4-6th graders FLE all genders together and more

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Parents can opt out!!

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Anonymous wrote:Parents can opt out!!

But then OP wouldn’t have a reason to be outraged and pissed off at FCPS!

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The only difference it would make to have "all together" for FLE is questions-and-answers sessions. Less likely to ask questions. But students have never wanted to ask questions, not in front of others.

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Anonymous wrote:Why shouldn't they combine everybody? Should only girls know about stuff?

Only girls? Boys learn all of their stuff, too. Why so prejudiced?

Do boys learn about menstruation in their group?

No they learn about nocturnal emissions, semen spouts, and erections. It's so important for 10 year old girls to know about this too

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Anonymous wrote:The only difference it would make to have "all together" for FLE is questions-and-answers sessions. Less likely to ask questions. But students have never wanted to ask questions, not in front of others.

For the 100th time, all kids are given blank cards. They can write questions anonymously. Kids are all directed to write either their question OR “I don’t have a question right now.” Everyone writes something so no one feels like they are the only one writing a question. They’re collected, and the teacher goes through them before answering to the entire group.

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Anonymous wrote:Why shouldn't they combine everybody? Should only girls know about stuff?

Only girls? Boys learn all of their stuff, too. Why so prejudiced?

Do boys learn about menstruation in their group?

No they learn about nocturnal emissions, semen spouts, and erections. It's so important for 10 year old girls to know about this too

4th grade is just their gender. After that it’s learning about both genders. I think to be together from 7-12th is fine, but let’s start the whole process separate. it is embarassing for kids.

And I actually get PP point about kids not totally understanding gender identity at that age and wanting to transition so they don’t have to deal with periods. If a child is trans at 10 and they are totally sure of it that’s between them and their family. No need to confuse the concept so young.

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Anonymous wrote:Why shouldn't they combine everybody? Should only girls know about stuff?

Only girls? Boys learn all of their stuff, too. Why so prejudiced?

Do boys learn about menstruation in their group?

No they learn about nocturnal emissions, semen spouts, and erections. It's so important for 10 year old girls to know about this too

Why not? What’s the problem with human biology? Your prudishness isn’t a good look.

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^ they should know! Girls have brothers ... eventually boyfriends ... eventually husbands. Of course they should know!!

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Anonymous wrote:^ they should know! Girls have brothers ... eventually boyfriends ... eventually husbands. Of course they should know!!

They should know about it. I’m just not sure if they need to know about it when they are 9 in 4th grade … 6th grade, maybe.

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Anonymous wrote:^ they should know! Girls have brothers ... eventually boyfriends ... eventually husbands. Of course they should know!!

They should know about it. I’m just not sure if they need to know about it when they are 9 in 4th grade … 6th grade, maybe.

What makes you say this is the content of Grade 4 Family Life Education?

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Anonymous wrote:^ they should know! Girls have brothers ... eventually boyfriends ... eventually husbands. Of course they should know!!

They should know about it. I’m just not sure if they need to know about it when they are 9 in 4th grade … 6th grade, maybe.

Why? What is wrong with a 10 year old girl knowing that a normal part of physical development in a male during puberty is that he will get an erection? Please tell what the issue is? I’m genuinely curious.

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Anonymous wrote:Why shouldn't they combine everybody? Should only girls know about stuff?

+1

We were never separated out back in the 80s.

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Same here...and I was embarrassed to ask a question about period blood in front of other girls, there would be no way I'd have the courage to ask (or even write it down) a TMI question in front of boys.

But they can at least teach basics. Overall this is going to make people a *lot* more knowledgeable.

Can't they teach the "basics" in separated genders? That way, specific questions and details pertaining to gender can be discussed.

No questions are asked spontaneously. All questions are written down and vetted first by the teacher. You won’t have a girl embarrassed to ask a question in front of classmates about her period because won’t happen. There’s no reason to separate by gender. As another PP noted, you don’t separate for any other subjects.

They have the option to write them down, plenty ask in front of their peers by raising their hand.

Not in the FCPS elementary school where I teach. I’ve been teaching FLE for over 10 years at 5th and 6th grade. We teach the kids to write down their questions. It’s not that difficult. If a kid raises their hand, I simply don’t answer. I say, “I see your hand is up. You can write down your question and we’ll review them.”

I also have been teaching FLE for over 10 years, some write down their questions and some ask. Either way is accepted. It’s not that difficult.

Correct. And if boys and girls are combined, no one will raise their hand anymore or feel safe. This is outrageous.

What’s outrageous is your faux outrage and lack of basic comprehension skills. ALL STUDENTS CAN WRITE THEIR QUESTIONS ANONYMOUSLY. No one is stopping anyone from asking anything. All the kids are given blank notecards. They write questions. The cards are collected. Questions get answered. No one knows whether a boy or girl asked it.

Don't have kids, do you?

This is about pushing scientifically in orrect rans advocacy and indoctrination on impressionable children.

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Anonymous wrote:The only reason I can think to separate the genders for Sex Ed is because you think the kids might be less embarrassed to ask questions in a single-sex environment; since in my misty memories they’re generally too embarrassed too many questions anyway.

It also avoids liability problems. You won’t need to worry about separating kids by sex and getting a girl in a boys group or a non-binary kid in a girls group.

FCPS does not need to spend money hiring biologists to determine which are the girls so that they can be properly assigned.

This is just more efficient.

This is so ridiulous.

If there is not such thing as gender, or if gender is "separate from biological sex" then there is ZERO reason to combing kids for biologically specific sex ed training.

The kids "gender" identity should not matter one iota for sex ed. It should be biologically divided only, based off your genetic chromosones.

If a kid is medically being pumped with hormones or transitioning, they have explicitly specific medical needs as it relates to puberty, and should only have this training in a medical setting with a doctor familiar with their unique medical and psychological needs, NOT in a 4th or 5th grade classroom by a teacher who is not a trained medical or mental health specialist.

Either biological sex is separate for gender, or it is not.

Trans advocates, you cannot have it both ways.

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Anonymous wrote:Parents can opt out!!

This should be opt in only

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Anonymous wrote:Why shouldn't they combine everybody? Should only girls know about stuff?

Only girls? Boys learn all of their stuff, too. Why so prejudiced?

Do boys learn about menstruation in their group?

No they learn about nocturnal emissions, semen spouts, and erections. It's so important for 10 year old girls to know about this too

Why not? What’s the problem with human biology? Your prudishness isn’t a good look.

This new policy ignores biology and scientific facts about chromosones and the differences between males and females.