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I appreciate everyone’s responses so far
My kids are in a unique situation as far as school- our town is very small, only 17 kids go to the school here. It’s a single classroom, kindergarten-6th grade. Everybody knows everybody’s families and the class is encouraged to treat each other more like siblings than just classmates; this means the older ones being kind and helping the younger ones, the younger ones being respectful to the older ones.
As far as I am aware, they don’t learn any kind of sex ed here. That doesn’t mean that none of the kids will ever talk about it, but I think it less likely that any kid could get away with spreading wrong or bad information for very long without all the parents intervening.
So it’s not this particular school that I’m worried about- it’s when 7th grade starts for my kids, when they have to go into town for middle and high school, where the things I mentioned originally are mostly happening.
I do agree that young kids only need to be told as much as they think to ask about sex. My kids so far know that only a man and a woman who are not related constitute a marriage (my son told me he would just marry his sister when they grow up because then he wouldn’t have to work so hard to impress some girl someday...). They know only married mommies and daddies should have babies, but that it doesn’t always happen that way (their aunt is a single mom and they know she wasn’t married when she had their cousin). And they know God gives parents babies. I think that’s plenty for a five and seven year old.
My kids are in a unique situation as far as school- our town is very small, only 17 kids go to the school here. It’s a single classroom, kindergarten-6th grade. Everybody knows everybody’s families and the class is encouraged to treat each other more like siblings than just classmates; this means the older ones being kind and helping the younger ones, the younger ones being respectful to the older ones.
As far as I am aware, they don’t learn any kind of sex ed here. That doesn’t mean that none of the kids will ever talk about it, but I think it less likely that any kid could get away with spreading wrong or bad information for very long without all the parents intervening.
So it’s not this particular school that I’m worried about- it’s when 7th grade starts for my kids, when they have to go into town for middle and high school, where the things I mentioned originally are mostly happening.
I do agree that young kids only need to be told as much as they think to ask about sex. My kids so far know that only a man and a woman who are not related constitute a marriage (my son told me he would just marry his sister when they grow up because then he wouldn’t have to work so hard to impress some girl someday...). They know only married mommies and daddies should have babies, but that it doesn’t always happen that way (their aunt is a single mom and they know she wasn’t married when she had their cousin). And they know God gives parents babies. I think that’s plenty for a five and seven year old.