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New York City public school students as young as 4 are learning the ABCs of HIV in kindergarten, including through a book that identifies vulvas and penises, The Post has learned.
The city’s HIV/AIDS curriculum, which was revamped in September, centers lessons for 4- and 5-year-olds around a book called “These are My Eyes, This is My Nose, This is My Vulva, These are My Toes,” by Lexx “The Sex Doc” Brown-James, a St. Louis-based sex educator and therapist.
“Some girls wear dresses, some girls won’t, some girls have vulvas and some girls don’t,” the book says. “Some boys have a penis but not all boys do. To always use your manners, ask ‘What may I call you?,'” it continues. EJ is not a girl or a boy. So not he or she. To show you care, always use ‘they,’ ‘them’ and ‘theirs.’”
In first grade, kids learn that HIV can be transmitted through the blood or body fluids of an infected person. Second graders learn about blood and medication and by third grade, students are expected to be able to “summarize what HIV is and identify ways it can and cannot be passed.” Fourth graders learn that HIV can specifically be passed through unclean needles used for drugs or tattoos and sexual contact.
originally posted by: SteamyAmerican
In other related news, NYC schools have rebounded and surprisingly outperformed previous decades across all measures of rubric in all aspects of their curriculum.:
I did.
originally posted by: FlyersFan
originally posted by: SteamyAmerican
In other related news, NYC schools have rebounded and surprisingly outperformed previous decades across all measures of rubric in all aspects of their curriculum.:
You are going to have to show your work on that one.
Links with statistics would be good.
As far as this new cirriculum adding in the "they/them" and pronoun debates, and the addition of the AIDS/HIV component, I don't think any harm is going to be done by underestimating the ability of young children to understand the differences between the sexes and how to avoid potential contamination of dangerous diseases.
It would be nice if there was an added component of "stranger danger" and how to handle a sexual predator or over enthusiastic childhood exploration that the child may not yet be ready for.
originally posted by: GENERAL EYES
a reply to: SchrodingersRat
I got a second parental "talk" when I was thirteen in the middle of a Black Eyed Pea Resturant by my stepfather because I was "coming of age" and boys were starting to be more than just playmates for most girls.
I was a total tomboy, and back then I was so convinced that boys were so gross I'd rather become a nun and just join a Convent.
Still, he metered some valuable advice about dating that got me through some sketchy situations unscathed later on down the road, and for that, I thank him.
There's more to the whole thing than just this is this, that is that, this goes here and that's how babies are made.