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Many Americans are still afraid of talking about sex. The comments in this thread are proof of that. They'd rather have their children learn nothing about sexuality.
As for teaching kids on their own? That's like saying parents should teach their kids algebra.
At the very least, school libraries should have age-appropriate human sexuality books available for the kids who are interested.
Do you think a private school will insulate them from the world around them? What happens when they finish school?
By the way I'm male and went to both private and public high schools, and by far the randiest girls were in the private schools....Why do you suppose that was?
^^^^^ Why am I hearing Billy Joel singing the song 'Only the Good Die Young' in my head ?
No one has taken a second to consider the suicide rates among LGB youth as a factor for this education. Suicide is actually the 2nd highest cause of death for children ages 10-24. LGB youth are three times more likely to commit suicide.
Someone up thread also stated it's only .02% of the population that identify as LGBTQ. This stat is wrong, as it is nearly 4% of the population. The age bracket of people born between 1980 and 1998 is much higher at 7.3%.
I don't see anything at all wrong with teaching 6th grade children the meaning of these words. Many a life could be saved by a child being able to put the proper word to what they or their friends are feeling and knowing there are other people just like them in the world.
Btw...my child was in the 5th grade when she taught me and her older sister (21 yrs old), the different pronouns various gender identities may prefer to be called, and the definitions of all those vocab words. Her school did not have a class on it.
Oh please. This is just another indoctrinated liberalism version of school curriculum designed to confuse the youth about a self identity issue that shouldn't even exist at this age.
If being sexually educated means "liberalism" than I'm all for it.
At what age do you consider age appropriate to discuss these issues? At the age of 12 I was in a sex ed class learning about STD's (trust me after watching some of those slides about STD's sex was a turn off!), human sexual anatomy and drawing penises and vaginas in a biological sense and my science teachers were even nice enough to include a discussion of emotions when sexually interacting with another human being!
Kids pretty much know their sexual identity at a early age but puritanical society surpresses those thoughts.
It's funny how the largest teen pregnancy rates in the US are all in conservative states.
By the way sexual identity doesn't mean sexual preference.
Last edited by Bobdreamz; 10-11-2017 at 03:54 AM..
If being sexually educated means "liberalism" than I'm all for it.
At what age do you consider age appropriate to discuss these issues? At the age of 12 I was in a sex ed class learning about STD's (trust me after watching some of those slides about STD's sex was a turn off!), human sexual anatomy and drawing penises and vaginas in a biological sense and my science teachers were even nice enough to include a discussion of emotions when sexually interacting with another human being!
Kids pretty much know their sexual identity at a early age but puritanical society surpresses those thoughts. It's funny how the largest teen pregnancy rates in the US are all in conservative states.
You got stats to back that up? I also want to know the cities that have the highest rate of teenage pregnancy. I bet that has a lot to do with it.
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