A Georgia school board voted along party lines Thursday to fire a teacher after officials said she improperly read a book on gender fluidity to her fifth grade class.

  • @Whismora
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    1062 years ago

    5th grade seems like an appropriate time to start educating students about this as part of their health curriculum. That’s the grade when they gave us the puberty talk in my old school district.

    Some early bloomers absolutely start puberty during or before 5th grade.

        • @[email protected]
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          That seems like a perfectly reasonable age to introduce a person to a topic like puberty.

          Like I’m pretty sure I was taught the basics of it and what it does to your body when I was that age.

        • WalrusDragonOnABike
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          Isn’t that a bit late to be starting basic health education? For girls, that’s above the average age of beginning puberty and for both, it’s years after the cutoff for it being consider precocious.

          • @dragonflyteaparty
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            32 years ago

            It is a bit late, but for what it’s worth, we started the puberty lessons at 10 years old and I was one of the older kids in class. Most were 9.

        • @[email protected]
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          172 years ago

          Nowadays a lot of girls at that age already menstruate. It is not only appropriate, you might even argue it is a tad late.

    • @CanofBeanz
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      Maybe it’s just how I was raised or taught, sex ed didn’t start till 7th/8th grade for me, and looking back seemed like an appropriate age to me.

      • @dragonflyteaparty
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        152 years ago

        But this isn’t sex ed. Discussing gender doesn’t mean discussing having sex.

        • @CanofBeanz
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          -32 years ago

          Of course I’m not an expert, that’s why I’m on this site having a discussion. Wasn’t aware being an expert was required to comment here.

            • @CanofBeanz
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              -42 years ago

              Notice how i didn’t say, “And thats the age it should stay” i said to me it SEEMED appropriate, that is my opinion, I never claimed my life experience should dictate how all children should be taught. Im not arguing in bad faith, merely expanding on where my thoughts and opinions come from.

    • JasSmith
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      The teacher was fired for teaching gender theory, not sex education. Those are very different things and I suspect you know that.