School Board Proposes Combining Boys and Girls in Sex-Ed Classes in Grades 4-8
This post addresses a topic that requires immediate action by interested citizens of Fairfax County. (Apologies to readers of this blog …. I have been out of the loop for several weeks and haven’t been able to post this article before now.)
The Fairfax County School Board is considering changes to its sex-ed curriculum for elementary- and middle-schoolers. The changes would eliminate separate instruction about sexuality for boys and girls in grades 4 through 8. Various explanations are offered by the proposal’s proponents, but the basic motivator is today’s transgender movement. The “woke” cause de jour is to pretend that gender is artificially “assigned at birth,” that “true” gender can’t be determined until each individual makes a choice, and, therefore, that children shouldn’t be put in a position of choosing whether to attend the male or the female sex-ed classes.
Sex-ed was once the province of families, but it has been included in the curriculum of public schools for many years now. Until recently, however, it was well accepted that separate classes should be held for boys and girls, because most children will be more comfortable in learning about sexuality and in asking questions in separate-sex classes. The interests of the children are now being overridden by the interests of gender activists.
The School Board has created an on-line survey to obtain public input on the proposal. The deadline for responses is this Thursday, December 1, at 4:30 p.m. The survey form, as well as the text of the proposal is on the Board’s website: https://www.fcps.edu/node/46740.
The School Board is likely to adopt the proposal unless there is a strong outpouring of opposition by the community. You can be sure that the transgender activists, who are well-organized, will be soliciting a flurry of survey responses in favor of the changes.
If you are a Fairfax County resident, please make your views known immediately, and please consider bringing the deadline to the attention of others.
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I am shocked at what the Fairfax County
School Board is proposing!
Boys and Girls should not be in the same classes for Sex Education!!! They should continue to
be in separate classes!!
I can confirm that my teenage daughter and her friends do not want to take sex-ed with boys.
This is absolutely ridiculous. And disgusting. They should be separate classes. I would rather they didn’t have sex education in school at all.
I would rather they didn’t have sex education in school at all. This is obviously what happens when they have in school. It should be stopped.
It must stop.
Combining boys and girls together at these ages will only make the difficult adjustment into puberty harder. Children go thru emotional trauma as they mature. Why make it worse? I have to wonder why anyone making policy would want to inflict emotional pain on any child. It appears the Fairfax County School Board needs to be monitored themselves. Perhaps training in making decisions that respect the autonomy and sensibilities of each child should be a prerequisite for serving on the board. Increasing the salary to make these positions more attractive and requiring candidates to pass certain basic courses that teach empathy and ethical decision making might be a good first step.
There is absolutely zero reason boys and girls can’t learn about their bodies and health in the same class. Let’s work towards de-stigmatizing all things sex related – we aren’t puritans anymore! I grew up with boys snapping bra straps and making period jokes with ZERO understanding of how it all worked. One boy actually bought a tampon from a bathroom to see how it worked and then said he felt bad we had to deal with that all the time.
How much disinformation is out there that would be combatted by each gender learning about the others? How much embarassment could be avoided if both genders were generous enough to offer a pad or tampon to someone in need?
Stop thinking sex education is disgusting – grow up! It’s a natural part of life and if you want to end teen pregnancies, it STARTS WITH EDUCATION!
Thanks for your comment, Lori. I disagree, of course. There’s been a consensus around the country for decades that sex education is best given to young boys and girls in separate classes. The desires of a tiny minority of transgender advocates isn’t a good reason to upend long-established policy.