus groups found. Where is your information coming from? |
A survey is a scientific instrument that determines information about a population. There was no such thing. There was a Google Form that certain candidates for school board worked to be spammed nationally. Sure, there were some responses from within the county. Most of the responses to the open-access Google Form that you are calling a survey came from outside Fairfax County. |
From whom have you heard that this will be done at "low-income schools?" That is a truly shocking thing if it is true. |
THIS^^^^ Pilot one "opt in" coed class per school with informed consent that the parents must sign that details the topics that will be taught in the grade. Also include that the teacher will possibly be the opposite sex of the child, so gorls might be taught menstruation and nocturnal emissions from Mr. Frank the PE teacher. Then keep track of how many parents opt their kids into the coed class. I suspect the number of parents choosing coed over single sex/traditional gender will be close to zero. |
Explain how spammers allegedly accessed the student’s and staff’s accounts because their responses, which overwhelmingly opposed the proposed changes, were done through the secured laptops issued by the county, and NO ONE other than the students and staff had accessed to their devices. The fact of the matter is that your theory falls apart because students and staff comprised 2/3 of the input, proving that there was not such outside intrusion. |
As a mom to a 12yo girl I have mixed feelings about this. I too asked my daughter who similarly said the boys are jerks. In my ideal classroom and hers…the teachers would shut that BS down…but obviously parents have failed to do so and it is HARD for teachers to get boys on the whole to not mess it up for everyone. There is obviously a bigger conversation to be had here. I also have younger girls… you know who the kids I hear about are when the whole class has recess taken away? They are 100% of the time boys. No, not all boys, and that is why I believe this is a parenting issue more than a gender issue. |
Yep |
Umm... definitely a gender issue. You can have 3 boys raised by the same 2 parents (like mine) with completely different personalities, behaviors and outcomes. I have one who probably lost a few recesses in his day, one who knew how to enjoy school and hang with the "cool" kids, being social without ever getting in trouble, and one whose only complaint from the teachers was that he needed to quit sneaking books during class, as they talked about what a joy he was to have in class. All with the exact same parents. Would you like parents of boys to start shaming your parenting when one of your lovely girls transforms overnight to that 13 year old girl, completely disregarding nature's effects on gender, hormones, energy needs, learning styles, social peer pressures and centuries of socialization? |
| Again, why is the collective being made to suffer because of the few? |
| Oh boy another election year post. |
Both my kids have had coed sex ed in church. Neither had a problem with it. There were great conversations in class, and they learned a lot. Alexandria has been doing coed sex ed for years with no problems. Maybe your kids are giving you the answer you want or maybe it is the sex ed part that they don't like, not the coed part. I didn't think I'd like olives, but it turns out I do--hypitheticals are.not fact. |
You are making stuff up. The survey form was an open form on the FCPS website. Anyone and everyone could access it. And they did. Stop lying. |