johnnymk

Now what if the kids were ninth graders/would it make any difference?

http://www.phillyburbs.com/pb-dyn/ne...7-1276262.html

YONKERS, N.Y. - A teacher has been barred from classes after having his seventh-grade students draw male genitalia on the blackboard during health class, a school spokeswoman said Friday.

The teacher, whose name was not made public, was assigned to administrative duties and Superintendent Bernard Pierorazio will ask trustees to fire him, said Yonkers school spokeswoman Jerilynne Fierstein.

"There was no way we were going to let him be in front of children," she said.

Fierstein said the state's seventh-grade curriculum calls for lessons in human anatomy and sexuality, but "as a teacher you have to be sensitive and you have to look at the age-appropriateness of any activity that you ask a child to do. And this was just not appropriate."

Pierorazio said the teacher had began his lesson by asking students to volunteer to come to the board to draw male anatomy.

Fierstein said the administration learned of the drawings, which occurred in a class of boys and girls at the Pearls Hawthorne school, when a parent complained.

Trustees will consider the teacher's firing at a March 21 meeting, she said.

Jon Klibonoff, a father of a student at the school, said he did not believe the material was inappropriate.

"This is biology, it's anatomy, it's human sexuality," he said. "They're in puberty. They're aware of it on one level or another."

Fourth-grader Noah Klibonoff disagreed.

"They're not supposed to know what it's supposed to look like at this age yet, so I think it's a little embarrassing and it's also a little inappropriate," he said.

Pierorazio issued a statement saying, "I will not tolerate insensitive, inappropriate behavior by any staff member toward our students. Every student's physical and emotional well-being is paramount in our decision making, therefore immediate action was taken."

ShawnLee

They asked a fourth-grader what seventh-graders should learn?
I'm not even saying the teacher was right, I don't know the situation and the article isn't too informational about specifics. Was he asking them to draw them for giggles? Was he actually teaching with these pictures?

But they asked a fourth-grader?

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Grafalgar

This annoys me on so many levels. I can deal with parents "shielding" their kids against sexuality to some degree, but really there should be no age where a person (even a kid) is -not- supposed to know what something looks like.

*sighs*

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MikeD

No chance this makes it through the entire class without at least one parent getting up in arms over it. More than likely, a whole bunch of them.

"Schools need to teach our children!!! Teach our children!!!"

"Wait...don't teach that! What are you doing? I should be the one teaching my kid that!"

The school systems can't catch a break. Too many parents have no clue.

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InfiniteNothing

I don't see how you can test kids on anatomy without drawing and or labeling a diagram of the studied part. I think people are upset because if you put genitalia up on the board, it implies that genitalia isn't shameful.

TofuNinja

Umm so a BOY named Noah says boys are not suppose to know what his privates are suppose to look like....yeah....what boy doesn't know and this same boy probably drops F-Bombs like crazy... give me a break. Let teachers teach.

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LPMiller

that has to be a misprint. Or one hell of a knowledgeable 4th grader.

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Napoleon54

What health text doesn't have diagrams of genitalia? I don't see drawing it on the board as being that much different.

Now if he had shown them actual photographs of genitalia, or a porn flick or something more "real", I can see how some people might think that that's pushing the limits.

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InfiniteNothing

In the 8th grade we got actual photographs. Of course, all the genitalia were STD clad.

guiseppewv

I guess that is one way to discourage you from getting STDs!!!

guiseppewv

I saw the same thing. So, a fourth grader knows what is best for a 7th grader???

verve247

phillyburbs sure does some fine investigating.

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LPMiller

we placed our genitalia on overhead projectors, then traced them out and colored them in finger paints.

People really need to stop fearing their body parts.

Airencracken

I am getting so sick of this uptight crap. Guess what, everyone has sex organs. Get over it. We've all seen them multiple times, even kids have. It's science for ****'s sake. It's not like the guy whipped it out and had them draw from that. Sweet evil jesus.

****ing puritans.

It's a penis!!! Oh noes!!!

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Napoleon54

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What is "sex"?

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welfareloser

lord. we did exactly this in fifth grade sex ed. taught by our pastor.

yeah. that was fun. because do you think we pulled it off without giggling? oh. hell. no. and then came the angry lecture from the old fart pastor because we were mocking god's creation

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InfiniteNothing

And look how well adjusted you turned out

Napoleon54

Well you should be ashamed. After all, it was God who got PO'd when Adam and Eve covered themselves up. We should all go in the buff, and especially when at church.