The Miami-Dade School Board met today and reversed its decision on the adoption of a sex-education textbook for middle school and high school.
The Miami-Dade School Board last week rejected a recommendation to adopt a comprehensive health and sexual health education textbook for middle and high school students. On Thursday, the board reversed that decision — again.
The decision came about four hours into a special meeting Thursday that the chairwoman called to discuss the implications of the board’s decision last week, which left the district without a comprehensive health education curriculum and out of compliance with state statute. Chairwoman Perla Tabares Hantman flipped her vote from last week, this time voting in favor of adopting the textbook, attributing the change to her realization that the district could be penalized for not following state statute and requirements. (The Department of Education did not respond to the Herald’s request for comment regarding possible ramifications of violating state requirements.)
The majority of people attending the meeting favored adoption of the text. The sex-ed course also covers health and nutrition.
Read more at: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/education/article263901142.html#storylink=cpy
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Say what they want why they flipped… but clearly someone with common sense on their Board reads this blog (probably in a closet somewhere) – – and gets some common sense from Diane et al… and pushed for the right (oops), correct decision for teenagers!
Amen
A sane person argues: If we don’t have decent sex education, then some kid will catch an STD, because of her ignorance, that will kill her, and that death will be on my hands.
But the fundamentalist Christian Taliban says, if that happens, she deserves it. Because for all their talk of morality, these people are fundamentally immoral.
Sanity prevails. Have any of the commenters here seen the approved textbook? I suspect that if it was approved in Flor-uh-duh in the first place, it’s probably already breathtakingly watered down.
Meanwhile, the kids are stepping into the hallway and sticking in their earplugs and listening to Cardi B sing “Up” and Kodak Black sing “Rugrats.”
It has been reported that the section on same sex relationships had already been removed from that textbook for Miami
Like Bob, who used to write and edit textbooks, I feel sure that anything remotely controversial had already been deleted before the textbook was approved.
Thanks, threatened.
A related “back in the day” story.
Our sixth grade teacher – in 1963 (yes, ’63) – taught sex education. There was no textbook – she’d done the research and wrote the unit.
Years later when I was teaching interdisciplinary studies (English, social studies, current events, “humanities” and the junior high “advisory” all mixed into one) – we wanted to include a unit on sex education.
I went to my sixth grade teacher who was still teaching and asked for resources… and advice knowing there would be some resistance from the school administration.
Her response:
“Just ask them ‘Would you rather have kids learn this on the back of the bus and in the alley or in our classroom?'”
I wonder how these politicians would answer that question!
The Florida Department of Education just sent Florida schools a guidance telling them that they should ignore recent federal instruction not to discriminate according to gender identity or sexual orientation. The federal guidance is in keeping with a 2020 Supreme Court decision that found that since gender identity and sexual orientation have to do with sex, then they are covered by the Title IX prohibition against discrimination by sex.
In other words, the FDOE told schools that such discrimination was not only just fine but expected.
Need more School Boards to stop deferring to the loud-mouth minorities. Common sense needs to prevail every time!
AChairwoman Perla Tabares Hantman flipped her vote from last week, this time voting in favor of adopting the textbook, attributing the change to her realization that the district could be penalized for not following state statute and requirements”
The district would be “penalized” all right, but the primary penalization will not be what she thinks.
Penalization
The student body was penalized
When sex ed was removed
The girls were pregnant from the guys
And board had not approved!
Alternate spelling: “penilization”
And board had just approved!
Would be better