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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you look at the assignments/slides the school has with this book, there is a whole glossary of terms. How is my prepubescent little boy supposed to discern whether he is asexual (absent sexual feelings) or just a prepubescent child who is not developmentally at the point to feel those feelings yet? I am finding this to be unnecessarily confusing. [/quote]

Agree.  Again, not all kids develop at the same rate.

Also, none of this is necessary for the school to be discussing with our 11 year olds.  [/quote]

Because you want to free to tell them at home that cis-het is the only acceptable way, and don’t want them to ever get a different message.[/quote]

Well that's not true in our household. We are accepting and I am politically liberal, FYI. I just think a lot of what a child learns should be up to the parents to teach, not the school. I have had my kids come home telling me things from "Health" that I absolutely DO NOT agree with, regarding relationships and other things that are frankly none of the school's business to be teaching them. One teacher told my 5th grader a story about how she met and married her DH and I was like, OMG, don't ever do that, there are SO many red flags here!! Why would a teacher be informing MY child about how to date and marry? So ridiculous.[/quote]

Telling a story is hardly telling a student HOW to date and marry. You might be politically liberal, but you are living your actual life as super conservative person. [/quote]

Yeah, no. When a teacher tells a story, the kids listen and think it's a learning experience. Teachers are role models. PSA: Please don't teach your kids to marry the guy who cuts you off from your family and starts pointing out all of your best friend's flaws so that you dump your best friend and marry the only person left in your life.[/quote]

Wow, you're truly underestimating kids then. Not one kid I know thinks a story is a how-to lesson. They understand someone else telling them about their life experience. If a teacher tells my student that they went to Europe for the summer, my kid doesnt come home and say "Ms./Mr. said we have to go to Europe this summer." Just admit to yourself that you're not as liberal as you think you are. [/quote]

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