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| Teacher here. You all know children talk to each other, right? By 2nd recess, all the boys and girls knew what had been covered in FLE that day, even the ones who opted out. |
You are doing your son a great disservice by not teaching him how a female body works (regardless of whether that individual identifies as female or male). |
Yes, but they didn't go home and talk about it with their parents. Which is the real reason parents opt their kids out of FLE. |
Ding ding ding!!!! |
+100 |
Your DS's best friend is a not particularly feminine girl. Big Effing deal. No reason for her to announce this with an "I'm so unique and special" pronoun. |
| This is obvi a troll. |
1) Use the terms. Happily. It’s good to normalize this sort of language. 2) Yes. And that’s a wonderful thing. It is important that we teach our children these things. Why do you think it’s a problem? 3) Give your children some credit. They aren’t confused. You are. |
If you have heard what some men believe about women's bodies, you would want them to learn about anatomy and menstrual cycles. |
Not PP you are responding to, but I assume that the curriculum is the same that it always was, which I don't object to. What I don't trust however, is that some idealistic, fresh out of college teacher will be able to resist the urge to not bring in LGBTQ topics which I would rather discuss with my child myself. |
fifty |
The Board has not yet voted on the recommendations by the FLE Committee--which, if you haven't checked, has several activists on it--including one trans person and one trans parent. Not to mention, a very vocal and active Progressive who regularly speaks at the meetings. In addition, there is another who is sponsor of the LGBT student organization at his school, in addition to being a union activist. There are not that many people on this committee and that is four of them that I could find information by googling. That does not indicate a representative group of families to me. |
Can you please say a little more about why it’s GOOD to normalize a wildly misleading description of one of the most fundamental aspects of human biology? |
Those who oppose this language are using the same words that have been used for centuries to discriminate against people who are not like them. At various times being black, being native, being gay, being disabled, being Jewish, being intellectually challenged, even being left handed was against the laws of nature. Now we're drawing the line at being non-binary. Why? These people exist, and your children will have to live with them. Education is meant to open minds and hearts, not build walls to understanding. Let your children learn about the world as it is, and let them decide what is fundamental. |
What makes you think parents don’t already talk to their kids even earlier than in fifth grade about feminine hygiene, human growth and reproduction, peer pressure, abstinence, substance abuse, pornography, etc.? Not everyone outsources this part of their kids’ education to FCPS. Some parents begin these conversations with their children when the need arises, or at the age they consider appropriate for each child. These topics are not foreign to moms to address with their girls, or dads with their boys. In the absence of either, parents rely on a trusted adult to address it with their kids, - in many cases their pediatrician. These conversations revolve around factual and need-to-know information that doesn’t need to be consulted with other parents nor seek anyone’s approval. Students who choose to opt-out from the FLE lessons at school deserve the same amount of respect and consideration on the part of the school staff and the rest of the community. The denigrating and derogatory adjectives used in this thread to refer to students who are opted-out, and towards their families, are reflective of the intolerance and lack of inclusivity towards those who dare to think differently by those who identify with the virtual signaling mob. |