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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why shouldn't they combine everybody? Should only girls know about stuff?[/quote]

We were never separated out back in the 80s. [/quote]
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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.[/quote]

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

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

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. [/quote]

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

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.” [/quote]

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.[/quote]

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

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. [/quote]

Faux outrage is correct.

I thought FCPS was an educated area. What is with all of these ass-backwards parents and teachers? Are they even from FCPS? Might be outside agitators trying to stir up trouble. 
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No, not everyone is post-gender like you. Most of us are modest and are embarrassed by embarrassing things.[/quote]

All learned behaviors. Stop teaching your kids to be embarrassed.

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I’ve posted a few times earlier in this thread. This doesn’t need to be an embarrassing topic.

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Nope. My kids grew up in an household where we openly discussed. Fast forward towards the tween years and it didn’t matter. They were embarrassed and reading about puberty in a book or talking about and it suddenly happening to you is a whole different thing. They suddenly became more private and embarrassed and yes around their friends and at school they were more embarrassed and didn’t talk openly. It’s actually developmental and not something you can “parent” out of a child.[/quote]

This. I grew up in a very open household. I knew all of this stuff. But, most of these kids don’t come from households that talk openly. You can tell with the types of questions they ask. I have a lot of gripes about FLE. It takes away from instructional time for a full week. There are so many things we cannot answer, which is dumb if the county wants to do this for equity purposes. If they truly want to do this, then [b]we should be able to talk about same sex relationships, other ways to have babies(ivf,surrogacy), [/b]etc.  I get more questions about these things and we cannot answer them. I personally think it is a huge mistake combining ES grades. Most adults are not embarrassed but the kids are. If a book has any romance in it, some kids get embarrassed. It is part of life. The majority of northern VA does not do mixed for ES grades. What will end up happening is there will be a large influx of parents opting out and the schools won’t have anyone to watch them when 10 kids from each class stay to be educated on this stuff. It will be a waste of instructional time. [/quote]

Hell no.[/quote]

Why not? Apparently kids shouldn’t be embarrassed by these things based on some of the responses by parents. [/quote]

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