(07-09-2021, 08:14 PM)Cleatwood Wrote:

(07-09-2021, 05:54 PM)jagibelieve Wrote: It's good to know from you.  We need teachers like you.

I don't have any numbers for kids being "taught" about being gay or the possibility of being transgender, and I'm too lazy to look up some of the articles that I saw about that.  That stuff does happen.

You do bring up an interesting point though when you said that "parents can opt out if they don’t want their child to be in those specific lessons".  What grade/age are those lessons taught and are parents invited to sit in during the lesson(s)?

Also, if you were given a curriculum that included homosexuality and/or transgender stuff would you teach it?

Only kids in 5TH grade (age 11) are taught these 4 lessons and they typically happen in May. We have a parent information night in March that goes over every single piece of information taught during those 4 lessons.

Parents can sit in during the live lessons but typically don’t because they come to the session before hand.

I highly doubt there will be lessons about homosexuality because those specific topics are ones that I can’t answer. We talk strictly about the anatomy of males and females in separate rooms.

I don’t disagree that there are teachers out there that preach their views. However, there are so many more teachers like me out there who just wanna do right by these kids.

I highly respect teachers like you.  I agree that talking strictly about the anatomy is the proper thing to do.  If I remember right, we got that lesson in a way earlier grade (I'm thinking around 3rd grade).  Those kind of lessons are important and in my opinion more so for the girls than the boys.  Boys basically only have to learn about "growing hair in places" whereas girls have to learn about "bleeding in places" along with "growing hair in places".

I think that it's sad that parents don't "find the time" to sit in on those lessons with their children.  It's an important time of their (the child's) life, that being puberty.

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