Arizona superintendent sued over ‘sex chat room' for minors — The lawsuit alleges Hoffman advertised links to chat rooms "where minors discuss sex and gender with adults present and without parents necessarily knowing."

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[–]Alienhunter糞大名 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

This is the one the CDC recommends on their website and I think it's likely the same as the one mentioned in this story.

https://www.qchatspace.org/

I think in these cases it's not overtly the teachers telling the kids not to tell the parents so much as it's the teachers not telling the parents. The kids are (often justifiably) worried that their parents are going to react poorly to the news (be that an outright acceptance or outright disowned, today's climate is tends to extremism of all types) I think the real issues come down to why such things are needed from the educational side at all?

Is there any need for "sex education" or resources for students of any kind that go beyond what you'd find in a science textbook?

[–]ClassroomPast6178 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Is there any need for "sex education" or resources for students of any kind that go beyond what you'd find in a science textbook?

I think there’s a place for teaching about the different kinds relationships (friendship, parental, etc) and safeguarding (what is and isn’t appropriate, what to do if you feel unsafe, stranger danger etc). I used to be very pro comprehensive sex education, but having seen what some people want to use it for I’m now very much in the Science and Safety camp (this is what sex is and how it works, this is how to not get pregnant or HIV, this is what to do if someone is making you feel unsafe, that’s it).

Tolerance for LGB should be taught as part of the British values stuff (tolerance, democracy, rule of law) because there’s no place for homophobia or racism, I’m sure you have a civics or citizenship type subject in the US too, but tolerance doesn’t mean that the mechanics of gay sex etc needs to be discussed.