I was a New York City high school student for 25 years. This stuff is crap. it is subjective and it is just plain misguided. First of all, race and sex aside, social emotional learning is a meaningful way to determine age and grade appropriateness. It is not a snowflake term meaning "people got feelings" but rather a measure of what and …
I was a New York City high school student for 25 years. This stuff is crap. it is subjective and it is just plain misguided. First of all, race and sex aside, social emotional learning is a meaningful way to determine age and grade appropriateness. It is not a snowflake term meaning "people got feelings" but rather a measure of what and when a person is ready to learn something. Like the horse and water, you can bring the material to the student but it does not mean that 1.) they are fully ready to learn it or 2.) they don't know it already. One size cannot fit all 14 year olds.
What will show this wrong-way-driving of teaching sex education will be the teen pregnancies that will rise in Florida. We have evidence that when children are kept in the dark, they tend to crawl around until they figure it out for themselves.
Instead of regressing, sex education should be expanding and for older children, should include a discussion of pornography. (Wow, I just felt an entire state of prudish moms clutch their pearls.) If teens are not taught that pornography is male fantasy and, for the most part, degrading to women, they will learn their sex education from their phone, and they will learn that men hitting, slapping, pulling hair and name-calling toward women along with painful sex, is normal.
You go, Florida, you keep up that reputation for being a state of morons. Or, vote Democratic.
I was a New York City high school student for 25 years. This stuff is crap. it is subjective and it is just plain misguided. First of all, race and sex aside, social emotional learning is a meaningful way to determine age and grade appropriateness. It is not a snowflake term meaning "people got feelings" but rather a measure of what and when a person is ready to learn something. Like the horse and water, you can bring the material to the student but it does not mean that 1.) they are fully ready to learn it or 2.) they don't know it already. One size cannot fit all 14 year olds.
What will show this wrong-way-driving of teaching sex education will be the teen pregnancies that will rise in Florida. We have evidence that when children are kept in the dark, they tend to crawl around until they figure it out for themselves.
Instead of regressing, sex education should be expanding and for older children, should include a discussion of pornography. (Wow, I just felt an entire state of prudish moms clutch their pearls.) If teens are not taught that pornography is male fantasy and, for the most part, degrading to women, they will learn their sex education from their phone, and they will learn that men hitting, slapping, pulling hair and name-calling toward women along with painful sex, is normal.
You go, Florida, you keep up that reputation for being a state of morons. Or, vote Democratic.
Wow, I was a high school teacher for 25 years, not a student.
I figured as much but it still gave me a start.