A grade 5 teacher in Florida has requested that her students use gender neutral pronouns in the classroom. Sorry, I should have said their students. As she (sorry, I meant they) writes: “my pronouns are ‘they, them, their’ instead of ‘he, his, she, hers.’ I know it takes some practice for it to feel natural but students catch on […]
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Does abstinence belong in sex education?
This morning I read the following tweet from Justin Schieber: “Comprehensive sex education usually includes some promotion of abstinence. The abstinence portion should be replaced with anti-natalism.” This prompted me to tweet a short question: “What’s wrong with abstinence?” Justin tweeted back, “Nothing. There’s also nothing wrong with sex.” Unfortunately, this response made no sense, […]
