I finished Vision of the Annointed by Thomas Sowell last month, and the book (written in 95) was his takedown of academic elites on many topics. One area he discussed was sex ed and questioned the obsession with discussing sex with children as young as kindergarten or discussing homosexuality with kids. Most of my life I’ve lived in Oklahoma or Texas in pretty red/Christian areas so my sex ed in 5th grade was slightly more than “boys have a penis and girls have a vagina”. I didn’t realize the heavy push for that was going on in the 90s but I guess in more left wing areas it was, plus he has been in academic circles for decades so o guess he has seen a lot of wild theories pushed.
One of my favorite lines from the book is “there is plenty of talk about the haves and have nots, but very little discussion about the doers and do nots”
In the book he was talking about the obsession with young kids and the obsession with homosexuality.
No need to apologize. I think you can have basic information for the appropriate age but as you know that isn’t enough for them
My sex ed, in the Dirty Swampy Backwoods South, was literally a day of labeling a penis, a day of labeling a vag, and then three days of reading a list of every known birth control method, its cost, side effects and effectiveness.
At the time, I thought that was useless (it still was for boys because we had condoms and then had 2 hours and 59 minutes of girl products), but now I realize it was the most to the point and noncontroversial sex ed possible.