This school year, Chicago will implement age-appropriate sexual education for each grade level, making it the largest urban school district to do so. This includes kindergarten.
::awaits far-right conservatives providing the computer monitor with a look of shock, before yelling obscenities, and calling Obama the Antichrist::
Please re-read the first sentence - "...implement age-appropriate sexual education for each grade level..." For kindergarten and 1st grade, this will equate to nothing more than teaching these kids about "anatomy, healthy relationships, and personal safety." In other words, these kids aren't going to be learning about sexual intercourse, contraception, and sexually-transmitted diseases. Like I've said twice now, the education will be "age-appropriate." Good luck trying to get this point through to far right-wing websites, though, whom are doing everything in their power to stir controversy through misleading headlines and commentary.
Daniel Doherty of the right-wing site Townhall.com wrote an article about the matter, titled, "Chicago: We Need to Teach Sex Education in Kindergarten Classrooms."
Tom Tillison of the right-wing site BizPacReview titled his piece, "Obama says sex education for kindergartners 'right thing to do.'"
Of course, when many conservatives read these headlines or even politically uneducated moderates or liberals, what will they think? That Chicago will be teaching 5-year old kids about sex, and that's simply not true.
Perhaps politicians and educators should alter the terminology some to hopefully minimalize the potential misconceptions about the program. In any case, however, these far ring-wing sites and commentators shouldn't mislead the public on it. Teaching 5-year olds about anatomy, healthy relationships, and personal safety is far different than teaching them about sexual intercourse, contraception, and sexually-transmitted diseases.
http://thinkprogress.org/health/2013/09/03/2566341/chicago-sex-kindergarten/
http://www.bizpacreview.com/2013/08/31/obama-says-sex-education-for-kindergartners-right-thing-to-do-82495
http://townhall.com/tipsheet/danieldoherty/2013/08/30/chicago-we-need-to-teach-sex-ed-to-kindergarteners-n1687603
::awaits far-right conservatives providing the computer monitor with a look of shock, before yelling obscenities, and calling Obama the Antichrist::
Please re-read the first sentence - "...implement age-appropriate sexual education for each grade level..." For kindergarten and 1st grade, this will equate to nothing more than teaching these kids about "anatomy, healthy relationships, and personal safety." In other words, these kids aren't going to be learning about sexual intercourse, contraception, and sexually-transmitted diseases. Like I've said twice now, the education will be "age-appropriate." Good luck trying to get this point through to far right-wing websites, though, whom are doing everything in their power to stir controversy through misleading headlines and commentary.
Daniel Doherty of the right-wing site Townhall.com wrote an article about the matter, titled, "Chicago: We Need to Teach Sex Education in Kindergarten Classrooms."
Tom Tillison of the right-wing site BizPacReview titled his piece, "Obama says sex education for kindergartners 'right thing to do.'"
Of course, when many conservatives read these headlines or even politically uneducated moderates or liberals, what will they think? That Chicago will be teaching 5-year old kids about sex, and that's simply not true.
Perhaps politicians and educators should alter the terminology some to hopefully minimalize the potential misconceptions about the program. In any case, however, these far ring-wing sites and commentators shouldn't mislead the public on it. Teaching 5-year olds about anatomy, healthy relationships, and personal safety is far different than teaching them about sexual intercourse, contraception, and sexually-transmitted diseases.
http://thinkprogress.org/health/2013/09/03/2566341/chicago-sex-kindergarten/
http://www.bizpacreview.com/2013/08/31/obama-says-sex-education-for-kindergartners-right-thing-to-do-82495
http://townhall.com/tipsheet/danieldoherty/2013/08/30/chicago-we-need-to-teach-sex-ed-to-kindergarteners-n1687603
Comments
Post a Comment