When should Kids Learn about Sex?

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http://cnsnews.com/news/article/obama-sex-ed-kindergartners-right-thing-do

The Chicago Public Schools this year are mandating that the district’s kindergarten classes include sex education, fulfilling a proposal President Barack Obama supported in 2003 when he served in the Illinois state senate and later defended when he ran for president in the 2008 election cycle. At a Planned Parenthood convention at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Washington, D.C., on July 17, 2007, a teenage girl who said she worked as a sex-education “peer educator” in the D.C. public schools asked then-U.S. Sen. Obama what he would do to encourage the teaching of “medically accurate, age-appropriate, and responsible sex education.”
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Age appropriate sex for a 5 year old?
 
Not sex - 'sex education'

They're learning incorrectly about sex through TV shows; better to be introduced to it properly - and age-specific -in schools.

From the article - got a problem with any of this?

"Nobody's suggesting that kindergartners are going to be getting information about sex in the way that we think about it,” Obama is quoted as telling the children. "If they ask a teacher 'where do babies come from,' that providing information that the fact is that it's not a stork is probably not an unhealthy thing. Although again, that's going to be determined on a case by case basis by local communities and local school boards."

To further clarify Obama’s position on sex ed for kindergartner’s, Obama’s campaign spokesman, Bill Burton, pointed MSNBC to the “curriculum for those in kindergarten” produced by the Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States (SIECUS). This curriculum suggested discussing same-sex relationships—in non-graphic terms--with kindergartners.
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tekkychick said:
They'll still learn one way or another. In school, they'll learn it correctly. Even competent parents aren't always good at the sex talks.
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So the government can be trusted more than parents?

LOL at " in school, they'll learn it correctly". If union teachers teach sex ed like they teach other subjects, God help the kids.
 
Threedee said:
Saying they get it from TV is weak. Competent parents won't let that happen.
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Gotta disagree bud. As far as teaching children about sex, most parents are woefully inadequate. He'll most parents today expect the schools to raise their kids.

pisskop said:
I presume they'll be identifying parts and equipment, and perhaps the nature of sex.
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You presume wrong. Naturally.

http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2013/08/29/cps-mandates-sexual-health-education-for-kindergartners/

CPS insists the curriculum will use language children understand and focus on topics like bullying, correct names for external body parts and the difference between appropriate and inappropriate touching.

“As you identify body parts, you talk about should you be touched here or not.,” said Stephanie Whyte, the CPS Chief Health Officer. “And if someone touches you, and it’s uncomfortable, you should tell a trusted adult.” body parts, you talk about should you be touched here or not.,” said Stephanie Whyte, the CPS Chief Health Officer. “And if someone touches you, and it’s uncomfortable, you should tell a trusted adult.”
 
Howey said:
You presume wrong. Naturally.

http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2013/08/29/cps-mandates-sexual-health-education-for-kindergartners/

CPS insists the curriculum will use language children understand and focus on topics like bullying, correct names for external body parts and the difference between appropriate and inappropriate touching.

“As you identify body parts, you talk about should you be touched here or not.,” said Stephanie Whyte, the CPS Chief Health Officer. “And if someone touches you, and it’s uncomfortable, you should tell a trusted adult.” body parts, you talk about should you be touched here or not.,” said Stephanie Whyte, the CPS Chief Health Officer. “And if someone touches you, and it’s uncomfortable, you should tell a trusted adult.”
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Poor Howey.

Gotta disagree bud. As far as teaching children about sex, most parents are woefully inadequate. He'll most parents today expect the schools to raise their kids.
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Id like to see a link.
 
tekkychick said:
Not sex - 'sex education'

They're learning incorrectly about sex through TV shows; better to be introduced to it properly - and age-specific -in schools.

From the article - got a problem with any of this?

"Nobody's suggesting that kindergartners are going to be getting information about sex in the way that we think about it,” Obama is quoted as telling the children. "If they ask a teacher 'where do babies come from,' that providing information that the fact is that it's not a stork is probably not an unhealthy thing. Although again, that's going to be determined on a case by case basis by local communities and local school boards."

To further clarify Obama’s position on sex ed for kindergartner’s, Obama’s campaign spokesman, Bill Burton, pointed MSNBC to the “curriculum for those in kindergarten” produced by the Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States (SIECUS). This curriculum suggested discussing same-sex relationships—in non-graphic terms--with kindergartners.
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pissoff, what's your problem with this?
 
Threedee said:
1) I said they won't let their kids get it from TV, which is really doable.
2) Then they're not competent parents.
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For those of us living in reality, having schools teach sex ed in age appropriate ways makes more sense than relying on overworked, overstressed parents who probably don't have a clue about the best way to teach kids about sex.

Even very competent parents get stymied on this issue.

Strange - I wouldn't have expected you to be one to throw kids under the bus if their parents aren't able to teach them about sex.

Should we extend the argument? "Competent" parents should teach their kids how to read, how to do math, the history of the world, art, music, etc. Why do we even have schools? If parents were competent, they would do it.
 
These days they pretty much have to teach all of those subjects. Now, I began sex-ed classes in 5th grade (puberty) and then 6th, 7th, and 9th. We covered healthy living in 8th and 11th.

I didn't have sex-ed in kindergarten.
 
Threedee said:
These days they pretty much have to teach all of those subjects. Now, I began sex-ed classes in 5th grade (puberty) and then 6th, 7th, and 9th. We covered healthy living in 8th and 11th.

I didn't have sex-ed in kindergarten.
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Per Howey's post:
CPS insists the curriculum will use language children understand and focus on topics like bullying, correct names for external body parts and the difference between appropriate and inappropriate touching.

“As you identify body parts, you talk about should you be touched here or not.,” said Stephanie Whyte, the CPS Chief Health Officer. “And if someone touches you, and it’s uncomfortable, you should tell a trusted adult.” body parts, you talk about should you be touched here or not.,” said Stephanie Whyte, the CPS Chief Health Officer. “And if someone touches you, and it’s uncomfortable, you should tell a trusted adult.”
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What's wrong with kindergarteners learning correct names for external body parts? and what "bad" touching is?

Sex-ed in kindergarten will be AGE APPROPRIATE.
 
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