4-6th graders FLE all genders together and more

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Anonymous wrote:Thank you, teachers, for your reasonable input. I hope you will contact the board and that maybe they will listen to you.

And other people please read and stop yelling that everyone should learn about both genders. They do from fifth grade on up. And they are together in the older grades as well. We’re really just talking about the 4th/5th timeline for them to be separated. In 4th, when they are 9 years old, it’s their first lesson and they learn only about their gender separately. In fifth it’s still separate but they learn about both genders.

Wait.

Are you saying that in addition to being separated by gender in the classroom (unnecessarily) that they should learn DIFFERENT material?

WTF? That is so backwards.

No that’s not what this poster said at all. Are you stupid or something?

That is exactly what PP said.

“stop yelling that everyone should learn about both genders”

“In 4th, when they are 9 years old, it’s their first lesson and they learn only about their gender separately.”

NO. I am tired of everyone posting without actually reading. Let me type this super slow:
Stop yelling about them needing to learn about both genders….because they already do learn about both genders. They only don’t learn about both genders in 4th grade, when they are 9, and it’s their very first FLE lesson.

If you actually knew the FLE curriculum you would know this and it would be clear what I meant.

Except that’s not what you said.

It’s ridiculous for them to have two different lessons.

This was overly complicated. Glad they are simplifying.

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Anonymous wrote:Thank you, teachers, for your reasonable input. I hope you will contact the board and that maybe they will listen to you.

And other people please read and stop yelling that everyone should learn about both genders. They do from fifth grade on up. And they are together in the older grades as well. We’re really just talking about the 4th/5th timeline for them to be separated. In 4th, when they are 9 years old, it’s their first lesson and they learn only about their gender separately. In fifth it’s still separate but they learn about both genders.

Wait.

Are you saying that in addition to being separated by gender in the classroom (unnecessarily) that they should learn DIFFERENT material?

WTF? That is so backwards.

No that’s not what this poster said at all. Are you stupid or something?

That is exactly what PP said.

“stop yelling that everyone should learn about both genders”

“In 4th, when they are 9 years old, it’s their first lesson and they learn only about their gender separately.”

NO. I am tired of everyone posting without actually reading. Let me type this super slow:
Stop yelling about them needing to learn about both genders….because they already do learn about both genders. They only don’t learn about both genders in 4th grade, when they are 9, and it’s their very first FLE lesson.

If you actually knew the FLE curriculum you would know this and it would be clear what I meant.

Except that’s not what you said.

It’s ridiculous for them to have two different lessons.

This was overly complicated. Glad they are simplifying.

OK, but it seems logical that while female students should learn a bit about male student anatomy and male students should learn a bit about female anatomy, especially at these early ages, they should spend most of their time learning some practical things about themselves. Combining the two groups means that either you shortchange or you increase the time allotted, leaving less room in the schedule for everything else.

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Anonymous wrote:Thank you, teachers, for your reasonable input. I hope you will contact the board and that maybe they will listen to you.

And other people please read and stop yelling that everyone should learn about both genders. They do from fifth grade on up. And they are together in the older grades as well. We’re really just talking about the 4th/5th timeline for them to be separated. In 4th, when they are 9 years old, it’s their first lesson and they learn only about their gender separately. In fifth it’s still separate but they learn about both genders.

Wait.

Are you saying that in addition to being separated by gender in the classroom (unnecessarily) that they should learn DIFFERENT material?

WTF? That is so backwards.

No that’s not what this poster said at all. Are you stupid or something?

That is exactly what PP said.

“stop yelling that everyone should learn about both genders”

“In 4th, when they are 9 years old, it’s their first lesson and they learn only about their gender separately.”

NO. I am tired of everyone posting without actually reading. Let me type this super slow:
Stop yelling about them needing to learn about both genders….because they already do learn about both genders. They only don’t learn about both genders in 4th grade, when they are 9, and it’s their very first FLE lesson.

If you actually knew the FLE curriculum you would know this and it would be clear what I meant.

Except that’s not what you said.

It’s ridiculous for them to have two different lessons.

This was overly complicated. Glad they are simplifying.

OK, but it seems logical that while female students should learn a bit about male student anatomy and male students should learn a bit about female anatomy, especially at these early ages, they should spend most of their time learning some practical things about themselves. Combining the two groups means that either you shortchange or you increase the time allotted, leaving less room in the schedule for everything else.

Wrong. They shouldn’t just learn “a bit”.

WTf is wrong with you?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Thank you, teachers, for your reasonable input. I hope you will contact the board and that maybe they will listen to you.

And other people please read and stop yelling that everyone should learn about both genders. They do from fifth grade on up. And they are together in the older grades as well. We’re really just talking about the 4th/5th timeline for them to be separated. In 4th, when they are 9 years old, it’s their first lesson and they learn only about their gender separately. In fifth it’s still separate but they learn about both genders.

Wait.

Are you saying that in addition to being separated by gender in the classroom (unnecessarily) that they should learn DIFFERENT material?

WTF? That is so backwards.

No that’s not what this poster said at all. Are you stupid or something?

That is exactly what PP said.

“stop yelling that everyone should learn about both genders”

“In 4th, when they are 9 years old, it’s their first lesson and they learn only about their gender separately.”

NO. I am tired of everyone posting without actually reading. Let me type this super slow:
Stop yelling about them needing to learn about both genders….because they already do learn about both genders. They only don’t learn about both genders in 4th grade, when they are 9, and it’s their very first FLE lesson.

If you actually knew the FLE curriculum you would know this and it would be clear what I meant.

Except that’s not what you said.

It’s ridiculous for them to have two different lessons.

This was overly complicated. Glad they are simplifying.

OK, but it seems logical that while female students should learn a bit about male student anatomy and male students should learn a bit about female anatomy, especially at these early ages, they should spend most of their time learning some practical things about themselves. Combining the two groups means that either you shortchange or you increase the time allotted, leaving less room in the schedule for everything else.

Wrong. They shouldn’t just learn “a bit”.

WTf is wrong with you?

The problem with me is that I live in a world where time and attention are limited resources. Boys really don't need to learn all the details of the female reproductive system the same way that girls don't need to learn all about the male reproductive system. A girl, unless she's one with a penis, does not need a full forty-five minutes learning how to check her balls for testicular cancer. A boy, unless she has a uterus, does not need to spend an entire class period on the pros and cons of tampons vs menstrual cups.

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Anonymous wrote:Following the FCPS School Board meeting last week, and based on the personal testimony of some of its members, it’s clear that they are personally invested in gender indoctrination. For this reason, it is comforting to see teachers posting here that, unlike their activist colleagues, they are not comfortable with the proposed changes affecting our kids. Thank you for speaking up!

FCPS needs to fully disclose to its constituents what consulting businesses or any other third parties are involved in this new approach to teaching sex education through the FLE lessons seeking to involve younger students and contemplating no longer separating them by sex when covering explicit contents.

And, are these third parties profiting in any way from indoctrinating our kids on gender confusion? Also, why is it that FCPS, no longer content with having already fully integrated their radical agenda in all areas of learning, now aims to have the FLE lessons/ Sex Ed to be taught to much younger students without separating them in two groups to address developmental changes according to their respective sex? Last, are these new lessons expected to be taught by teachers or by third parties?

For full transparency, this disclosure needs to be sent to each FCPS family via email and by regular mail, translated in all languages represented in the schools, and with a detailed lesson contents per grade for parents to decide if they want their kids to participate. If they do, then they should be asked to fill out forms to Opt-In, exactly the same way we do for field trips because school staff ensures students have signed consent from a parent or guardian before participating. Unfortunately, Opt-out forms are not collected nor followed through with the same level of efficiency. It is for this reason that Opt-Out forms for FLE lessons and Sex Ed are not the best way to go about it since they are not inclusive of those families where English is not fully understood by the parents who need to consent their kids’ participation, or are rather deceiving in that they don’t represent those families that have no access to the internet. Unfortunately, kids from these families are the most affected by the gender activism at schools without the knowledge or consent of their parents or guardians.

Proactive steps to ensure parental knowledge and consent will save taxpayers a fortune, which otherwise will go to continue enriching law firms hired to defend the activists at the school board from being rightly sued. Most importantly, they will protect students by treating them with the dignity and respect they - and their families - deserve.

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.

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.

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!

The parents absolutely do know what its like but their need to push an agenda overrides common sense. They keep going around and around repeating the same nonsense talking points despite actual FLE teachers providing their perspective.

It is not parents pushing this nonsense.

It is outside political activists withough childre , and pur extrwmely political left leaning school board who sees your kids as political pawns for blue Virginia twitter points.

None of this is parent driven and none of this is about the kids.

If you gave read this thread there have been many parents supporting this change.

It’s not something I feel passionately about and I wouldn’t push for it but I support this change. Seems like a better approach. And is how we did it back in the 80s (not FCPS).

If teachers are having issues with classroom management in general then maybe FCPS should invest in more teacher training.

Haha! More teacher bashing. More training is not going to help kids not control their giggles of a diagram of a penis. Again, maybe FCPS should require parents come in and teach this.

So the big issue is …. giggling?

Umm, do you have kids? Girls? Or boys? Or were you ever a kid?

So the big uproar is over giggling. Got it.

I have had lots of tears and two kids faint during a FLE lesson. There is some giggling, but not much.

FAINT? WTAF are you teaching?

Lol. The fainting incidences occurred a few years apart! BUT, they both happened during the menstruation talk.

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Anonymous wrote:Following the FCPS School Board meeting last week, and based on the personal testimony of some of its members, it’s clear that they are personally invested in gender indoctrination. For this reason, it is comforting to see teachers posting here that, unlike their activist colleagues, they are not comfortable with the proposed changes affecting our kids. Thank you for speaking up!

FCPS needs to fully disclose to its constituents what consulting businesses or any other third parties are involved in this new approach to teaching sex education through the FLE lessons seeking to involve younger students and contemplating no longer separating them by sex when covering explicit contents.

And, are these third parties profiting in any way from indoctrinating our kids on gender confusion? Also, why is it that FCPS, no longer content with having already fully integrated their radical agenda in all areas of learning, now aims to have the FLE lessons/ Sex Ed to be taught to much younger students without separating them in two groups to address developmental changes according to their respective sex? Last, are these new lessons expected to be taught by teachers or by third parties?

For full transparency, this disclosure needs to be sent to each FCPS family via email and by regular mail, translated in all languages represented in the schools, and with a detailed lesson contents per grade for parents to decide if they want their kids to participate. If they do, then they should be asked to fill out forms to Opt-In, exactly the same way we do for field trips because school staff ensures students have signed consent from a parent or guardian before participating. Unfortunately, Opt-out forms are not collected nor followed through with the same level of efficiency. It is for this reason that Opt-Out forms for FLE lessons and Sex Ed are not the best way to go about it since they are not inclusive of those families where English is not fully understood by the parents who need to consent their kids’ participation, or are rather deceiving in that they don’t represent those families that have no access to the internet. Unfortunately, kids from these families are the most affected by the gender activism at schools without the knowledge or consent of their parents or guardians.

Proactive steps to ensure parental knowledge and consent will save taxpayers a fortune, which otherwise will go to continue enriching law firms hired to defend the activists at the school board from being rightly sued. Most importantly, they will protect students by treating them with the dignity and respect they - and their families - deserve.

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.

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.

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!

The parents absolutely do know what its like but their need to push an agenda overrides common sense. They keep going around and around repeating the same nonsense talking points despite actual FLE teachers providing their perspective.

It is not parents pushing this nonsense.

It is outside political activists withough childre , and pur extrwmely political left leaning school board who sees your kids as political pawns for blue Virginia twitter points.

None of this is parent driven and none of this is about the kids.

If you gave read this thread there have been many parents supporting this change.

It’s not something I feel passionately about and I wouldn’t push for it but I support this change. Seems like a better approach. And is how we did it back in the 80s (not FCPS).

If teachers are having issues with classroom management in general then maybe FCPS should invest in more teacher training.

Haha! More teacher bashing. More training is not going to help kids not control their giggles of a diagram of a penis. Again, maybe FCPS should require parents come in and teach this.

So the big issue is …. giggling?

Umm, do you have kids? Girls? Or boys? Or were you ever a kid?

So the big uproar is over giggling. Got it.

I have had lots of tears and two kids faint during a FLE lesson. There is some giggling, but not much.

FAINT? WTAF are you teaching?

Lol. The fainting incidences occurred a few years apart! BUT, they both happened during the menstruation talk.

And let's be honest. Those girls weren't wrong.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Thank you, teachers, for your reasonable input. I hope you will contact the board and that maybe they will listen to you.

And other people please read and stop yelling that everyone should learn about both genders. They do from fifth grade on up. And they are together in the older grades as well. We’re really just talking about the 4th/5th timeline for them to be separated. In 4th, when they are 9 years old, it’s their first lesson and they learn only about their gender separately. In fifth it’s still separate but they learn about both genders.

Wait.

Are you saying that in addition to being separated by gender in the classroom (unnecessarily) that they should learn DIFFERENT material?

WTF? That is so backwards.

No that’s not what this poster said at all. Are you stupid or something?

That is exactly what PP said.

“stop yelling that everyone should learn about both genders”

“In 4th, when they are 9 years old, it’s their first lesson and they learn only about their gender separately.”

NO. I am tired of everyone posting without actually reading. Let me type this super slow:
Stop yelling about them needing to learn about both genders….because they already do learn about both genders. They only don’t learn about both genders in 4th grade, when they are 9, and it’s their very first FLE lesson.

If you actually knew the FLE curriculum you would know this and it would be clear what I meant.

Except that’s not what you said.

It’s ridiculous for them to have two different lessons.

This was overly complicated. Glad they are simplifying.

OK, but it seems logical that while female students should learn a bit about male student anatomy and male students should learn a bit about female anatomy, especially at these early ages, they should spend most of their time learning some practical things about themselves. Combining the two groups means that either you shortchange or you increase the time allotted, leaving less room in the schedule for everything else.

Wrong. They shouldn’t just learn “a bit”.

WTf is wrong with you?

The problem with me is that I live in a world where time and attention are limited resources. Boys really don't need to learn all the details of the female reproductive system the same way that girls don't need to learn all about the male reproductive system. A girl, unless she's one with a penis, does not need a full forty-five minutes learning how to check her balls for testicular cancer. A boy, unless she has a uterus, does not need to spend an entire class period on the pros and cons of tampons vs menstrual cups.

Exactly, and like another PP said, this time is taken from other instructional time. So at MINIMUM 5 hours taken from science and social studies - 2 subjects that are already short changed.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Thank you, teachers, for your reasonable input. I hope you will contact the board and that maybe they will listen to you.

And other people please read and stop yelling that everyone should learn about both genders. They do from fifth grade on up. And they are together in the older grades as well. We’re really just talking about the 4th/5th timeline for them to be separated. In 4th, when they are 9 years old, it’s their first lesson and they learn only about their gender separately. In fifth it’s still separate but they learn about both genders.

Wait.

Are you saying that in addition to being separated by gender in the classroom (unnecessarily) that they should learn DIFFERENT material?

WTF? That is so backwards.

No that’s not what this poster said at all. Are you stupid or something?

That is exactly what PP said.

“stop yelling that everyone should learn about both genders”

“In 4th, when they are 9 years old, it’s their first lesson and they learn only about their gender separately.”

NO. I am tired of everyone posting without actually reading. Let me type this super slow:
Stop yelling about them needing to learn about both genders….because they already do learn about both genders. They only don’t learn about both genders in 4th grade, when they are 9, and it’s their very first FLE lesson.

If you actually knew the FLE curriculum you would know this and it would be clear what I meant.

Except that’s not what you said.

It’s ridiculous for them to have two different lessons.

This was overly complicated. Glad they are simplifying.

Yes, it’s exactly what PP had said. Still stupid.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Thank you, teachers, for your reasonable input. I hope you will contact the board and that maybe they will listen to you.

And other people please read and stop yelling that everyone should learn about both genders. They do from fifth grade on up. And they are together in the older grades as well. We’re really just talking about the 4th/5th timeline for them to be separated. In 4th, when they are 9 years old, it’s their first lesson and they learn only about their gender separately. In fifth it’s still separate but they learn about both genders.

Wait.

Are you saying that in addition to being separated by gender in the classroom (unnecessarily) that they should learn DIFFERENT material?

WTF? That is so backwards.

No that’s not what this poster said at all. Are you stupid or something?

That is exactly what PP said.

“stop yelling that everyone should learn about both genders”

“In 4th, when they are 9 years old, it’s their first lesson and they learn only about their gender separately.”

NO. I am tired of everyone posting without actually reading. Let me type this super slow:
Stop yelling about them needing to learn about both genders….because they already do learn about both genders. They only don’t learn about both genders in 4th grade, when they are 9, and it’s their very first FLE lesson.

If you actually knew the FLE curriculum you would know this and it would be clear what I meant.

Except that’s not what you said.

It’s ridiculous for them to have two different lessons.

This was overly complicated. Glad they are simplifying.

Yes, it’s exactly what PP had said. Still stupid.

No, it’s not. We can see what she wrote. Just scroll up.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Thank you, teachers, for your reasonable input. I hope you will contact the board and that maybe they will listen to you.

And other people please read and stop yelling that everyone should learn about both genders. They do from fifth grade on up. And they are together in the older grades as well. We’re really just talking about the 4th/5th timeline for them to be separated. In 4th, when they are 9 years old, it’s their first lesson and they learn only about their gender separately. In fifth it’s still separate but they learn about both genders.

Wait.

Are you saying that in addition to being separated by gender in the classroom (unnecessarily) that they should learn DIFFERENT material?

WTF? That is so backwards.

No that’s not what this poster said at all. Are you stupid or something?

That is exactly what PP said.

“stop yelling that everyone should learn about both genders”

“In 4th, when they are 9 years old, it’s their first lesson and they learn only about their gender separately.”

NO. I am tired of everyone posting without actually reading. Let me type this super slow:
Stop yelling about them needing to learn about both genders….because they already do learn about both genders. They only don’t learn about both genders in 4th grade, when they are 9, and it’s their very first FLE lesson.

If you actually knew the FLE curriculum you would know this and it would be clear what I meant.

Except that’s not what you said.

It’s ridiculous for them to have two different lessons.

This was overly complicated. Glad they are simplifying.

Yes, it’s exactly what PP had said. Still stupid.

No, it’s not. We can see what she wrote. Just scroll up.

PP said they learn about both genders in 5th and up.

[Anonymous]

FLE used to start in 5th grade. Now it starts in 4th. The 4th grade lessons are strictly related to one sex though. But in 5th they do learn about both genders. That’s exactly what PP said. It’s not they they never learn about both genders, it just starts in 5th. She was saying stop yelling about learning about how genders bc they actually do.

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Anonymous wrote:Thank you, teachers, for your reasonable input. I hope you will contact the board and that maybe they will listen to you.

And other people please read and stop yelling that everyone should learn about both genders. They do from fifth grade on up. And they are together in the older grades as well. We’re really just talking about the 4th/5th timeline for them to be separated. In 4th, when they are 9 years old, it’s their first lesson and they learn only about their gender separately. In fifth it’s still separate but they learn about both genders.

Wait.

Are you saying that in addition to being separated by gender in the classroom (unnecessarily) that they should learn DIFFERENT material?

WTF? That is so backwards.

No that’s not what this poster said at all. Are you stupid or something?

That is exactly what PP said.

“stop yelling that everyone should learn about both genders”

“In 4th, when they are 9 years old, it’s their first lesson and they learn only about their gender separately.”

You forgot to read the next part which says….because they do. There is no need to yell that they aren’t doing that because they do. How is that not clear?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Thank you, teachers, for your reasonable input. I hope you will contact the board and that maybe they will listen to you.

And other people please read and stop yelling that everyone should learn about both genders. They do from fifth grade on up. And they are together in the older grades as well. We’re really just talking about the 4th/5th timeline for them to be separated. In 4th, when they are 9 years old, it’s their first lesson and they learn only about their gender separately. In fifth it’s still separate but they learn about both genders.

Wait.

Are you saying that in addition to being separated by gender in the classroom (unnecessarily) that they should learn DIFFERENT material?

WTF? That is so backwards.

Nope that’s not what she said at all. She explained what FCPS currently does. She didn’t say what they should do. Currently in FCPS, they do learn about both genders beginning in 5th grade. That has never changed over the years. What has changed is they added two new lessons in 4th about puberty for one sex. So girls leaver about girls in 4th. Boys learn about boys in 4th.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Thank you, teachers, for your reasonable input. I hope you will contact the board and that maybe they will listen to you.

And other people please read and stop yelling that everyone should learn about both genders. They do from fifth grade on up. And they are together in the older grades as well. We’re really just talking about the 4th/5th timeline for them to be separated. In 4th, when they are 9 years old, it’s their first lesson and they learn only about their gender separately. In fifth it’s still separate but they learn about both genders.

Wait.

Are you saying that in addition to being separated by gender in the classroom (unnecessarily) that they should learn DIFFERENT material?

WTF? That is so backwards.

Nope that’s not what she said at all. She explained what FCPS currently does. She didn’t say what they should do. Currently in FCPS, they do learn about both genders beginning in 5th grade. That has never changed over the years. What has changed is they added two new lessons in 4th about puberty for one sex. So girls leaver about girls in 4th. Boys learn about boys in 4th.

Since puberty is starting earlier for all kids except those taking puberty blockers, this makes sense.

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What's really horrifying is that some kids don't learn about this at home, from a parent/caretaker. I get that we need it taught in schools because it's basic info everyone truly needs to know, but when we talk about more or less instructional time being lost to teach about it it just hits home how much basic info some families punt to schools to teach their kids.

My kids have known about male/female anatomical differences and details of human reproduction since at least age 8. Why is this info so rarefied and secret??