EXCLUSIVE: How Sex Ed Trains Kids To Be Activists - A Look Inside the Curriculum at Holton-Arms School
This was presented as a keynote at the National Sex Ed Conference
I spent December 6-8, 2023 attending the National Sex Ed Conference online to show you what your kids’ teachers talk about when you aren’t around.
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Social Justice and Sex Ed
You may have thought that Sex Education was just about teaching kids the body parts, how not to get pregnant or an STD, and the all-important rolling a condom on a banana lesson.
But no, today’s sex-ed curriculum centers around social justice.
And it’s not just one class - it’s integrated into your child’s education from elementary school.
We got a peak at one sex-ed curriculum last week at the National Sex Ed Conference, with a keynote by Stephanie Cordo.
Stephanie didn’t say what school she worked at specifically…however, she did make the mistake of using the logo of the Holton-Arms School in her slides.
Take, for instance, this slide in which she’s talking about the sexual rights of youth - you can see the logo in the bottom.
A little internet sleuthing and we find the same logo on the Holton-Arms School website.
Holton-Arms is a private, all-girls school in Bethesda, Maryland that serves grades 3-12. Least you think that private school will shield you kids from the reach of social justice, let this be a warning.
And low and behold, there’s Stephanie on the staff list, the coordinator for grades 3-12, which is the age range served by the school.
So, let’s see what the young girls in the above picture are learning in their school in sex ed. Stephanie was kind enough to lay out their entire curriculum for us.
In Lower School (grades 3-6), students have entire curriculums around equity/culture and social justice, including intersectionality, gender and sexual identities, and activism classes.
In Middle School (grades 7-8), students learn about equity, systems of power, privilege and oppression and explore their gender and sexuality.
And in Upper School (grades 9-12), students get their mandatory diversity training on microaggressions and implicit bias, a review of the LGBTQ+ spectrum in the lesson about if they’re ready for sex, lessons on pornography, and a whole section on digital activism for social justice.
This isn’t the same sex ed class you took in school.
Watch Stephanie lay it all out in the clip from her speech:
This isn’t just in private school - public schools are doing this too. How many educators attended this conference and will take these ideas home with them?
Are you comfortable with this?
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