Sex education is a sensitive subject. But during nine years at the prestigious Dalton School on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, seven of which she spent as the director of health and wellness, Justine Ang Fonte seemed to be handling it with success.
The national standards are also used in public schools in New York City, where students in grades 6 through 12 take lessons on sexuality as part of their health education. Parents can opt out of certain aspects of the program. Jennie Noll, a professor of human development and family studies at the Pennsylvania State University, is the principal investigator of the Safe and Healthy Communities Initiative in Pennsylvania. As part of the initiative, more than 14,000 second graders have been taught the names for their body parts and about healthy boundaries. “They learn what is safe, how to get help, and that it’s not their fault,” Noll said.
Ritch C. Savin-Williams, a professor emeritus of developmental psychology at Cornell University, said that Fonte’s lessons filled a necessary niche, but expressed concern “that parents were not part of the process of deciding what needs or should be taught.” Al Vernacchio has worked as the sexuality education coordinator at Friends’ Central School in Wynnewood, Pennsylvania, for 24 years. Messaging about sexuality comes from television, from Instagram and TikTok, from OnlyFans, from YouTube, from advertisements, he said.
Was she always comfortable speaking about things that made others squirm and blush? “I think I was probably above average at conversational skills to begin with,” Fonte said. “I was that kid that ran for class president every year. I was always giving speeches.” Teaching consent from an early age is crucial, today’s sex education experts argue. And in the wake of the #MeToo movement, more and more people agree, said Nora Gelperin, the director of sexuality education and training at Advocates for Youth, one of the organizations responsible for drafting the national sex education standards.
Even Texas, a state long associated with abstinence-only education at the middle-school level, committed last November to begin teaching students about other birth control methods, beginning next year. Several states have recently made efforts to increase “parental rights” in sex education classes. For example, state lawmakers in Arizona tried to prevent students from learning about sexuality, gender identity and HIV/AIDS without an opt-in from parents .The Post’s parent and student sources were anonymous, and it is unclear how many people directly connected to Columbia Grammar and Preparatory School and the Dalton School complained to administrators about Fonte.
Why? Because the parents just learned she was showing 1st Graders pornography cartoons. If it wasn't for the Zoom classes, they still wouldn't know. Hopefully all of her students will be questioned by the parents to see if she's done anything ELSE inappropriate with them.
Sex education should be a parents choice only? If they want this then they sign up if not then not taught? For sure not on masturbation in first grade. Do need to teach on not let just anyone touching you or getting older sexual preference and WHY? Of course protection?
Because parents are idiots.
So happy about zoom.
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