Saturday, April 27, 2013
In the last few minutes of class we started talking about when should we educate children about intersex individuals. As an Early Childhood Dual major as well going off what Britney said, we are taught to as teacher be very gender neutral. As a future educator I personal believe that if we were teach about intersex individuals in grades 7 or 8 I think that the students would end up just joking around and not actually learning anything and most likely just become even more uncomfortable around these individuals. I remember health class in 7th and 8th grade and it was nothing that anyone took seriously. I think that 9th grade should be when the topic of intersex individuals is discusses and talked about, because that is when the information will actually be informative and help everyone to be comfortable.
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I think that if the subject is brought up in 7th and 8th grade students would at least be introducd to the topic. Then in a 9th grade health class the subject could be brought up again in a more indepth matter. Even though in middle school students may be immature, it's something they may face at that age so I think it's better to prepare them to the possibilities.
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