When do you think is an appropriate time for children to learn human sexuality? What should be include and exclude in sex ed? How are teachers going to deliver those curriculums? A lot of questions have arisen after I read the article “Montana Parents Weigh In on Proposed Kindergarten Sex Ed” (2010) in FoxNews.
In the article, the proposed K-12 Health Enhancement Comprehensive Curriculum now became controversial issue in Helena, Montana. The curriculum plan, according to the proposal, is to provide sex education beginning from kindergarten to grade 12. For example, 5-year-old kids will be taught medical terms for both male and female private parts. The first grade children will learn that sexual relations can be occurred between same-sex couples. When students are 10-year-old, they will be educated in variation of sexual intercourse including vaginal, oral, and anal penetration.
I think this school curriculum is absurd and has gone too far. Why do we need to teach young innocent children to be able to understand human sexuality? Will it be necessary to teach all sexual material to children, if the purpose is to inform the dangers of HIV, for instance? Additionally, I think it is inappropriate to educate little children about sexuality before they are ready because it might arouse their curiosity earlier which might be dangerous. What is the purpose to teach different sexual variations to 10-year-olds?
Montana parents weigh in on proposed kindergarten sex ed. (2010, July 14). FoxNews. Retrieved July 14, 2010 from http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/07/14/montana-kindergarten-sex-ed/
Wednesday, 14 July 2010
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Sounds like a wonderfully controversial post. And we always like a healthy argument. Especially one with such obvious connections to more local sources. (I have no objection to you citing a local English language paper in your comments, it's just as the basis for a blog post that I'm not thrilled with them.)
ReplyDeleteThank you Tarn both for the controversial topic and especially for the strongly stated stand in your response.
Sex ed is very important thing, but teach 5 years old kids is too early. I don't think they can understand. I was taught when I was 12 I think. It was my first time.
ReplyDeleteI also agree with Akira that 5 years old is too young to understand about sexual. Most people are being expert without any guideline from teacher in school.
ReplyDeleteI notice that today's editorial in The Bangkok Post is relevant to this, and perhaps also to one of the essay questions you are choosing from this evening.
ReplyDeleteI thought the editor was a bit weak for not calling more clearly and strongly for the desperately needed changes to Thailand's unjust abortion laws.
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Safeguarding teenage girls. (2010, July 15). The Bangkok Post. Retrieved July 15, 2010 from http://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/opinion/186198/safeguarding-teenage-girls
I've just read the report that Tarn is responding to, and wanted to respond to quite a different issue: whether government's should even be involved in such decisions.
ReplyDeleteWhether people support or oppose sex education in schools, it seems to me, as it did to some people quoted or paraphrased in the report, that it's questionable whether the government should even be forcing any school to teach anything. It's often assumed that government's should provide free schooling, but is this such a good idea? And it is right for the government to take some people's money by force and give it to other people for something that they do not value enough to pay for themselves?
I know this is completely off Tarn's topic, but it's something that caught my interest when I read teh report, so I've responded to it.
But I still think the sex education for kiddies is juicy topic.