Health Education Unit: Family Life and Human Sexuality

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Anonymous wrote:Just know that the 7th grade FLHS curriculum is new this year (at least at DCs school), so educate yourself on the updated standards and decide whether this is appropriate for your student.

As part of your decision, ask yourself whether you prefer for your student to hear the information directly from the teacher, or second-hand from other students.

Or... directly from the parent. I share age appropriate information directly with my kids. I provide books for additional reading that are in line with my values. This is not the responsibility of unrelated strangers/adults to discuss sex with my minor child.

That's great. However, in addition, they will also hear information second-hand from other middle-schoolers. If you prefer for them to hear the information second-hand from other middle-schoolers, rather than directly from the teacher, that's your decision.

They are going to discuss sex with their peers regardless of whether an adult talks with them or not. So, I'll skip the teacher or unknown educator talking about it with them, coming from a place of authority rather than peer group conversations.

There are probably not a lot of people who deliberately decide it's better for their kids to learn about sex from other 7th graders (!) than from teachers, but apparently there's at least one person.

That is deliberately obtuse. I said upthread that I am teaching my child about human sexuality and reproductive health. I have zero idea the motivation or values of the person teaching the curriculum. I do not want or need an unknown adult to discuss sex with my minor child.

If my minor child discusses sex with his peers, as he surely will, he will do so on an even playing field. He will not be subjected to being in a position to disagree with an unrelated adult/authority figure. 7th graders are not able to hold their own in a critical debate with an adult and it would be an inappropriate forum to do so.

So you don’t want your child to get the information directly from the unrelated adult. However, it’s ok if they get the information second hand from their friends, who got it from the same unrelated adult?

Nope. They will get information from their parents.

As if!

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Anonymous wrote:Anyone on this thread that does not allow their child to participate in these courses is dumb closed minded and an ignorant human.

Nothing taught in these courses is bad for students.

Gender ideology is bad.

What, exactly, is gender "ideology" and how is it taught?

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Anonymous wrote:Teachers are both too incompetent to teach little Timmy how to add 2+2, but are also master indoctrinators who are going to turn little Timmy and the frogs gay.

Some teachers absolutely are. They're teaching gender ideology and CRT.

They teach CRT in health? How odd.

It is usually taught in English or history. But some schools (like our kids') teach it in study hall as well. Heck, some teachers even manage to teach it during math. So I'm sure they could teach it during health as well.

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Anonymous wrote:Anyone on this thread that does not allow their child to participate in these courses is dumb closed minded and an ignorant human.

Nothing taught in these courses is bad for students.

Gender ideology is bad.

What, exactly, is gender "ideology" and how is it taught?

It's teaching kids that, to be a good person, they have to pretend that men can become women and vice versa.

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Anonymous wrote:Anyone on this thread that does not allow their child to participate in these courses is dumb closed minded and an ignorant human.

Nothing taught in these courses is bad for students.

Gender ideology is bad.

What, exactly, is gender "ideology" and how is it taught?

It's teaching kids that, to be a good person, they have to pretend that men can become women and vice versa.

Sounds more like you have an ideology.