Brandon Buck _BB_ Posted March 29, 2013 Posted March 29, 2013 A science teacher in an Idaho town is being investigated after parents complained that he used the word vagina while teaching a class on reproduction.... to tenth graders. The science teacher in questions maintains that the sex ed class he was teaching is not compulsory and he said that he only teaches it because the health teacher refuses to. Read the entire story here.
MysterionMuffles Posted March 30, 2013 Posted March 30, 2013 Lol maybe he also mentioned how to find the clitorous, but people want it to remain a myth. In all seriousness though, this is the kind of intolerance and body hating propoganda that keeps our society from growing. How the hell do you teach sex-ed without giving the proper terms for the organs required?! Besides, 10th grade is already so damn late to be learning about sex, so what kind of over sheltered life do they want these kids to live in? By then, some of those kids have had already discovered masturbation or had been involved in some minor or major sex act with someone. Stacy La, that Facebook group member to save the teacher, has the most ultimate answer. If you really want to control what your kids learn, homeschool. Period. GENIUS!!! Because I remember the talk going out of hand in a class full of other kids who weren't as mature as I was to handle the material. (I already knew what sex was since I was 4 because my cousin grossed me and my brother out with the details from what he learned in grade...something. He is much older than us so yeah.) And it just gets goddamn awkward, co-ed or not. Sex-ed is the kind of talk only parents should have with their kids, not stand in parents ie teachers who either are too uncomfortable to do what their curriculum requires of them. I hope Tim McDaniel survives this retarded slander and finds a better school to teach at. Or better yet, a better damn job.
Steinhauser Posted March 31, 2013 Posted March 31, 2013 Careful with that Huffington Post! It is rotating at very high velocity! From the opening paragraph: Parents in Dietrich, Idaho, say the word "vagina" has no place in a 10th grade science class, according to news website MagicValley.com. I checked that link. There is no mention of the word "vagina" in the article. There is some mention of "inappropriate language," but it seems most of the parents had a problem with his discussion of safe sex and STDs. (The article was updated at some point, so it's possible that the word "vagina" was mentioned in a previous edition. But it was clearly not a central aspect of the story, and the accompanying Huffington news video shows a screenshot of the updated site.) The story is not about the word vagina. It's about some religious prudes who don't want their kids to learn about sex ed. No, that's not good for the children, who will probably go through adolescence without knowing some basic information about their genitalia. But it's also not unusual or unexpected - religious parents find out their kids' (ostensibly nonsexual) biology class is teaching sex ed, and they get in a tizzy. The story is being spun so it looks like there is sexism involved. Of course it's the word VAGINA these people are against, not the context in which it was used. This is like the Lisa Brown story all over again. If you're not familiar, watch about 4 minutes of this:
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