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No one is instructing sexual acts. Jesus.
I don't think I was ever taught a Columbus nursery rhyme - there's such a thing? But I also don't think that Hansel and Gretel is appropriate - I mean, baking a witch to death in an OVEN? Good God...ok maybe let's also ban teaching kids that age nursery rhymes about genocidal maniacs like christopher columbus?
I never had a SexEd class in school, at any grade level. I'm learning a lot from this thread, though. If I was "in this boat," I'm sure I'm not the only one, because I like to consider myself reasonably informed!I can't remember anything sexual being broached when I was in primary school. Although, way back then, we never had any sort of sex education til we were 15, and then it was that whole euphemistic talk of rabbits and their mating habits
My parents only gave me about a one-half-hour "talk" about sex...ONCE. And, by then, I was already involved in homosex, and what they said mostly went in one ear and out via the same ear (bouncing off the brain y'know). Most of what I learned about sex, I had to learn in bits and pieces, nearly all after I was 18.Why are schools instructing about sexual acts to begin with? Isn't that the responsibility of parents?
So, in that case, why is sex education (whether at school or at home) called "the birds and the bees"?we never had any sort of sex education til we were 15, and then it was that whole euphemistic talk of rabbits and their mating habits
No one is instructing sexual acts. Jesus.
We shouldn't assume that everyone agrees as to what constitutes a 'sexual act'.
As a Florida resident, I had been holding off on contributing my thoughts until I could organize them into a nice long paragraph. But I'll just say that DeSantis and the Republican Florida Legislature have gone bat-shit crazy. They're passing bills like the Don't Say Gay bill, and the anti-woke act, which would presumably ban all versions of history that show anything other than happy smiling black slaves on the plantation. And they're pushing through things like anti-voting and anti-union organizing bills, etc.
And this morning there was an article in my local newspaper about the Florida legislature jeopardizing the academic freedom of the State University System. I'd give the link, but my experience has been that you usually hit a paywall when you try to access local newspaper articles. It seems the State of Florida got into some hot water when they tried to muzzle three professors from testifying in court that their new anti-voter bill passed last year would likely keep black and poor people from voting.
So what did the legislature do? They doubled down. Instead of trying to make sure state universities were in compliance, they passed a law requiring Florida universities to break from the accreditation association. The Federal Dept. of Education sent a letter to DeSantis, warning that funding and grants were in jeopardy. In other words, the legislature is threatening the whole State of Florida higher education system in order to make professors tow the line. If the universities lose their accreditation, money will cease, students will go elsewhere, professors and academics will avoid the state, and the whole system will unravel.
Whatever happen to kids being kids and having fun and learning in school? I think kindergarten to third grade is too young for kids to be learning about gender and sexuality or anything sexual.
