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Monday, October 31, 2011

New York's Sex Ed Mandate: The Radical Notion Our Kids Might Learn Facts

Monica has it good. A junior at Bard High School Early College on the Lower East Side, she has a twice-weekly health class this semester that includes one unit each on sex education and on HIV and AIDS. Two-hundred blocks north at Aerospace High School in the Bronx, eighteen-year-old Tamara has never been taught sex education, and it doesn’t appear on the syllabus for this semester’s health class. Somewhere in between, metaphorically anyway, eighteen-year-old Brandon at New Design High School has the option of choosing sex education as a one-week elective, alongside other options like sports, LGBTQ Alliance, and poetry. “It’s a shame you have to pick it,” Brandon said, because so many students don’t.

New York City’s universal standard for sex education, announced by schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott in a letter to middle school and high school principals on August 9, 2011, seeks to put an end to this loose patchwork of sex ed programs across the city. For decades, students’ likelihood of receiving sex ed has come down to the luck of the draw, depending on whether principals have considered it a priority, teachers have the training to teach it, or parents are informed enough to demand it.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

It's about introducing kids to sex and perverted spin off's like homosexuality. The left want access to kids for sex.

Anonymous said...

4:18 You are correct!

Anonymous said...

I'm just wondering how many of you actually know what is in the proposed curriculum and how many of you just spout out bs against this because Rush/Hannity told you so

Anonymous said...

someone should tell these kids something STDs are out of control with the youth around here