originally posted in:Secular Sevens
if you think every child needs to know about and respect all the various brands of sexuality, you can't rely on the parents. parents will teach their kids their values, so if they think x sexuality should be punishable by death then the kid will learn that. school is the only way to ensure children are taught something.
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That delves into the realm of morality. Not academia.
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Why should schools teach morals?
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Teaching is kind of their thing.
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OK but some parents wouldn't teach about other sexualities at all. hell, i know mine didn't.
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That's what psychology class is for. That's where I learned about sexualities, because you can't understand it completly without taking a psychology course. It's like teaching calculus to somebody who doesn't know how to add.
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so now you're saying it should be taught...
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Sexuality doesn't equal sex-ed lol. But people want it merged with sex-ed, which is taught to kids when they're in elementary or middle school. That's my issue. Psychology isn't mandatory in highschool even, it is in college. Sexuality isn't something that should be forced to be taught within a curriculum because it is about feelings rather than academia. But when introduced into a psychology class, it now gains relevance.
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Edited by Cultmeister: 2/1/2013 3:34:01 PM[quote]Sexuality isn't something that should be forced to be taught within a curriculum because it is about feelings rather than academia[/quote]i think it fits in perfectly with the rest of sex-ed. man has feelings for woman, they have sex (sex explained), they have babies (pregnancy explained) man has feelings for man, they have sex (sex explained), then nothing happens because men can't have babies. etc. you don't have to go into all the whys and wherefores, just help them understand the basics like with heterosexuality.
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Then when the kid asks a question that will literally only be answered with some sort of psychological background, then what? The "feelings" part is psychological in nature. And believe me when I tell you this, an AP psychology teacher will better explain it than some 5th/8th grade biology teacher can.
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then either get a psychology teacher in to explain it to the kids, or just don't explain it.
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Or wait for the student to take the psychology class.
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but if it isn't mandatory then they won't necessarily know.
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So we have to force it down their throats? Sex-ed classes aren't mandatory also btw.
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Edited by Cultmeister: 2/1/2013 4:26:55 PMwell we force everything else down their throats; that's what primary education is about.