+1 This exactly. Bravo. |
Yes we were. You are a liar. I went to FCPS schools from K-12. I was born in 1978. Elementary girls have always been separated from the boys in FCPS for these lessons. |
Dcps has elementary kids learn about sex and stds. If you can, go onto SIS and read the curriculum, now, an in the fall when fcps updates it. Enlighten yourself about what your kids are being taught. Watch school board meetings. They post the meetings and docs online afterwards. It is important to be informed about what is happening on a dstrict level, not just school level. This is true whether you are liberal or conservative. |
What’s gender indoctrination? Is it kind of how some parents do gender reveals and immediately put their fetus into gendered roles? Is it how parents buy their boy babies clothes in primary colors with tricks and dinosaurs and their girl babies clothing with flowers and ruffles and muted colors? |
No, gender indoctrination is teaching kids that men can become women and women can become men. It erases basic biology. |
Gender isn’t related to biology, it is a social construct dork. Only sex is related to biology and for that matter, there are people born with both male and female reproductive parts, so it isn’t a binary. For real: some of you need FLE. |
No matter how many times activists repeat this trope, it still is an untruth. |
You just made an argument for keeping hoys and girls seprate for FLE, and limiting GLE to anatomical truths of boys and girls, not political and social whims of a genderless and gender fluid society. FLE is supposed to be the science of human development, which is indeed boy specific and girl specific, male and female only. |
Thos people are a genetic anomaly and exceptionally rare. The odds of there being a child suffering from having overlapping male and female body parts in your kids classes are almost nonexistent. |
Different poster, I also had coed sex ed classes, similar to what they are doing in FLE, starting in 5th grade. In the mid 1980's in a relatively rural/conservative part of Pennsylvania. I remember one single time they separated boys and girls for a few minutes so that kids could feel more comfortable asking questions (which absolutely no one did). There was more detailed/mature sex ed content in MS and HS. I have 2 boys, one of whom had FLE this year, and am fine with the kids being together. |
“Suffering” is a very interesting word choice you used there |
Your children do not exist in isolation of the other sex and how their bodies develop and the societal implications of both sexes development, interaction, and relationships. No, they really don’t need to be separate. That’s like saying science classes should be separated by sex or race or whatever other identifier. Nonsensical. |
For all the parents saying ES students do not beed to be separated- please feel free to teach FLE to my 26 10 year olds who cannot handle a kiss in a read aloud book. Parents gave NO idea what it is like! |
What percentage and should we also start pretending that other things that happen with the same frequency are the norm? |
Nobody ever said it was the norm. It isn’t. But it shows that SEX isn’t binary and GENDER isn’t always SEX. |