All districts are now required to promote abstinence, exclude consent, and remove any pictures of reproductive organs.
The Florida Department of Education (FLDOE) has ordered local school districts to submit their sex education plans to the state for approval. The FLDOE has also said the classes must promote abstinence and cannot include discussion of contraception or pictures of reproductive health organs.
The sex-ed takeover removes local discretion when it comes to district sex education classes and materials.
Not that this is how it should work at all, but wouldn’t an easy work around for this be to simply teach this as part of human anatomy In science class rather than sex education in health class or physical education? Or does it ban these things in all its forms throughout school? Maybe they can use photos of animal sex organs 😂
We avoid health learning like the plague in the US. You have to opt into it in college. It should be a running subject just like STEM and along with the lack of financial classes, and the death of Home Ec, shows just how much school is meant to churn out workers instead of adults.
Science doesn’t teach much human anatomy beyond the existence and general purposes of brain, lungs, heart, intestines…
Then they can add a couple more parts can’t they
Considering that many young women don’t even realize that they don’t pee out of their vagina? I think we should be putting a lot more into human anatomy in schools.
I’m not American. Do they really not have biology as a school subject?
We do but it’s about more plants and animals than humans.
My school had decent sex ed though (New Jersey)
They just don’t want this subject taught – it’s not about which class it’s in. If a school tries to put it in biology class instead, they’ll explicitly ban it in that class, too.