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That's because they were looking for someone younger, she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Price was the most accomplished and sure of herself she’d ever been, and the prospect that her sex and love life were over was devastating. Then, a stranger walked into her line dancing class one day. His name was Robert Rice and he was a 64-year-old artist, with blue eyes and white hair.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was smitten. I was in lust,” she said. “When he started to dance, and started rolling his hips, I kept losing my place in the dance I was teaching.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That line dancing class sparked a happy seven-year marriage — and a sexual epiphany that changed the course of Price’s life. \"We were so vibrant and sexy and strong,” she said. “And I thought, it’s time to write a book about this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And she did, but she didn't stop at one: Price has authored several books aiming to demystify seniors’ sex drives and destigmatize their sexuality, earning her nicknames like \"senior sexpert\" and — her favorite — \"wrinkly sex kitten.\" She wants her peers to be able to talk about their sexual needs so they have a shot at the happiness that long-lasting intimacy brings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11775035\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11775035\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/Joan-with-Roberts-artjpg-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/Joan-with-Roberts-artjpg-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/Joan-with-Roberts-artjpg-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/Joan-with-Roberts-artjpg-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/Joan-with-Roberts-artjpg-1200x801.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/Joan-with-Roberts-artjpg.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Joan Price shares a piece of late husband Robert Rice's art that hangs in her bedroom in Freestone. \u003ccite>(Stephanie Lister/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>'We Learned Not to Talk about Sex'\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Price published her latest book about ageless sexuality in August. She travels internationally — most recently to The Netherlands and Montenegro — to lecture about senior sex, and she recently co-produced an \u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/ZGKI_o7LwPE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">explicit instructional sex video for seniors\u003c/a> with an adult film star.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation='Joan Price, author']'My sex education consisted of how girls get pregnant and why we shouldn't do it.'[/pullquote]Sitting in the living room of her cottage in Freestone, a community near Sebastopol, Price has a flirty frankness, husky voice and flippy hairdo that make it hard not to want to compare her to Jane Fonda. She doesn’t have her own workout video dynasty, but she did become an aerobics devotee in her 30s, and has been teaching line dancing for three decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Price said she sees a through line between the off-limits attitudes about sex that she and her peers grew up with in the 1950s and the stunted communication habits she recognizes among seniors today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The problem with the way we learned to talk about sex is we learned not to talk about sex,” Price said. “My sex education consisted of how girls get pregnant and why we shouldn't do it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the black-and-white introduction she had to sex as an adolescent, Price said, the '60s and '70s brought more variety. But the communication barriers instilled by earlier generations didn’t disappear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were the foot soldiers of the sexual revolution, but even there we didn’t really know how to ask for what we wanted, what we needed,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Price persevered and formed a sexual identity that has helped give her the satisfying sex life she still enjoys today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11775034\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11775034\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/Joan-Featured-Image-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/Joan-Featured-Image-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/Joan-Featured-Image-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/Joan-Featured-Image-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/Joan-Featured-Image-1200x801.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/Joan-Featured-Image.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Joan Price at her home in Freestone on Aug. 26, 2019. \u003ccite>(Stephanie Lister/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She believes staying active sexually can be a game changer for seniors. And research backs her up: A \u003ca href=\"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2050116118301119?via%3Dihub\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">recent study\u003c/a> from the journal Sexual Medicine found that seniors who experience intimacy more regularly are significantly more content than those who don't.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation='Joan Price, author']'We need to know that we can value ourselves through all the stages of our lives.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to be able to talk out loud about, ‘Hey, I know we generally just talk about grandchildren when we're together but let's talk about something more personal and more interesting: Let's talk about sex,\" Price said. “We don’t even talk to our friends like that in most cases.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And it's not just seniors' emotional well-being that stands to benefit from more transparency around sex. Price also wants them to know about the sexual health risks they’re facing. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.aarp.org/health/conditions-treatments/info-2017/std-exposure-rises-older-adults-fd.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CDC reported\u003c/a> a 20% increase in gonorrhea, syphilis and chlamydia among Americans 45 and older between 2015 and 2016. And, Americans ages 50 and older accounted for \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/hiv/group/age/olderamericans/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">17% of new HIV diagnoses\u003c/a> in 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These numbers emphasize the need for open dialogue between seniors and their doctors about sexual health — one Price says isn’t happening enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Unless we as a generation go to our doctors and say — ‘Doctor, my sex life is important to me, and here's what's interfering with it and I need your help to resolve this' — nothing's going to change,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it’s not just up to seniors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dr. Anna Chodos, who specializes in geriatrics at UCSF, said often doctors take seniors’ sex lives for granted — especially in cases where patients have other, more pressing health issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of times we don't ask and it's just like an ageist problem. And I have many ... times been surprised” by how sexually active they are, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11775056\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11775056\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/RS39148__DSC3439-qut-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/RS39148__DSC3439-qut-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/RS39148__DSC3439-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/RS39148__DSC3439-qut-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/RS39148__DSC3439-qut-1200x801.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/RS39148__DSC3439-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Joan Price leads line dancing students in in Sebastopol. \u003ccite>(Stephanie Lister/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Living Single: Senior Edition\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Price’s new book, \"Sex After Grief,\" charts her path from losing her husband, Robert Rice — who succumbed to cancer eight years after they met in Price’s line dancing class — to finding new love again in her 70s (she met her current partner online a few years ago).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation='Joan Price, author']'We were so vibrant and sexy and strong,” she said. “And I thought, it’s time to write a book about this.'[/pullquote]Price wants to help her readers work through the survivor’s guilt and feelings of disloyalty that they might struggle with as they explore companionship and intimacy with a new partner. As seniors continue to age and lose partners, she wants them to know they’re not alone in these feelings, and also give them permission to start over like she has.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And she knows, as they start testing the waters in the dating pool again, they’re going to find a climate with new norms they’ll need to adjust to: like standards born out of the #MeToo era.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag='seniors' label='More Coverage']Price said that some straight men have said to her: \"I don't know how to talk to women anymore. Used to be I’d have this line, I’d compliment them on their appearance and I could test out whether they like being hugged. Now you're supposed to get permission for every damn thing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And I say, ‘Well, get used to it ... Always get consent. Get enthusiastic consent,' ” Price said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Price is going to keep practicing what she preaches, but her commitment to reframing expectations around aging and sex has broader meaning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We need to know that we can value ourselves through all the stages of our lives, not just think it's now or never when we're young. Not just think, 'Oh my gosh, if I don't get the right partner now while I'm wrinkle-free and desirable, I never will.' That's just not true,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Chances are even if you do have the right partner for now, it may be a different partner later,” she added. “We need ... to look forward to the experience and the wisdom that aging brings.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11775044\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11775044\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/RS39150__DSC3468-qut-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/RS39150__DSC3468-qut-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/RS39150__DSC3468-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/RS39150__DSC3468-qut-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/RS39150__DSC3468-qut-1200x801.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/RS39150__DSC3468-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Joan Price with her \"date mate,\" Mac Marshall, at line dancing class in Sebastopol. They met online a few years ago, and have traveled the world together on Price's senior sex lecture tours. \u003ccite>(Stephanie Lister/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"'We need to know that we can value ourselves through all the stages of our lives, not just think it's now or never when we're young.'","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1569436396,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":33,"wordCount":1364},"headData":{"title":"This 'Sexpert' Wants Seniors to Talk Dirty | KQED","description":"'We need to know that we can value ourselves through all the stages of our lives, not just think it's now or never when we're young.'","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"This 'Sexpert' Wants Seniors to Talk Dirty","datePublished":"2019-09-25T13:30:49.000Z","dateModified":"2019-09-25T18:33:16.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"11775009 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11775009","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2019/09/25/a-new-dr-ruth-for-dr-ruth-this-sexpert-wants-seniors-to-talk-dirty/","disqusTitle":"This 'Sexpert' Wants Seniors to Talk Dirty","audioUrl":"https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/tcrmag/2019/09/JoanPriceSeniorsSex.mp3","audioTrackLength":454,"path":"/news/11775009/a-new-dr-ruth-for-dr-ruth-this-sexpert-wants-seniors-to-talk-dirty","audioDuration":453000,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>When Joan Price hit menopause, she said she became invisible to men. That's because they were looking for someone younger, she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Price was the most accomplished and sure of herself she’d ever been, and the prospect that her sex and love life were over was devastating. Then, a stranger walked into her line dancing class one day. His name was Robert Rice and he was a 64-year-old artist, with blue eyes and white hair.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was smitten. I was in lust,” she said. “When he started to dance, and started rolling his hips, I kept losing my place in the dance I was teaching.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That line dancing class sparked a happy seven-year marriage — and a sexual epiphany that changed the course of Price’s life. \"We were so vibrant and sexy and strong,” she said. “And I thought, it’s time to write a book about this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And she did, but she didn't stop at one: Price has authored several books aiming to demystify seniors’ sex drives and destigmatize their sexuality, earning her nicknames like \"senior sexpert\" and — her favorite — \"wrinkly sex kitten.\" She wants her peers to be able to talk about their sexual needs so they have a shot at the happiness that long-lasting intimacy brings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11775035\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11775035\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/Joan-with-Roberts-artjpg-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/Joan-with-Roberts-artjpg-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/Joan-with-Roberts-artjpg-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/Joan-with-Roberts-artjpg-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/Joan-with-Roberts-artjpg-1200x801.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/Joan-with-Roberts-artjpg.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Joan Price shares a piece of late husband Robert Rice's art that hangs in her bedroom in Freestone. \u003ccite>(Stephanie Lister/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>'We Learned Not to Talk about Sex'\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Price published her latest book about ageless sexuality in August. She travels internationally — most recently to The Netherlands and Montenegro — to lecture about senior sex, and she recently co-produced an \u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/ZGKI_o7LwPE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">explicit instructional sex video for seniors\u003c/a> with an adult film star.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'My sex education consisted of how girls get pregnant and why we shouldn't do it.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Joan Price, author","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Sitting in the living room of her cottage in Freestone, a community near Sebastopol, Price has a flirty frankness, husky voice and flippy hairdo that make it hard not to want to compare her to Jane Fonda. She doesn’t have her own workout video dynasty, but she did become an aerobics devotee in her 30s, and has been teaching line dancing for three decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Price said she sees a through line between the off-limits attitudes about sex that she and her peers grew up with in the 1950s and the stunted communication habits she recognizes among seniors today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The problem with the way we learned to talk about sex is we learned not to talk about sex,” Price said. “My sex education consisted of how girls get pregnant and why we shouldn't do it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the black-and-white introduction she had to sex as an adolescent, Price said, the '60s and '70s brought more variety. But the communication barriers instilled by earlier generations didn’t disappear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were the foot soldiers of the sexual revolution, but even there we didn’t really know how to ask for what we wanted, what we needed,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Price persevered and formed a sexual identity that has helped give her the satisfying sex life she still enjoys today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11775034\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11775034\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/Joan-Featured-Image-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/Joan-Featured-Image-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/Joan-Featured-Image-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/Joan-Featured-Image-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/Joan-Featured-Image-1200x801.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/Joan-Featured-Image.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Joan Price at her home in Freestone on Aug. 26, 2019. \u003ccite>(Stephanie Lister/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She believes staying active sexually can be a game changer for seniors. And research backs her up: A \u003ca href=\"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2050116118301119?via%3Dihub\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">recent study\u003c/a> from the journal Sexual Medicine found that seniors who experience intimacy more regularly are significantly more content than those who don't.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'We need to know that we can value ourselves through all the stages of our lives.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Joan Price, author","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to be able to talk out loud about, ‘Hey, I know we generally just talk about grandchildren when we're together but let's talk about something more personal and more interesting: Let's talk about sex,\" Price said. “We don’t even talk to our friends like that in most cases.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And it's not just seniors' emotional well-being that stands to benefit from more transparency around sex. Price also wants them to know about the sexual health risks they’re facing. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.aarp.org/health/conditions-treatments/info-2017/std-exposure-rises-older-adults-fd.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CDC reported\u003c/a> a 20% increase in gonorrhea, syphilis and chlamydia among Americans 45 and older between 2015 and 2016. And, Americans ages 50 and older accounted for \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/hiv/group/age/olderamericans/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">17% of new HIV diagnoses\u003c/a> in 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These numbers emphasize the need for open dialogue between seniors and their doctors about sexual health — one Price says isn’t happening enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Unless we as a generation go to our doctors and say — ‘Doctor, my sex life is important to me, and here's what's interfering with it and I need your help to resolve this' — nothing's going to change,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it’s not just up to seniors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dr. Anna Chodos, who specializes in geriatrics at UCSF, said often doctors take seniors’ sex lives for granted — especially in cases where patients have other, more pressing health issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of times we don't ask and it's just like an ageist problem. And I have many ... times been surprised” by how sexually active they are, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11775056\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11775056\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/RS39148__DSC3439-qut-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/RS39148__DSC3439-qut-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/RS39148__DSC3439-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/RS39148__DSC3439-qut-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/RS39148__DSC3439-qut-1200x801.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/RS39148__DSC3439-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Joan Price leads line dancing students in in Sebastopol. \u003ccite>(Stephanie Lister/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Living Single: Senior Edition\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Price’s new book, \"Sex After Grief,\" charts her path from losing her husband, Robert Rice — who succumbed to cancer eight years after they met in Price’s line dancing class — to finding new love again in her 70s (she met her current partner online a few years ago).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'We were so vibrant and sexy and strong,” she said. “And I thought, it’s time to write a book about this.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Joan Price, author","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Price wants to help her readers work through the survivor’s guilt and feelings of disloyalty that they might struggle with as they explore companionship and intimacy with a new partner. As seniors continue to age and lose partners, she wants them to know they’re not alone in these feelings, and also give them permission to start over like she has.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And she knows, as they start testing the waters in the dating pool again, they’re going to find a climate with new norms they’ll need to adjust to: like standards born out of the #MeToo era.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"tag":"seniors","label":"More Coverage "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Price said that some straight men have said to her: \"I don't know how to talk to women anymore. Used to be I’d have this line, I’d compliment them on their appearance and I could test out whether they like being hugged. Now you're supposed to get permission for every damn thing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And I say, ‘Well, get used to it ... Always get consent. Get enthusiastic consent,' ” Price said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Price is going to keep practicing what she preaches, but her commitment to reframing expectations around aging and sex has broader meaning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We need to know that we can value ourselves through all the stages of our lives, not just think it's now or never when we're young. Not just think, 'Oh my gosh, if I don't get the right partner now while I'm wrinkle-free and desirable, I never will.' That's just not true,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Chances are even if you do have the right partner for now, it may be a different partner later,” she added. “We need ... to look forward to the experience and the wisdom that aging brings.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11775044\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11775044\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/RS39150__DSC3468-qut-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/RS39150__DSC3468-qut-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/RS39150__DSC3468-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/RS39150__DSC3468-qut-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/RS39150__DSC3468-qut-1200x801.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/RS39150__DSC3468-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Joan Price with her \"date mate,\" Mac Marshall, at line dancing class in Sebastopol. They met online a few years ago, and have traveled the world together on Price's senior sex lecture tours. \u003ccite>(Stephanie Lister/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11775009/a-new-dr-ruth-for-dr-ruth-this-sexpert-wants-seniors-to-talk-dirty","authors":["11583"],"programs":["news_72"],"categories":["news_457","news_8"],"tags":["news_22072","news_25798","news_2081","news_3136","news_5850"],"featImg":"news_11775052","label":"news_72"},"news_11746133":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11746133","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11746133","score":null,"sort":[1557441778000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"state-makes-sex-ed-guidelines-more-inclusive-from-gender-fluidity-to-lgbtq-issues","title":"State Makes Sex-Ed Guidelines More Inclusive — From Gender Fluidity to LGBTQ Issues","publishDate":1557441778,"format":"standard","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>California has overhauled its sex education guidance for public school teachers, encouraging them to talk about gender identity with kindergartners and give advice to LGBTQ teenagers for navigating relationships and having safe sex.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='small' align='right' citation='Tatyana Dzyubak, an elementary school teacher']'I shouldn't be teaching that stuff. That's for parents to do.'[/pullquote]LGBTQ advocates praised the new recommendations for giving attention to a community that is often left out of sex education policies. But some parents and conservative groups assailed the more than 700-page document as an assault on parental rights, arguing it exposes children to ideas about sexuality and gender that should be taught at home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some school districts in the Bay Area, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11666223/fremont-ends-sex-ed-for-fourth-through-six-graders-after-curriculum-controversy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">like Fremont\u003c/a>, have grappled in recent years with implementing sex ed instruction about LGBTQ people, transgender individuals and gender fluidity, as well as about addressing the emotional aspects of sex and sexual activity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The guidance approved Wednesday by the California State Board of Education does not require educators to teach anything. It is designed as a guide for teachers to meet state standards on health education, such as nutrition, physical activity and combating alcohol and drug abuse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it's the parts about sex that got the most attention during a public hearing Wednesday in Sacramento. The framework tells teachers that students in kindergarten can identify as transgender and offers tips for how to talk about that, adding \"the goal is not to cause confusion about the gender of the child but to develop an awareness that other expressions exist.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It gives tips for discussing masturbation with middle-schoolers, including telling them it is not physically harmful, and for discussing puberty with transgender teens that creates \"an environment that is inclusive and challenges binary concepts about gender.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"As the parent of three kids, we're on a careful trajectory here not to be introducing things as though they are endorsed in some way,\" board president Linda Darling-Hammond said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='small' align='right' citation='Phoenix Ali Rajah, 16, a transgender boy']'I'm never taught about how to be in a relationship with gay men. ... (the) conversation with sex starts from a different place.'[/pullquote]But Patricia Reyes, a 45-year-old mother of six, doesn't believe that. She traveled more than 400 miles from her home in Southern California to attend Wednesday's hearing, bringing along her 4-year-old daughter, Angeline, who held a sign that said: \"Protect my innocence and childhood.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's just scary what they are going to be teaching. It's pornography,\" Reyes said. \"If this continues, I'm not sending them to school.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Much of the pushback focused not on the framework, but on the books it recommends students read. An earlier draft of the document suggested high schoolers read the book: \"S.E.X.: The All-You-Need-to-Know Sexuality Guide to Get You Through Your Teens and Twenties.\" It includes descriptions of anal sex, bondage and other sexual activity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several parents read from the book and held it up so board members could see the pictures, which many described as \"obscene.\" The board responded by removing the book, plus a few others, from the guidance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag='sex-ed' label='More Coverage of Sex Ed in California.']\"It's important to know the board is not trying to ban books. We're not saying that the books are bad,\" said board member Feliza I. Ortiz-Licon. \"But the removal will help avoid the misunderstanding that California is mandating the use of these books.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 200 people signed up to speak during a public hearing on Wednesday that lasted for several hours. Supporters and opponents mingled in the lobby of the California Department of Education, where parents handed out snacks to appease their young children while waiting for their number to appear on dry-erase board telling them it was their turn to get one minute of time at the microphone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Speakers included 16-year-old Phoenix Ali Rajah, a transgender boy who said he is rarely taught information for people like him during sex education classes at his Los Angeles-area high school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm never taught about how to be in a relationship with gay men,\" he said, adding that the \"conversation with sex starts from a different place.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michele McNutt, 49, focused on the framework's attention to healthy relationships and consent, something she said is never too soon to teach her two daughters in public school, ages 11 and 9.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='small' align='right' citation='Michele McNutt, parent']'If you don't give kids accurate information about their own body ... how are they able to make good choices?'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Withholding medically accurate, scientific information from them actually causes more harm and does not actually protect innocence,\" she said while wearing a purple T-shirt that read \"protect trans students.\" \"If you don't give kids accurate information about their own body ... how are they able to make good choices?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The guidance was developed with input from teachers across the state, and several spoke in favor of the recommendations on Wednesday. But not Tatyana Dzyubak, an elementary school teacher in the Sacramento area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I shouldn't be teaching that stuff,\" she said. \"That's for parents to do.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED's Miranda Leitsinger contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Some parents and conservative groups assailed the board's guidance as an assault on parental rights, arguing it exposes children to ideas about sexuality and gender that should be taught at home.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1557515482,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":23,"wordCount":896},"headData":{"title":"State Makes Sex-Ed Guidelines More Inclusive — From Gender Fluidity to LGBTQ Issues | KQED","description":"Some parents and conservative groups assailed the board's guidance as an assault on parental rights, arguing it exposes children to ideas about sexuality and gender that should be taught at home.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"State Makes Sex-Ed Guidelines More Inclusive — From Gender Fluidity to LGBTQ Issues","datePublished":"2019-05-09T22:42:58.000Z","dateModified":"2019-05-10T19:11:22.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"11746133 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11746133","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2019/05/09/state-makes-sex-ed-guidelines-more-inclusive-from-gender-fluidity-to-lgbtq-issues/","disqusTitle":"State Makes Sex-Ed Guidelines More Inclusive — From Gender Fluidity to LGBTQ Issues","audioUrl":"https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/RDnews/2019/05/SturlaSexEdGuidelines.mp3","nprByline":"\u003cstrong>Associated Press\u003c/strong>","audioTrackLength":40,"path":"/news/11746133/state-makes-sex-ed-guidelines-more-inclusive-from-gender-fluidity-to-lgbtq-issues","audioDuration":40000,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>California has overhauled its sex education guidance for public school teachers, encouraging them to talk about gender identity with kindergartners and give advice to LGBTQ teenagers for navigating relationships and having safe sex.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'I shouldn't be teaching that stuff. That's for parents to do.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"small","align":"right","citation":"Tatyana Dzyubak, an elementary school teacher","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>LGBTQ advocates praised the new recommendations for giving attention to a community that is often left out of sex education policies. But some parents and conservative groups assailed the more than 700-page document as an assault on parental rights, arguing it exposes children to ideas about sexuality and gender that should be taught at home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some school districts in the Bay Area, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11666223/fremont-ends-sex-ed-for-fourth-through-six-graders-after-curriculum-controversy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">like Fremont\u003c/a>, have grappled in recent years with implementing sex ed instruction about LGBTQ people, transgender individuals and gender fluidity, as well as about addressing the emotional aspects of sex and sexual activity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The guidance approved Wednesday by the California State Board of Education does not require educators to teach anything. It is designed as a guide for teachers to meet state standards on health education, such as nutrition, physical activity and combating alcohol and drug abuse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it's the parts about sex that got the most attention during a public hearing Wednesday in Sacramento. The framework tells teachers that students in kindergarten can identify as transgender and offers tips for how to talk about that, adding \"the goal is not to cause confusion about the gender of the child but to develop an awareness that other expressions exist.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It gives tips for discussing masturbation with middle-schoolers, including telling them it is not physically harmful, and for discussing puberty with transgender teens that creates \"an environment that is inclusive and challenges binary concepts about gender.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"As the parent of three kids, we're on a careful trajectory here not to be introducing things as though they are endorsed in some way,\" board president Linda Darling-Hammond said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'I'm never taught about how to be in a relationship with gay men. ... (the) conversation with sex starts from a different place.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"small","align":"right","citation":"Phoenix Ali Rajah, 16, a transgender boy","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>But Patricia Reyes, a 45-year-old mother of six, doesn't believe that. She traveled more than 400 miles from her home in Southern California to attend Wednesday's hearing, bringing along her 4-year-old daughter, Angeline, who held a sign that said: \"Protect my innocence and childhood.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's just scary what they are going to be teaching. It's pornography,\" Reyes said. \"If this continues, I'm not sending them to school.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Much of the pushback focused not on the framework, but on the books it recommends students read. An earlier draft of the document suggested high schoolers read the book: \"S.E.X.: The All-You-Need-to-Know Sexuality Guide to Get You Through Your Teens and Twenties.\" It includes descriptions of anal sex, bondage and other sexual activity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several parents read from the book and held it up so board members could see the pictures, which many described as \"obscene.\" The board responded by removing the book, plus a few others, from the guidance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"tag":"sex-ed","label":"More Coverage of Sex Ed in California. "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\"It's important to know the board is not trying to ban books. We're not saying that the books are bad,\" said board member Feliza I. Ortiz-Licon. \"But the removal will help avoid the misunderstanding that California is mandating the use of these books.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 200 people signed up to speak during a public hearing on Wednesday that lasted for several hours. Supporters and opponents mingled in the lobby of the California Department of Education, where parents handed out snacks to appease their young children while waiting for their number to appear on dry-erase board telling them it was their turn to get one minute of time at the microphone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Speakers included 16-year-old Phoenix Ali Rajah, a transgender boy who said he is rarely taught information for people like him during sex education classes at his Los Angeles-area high school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm never taught about how to be in a relationship with gay men,\" he said, adding that the \"conversation with sex starts from a different place.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michele McNutt, 49, focused on the framework's attention to healthy relationships and consent, something she said is never too soon to teach her two daughters in public school, ages 11 and 9.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'If you don't give kids accurate information about their own body ... how are they able to make good choices?'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"small","align":"right","citation":"Michele McNutt, parent","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Withholding medically accurate, scientific information from them actually causes more harm and does not actually protect innocence,\" she said while wearing a purple T-shirt that read \"protect trans students.\" \"If you don't give kids accurate information about their own body ... how are they able to make good choices?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The guidance was developed with input from teachers across the state, and several spoke in favor of the recommendations on Wednesday. But not Tatyana Dzyubak, an elementary school teacher in the Sacramento area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I shouldn't be teaching that stuff,\" she said. \"That's for parents to do.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED's Miranda Leitsinger contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11746133/state-makes-sex-ed-guidelines-more-inclusive-from-gender-fluidity-to-lgbtq-issues","authors":["byline_news_11746133"],"programs":["news_72"],"categories":["news_18540","news_457","news_8"],"tags":["news_19345","news_22875","news_5850","news_5652"],"featImg":"news_11746201","label":"news_72"},"news_11666223":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11666223","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11666223","score":null,"sort":[1525389749000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"fremont-ends-sex-ed-for-fourth-through-six-graders-after-curriculum-controversy","title":"Fremont Ends Sex Ed for Fourth Through Six Graders After Curriculum Controversy","publishDate":1525389749,"format":"audio","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updated Thursday, May 24, 2018\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Early this morning, the Fremont Unified School District Board of Education voted 3-2 to approve the re-introduction of sex ed in 6th grade, under the new curriculum. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There still remains no sex ed in 4th and 5th grades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original Post:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This post has been updated to add comments from U.S. Rep. Ro Khanna. You can listen to a version of this story on The Bay podcast. \u003ca href=\"http://bit.ly/thebaykqed\">Click here to subscribe.\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The teaching of sex ed in fourth through sixth grades has been eliminated in the city of Fremont after months of controversy over a proposed new curriculum to comply with state law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Fremont Unified School District Board of Education voted 3-2 early Thursday to scrap the sex education program for fourth through sixth graders. Controversial content included addressing the emotional aspects of sex and sexual activity; the possibility that as adults, people may have more than one sexual partner; and inclusive LGBTQ lessons, like on transgender individuals and gender fluidity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Up until the vote, sex ed had been taught in Fremont schools to fifth and sixth graders since the 1980s, and to fourth graders since 2011. The board approved the update to sex ed in seventh through ninth grades, which they were essentially required to do to comply with the 2016 California Healthy Youth Act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The majority of people here wanted to have sex education for fourth, fifth and sixth grade,” said school board member Larry Sweeney, who voted against the new sex ed instruction. \"We just couldn’t agree on the content, so the consequence is now there’s no sex education for fourth, fifth and sixth grades.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hundreds of parents, along with some teachers and current and former students, flooded four Fremont Unified school board meetings in the past two months, deeply divided over how to teach students as young as fourth grade about sex and sexuality. Amid the dispute, some opponents and supporters have lodged accusations of racism, homophobia and transphobia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My religion prescribes that all human beings are created in the image of God, and gender is an essential characteristic of individual identity and purpose,” said parent Teri Topham, who opposed the new curriculum because she felt it told young children that they could choose their gender.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You want your children to follow your value system,\" she said. \"And the burden lies with education system to be as careful as possible.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But pediatrician and Fremont parent Sonia Khan said educators should follow the data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s very difficult to deal with the idea that there’s a large volume of people who feel that their opinions are as valid as facts,\" Khan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As an American Muslim, Khan said she was sensitive to diverse religious beliefs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s distressing to me to see parents of socially conservative -- with a small c -- background, not appreciate that what they are trying to dispense with is a critical tool for their own children to maintain the kind of abstinence that they are proponents of,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Khan said she was also concerned by the spread of misinformation in the debate, including some more explicit imagery and language being presented as part of the lesson plan -- when it was suggested material for parents -- not children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sex ed was a “critical tool that’s being dispensed with in the political fight and the belief that somehow there are liberals out there who are trying to sexualize your children,” Khan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S. congressman for the area, Rep. Ro Khanna, decried the decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The repercussions of this are drastic: the board not only voted to reject CHYA compliant education but eliminated any sexual education for children at all,\" he said in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/RoKhannaUSA/posts/1725648827481420\">post on Facebook\u003c/a>. \"Sex education is critical for the safety of individuals of all ages, and this policy will silence voices, put students in danger, and increase overall risk in our communities.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some parents had objected to specific teachings, like one in the \u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1QNuOG2u2oPVzM0b3J4MlJheWc/view\">grade six curriculum\u003c/a> that detailed a couple who are dating and making out: The boy lifts up the girls shirt to touch her breast. She pulls her shirt back down and keeps kissing him, but as he keeps pressuring her for more, she says \"no\" and leaves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parent Vijay Ghanta said that example was too explicit for children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Teaching appropriate sexual behaviour starts at home,\" Ghanta said, adding that he believed a loving and respectful relationship should be modeled by parents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"My son might see me and my wife argue and fight, but he also sees us get together at the end of the day and talk our differences out. Where is that being shown?\" he asked of the new curriculum. \"Only thing that is shown here is how to act in a sexually explicit fashion, which is wrong.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fremont Unified teacher Sherea Westra said the contested sixth grade teaching taught a necessary lesson about consent that is now more important than ever in this #MeToo moment: \"You can't say you have to wait until they are in college to get this information -- or even high school.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"And if they are not getting it,\" she added, \"they are going to go elsewhere and get inappropriate information or misinformation, and then we are going to be in they cycle we've been in for years where there is tons of sexual harassment and abuse.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A number of students were on board with the proposed sex ed plan and attended school board meetings to show their support, including LGBTQ teens who said they'd been bullied because of a lack of awareness around gender and sexual identities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leena Yin, a Fremont schools graduate who teaches sexual health in the East Bay, presented a petition to the board with more than 1,000 signatures from students who supported the new sex ed curriculum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The fact that what is best for the students and what the students are asking for was ignored is the most frustrating part of this whole process,” Yin said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Following the vote, the school board said it would convene a panel of parents and experts to try to reach a consensus on sex ed instruction that respects the beliefs of parents and adheres to state standards for next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2015/sex-ed-to-become-mandatory-in-grades-7-12-in-california/88248\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">California Healthy Youth Act\u003c/a> set some of the most progressive sex ed requirements in the country: The curriculum includes instruction on same-sex relationships and different gender identities, with additional lessons on consent and sexual assault.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The law makes sexual education a requirement starting in seventh grade. When sex ed is taught at earlier ages, the law requires those lessons follow state guidelines. That's what Fremont Unified did when they drafted the new lesson plans for fourth through sixth grade, said Denise Herrmann, associate superintendent of instruction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we used is the document that’s published by the state of California, that’s endorsed by pediatricians and by experts on puberty, health and development, to help us make those grade level placements,” Herrmann said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other Bay Area school districts have had challenges implementing the new law, too: Last year, the nearby Cupertino Union School District backed off of making a \u003ca href=\"https://www.refinery29.com/2017/04/148151/cupertino-school-district-sex-ed-protest\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">similar update\u003c/a> to its curriculum after a debate like the one in Fremont erupted.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The school community in Fremont has been deeply divided over how to teach students as young as fourth grade about sex and sexuality. 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Ro Khanna. You can listen to a version of this story on The Bay podcast. \u003ca href=\"http://bit.ly/thebaykqed\">Click here to subscribe.\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The teaching of sex ed in fourth through sixth grades has been eliminated in the city of Fremont after months of controversy over a proposed new curriculum to comply with state law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Fremont Unified School District Board of Education voted 3-2 early Thursday to scrap the sex education program for fourth through sixth graders. Controversial content included addressing the emotional aspects of sex and sexual activity; the possibility that as adults, people may have more than one sexual partner; and inclusive LGBTQ lessons, like on transgender individuals and gender fluidity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Up until the vote, sex ed had been taught in Fremont schools to fifth and sixth graders since the 1980s, and to fourth graders since 2011. The board approved the update to sex ed in seventh through ninth grades, which they were essentially required to do to comply with the 2016 California Healthy Youth Act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The majority of people here wanted to have sex education for fourth, fifth and sixth grade,” said school board member Larry Sweeney, who voted against the new sex ed instruction. \"We just couldn’t agree on the content, so the consequence is now there’s no sex education for fourth, fifth and sixth grades.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hundreds of parents, along with some teachers and current and former students, flooded four Fremont Unified school board meetings in the past two months, deeply divided over how to teach students as young as fourth grade about sex and sexuality. Amid the dispute, some opponents and supporters have lodged accusations of racism, homophobia and transphobia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My religion prescribes that all human beings are created in the image of God, and gender is an essential characteristic of individual identity and purpose,” said parent Teri Topham, who opposed the new curriculum because she felt it told young children that they could choose their gender.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You want your children to follow your value system,\" she said. \"And the burden lies with education system to be as careful as possible.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But pediatrician and Fremont parent Sonia Khan said educators should follow the data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s very difficult to deal with the idea that there’s a large volume of people who feel that their opinions are as valid as facts,\" Khan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As an American Muslim, Khan said she was sensitive to diverse religious beliefs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s distressing to me to see parents of socially conservative -- with a small c -- background, not appreciate that what they are trying to dispense with is a critical tool for their own children to maintain the kind of abstinence that they are proponents of,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Khan said she was also concerned by the spread of misinformation in the debate, including some more explicit imagery and language being presented as part of the lesson plan -- when it was suggested material for parents -- not children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sex ed was a “critical tool that’s being dispensed with in the political fight and the belief that somehow there are liberals out there who are trying to sexualize your children,” Khan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S. congressman for the area, Rep. Ro Khanna, decried the decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The repercussions of this are drastic: the board not only voted to reject CHYA compliant education but eliminated any sexual education for children at all,\" he said in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/RoKhannaUSA/posts/1725648827481420\">post on Facebook\u003c/a>. \"Sex education is critical for the safety of individuals of all ages, and this policy will silence voices, put students in danger, and increase overall risk in our communities.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some parents had objected to specific teachings, like one in the \u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1QNuOG2u2oPVzM0b3J4MlJheWc/view\">grade six curriculum\u003c/a> that detailed a couple who are dating and making out: The boy lifts up the girls shirt to touch her breast. She pulls her shirt back down and keeps kissing him, but as he keeps pressuring her for more, she says \"no\" and leaves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parent Vijay Ghanta said that example was too explicit for children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Teaching appropriate sexual behaviour starts at home,\" Ghanta said, adding that he believed a loving and respectful relationship should be modeled by parents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"My son might see me and my wife argue and fight, but he also sees us get together at the end of the day and talk our differences out. Where is that being shown?\" he asked of the new curriculum. \"Only thing that is shown here is how to act in a sexually explicit fashion, which is wrong.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fremont Unified teacher Sherea Westra said the contested sixth grade teaching taught a necessary lesson about consent that is now more important than ever in this #MeToo moment: \"You can't say you have to wait until they are in college to get this information -- or even high school.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"And if they are not getting it,\" she added, \"they are going to go elsewhere and get inappropriate information or misinformation, and then we are going to be in they cycle we've been in for years where there is tons of sexual harassment and abuse.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A number of students were on board with the proposed sex ed plan and attended school board meetings to show their support, including LGBTQ teens who said they'd been bullied because of a lack of awareness around gender and sexual identities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leena Yin, a Fremont schools graduate who teaches sexual health in the East Bay, presented a petition to the board with more than 1,000 signatures from students who supported the new sex ed curriculum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The fact that what is best for the students and what the students are asking for was ignored is the most frustrating part of this whole process,” Yin said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Following the vote, the school board said it would convene a panel of parents and experts to try to reach a consensus on sex ed instruction that respects the beliefs of parents and adheres to state standards for next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2015/sex-ed-to-become-mandatory-in-grades-7-12-in-california/88248\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">California Healthy Youth Act\u003c/a> set some of the most progressive sex ed requirements in the country: The curriculum includes instruction on same-sex relationships and different gender identities, with additional lessons on consent and sexual assault.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The law makes sexual education a requirement starting in seventh grade. When sex ed is taught at earlier ages, the law requires those lessons follow state guidelines. That's what Fremont Unified did when they drafted the new lesson plans for fourth through sixth grade, said Denise Herrmann, associate superintendent of instruction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we used is the document that’s published by the state of California, that’s endorsed by pediatricians and by experts on puberty, health and development, to help us make those grade level placements,” Herrmann said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other Bay Area school districts have had challenges implementing the new law, too: Last year, the nearby Cupertino Union School District backed off of making a \u003ca href=\"https://www.refinery29.com/2017/04/148151/cupertino-school-district-sex-ed-protest\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">similar update\u003c/a> to its curriculum after a debate like the one in Fremont erupted.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11666223/fremont-ends-sex-ed-for-fourth-through-six-graders-after-curriculum-controversy","authors":["7239"],"programs":["news_72"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_23146","news_22875","news_5850"],"featImg":"news_11666259","label":"news_72"},"news_11666042":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11666042","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11666042","score":null,"sort":[1525306365000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"sex-ed-battle-in-fremont","title":"Sex Ed Battle in Fremont","publishDate":1525306365,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Mark Fiore: Drawn to the Bay | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":18515,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"http://bit.ly/fiorefremontsexed\">battle over sex ed is roiling Fremont\u003c/a> over how the Fremont Unified School District should or should not teach students about sex and sexuality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tempers are high as some parents think teaching sex education beginning in fourth grade is inappropriate, while others think it is essential.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The school board is attempting to update its sex ed curriculum to be in compliance with the California Healthy Youth Act, one of the most progressive set of sex ed requirements in the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parents can opt their kids out of the sex education course.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"A battle over sex ed is roiling Fremont over how the school district should or should not teach students about sex and sexuality.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1525306365,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":6,"wordCount":94},"headData":{"title":"Sex Ed Battle in Fremont | 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Fremont","path":"/news/11666042/sex-ed-battle-in-fremont","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"http://bit.ly/fiorefremontsexed\">battle over sex ed is roiling Fremont\u003c/a> over how the Fremont Unified School District should or should not teach students about sex and sexuality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tempers are high as some parents think teaching sex education beginning in fourth grade is inappropriate, while others think it is essential.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The school board is attempting to update its sex ed curriculum to be in compliance with the California Healthy Youth Act, one of the most progressive set of sex ed requirements in the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parents can opt their kids out of the sex education course.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11666042/sex-ed-battle-in-fremont","authors":["3236"],"series":["news_18515"],"categories":["news_18540","news_457","news_8","news_13"],"tags":["news_20150","news_66","news_23146","news_20949","news_5850","news_23144","news_23145"],"featImg":"news_11666052","label":"news_18515"},"news_11664368":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11664368","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11664368","score":null,"sort":[1525223447000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"how-far-should-parents-dictate-school-sex-ed-debate-roils-bay-area-community","title":"How Far Should Parents Dictate School Sex Ed? Debate Roils Bay Area Community","publishDate":1525223447,"format":"standard","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003ci>This story has been updated with the school board vote early Thursday and to add comments\u003cem> from U.S. Rep. Ro Khanna\u003c/em>. You can listen to a version of this story on The Bay podcast. \u003c/i>\u003ca style=\"font-style: italic\" href=\"http://bit.ly/thebaykqed\">Click here to subscribe\u003c/a>\u003ci>.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The teaching of sex ed in fourth through sixth grades has been eliminated in the city of Fremont after months of controversy over a proposed new curriculum to comply with state law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Fremont Unified School District Board of Education voted early Thursday to scrap the sex ed program for fourth through sixth graders. Controversial content included addressing the emotional aspects of sex and sexual activity; the possibility that as adults, people may have more than one sexual partner; and inclusive LGBTQ lessons, like on transgender individuals and gender fluidity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Up until the vote, sex ed had been taught in Fremont schools to fifth and sixth graders since the 1980s, and to fourth graders since 2011. The board approved the update to sex ed in seventh through ninth grades — which they were essentially required to do to comply with the California Healthy Youth Act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The majority of people here wanted to have sex education for fourth, fifth and sixth grade,” said school board member Larry Sweeney, who voted against the \u003ca href=\"https://www.boarddocs.com/ca/fremont/Board.nsf/public\">new sex ed instruction\u003c/a>. \"We just couldn’t agree on the content so the consequence is now there’s no sex education for fourth, fifth and sixth grades.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hundreds of parents, along with some teachers and current and former students, have flooded four Fremont Unified school board meetings in the past two months, deeply divided over how to teach students as young as fourth grade about sex and sexuality. Amid the dispute, some opponents and supporters have lodged accusations of racism, homophobia and transphobia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This curriculum strives to combat and confront things like sexual assault and bigotry,\" said a supporter, parent Pallavi Somusetty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s too much details for them to digest,” countered Sunitha Devi Gopalan, a parent opposing the new instruction. “It’s actually going to kill their innocence, that’s what I think.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leena Yin, a Fremont schools graduate who teaches sexual health in the East Bay, had presented to the board a petition with more than 1,000 signatures from students who supported the new sex ed curriculum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The fact that what is best for the students and what the students are asking for was ignored is the most frustrating part of this whole process,” Yin said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11666223/fremont-ends-sex-ed-for-fourth-through-six-graders-after-curriculum-controversy\">Following the vote\u003c/a>, the school board said it would convene a panel of parents and experts to try to reach a consensus on a sex ed curriculum that respects the beliefs of parents and adheres to state standards for next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S. congressman for the area, Rep. Ro Khanna, decried the decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The repercussions of this are drastic: the board not only voted to reject CHYA compliant education but eliminated any sexual education for children at all,\" he said in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/RoKhannaUSA/posts/1725648827481420\">post on Facebook\u003c/a>. \"Sex education is critical for the safety of individuals of all ages, and this policy will silence voices, put students in danger, and increase overall risk in our communities.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Reaching Compliance\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rolled out in 2016, the \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2015/sex-ed-to-become-mandatory-in-grades-7-12-in-california/88248\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">California Healthy Youth Act\u003c/span>\u003c/a> set some of the most progressive sex ed requirements in the country: The curriculum includes instruction on same-sex relationships and different gender identities, with additional lessons on consent and sexual assault.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The law makes sexual education a requirement starting in seventh grade. When sex ed is taught at earlier ages, the law requires those lessons follow state guidelines. That's what Fremont Unified did when they drafted the new lesson plans for fourth through sixth grade, said Denise Herrmann, associate superintendent of instruction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we used is the document that’s published by the state of California, that’s endorsed by pediatricians and by experts on puberty health and development, to help us make those grade level placements,” Herrmann said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>School board members had appeared divided over the issue, too, with some seeming to lean toward supporting parental control and others stressing the need for comprehensive sex ed. Many of the board members expressed hope they could find a viable compromise, but as tensions had flared, that had seemed less and less likely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You are elected by us, the parents in this room, not by social justice warriors, who aggressively promote their ideological agendas,\" one parent, Tony Szu, told the school board at its April meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other Bay Area school districts have had challenges implementing the new law, too: Last year, the nearby Cupertino Union School District backed off of making a \u003ca href=\"https://www.refinery29.com/2017/04/148151/cupertino-school-district-sex-ed-protest\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">similar update\u003c/span>\u003c/a> to its curriculum after a debate like the one in Fremont erupted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>‘Very Inappropriate’? Or, ‘We Shouldn’t Turn a Blind Eye’?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11666259\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11666259\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30657_Fremont_SD-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Parents and students at a Fremont school board meeting debating sex ed on Wednesday, May 2, 2018. \u003ccite>(Sandhya Dirks/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Parents like Danny Hsu said Fremont schools had crossed a line with the new sex ed proposal. His son, who is in fifth grade, was too young for these explicit details, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some of the stuff that they talk about is, in my opinion, very, very inappropriate,” Hsu said. “In fourth grade, they are going to start talking about erections, they are going to talk about wet dreams. In fifth grade, they actually talk about if the male and female have sexual intercourse then the penis is inserted into the vagina.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though parents could opt their kids out of the course, students can find out what is being taught, said Sylvia Wong, whose daughter is in sixth grade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She told me one day, 'Mom, I know all these things already. Because kids who attended the class talk about things like, it’s so gross, that just took away my innocence,'” Wong said. “When I heard that I was really angry. Because you think that you can opt out and protect your child, and raise her up in a more traditional and conservative way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They even talk about love-making positions,” she added. “They talk about sexual intercourse, anal sex. These things, I’m even ashamed to talk about it. I’m 45 years old, I don’t want my 10-year-old girl to be involved in that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters of the new sex ed curriculum said talking about sex early can decrease sexual activity among young people. Pallavi Somusetty, who grew up attending Fremont public schools, said she wishes she had sex ed instruction earlier and she wants it for her children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Sex ed happened two years too late for me\" -- two years, she said, after she got her period.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lessons about consent, included in the new curriculum, came far too late for her best friend, who she said was sexually abused by a South Asian Fremont man in the 1990s. Somusetty said lessons about good touch and bad touch, far from stealing her friend’s innocence, might have protected it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We shouldn't turn a blind eye to these things, just because a minority of parents, some from my own South Asian community, want to pretend that they don't exist,\" Somusetty said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Has Racism Entered the Debate?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The large majority of parents protesting the new sex ed curriculum were South Asian-American or Chinese-American. About 70 percent of students in the Fremont Unified School District are of Asian descent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the debate has grown more heated, parent Annie He said she was “starting to fear (for) my family’s safety.\" She said a post on a public forum about the sex ed instruction attacked \"third world style people\" for creating taboos about sex ed. As a Chinese immigrant, she said she felt it was a direct attack against her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I am highly educated,\" Annie He said. She thinks racism has taken over the debate, and singled out South Asian-American and Chinese-American parents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parents like Annie He said they weren't opposed to sex education. But they fear this curriculum teaches kids too much, too soon. “We just want to protect our children,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>‘I Wish Sex Ed Was Made Available to the Parents Here’\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11659026\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11659026\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/IMG_4465-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/IMG_4465-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/IMG_4465-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/IMG_4465-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/IMG_4465-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/IMG_4465-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/IMG_4465-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/IMG_4465-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/IMG_4465-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/IMG_4465-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sameer Jha and his mother, Charmaine Hussain, at the Fremont Unified School District Board meeting \u003ccite>(Sandhya Dirks/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Another key part of the debate has been including topics about the LGBTQ community -- like diverse sexual and gender identities -- in the curriculum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cadiversityconference.com/2018/norcal/bio-sameer-jha.php\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sameer Jha\u003c/span>\u003c/a>, 16, joined the board meetings with his mom to back inclusive sex ed instruction. Jha said he was bullied constantly in elementary and middle school in Fremont for being feminine and for acting and looking different. It wasn't until after he left Fremont Unified, and started to commute to a private high school in Oakland, that he could come out to his parents and friends as queer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was very scary,” he said. “Being LGBTQ plus was seen as taboo and I was the first person to come out in my local South Asian community here in Fremont.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At first, his mother said she had a hard time with his identity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We had so many fears, so many biases,\" Charmaine Hussain said. \"There’s so much stigma in our community.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now Hussain is her son’s biggest cheerleader. As a Pakistani immigrant, she said she had to learn what it meant to be queer. Before her son came out, she said, “I didn’t even know that word existed.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I wish sex ed was made available to the parents here,” she said. “I look at the sea of parents who are here in opposition because they’re so fearful of diversity and it makes me really realize how important what my son is doing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jha said one of the reasons the inclusive sex ed curriculum is so important is to have kids talk about sexuality -- queer and otherwise. He said lessons like this may have prevented his being bullied.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some parents opposed to the new curriculum said they didn’t want their kids to be taught about sexual and gender identity, while others said they didn’t want to exclude these topics but felt it was too early for their kids to learn about them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parent Taft Ding said he worried about language in the curriculum telling fourth graders they get to decide who they are -- echoing the concerns some parents had about lessons on transgender identity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To tell a girl, an innocent girl, that she is a boy, is evil,” Ding said. “It’s more than wrong.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parents like Salil Joshi said his objections had nothing to do with excluding the LGBTQ community -- it’s the content matter that concerns him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At the seventh grade there is a possibility that oral and anal sex may be discussed in class, I don’t understand why that is necessary,” Joshi said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked about this objection to the curriculum, Anthony Prickett, a former Fremont student who has returned to support the sex ed update said, \"That is how queer people have sex.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A Hate Group Involved?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A representative from \u003ca href=\"https://www.pacificjustice.org/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Pacific Justice Institute\u003c/span>\u003c/a> (PJI), which has been labeled a hate group by the \u003ca href=\"https://www.splcenter.org/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Southern Poverty Law Center\u003c/span>\u003c/a> for its anti-gay rhetoric and support of gay conversion therapy, has joined some of the school board meetings\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PJI President Brad Dacus said his group got involved when a parent reached out to them with concerns over the new curriculum. Dacus, who said PJI isn’t a hate group, told KQED that they are concerned with parental rights and freedom of speech and religion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dacus said his group was monitoring the discussion and awaiting the school board’s decision. PJI has previously weighed in on various school debates in the Bay Area: It took credit for convincing the \u003ca href=\"https://www.pacificjustice.org/press-releases/pji-convinces-school-district-to-wait-with-regard-to-sex-ed-curriculum\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Cupertino Union School District\u003c/span>\u003c/a> to hold off on their sex ed curriculum update last year. And, in Alameda County in 2009, PJI fought against anti-bullying lessons in school, lessons they refer to on their website as part of a \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\"\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.pacificjustice.org/press-releases/parents-take-a-beating-from-school-district-court-in-anti-bullying-case\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">pro-homosexual\" curriculum\u003c/span>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.schoolhealthcenters.org/healthlearning/reproductivehealth/sexual-health-education/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The ACLU of Northern California\u003c/span>\u003c/a> has been watching the sex ed debate, too, on the side supporting the new curriculum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Debates over acceptance of LGBTQ people aren’t new to Fremont -- nor are heated school board meetings. In 2010, some \u003ca href=\"https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2010/05/14/fremont-school-board-draws-ire-for-postponing-harvey-milk-day-recognition/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">parents protested\u003c/span>\u003c/a> over the creation of a Harvey Milk Day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal Jones Larisch, an 18 year old who identifies as a non-binary transgender person, has been coming to Fremont school board meetings since they were young.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I've been booed when I've gone up and talked about my identity, and I've been bullied in school because of my identity,\" Jones Larisch said. \"It is really devastating going through high school in this area.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the Harvey Milk controversy flared, they remember a sign someone held up reading: \"Milk was a pervert.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But things are getting better, Jones Larisch said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The board meetings used to be more hostile than they are right now,\" Jones Larisch said. \"Though it’s not perfect, the climate in that room has changed significantly.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>'These Are Very Curious Minds'\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parent Mina Naveed said she liked the current curriculum but is worried that the new one would teach kids about more than puberty: It would teach them to have sex.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These are very curious minds,” she said. She described her daughter as always wanting to try the experiments she learns in science class at home. “So imagine they are learning about oral sex and anal sex in classrooms, and then they are going out to experiment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it is precisely because kids have curious minds that they should be taught about sex by trained professionals, said Yasi Safinya-Davies, executive director of Safe Alternatives to Violent Environments, or \u003ca href=\"http://save-dv.org/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">SAVE\u003c/span>\u003c/a>, a Fremont-based nonprofit that provides support to victims of domestic violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s not a single parent in this room who knows what it’s like to grow up and have a curiosity about your body and type that into a Google search,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All kids now live in the age of the internet, which doesn’t teach consent, but is just a click away from porn, said Safinya-Davies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her group works with a lot of young people who tell her, “We don’t have adults in our lives who are having earnest, open conversations about our relationships, about our sexuality,” she said. “We didn’t even know what consent was.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a parent, she is sympathetic with the opposition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I absolutely understand the concern that parents have around this curriculum,” she said. “Because if you didn’t grow up learning about your sexuality, and certainly not in a comprehensive way, this is all new.”\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The East Bay suburb of Fremont is deeply divided over how to teach students as young as fourth grade about sex and sexuality. ","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1525401549,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":72,"wordCount":2541},"headData":{"title":"How Far Should Parents Dictate School Sex Ed? Debate Roils Bay Area Community | KQED","description":"The East Bay suburb of Fremont is deeply divided over how to teach students as young as fourth grade about sex and sexuality. ","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"How Far Should Parents Dictate School Sex Ed? Debate Roils Bay Area Community","datePublished":"2018-05-02T01:10:47.000Z","dateModified":"2018-05-04T02:39:09.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"11664368 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11664368","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2018/05/01/how-far-should-parents-dictate-school-sex-ed-debate-roils-bay-area-community/","disqusTitle":"How Far Should Parents Dictate School Sex Ed? Debate Roils Bay Area Community","path":"/news/11664368/how-far-should-parents-dictate-school-sex-ed-debate-roils-bay-area-community","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003ci>This story has been updated with the school board vote early Thursday and to add comments\u003cem> from U.S. Rep. Ro Khanna\u003c/em>. You can listen to a version of this story on The Bay podcast. \u003c/i>\u003ca style=\"font-style: italic\" href=\"http://bit.ly/thebaykqed\">Click here to subscribe\u003c/a>\u003ci>.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The teaching of sex ed in fourth through sixth grades has been eliminated in the city of Fremont after months of controversy over a proposed new curriculum to comply with state law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Fremont Unified School District Board of Education voted early Thursday to scrap the sex ed program for fourth through sixth graders. Controversial content included addressing the emotional aspects of sex and sexual activity; the possibility that as adults, people may have more than one sexual partner; and inclusive LGBTQ lessons, like on transgender individuals and gender fluidity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Up until the vote, sex ed had been taught in Fremont schools to fifth and sixth graders since the 1980s, and to fourth graders since 2011. The board approved the update to sex ed in seventh through ninth grades — which they were essentially required to do to comply with the California Healthy Youth Act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The majority of people here wanted to have sex education for fourth, fifth and sixth grade,” said school board member Larry Sweeney, who voted against the \u003ca href=\"https://www.boarddocs.com/ca/fremont/Board.nsf/public\">new sex ed instruction\u003c/a>. \"We just couldn’t agree on the content so the consequence is now there’s no sex education for fourth, fifth and sixth grades.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hundreds of parents, along with some teachers and current and former students, have flooded four Fremont Unified school board meetings in the past two months, deeply divided over how to teach students as young as fourth grade about sex and sexuality. Amid the dispute, some opponents and supporters have lodged accusations of racism, homophobia and transphobia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This curriculum strives to combat and confront things like sexual assault and bigotry,\" said a supporter, parent Pallavi Somusetty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s too much details for them to digest,” countered Sunitha Devi Gopalan, a parent opposing the new instruction. “It’s actually going to kill their innocence, that’s what I think.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leena Yin, a Fremont schools graduate who teaches sexual health in the East Bay, had presented to the board a petition with more than 1,000 signatures from students who supported the new sex ed curriculum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The fact that what is best for the students and what the students are asking for was ignored is the most frustrating part of this whole process,” Yin said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11666223/fremont-ends-sex-ed-for-fourth-through-six-graders-after-curriculum-controversy\">Following the vote\u003c/a>, the school board said it would convene a panel of parents and experts to try to reach a consensus on a sex ed curriculum that respects the beliefs of parents and adheres to state standards for next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S. congressman for the area, Rep. Ro Khanna, decried the decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The repercussions of this are drastic: the board not only voted to reject CHYA compliant education but eliminated any sexual education for children at all,\" he said in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/RoKhannaUSA/posts/1725648827481420\">post on Facebook\u003c/a>. \"Sex education is critical for the safety of individuals of all ages, and this policy will silence voices, put students in danger, and increase overall risk in our communities.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Reaching Compliance\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rolled out in 2016, the \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2015/sex-ed-to-become-mandatory-in-grades-7-12-in-california/88248\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">California Healthy Youth Act\u003c/span>\u003c/a> set some of the most progressive sex ed requirements in the country: The curriculum includes instruction on same-sex relationships and different gender identities, with additional lessons on consent and sexual assault.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The law makes sexual education a requirement starting in seventh grade. When sex ed is taught at earlier ages, the law requires those lessons follow state guidelines. That's what Fremont Unified did when they drafted the new lesson plans for fourth through sixth grade, said Denise Herrmann, associate superintendent of instruction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we used is the document that’s published by the state of California, that’s endorsed by pediatricians and by experts on puberty health and development, to help us make those grade level placements,” Herrmann said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>School board members had appeared divided over the issue, too, with some seeming to lean toward supporting parental control and others stressing the need for comprehensive sex ed. Many of the board members expressed hope they could find a viable compromise, but as tensions had flared, that had seemed less and less likely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You are elected by us, the parents in this room, not by social justice warriors, who aggressively promote their ideological agendas,\" one parent, Tony Szu, told the school board at its April meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other Bay Area school districts have had challenges implementing the new law, too: Last year, the nearby Cupertino Union School District backed off of making a \u003ca href=\"https://www.refinery29.com/2017/04/148151/cupertino-school-district-sex-ed-protest\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">similar update\u003c/span>\u003c/a> to its curriculum after a debate like the one in Fremont erupted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>‘Very Inappropriate’? Or, ‘We Shouldn’t Turn a Blind Eye’?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11666259\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11666259\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30657_Fremont_SD-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Parents and students at a Fremont school board meeting debating sex ed on Wednesday, May 2, 2018. \u003ccite>(Sandhya Dirks/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Parents like Danny Hsu said Fremont schools had crossed a line with the new sex ed proposal. His son, who is in fifth grade, was too young for these explicit details, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some of the stuff that they talk about is, in my opinion, very, very inappropriate,” Hsu said. “In fourth grade, they are going to start talking about erections, they are going to talk about wet dreams. In fifth grade, they actually talk about if the male and female have sexual intercourse then the penis is inserted into the vagina.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though parents could opt their kids out of the course, students can find out what is being taught, said Sylvia Wong, whose daughter is in sixth grade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She told me one day, 'Mom, I know all these things already. Because kids who attended the class talk about things like, it’s so gross, that just took away my innocence,'” Wong said. “When I heard that I was really angry. Because you think that you can opt out and protect your child, and raise her up in a more traditional and conservative way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They even talk about love-making positions,” she added. “They talk about sexual intercourse, anal sex. These things, I’m even ashamed to talk about it. I’m 45 years old, I don’t want my 10-year-old girl to be involved in that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters of the new sex ed curriculum said talking about sex early can decrease sexual activity among young people. Pallavi Somusetty, who grew up attending Fremont public schools, said she wishes she had sex ed instruction earlier and she wants it for her children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Sex ed happened two years too late for me\" -- two years, she said, after she got her period.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lessons about consent, included in the new curriculum, came far too late for her best friend, who she said was sexually abused by a South Asian Fremont man in the 1990s. Somusetty said lessons about good touch and bad touch, far from stealing her friend’s innocence, might have protected it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We shouldn't turn a blind eye to these things, just because a minority of parents, some from my own South Asian community, want to pretend that they don't exist,\" Somusetty said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Has Racism Entered the Debate?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The large majority of parents protesting the new sex ed curriculum were South Asian-American or Chinese-American. About 70 percent of students in the Fremont Unified School District are of Asian descent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the debate has grown more heated, parent Annie He said she was “starting to fear (for) my family’s safety.\" She said a post on a public forum about the sex ed instruction attacked \"third world style people\" for creating taboos about sex ed. As a Chinese immigrant, she said she felt it was a direct attack against her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I am highly educated,\" Annie He said. She thinks racism has taken over the debate, and singled out South Asian-American and Chinese-American parents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parents like Annie He said they weren't opposed to sex education. But they fear this curriculum teaches kids too much, too soon. “We just want to protect our children,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>‘I Wish Sex Ed Was Made Available to the Parents Here’\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11659026\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11659026\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/IMG_4465-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/IMG_4465-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/IMG_4465-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/IMG_4465-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/IMG_4465-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/IMG_4465-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/IMG_4465-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/IMG_4465-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/IMG_4465-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/IMG_4465-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sameer Jha and his mother, Charmaine Hussain, at the Fremont Unified School District Board meeting \u003ccite>(Sandhya Dirks/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Another key part of the debate has been including topics about the LGBTQ community -- like diverse sexual and gender identities -- in the curriculum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cadiversityconference.com/2018/norcal/bio-sameer-jha.php\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sameer Jha\u003c/span>\u003c/a>, 16, joined the board meetings with his mom to back inclusive sex ed instruction. Jha said he was bullied constantly in elementary and middle school in Fremont for being feminine and for acting and looking different. It wasn't until after he left Fremont Unified, and started to commute to a private high school in Oakland, that he could come out to his parents and friends as queer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was very scary,” he said. “Being LGBTQ plus was seen as taboo and I was the first person to come out in my local South Asian community here in Fremont.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At first, his mother said she had a hard time with his identity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We had so many fears, so many biases,\" Charmaine Hussain said. \"There’s so much stigma in our community.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now Hussain is her son’s biggest cheerleader. As a Pakistani immigrant, she said she had to learn what it meant to be queer. Before her son came out, she said, “I didn’t even know that word existed.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I wish sex ed was made available to the parents here,” she said. “I look at the sea of parents who are here in opposition because they’re so fearful of diversity and it makes me really realize how important what my son is doing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jha said one of the reasons the inclusive sex ed curriculum is so important is to have kids talk about sexuality -- queer and otherwise. He said lessons like this may have prevented his being bullied.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some parents opposed to the new curriculum said they didn’t want their kids to be taught about sexual and gender identity, while others said they didn’t want to exclude these topics but felt it was too early for their kids to learn about them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parent Taft Ding said he worried about language in the curriculum telling fourth graders they get to decide who they are -- echoing the concerns some parents had about lessons on transgender identity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To tell a girl, an innocent girl, that she is a boy, is evil,” Ding said. “It’s more than wrong.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parents like Salil Joshi said his objections had nothing to do with excluding the LGBTQ community -- it’s the content matter that concerns him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At the seventh grade there is a possibility that oral and anal sex may be discussed in class, I don’t understand why that is necessary,” Joshi said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked about this objection to the curriculum, Anthony Prickett, a former Fremont student who has returned to support the sex ed update said, \"That is how queer people have sex.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A Hate Group Involved?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A representative from \u003ca href=\"https://www.pacificjustice.org/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Pacific Justice Institute\u003c/span>\u003c/a> (PJI), which has been labeled a hate group by the \u003ca href=\"https://www.splcenter.org/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Southern Poverty Law Center\u003c/span>\u003c/a> for its anti-gay rhetoric and support of gay conversion therapy, has joined some of the school board meetings\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PJI President Brad Dacus said his group got involved when a parent reached out to them with concerns over the new curriculum. Dacus, who said PJI isn’t a hate group, told KQED that they are concerned with parental rights and freedom of speech and religion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dacus said his group was monitoring the discussion and awaiting the school board’s decision. PJI has previously weighed in on various school debates in the Bay Area: It took credit for convincing the \u003ca href=\"https://www.pacificjustice.org/press-releases/pji-convinces-school-district-to-wait-with-regard-to-sex-ed-curriculum\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Cupertino Union School District\u003c/span>\u003c/a> to hold off on their sex ed curriculum update last year. And, in Alameda County in 2009, PJI fought against anti-bullying lessons in school, lessons they refer to on their website as part of a \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\"\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.pacificjustice.org/press-releases/parents-take-a-beating-from-school-district-court-in-anti-bullying-case\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">pro-homosexual\" curriculum\u003c/span>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.schoolhealthcenters.org/healthlearning/reproductivehealth/sexual-health-education/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The ACLU of Northern California\u003c/span>\u003c/a> has been watching the sex ed debate, too, on the side supporting the new curriculum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Debates over acceptance of LGBTQ people aren’t new to Fremont -- nor are heated school board meetings. In 2010, some \u003ca href=\"https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2010/05/14/fremont-school-board-draws-ire-for-postponing-harvey-milk-day-recognition/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">parents protested\u003c/span>\u003c/a> over the creation of a Harvey Milk Day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal Jones Larisch, an 18 year old who identifies as a non-binary transgender person, has been coming to Fremont school board meetings since they were young.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I've been booed when I've gone up and talked about my identity, and I've been bullied in school because of my identity,\" Jones Larisch said. \"It is really devastating going through high school in this area.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the Harvey Milk controversy flared, they remember a sign someone held up reading: \"Milk was a pervert.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But things are getting better, Jones Larisch said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The board meetings used to be more hostile than they are right now,\" Jones Larisch said. \"Though it’s not perfect, the climate in that room has changed significantly.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>'These Are Very Curious Minds'\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parent Mina Naveed said she liked the current curriculum but is worried that the new one would teach kids about more than puberty: It would teach them to have sex.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These are very curious minds,” she said. She described her daughter as always wanting to try the experiments she learns in science class at home. “So imagine they are learning about oral sex and anal sex in classrooms, and then they are going out to experiment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it is precisely because kids have curious minds that they should be taught about sex by trained professionals, said Yasi Safinya-Davies, executive director of Safe Alternatives to Violent Environments, or \u003ca href=\"http://save-dv.org/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">SAVE\u003c/span>\u003c/a>, a Fremont-based nonprofit that provides support to victims of domestic violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s not a single parent in this room who knows what it’s like to grow up and have a curiosity about your body and type that into a Google search,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All kids now live in the age of the internet, which doesn’t teach consent, but is just a click away from porn, said Safinya-Davies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her group works with a lot of young people who tell her, “We don’t have adults in our lives who are having earnest, open conversations about our relationships, about our sexuality,” she said. “We didn’t even know what consent was.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a parent, she is sympathetic with the opposition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I absolutely understand the concern that parents have around this curriculum,” she said. “Because if you didn’t grow up learning about your sexuality, and certainly not in a comprehensive way, this is all new.”\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11664368/how-far-should-parents-dictate-school-sex-ed-debate-roils-bay-area-community","authors":["7239"],"programs":["news_72"],"categories":["news_18540","news_8"],"tags":["news_23078","news_66","news_20004","news_22875","news_5850","news_353"],"featImg":"news_11659027","label":"news_72"},"news_11659024":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11659024","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11659024","score":null,"sort":[1522525686000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"how-to-talk-about-sex-fremont-tackles-sex-ed-in-school","title":"How To Talk About Sex: Fremont Tackles Sex Ed in School","publishDate":1522525686,"format":"audio","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>The parents who opposed the sex education curriculum were all dressed in white, the color associated with virginal brides.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The connotations of their clothing may have been unintentional, but parents were definitely sending a message. They wanted the Fremont Unified School District Board members to see a wave of white standing in clear opposition to the school district’s proposal for comprehensive sex education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On two Wednesdays in March, hundreds of parents showed up to the school board meetings to oppose a curriculum they fear is more titillating than educational.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The school board voted to approve updating their sex education policy, but they have yet to decide whether to approve the proposed curriculum as is.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some of the stuff that they talk about is, in my opinion, very, very inappropriate,” said parent Danny Hsu. “In fourth grade, they are going to start talking about erections, they are going to talk about wet dreams. In fifth grade, they actually talk about if the male and female have sexual intercourse than the penis is inserted into the vagina.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hsu said his son, who is in fifth grade, is too young for these explicit details.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Fremont Unified School Board said it is updating its sex education curriculum in order to come into compliance with a California State law that was rolled out in 2016. That policy, called the \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2015/sex-ed-to-become-mandatory-in-grades-7-12-in-california/88248\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">California Healthy Youth Act\u003c/a>, set some of the most progressive sex ed requirements in the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California does not require that sex education be taught before seventh grade, but Fremont has traditionally taught a version of it to fourth through sixth graders, said Denise Herrmann, the Assistant Superintendent of Curriculum Instruction. She said for Fremont to be in compliance with state law, no matter the grade sex ed is taught in, you must comply with state set guidelines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There was no decision on our part to say we believe this content should be at fourth grade,” said Herrmann. “What we used is the document that’s published by the State of California, that’s endorsed by pediatricians and by experts on puberty health and development, to help us make those grade level placements.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, some parents think the information is extreme.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was really terribly shocked, like why should my fourth grade daughter know about spontaneous erections and then wet dreams?” asked parent Sunitha Devi Gopalan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s too much details for them to digest,” Devi Gopalan said. “It’s actually going to kill their innocence, that’s what I think.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Hsu and Devi Gopalan are, like the overwhelming majority of parents who showed up in force to voice their concerns, Asian-Americans. Fremont, like other Silicon Valley suburbs, is an \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/OF-RACE-AND-PLACE-Little-Asia-Fremont-2834791.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ethnoburb\u003c/a>. More than half of the city’s residents have Asian ancestry, the majority from China or South Asia. Even more significant, Asian-Americans make up 70 percent of the student population in the Fremont Unified School District.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cultural differences, many parents said, play a role in their opposition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For parent Sylvia Wong the lesson plans taught to elementary students before the proposed updates were already too much. There is an option to opt out of all sex ed classes, but Wong said it didn’t work and her daughter found out what was being taught anyway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She told me one day, 'Mom I know all these things already. Because kids who attended the class talk about things like, it’s so gross, that just took away my innocence',” Wong said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I heard that I was really angry,” she said. “Because you think that you can opt out and protect your child, and raise her up in a more traditional and conservative way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Raising her child with traditional cultural beliefs is important to Wong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She believes the new lesson plans will further impact her ability to teach her child about sex in a way consistent with cultural beliefs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They even talk about love making positions,” Wong said. “They talk about sexual intercourse, anal sex. These things, I’m even ashamed to talk about it, I’m 45-years-old, I don’t want my ten-year-old girl to be involved in that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parent Mina Naveed said she actually liked the old curriculum for her kids, but she is worried the new one is just teaching kids to have sex.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These are very curious minds,” she said. She described her daughter as always wanting to try the experiments she learns in science class at home. “So imagine they are learning about oral sex and anal sex in classrooms and then they are going out to experiment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Leena Yin, who graduated from Fremont’s Mission San Jose High School a few years ago and is now a sexual health educator, said these fears are unfounded. She said teaching kids about sex can actually prevent sexual activity, unwanted pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think that when folks hear these words, their alarm bells go off,” she said. “What I think they don’t understand is that sex education is really about children understanding their own bodies.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yin says her own sex education in Fremont’s schools was inadequate. That is what brought her to these school board meetings to advocate for the new curriculum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yin sat with a cluster of sex education advocates. The color they wore to flag their support for the curriculum was green.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also dressed in green was Yasi Safinya-Davies, the executive director of \u003ca href=\"http://save-dv.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SAVE,\u003c/a> a Fremont-based nonprofit that provides support to victims of domestic violence. She said her organization works with a lot of young people who tell her, “we don’t have adults in our lives who are having earnest open conversations about our relationships, about our sexuality. We didn’t even know what consent was.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a parent herself, she said she is sympathetic with the opposition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I absolutely understand the concern that parents have around this curriculum,” Safinya-Davies said. “Because if you didn’t grow up learning about your sexuality, and certainly not in a comprehensive way, this is all new.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Safinya-Davies pauses, “Is the assumption that people who are for sex ed are interested in sexualizing our children?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is not about sexualizing kids, Safinya-Davies said, it is about being realistic about what is happening within their own bodies, and what information is out there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s not a single parent in this room who knows what it’s like to grow up and have a curiosity about your body and type that into a google search,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No matter your cultural heritage, all kids now live in the age of the internet, just a click away from porn. The internet, Safinya-Davies said, does not teach consent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another argument pro-sex education advocates like Safinya-Davies make about teaching fourth through sixth graders about erections and nocturnal emissions, or wet dreams, is that those are the grades in which young people are experiencing puberty, if not before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parent Purabi Ghosh is concerned by the fourth through sixth graders being taught all this in co-ed classes. “Girls are more comfortable with girls, and boys are more comfortable learning about this with boys,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That was one point on which the school board changed course. Now those classes will be same-sex.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ghosh said she understands how complex this is, and she approves of parts of the curriculum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Telling them about puberty, teaching them about respect, accepting others, not bullying, that’s absolutely on the go,” she said. But pictures that depict sex acts go to far, “this is like exposing them to an inappropriate toy,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ghosh also understands that there is a generational divide. She asked her older son, a junior in high school, if he would like to speak out against the sex education lessons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I said would you like to be speaker, he said, 'I’d like to speak from the opposing side',” she shakes her head and smiles. “And I completely get where he’s coming from. He’s having a lot of his friends come out now, who are accepting their diverse sexuality not, not a polar sexuality.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s a subtler part of this controversy. Sex education advocates say, lurking beneath the fears some parents have is homophobia and transphobia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cadiversityconference.com/2018/norcal/bio-sameer-jha.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sameer Jha\u003c/a> is a 16-year-old who is now at a private high school in Oakland. He lives in Fremont and attended elementary and middle school there. He is also the founder of \u003ca href=\"https://www.theempathyalliance.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Empathy Alliance\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11659026\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11659026\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/IMG_4465-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/IMG_4465-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/IMG_4465-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/IMG_4465-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/IMG_4465-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/IMG_4465-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/IMG_4465-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/IMG_4465-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/IMG_4465-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/IMG_4465-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sameer Jha and his mother, Charmaine Hussain, at the Fremont Unified School Board meeting. \u003ccite>(Sandhya Dirks/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Jha said he was bullied constantly for being “feminine.” Jha came out as queer to his family and friends, which he describes as a hard thing to do in his Desi community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was very scary,” he said. “Being LGBTQ plus was seen as taboo and I was the first person to come out in my local South Asian community here in Fremont.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At first his mother had a hard time with his identity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We had so many fears, so many biases. There’s so much stigma in our community,” said Hussain, Jha’s mom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now Hussain is a huge supporter of her son, and his biggest cheerleader. As a Pakistani immigrant, she said she had to learn what it meant to be queer. “I didn’t even know that word existed,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I wish sex ed was made available to the parents here,” she said. “I look at the sea of parents who are here in opposition because there are so fearful of diversity, and it makes me really realize how important what my son is doing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jha is not the only person who spoke about the difficulties of navigating Fremont schools with a queer identity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I was younger, I felt there was nothing good about being queer in school spaces,” said Anthony Prickett, a 22-year-old who attended Fremont public schools. “I oftentimes felt very lonely when I was younger,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Prickett addressed the school board, he declared himself to be a proud, “gay Chinese-American Christian.” In response, someone in the crowd of white clad parents yelled out “No!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Quite often we pit Chinese-Americans and Christians against gay people,\" Prickett said. “When in reality there have always been, and will always be, Chinese Christian gay people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prickett said he respects the need to keep cultural traditions alive, but not at the expense of inclusion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Oftentimes we think as Chinese-American’s that we have to sustain our culture,” he said. “Instead of seeing culture as something that’s ever transforming, ever moving forward, ever growing more loving and caring as a community, we see it as the endless sustaining and reiteration of traditional values.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Traditional values, he said, are “understood as values of purity and the ostracization of those who do not conform to a very particular idea of what it means to be Chinese-American.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prickett said there are more ways than one to be Chinese-American.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parents like Salil Joshi said the battle over sex education in Fremont is not about exclusion of the LGBTQ community in Fremont.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is not about LGBTQ,” Joshi said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said he supports diversity and the LGBTQ community. What he is against is lessons he thinks are too sexually explicit for his ten-year-old son.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I still believe that a ten-year-old is innocent,” he said. “I still believe that as a parent it is my duty to preserve that innocence.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joshi worries about more than just the fourth through sixth grade lessons. “At the seventh grade there is a possibility that oral and anal sex may be discussed in class, I don’t understand why that is necessary.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>LGBTQ and sex education advocates argue that in order for the lessons to be inclusive for all kids, sex and sexuality needs to be discussed and destigmatized, including sex that may be practiced by those with diverse sexualities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And they said one reason to believe homophobia and transphobia are lurking behind the pushback against sex ed is the involvement of \u003ca href=\"https://www.pacificjustice.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Pacific Justice Institute.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/group/pacific-justice-institute\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Pacific Justice Institute\u003c/a> has been labeled a hate group by the \u003ca href=\"https://www.splcenter.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Southern Poverty Law Center\u003c/a>, for, among other things, their support of gay conversion therapy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.schoolhealthcenters.org/healthlearning/reproductivehealth/sexual-health-education/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">California’s ACLU is involved\u003c/a> on the pro-comprehensive sex education side of the debate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.pacificjustice.org/press-releases/pji-convinces-school-district-to-wait-with-regard-to-sex-ed-curriculum\">Similar controversies\u003c/a> have played out in other local school districts with large Asian-American populations. In Cupertino, \u003ca href=\"https://www.refinery29.com/2017/04/148151/cupertino-school-district-sex-ed-protest\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">parents successfully blocked a new sex education curriculum. \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the coming weeks, the Fremont Unified School District Board will decide what exactly the curriculum will include.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the larger meanings behind flash points like these sex ed debates, may take longer to unpack.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is clear that the political power bloc of Asian-Americans is growing in cities like Fremont. In the meeting, parents threatened school board members who spoke positively about the sex ed curriculum with recall campaigns and promises to vote them out of office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also emerging is a subtle intergenerational divide between immigrant Asian-American parents and their children. Some of whom are growing up with diverse ideas of what it means to be Asian-American.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Some parents in Fremont are taking a stand against the sex education curriculum in their children's school. ","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1522771638,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":72,"wordCount":2332},"headData":{"title":"How To Talk About Sex: Fremont Tackles Sex Ed in School | KQED","description":"Some parents in Fremont are taking a stand against the sex education curriculum in their children's school. ","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"How To Talk About Sex: Fremont Tackles Sex Ed in School","datePublished":"2018-03-31T19:48:06.000Z","dateModified":"2018-04-03T16:07:18.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"11659024 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11659024","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2018/03/31/how-to-talk-about-sex-fremont-tackles-sex-ed-in-school/","disqusTitle":"How To Talk About Sex: Fremont Tackles Sex Ed in School","audioUrl":"https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/RDnews/2018/03/fremontsexed.mp3","path":"/news/11659024/how-to-talk-about-sex-fremont-tackles-sex-ed-in-school","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The parents who opposed the sex education curriculum were all dressed in white, the color associated with virginal brides.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The connotations of their clothing may have been unintentional, but parents were definitely sending a message. They wanted the Fremont Unified School District Board members to see a wave of white standing in clear opposition to the school district’s proposal for comprehensive sex education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On two Wednesdays in March, hundreds of parents showed up to the school board meetings to oppose a curriculum they fear is more titillating than educational.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The school board voted to approve updating their sex education policy, but they have yet to decide whether to approve the proposed curriculum as is.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some of the stuff that they talk about is, in my opinion, very, very inappropriate,” said parent Danny Hsu. “In fourth grade, they are going to start talking about erections, they are going to talk about wet dreams. In fifth grade, they actually talk about if the male and female have sexual intercourse than the penis is inserted into the vagina.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hsu said his son, who is in fifth grade, is too young for these explicit details.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Fremont Unified School Board said it is updating its sex education curriculum in order to come into compliance with a California State law that was rolled out in 2016. That policy, called the \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2015/sex-ed-to-become-mandatory-in-grades-7-12-in-california/88248\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">California Healthy Youth Act\u003c/a>, set some of the most progressive sex ed requirements in the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California does not require that sex education be taught before seventh grade, but Fremont has traditionally taught a version of it to fourth through sixth graders, said Denise Herrmann, the Assistant Superintendent of Curriculum Instruction. She said for Fremont to be in compliance with state law, no matter the grade sex ed is taught in, you must comply with state set guidelines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There was no decision on our part to say we believe this content should be at fourth grade,” said Herrmann. “What we used is the document that’s published by the State of California, that’s endorsed by pediatricians and by experts on puberty health and development, to help us make those grade level placements.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, some parents think the information is extreme.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was really terribly shocked, like why should my fourth grade daughter know about spontaneous erections and then wet dreams?” asked parent Sunitha Devi Gopalan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s too much details for them to digest,” Devi Gopalan said. “It’s actually going to kill their innocence, that’s what I think.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Hsu and Devi Gopalan are, like the overwhelming majority of parents who showed up in force to voice their concerns, Asian-Americans. Fremont, like other Silicon Valley suburbs, is an \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/OF-RACE-AND-PLACE-Little-Asia-Fremont-2834791.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ethnoburb\u003c/a>. More than half of the city’s residents have Asian ancestry, the majority from China or South Asia. Even more significant, Asian-Americans make up 70 percent of the student population in the Fremont Unified School District.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cultural differences, many parents said, play a role in their opposition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For parent Sylvia Wong the lesson plans taught to elementary students before the proposed updates were already too much. There is an option to opt out of all sex ed classes, but Wong said it didn’t work and her daughter found out what was being taught anyway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She told me one day, 'Mom I know all these things already. Because kids who attended the class talk about things like, it’s so gross, that just took away my innocence',” Wong said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I heard that I was really angry,” she said. “Because you think that you can opt out and protect your child, and raise her up in a more traditional and conservative way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Raising her child with traditional cultural beliefs is important to Wong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She believes the new lesson plans will further impact her ability to teach her child about sex in a way consistent with cultural beliefs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They even talk about love making positions,” Wong said. “They talk about sexual intercourse, anal sex. These things, I’m even ashamed to talk about it, I’m 45-years-old, I don’t want my ten-year-old girl to be involved in that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parent Mina Naveed said she actually liked the old curriculum for her kids, but she is worried the new one is just teaching kids to have sex.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These are very curious minds,” she said. She described her daughter as always wanting to try the experiments she learns in science class at home. “So imagine they are learning about oral sex and anal sex in classrooms and then they are going out to experiment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Leena Yin, who graduated from Fremont’s Mission San Jose High School a few years ago and is now a sexual health educator, said these fears are unfounded. She said teaching kids about sex can actually prevent sexual activity, unwanted pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think that when folks hear these words, their alarm bells go off,” she said. “What I think they don’t understand is that sex education is really about children understanding their own bodies.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yin says her own sex education in Fremont’s schools was inadequate. That is what brought her to these school board meetings to advocate for the new curriculum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yin sat with a cluster of sex education advocates. The color they wore to flag their support for the curriculum was green.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also dressed in green was Yasi Safinya-Davies, the executive director of \u003ca href=\"http://save-dv.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SAVE,\u003c/a> a Fremont-based nonprofit that provides support to victims of domestic violence. She said her organization works with a lot of young people who tell her, “we don’t have adults in our lives who are having earnest open conversations about our relationships, about our sexuality. We didn’t even know what consent was.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a parent herself, she said she is sympathetic with the opposition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I absolutely understand the concern that parents have around this curriculum,” Safinya-Davies said. “Because if you didn’t grow up learning about your sexuality, and certainly not in a comprehensive way, this is all new.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Safinya-Davies pauses, “Is the assumption that people who are for sex ed are interested in sexualizing our children?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is not about sexualizing kids, Safinya-Davies said, it is about being realistic about what is happening within their own bodies, and what information is out there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s not a single parent in this room who knows what it’s like to grow up and have a curiosity about your body and type that into a google search,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No matter your cultural heritage, all kids now live in the age of the internet, just a click away from porn. The internet, Safinya-Davies said, does not teach consent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another argument pro-sex education advocates like Safinya-Davies make about teaching fourth through sixth graders about erections and nocturnal emissions, or wet dreams, is that those are the grades in which young people are experiencing puberty, if not before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parent Purabi Ghosh is concerned by the fourth through sixth graders being taught all this in co-ed classes. “Girls are more comfortable with girls, and boys are more comfortable learning about this with boys,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That was one point on which the school board changed course. Now those classes will be same-sex.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ghosh said she understands how complex this is, and she approves of parts of the curriculum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Telling them about puberty, teaching them about respect, accepting others, not bullying, that’s absolutely on the go,” she said. But pictures that depict sex acts go to far, “this is like exposing them to an inappropriate toy,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ghosh also understands that there is a generational divide. She asked her older son, a junior in high school, if he would like to speak out against the sex education lessons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I said would you like to be speaker, he said, 'I’d like to speak from the opposing side',” she shakes her head and smiles. “And I completely get where he’s coming from. He’s having a lot of his friends come out now, who are accepting their diverse sexuality not, not a polar sexuality.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s a subtler part of this controversy. Sex education advocates say, lurking beneath the fears some parents have is homophobia and transphobia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cadiversityconference.com/2018/norcal/bio-sameer-jha.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sameer Jha\u003c/a> is a 16-year-old who is now at a private high school in Oakland. He lives in Fremont and attended elementary and middle school there. He is also the founder of \u003ca href=\"https://www.theempathyalliance.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Empathy Alliance\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11659026\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11659026\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/IMG_4465-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/IMG_4465-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/IMG_4465-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/IMG_4465-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/IMG_4465-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/IMG_4465-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/IMG_4465-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/IMG_4465-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/IMG_4465-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/IMG_4465-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sameer Jha and his mother, Charmaine Hussain, at the Fremont Unified School Board meeting. \u003ccite>(Sandhya Dirks/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Jha said he was bullied constantly for being “feminine.” Jha came out as queer to his family and friends, which he describes as a hard thing to do in his Desi community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was very scary,” he said. “Being LGBTQ plus was seen as taboo and I was the first person to come out in my local South Asian community here in Fremont.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At first his mother had a hard time with his identity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We had so many fears, so many biases. There’s so much stigma in our community,” said Hussain, Jha’s mom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now Hussain is a huge supporter of her son, and his biggest cheerleader. As a Pakistani immigrant, she said she had to learn what it meant to be queer. “I didn’t even know that word existed,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I wish sex ed was made available to the parents here,” she said. “I look at the sea of parents who are here in opposition because there are so fearful of diversity, and it makes me really realize how important what my son is doing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jha is not the only person who spoke about the difficulties of navigating Fremont schools with a queer identity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I was younger, I felt there was nothing good about being queer in school spaces,” said Anthony Prickett, a 22-year-old who attended Fremont public schools. “I oftentimes felt very lonely when I was younger,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Prickett addressed the school board, he declared himself to be a proud, “gay Chinese-American Christian.” In response, someone in the crowd of white clad parents yelled out “No!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Quite often we pit Chinese-Americans and Christians against gay people,\" Prickett said. “When in reality there have always been, and will always be, Chinese Christian gay people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prickett said he respects the need to keep cultural traditions alive, but not at the expense of inclusion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Oftentimes we think as Chinese-American’s that we have to sustain our culture,” he said. “Instead of seeing culture as something that’s ever transforming, ever moving forward, ever growing more loving and caring as a community, we see it as the endless sustaining and reiteration of traditional values.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Traditional values, he said, are “understood as values of purity and the ostracization of those who do not conform to a very particular idea of what it means to be Chinese-American.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prickett said there are more ways than one to be Chinese-American.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parents like Salil Joshi said the battle over sex education in Fremont is not about exclusion of the LGBTQ community in Fremont.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is not about LGBTQ,” Joshi said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said he supports diversity and the LGBTQ community. What he is against is lessons he thinks are too sexually explicit for his ten-year-old son.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I still believe that a ten-year-old is innocent,” he said. “I still believe that as a parent it is my duty to preserve that innocence.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joshi worries about more than just the fourth through sixth grade lessons. “At the seventh grade there is a possibility that oral and anal sex may be discussed in class, I don’t understand why that is necessary.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>LGBTQ and sex education advocates argue that in order for the lessons to be inclusive for all kids, sex and sexuality needs to be discussed and destigmatized, including sex that may be practiced by those with diverse sexualities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And they said one reason to believe homophobia and transphobia are lurking behind the pushback against sex ed is the involvement of \u003ca href=\"https://www.pacificjustice.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Pacific Justice Institute.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/group/pacific-justice-institute\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Pacific Justice Institute\u003c/a> has been labeled a hate group by the \u003ca href=\"https://www.splcenter.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Southern Poverty Law Center\u003c/a>, for, among other things, their support of gay conversion therapy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.schoolhealthcenters.org/healthlearning/reproductivehealth/sexual-health-education/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">California’s ACLU is involved\u003c/a> on the pro-comprehensive sex education side of the debate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.pacificjustice.org/press-releases/pji-convinces-school-district-to-wait-with-regard-to-sex-ed-curriculum\">Similar controversies\u003c/a> have played out in other local school districts with large Asian-American populations. In Cupertino, \u003ca href=\"https://www.refinery29.com/2017/04/148151/cupertino-school-district-sex-ed-protest\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">parents successfully blocked a new sex education curriculum. \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the coming weeks, the Fremont Unified School District Board will decide what exactly the curriculum will include.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the larger meanings behind flash points like these sex ed debates, may take longer to unpack.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is clear that the political power bloc of Asian-Americans is growing in cities like Fremont. In the meeting, parents threatened school board members who spoke positively about the sex ed curriculum with recall campaigns and promises to vote them out of office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also emerging is a subtle intergenerational divide between immigrant Asian-American parents and their children. Some of whom are growing up with diverse ideas of what it means to be Asian-American.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11659024/how-to-talk-about-sex-fremont-tackles-sex-ed-in-school","authors":["7239"],"programs":["news_72"],"categories":["news_18540","news_457","news_8"],"tags":["news_20075","news_66","news_20004","news_22875","news_5850","news_17286"],"featImg":"news_11659027","label":"news_72"},"news_11635612":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11635612","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11635612","score":null,"sort":[1512775942000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"sex-ed-class-tackles-harassment-and-the-metoo-movement","title":"Sex Ed Class Tackles Harassment and the #MeToo Movement","publishDate":1512775942,"format":"audio","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Near the front door of Michelle Boire's classroom in Menlo Park sits a box, where students can ask questions about anything, anonymously.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Boire teaches sex ed as part of her Life Skills class at Mid-Peninsula High School, and she's found the box offers students a way to ask the ask questions they might be afraid to ask out loud.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The other day, Boire received a question that's been weighing heavy on her mind. She reads aloud to her class, made up high school seniors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"To what events do you need a verbal yes as consent?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Boire had already planned to have this talk with her students about sexual harassment next quarter. But this question -- and the non-stop news about sexual harassment and abuse over the last few weeks -- has pushed the discussion to now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They know that it's wrong and they're very able to say, 'What that guy did was horrible,'\" says Boire. \"But I have taught students where they didn't even know sexual harassment was a thing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"ujr44JUz6fB7urirk92OG0ZM3tOzE7f9\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even if they do understand, says Boire, most don’t understand the nuances, and how sexual harassment can play out. She poses a follow up question to the class:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Does anyone want to share what consent is or why consent is important?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eighteen-year-old Ian DeTreville is the first to answer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Most people say yes but you can also tell if they're reluctant and then you should probably not,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Yeah,\" says Boire. \"But how do you tell? Is it the tone of their voice, or body language?\" she presses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Yeah, it's a lot of body language and language cues honestly,\" DeTreville continues. \"Because in everyday life, most people will say something and then they could possibly mean something else.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Boire says this back and forth about the nuances of human interaction is one of the most important parts of sex education. But for generations it's been one of the most overlooked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It was literally you know, anatomy, physiology, STIs. And that was it,\" says Boire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"LRvSlRWtaKM8tZ4Vs7r3tTM2sRguPokM\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California has recently become known as a leader for teaching beyond the basics. Three years ago the state passed the Healthy Youth Act, which requires educators teach about topics like sexual assault and sexual harassment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The curriculum Boire follows goes a step further, asking to students discuss these topics with loved ones at home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"And the kids hate it but in the end they realize it wasn't that bad,\" Boire says. \"And parents love it, they really open up to their kids.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In class, these conversations also drift into the grey areas. Take for example, what happens later in class, when Boire puts two signs up across the room. One says \"Disagree.\" The other says \"Agree.\" She poses a series of questions, and has the students move from one side to the other based on their stance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Sending unwanted, explicit text messages is a form of sexual harassment. Agree or disagree?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's not a big deal to me anymore honestly,\" says 18-year-old DeTreville.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You feel it's normalized?\" asks Boire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DeTreville responds. \"It just happens so often, you just get over it and move on.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But 17-year-old senior Allyson Huelsenkamp argues it is harmful. Most, aren’t asking for it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The other person is doing it without your consent so it's not really agreeable,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Boire will likely have this kind of conversation a few more times this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You know, I can't protect them,\" she says. \"I can't be there all the time, but I can definitely start to give them tools on how to work with this and give them outlets for this information.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That is, tools to make informed decisions about what’s OK -- and what’s not.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Michelle Boire had planned to discuss consent and sexual harassment with her Menlo Park high school students next quarter. But the time is now.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1521566051,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":31,"wordCount":651},"headData":{"title":"Sex Ed Class Tackles Harassment and the #MeToo Movement | KQED","description":"Michelle Boire had planned to discuss consent and sexual harassment with her Menlo Park high school students next quarter. 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She reads aloud to her class, made up high school seniors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"To what events do you need a verbal yes as consent?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Boire had already planned to have this talk with her students about sexual harassment next quarter. But this question -- and the non-stop news about sexual harassment and abuse over the last few weeks -- has pushed the discussion to now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They know that it's wrong and they're very able to say, 'What that guy did was horrible,'\" says Boire. \"But I have taught students where they didn't even know sexual harassment was a thing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even if they do understand, says Boire, most don’t understand the nuances, and how sexual harassment can play out. She poses a follow up question to the class:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Does anyone want to share what consent is or why consent is important?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eighteen-year-old Ian DeTreville is the first to answer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Most people say yes but you can also tell if they're reluctant and then you should probably not,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Yeah,\" says Boire. \"But how do you tell? Is it the tone of their voice, or body language?\" she presses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Yeah, it's a lot of body language and language cues honestly,\" DeTreville continues. \"Because in everyday life, most people will say something and then they could possibly mean something else.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Boire says this back and forth about the nuances of human interaction is one of the most important parts of sex education. But for generations it's been one of the most overlooked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It was literally you know, anatomy, physiology, STIs. And that was it,\" says Boire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California has recently become known as a leader for teaching beyond the basics. Three years ago the state passed the Healthy Youth Act, which requires educators teach about topics like sexual assault and sexual harassment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The curriculum Boire follows goes a step further, asking to students discuss these topics with loved ones at home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"And the kids hate it but in the end they realize it wasn't that bad,\" Boire says. \"And parents love it, they really open up to their kids.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In class, these conversations also drift into the grey areas. Take for example, what happens later in class, when Boire puts two signs up across the room. One says \"Disagree.\" The other says \"Agree.\" She poses a series of questions, and has the students move from one side to the other based on their stance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Sending unwanted, explicit text messages is a form of sexual harassment. Agree or disagree?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's not a big deal to me anymore honestly,\" says 18-year-old DeTreville.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You feel it's normalized?\" asks Boire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DeTreville responds. \"It just happens so often, you just get over it and move on.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But 17-year-old senior Allyson Huelsenkamp argues it is harmful. Most, aren’t asking for it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The other person is doing it without your consent so it's not really agreeable,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Boire will likely have this kind of conversation a few more times this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You know, I can't protect them,\" she says. \"I can't be there all the time, but I can definitely start to give them tools on how to work with this and give them outlets for this information.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That is, tools to make informed decisions about what’s OK -- and what’s not.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11635612/sex-ed-class-tackles-harassment-and-the-metoo-movement","authors":["11373"],"programs":["news_6944","news_72"],"categories":["news_18540","news_457","news_8"],"tags":["news_21818","news_4922","news_480","news_21804","news_5850","news_2838","news_17286","news_22396"],"featImg":"news_11635900","label":"news_72"},"news_10831569":{"type":"posts","id":"news_10831569","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"10831569","score":null,"sort":[1452731210000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"sex-ed-now-required-in-california-public-schools","title":"Sex Ed Now Required in California Public Schools","publishDate":1452731210,"format":"standard","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>A new state law in effect this year requires all California public school students to take sex education beginning in seventh grade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parents who don’t want their kids to learn about issues like body image, contraception and HIV awareness and prevention will have to formally opt out by submitting a document to their school or district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For years, sex education has been optional. If parents wanted their children to take a sexual health class, they had to sign up for the instruction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The law, called the \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB329\" target=\"_blank\">California Healthy Youth Act\u003c/a>, attempts to standardize and update sex education in the state, which also now must include gender identity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/241634553\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Unified has one of the most comprehensive sex education curriculums in the state, covering everything from sexual orientation to abusive relationships.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Health educators in the district say seventh grade is the best time to start teaching students about sexual health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Their bodies are developing, and often young people start to develop crushes on other students,\" says Christopher Pepper, a San Francisco Unified health teacher. “They’re dealing with effects of hormones in their body, and understanding all those things can be a little bit challenging.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"zrPUji2SswjpD00xT9qeo7Pe90yXZjHU\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California is also the first state in the nation where high school students will now learn about affirmative consent, known as \"Yes means Yes.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Developing a more comprehensive sex education curriculum is expected to be challenging in more conservative areas like Clovis Unified, which was \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/02/26/127740/aclu-forced-clovis-school-district-fix-sex-education\" target=\"_blank\">found to have violated\u003c/a> the state’s pre-existing law on sex education by providing students with inaccurate and biased information about sexual health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The big question is how the state will monitor school districts, and whether there will be an uptick in families opting out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Camille Giglio, with the group California Right To Life, says this curriculum goes too far.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This comes into a whole new category of being forced to listen for six years to one version of so-called sexual health,\" Giglio said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California State PTA supports the new law, saying students should have medically accurate and unbiased information.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"A new state law requires all public school students to take sex education beginning in seventh grade.\r\n","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1452737032,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":17,"wordCount":384},"headData":{"title":"Sex Ed Now Required in California Public Schools | KQED","description":"A new state law requires all public school students to take sex education beginning in seventh grade.\r\n","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Sex Ed Now Required in California Public Schools","datePublished":"2016-01-14T00:26:50.000Z","dateModified":"2016-01-14T02:03:52.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"10831569 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=10831569","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/01/13/sex-ed-now-required-in-california-public-schools/","disqusTitle":"Sex Ed Now Required in California Public Schools","nprStoryId":"462976558","path":"/news/10831569/sex-ed-now-required-in-california-public-schools","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>A new state law in effect this year requires all California public school students to take sex education beginning in seventh grade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parents who don’t want their kids to learn about issues like body image, contraception and HIV awareness and prevention will have to formally opt out by submitting a document to their school or district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For years, sex education has been optional. 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You probably remember the awkwardness of middle school sex ed -- the overhead projections or sterile-looking charts. Sex education has come a long way in California, but middle school sex ed hasn’t necessarily kept up with the pressures or the technology of the digital age.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaity Cunnington is a seventh-grader in the Bay Area. She says it is not always easy to get answers to the kinds of questions she is starting to have. For instance, she wanted to know more about menstruation and cramps. So, like many kids today, she started looking for answers online. In other words: Googling it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Google is my friend,” she says. But the information she gets online is not always what she is looking for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Out of curiosity, Kaity once looked up what “popping a cherry” meant. And what she found online was not helpful, she says. Actually, it was kind of gross.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">“Even if you only follow Disney blogs, you still get porn on Tumblr a lot.” \u003ccite>Kaity Cunnington, seventh-grader\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>It is not hard to find gross on the Internet. Often it is just a click away. A \u003ca href=\"http://aspe.hhs.gov/hsp/11/adolescentsexualactivity/newmedialitrev/index.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">U.S. Department of Health and Human Services white paper\u003c/a> says most children will see porn by the time they are 18 -- maybe on purpose, by accident or while looking for information about sex.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Digital media are everywhere and hard to control. In fifth grade, Kaity saw a sexually explicit video on the photo-sharing app, \u003ca href=\"https://help.instagram.com/646840095358740/\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram\u003c/a>. And she has seen porn pop up on \u003ca href=\"https://www.tumblr.com/policy/en/community\" target=\"_blank\">Tumblr\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even if you only follow Disney blogs,” she says, “you still get porn on Tumblr a lot.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not only are some of the things she discovers shocking, she says, they're confusing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It's kind of scary,” she says, “because you'll be like, what is this? And then you're like, oh, and then you realize it is not what it is. And it's like you think that something is way different.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While kids are increasingly seeking information about sex and encountering it online, teaching materials in sex-ed classes are often outdated. Linda Wilhelm plays a movie from 1992 to her seventh-grade class every year at Valley View Middle School in a Bay Area suburb. In order to make the picture clear on her old TV, she has to give it a whack. Wilhelm says it is hard for the kids to take this seriously.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wilhelm has few materials at her disposal. Beside the video, she has a chart with some obsolete contraception information and a textbook showing the rudiments of the reproductive system. Wilhelm says, “It's basically what I call ‘the plumbing.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">Sex ed is not on most standardized tests, so it is not prioritized. Plus, there’s always the chance fresh materials will cause an uproar.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Each school district in California approves its own curriculum content. Wilhelm says her sex-ed materials have not been updated in years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What's really kind of alarming,” Wilhelm says, “is that even though all the social media is changing, our content, our district-approved curriculum hasn't changed at all.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district says it would like to modernize materials, but that takes time and money. Right now, the focus is on implementing the Common Core, new statewide education requirements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Old materials can predate contemporary issues like online relationships, Internet pornography and the pressures of social media.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We try to teach online safety, but not necessarily how it relates to sexuality, and all the sexting and all that,\" Wilhelm says. \"It's not part of the curriculum.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She gives kids resources to check out after class, things like\u003ca href=\"http://kidshealth.org/\" target=\"_blank\"> kidshealth.org\u003c/a>. It is a website with information on puberty and sexuality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.cde.ca.gov/\" target=\"_blank\">California Department of Education\u003c/a> says there are state funds to help provide current, medically accurate information. Schools can also check out new resources — websites like \u003ca href=\"http://goaskalice.columbia.edu/\" target=\"_blank\">Go Ask Alice!\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://sexetc.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Sex, Etcetera\u003c/a>; as well as services where teens can text questions and get answers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Monica Rodriguez says these digital tools are not in widespread use. She heads the \u003ca href=\"http://www.siecus.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States\u003c/a>. It is an advocacy group for sex education. She says schools “are still focused on very traditional materials -- paper and pencils and textbooks, while young people are living their lives digitally.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rodriguez says part of the problem is that sex ed is not on most standardized tests, so it is not prioritized. Plus, there's always the chance fresh materials will cause an uproar. At a high school in Fremont, for example, parents petitioned to \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/education/article/Sex-ed-textbook-shelved-by-Fremont-school-board-5687817.php#photo-6688435\" target=\"_blank\">remove a new textbook\u003c/a>. It covered topics like online dating, sexual fetishes and hooking up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most parents support teaching up-to-date, comprehensive sex education, Rodriguez says. But the worry about potential conflicts makes districts hesitate to update sex-ed curriculum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Teachers or districts fear that it's going to cause controversy,” she says, “so they just kind of put it off and put it off.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Middle schooler Kaity Cunnington says she is lucky. She can talk to her parents about this stuff. Even so, she says she would like to have a safe place online to go for some answers. It would be less awkward than asking her parents or her teachers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaity will have more sex-ed classes in high school. She hopes the videos there are not as corny as the gem from Linda Wilhelm's class.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Out-of-date teaching materials still in use are often irrelevant to the problems kids face today.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1412152937,"stats":{"hasAudio":true,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":26,"wordCount":969},"headData":{"title":"Sex Education and the Digital Age | KQED","description":"Out-of-date teaching materials still in use are often irrelevant to the problems kids face today.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Sex Education and the Digital Age ","datePublished":"2014-09-20T00:32:55.000Z","dateModified":"2014-10-01T08:42:17.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"10341412 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=10141412","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/09/19/sex-education-and-the-digital-age/","disqusTitle":"Sex Education and the Digital Age ","customPermalink":"2014/09/19/sex-education-digital-age/","path":"/news/10341412/sex-education-and-the-digital-age","audioUrl":"http://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/tcrmag/2014/09/2014-09-19b-tcrmag.mp3","audioDuration":null,"audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>http://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/tcrmag/2014/09/2014-09-19b-tcrmag.mp3\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If there is one thing middle schoolers definitely do not want to talk about with adults, it is sex. You probably remember the awkwardness of middle school sex ed -- the overhead projections or sterile-looking charts. Sex education has come a long way in California, but middle school sex ed hasn’t necessarily kept up with the pressures or the technology of the digital age.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaity Cunnington is a seventh-grader in the Bay Area. She says it is not always easy to get answers to the kinds of questions she is starting to have. For instance, she wanted to know more about menstruation and cramps. So, like many kids today, she started looking for answers online. In other words: Googling it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Google is my friend,” she says. But the information she gets online is not always what she is looking for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Out of curiosity, Kaity once looked up what “popping a cherry” meant. And what she found online was not helpful, she says. Actually, it was kind of gross.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">“Even if you only follow Disney blogs, you still get porn on Tumblr a lot.” \u003ccite>Kaity Cunnington, seventh-grader\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>It is not hard to find gross on the Internet. Often it is just a click away. A \u003ca href=\"http://aspe.hhs.gov/hsp/11/adolescentsexualactivity/newmedialitrev/index.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">U.S. Department of Health and Human Services white paper\u003c/a> says most children will see porn by the time they are 18 -- maybe on purpose, by accident or while looking for information about sex.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Digital media are everywhere and hard to control. In fifth grade, Kaity saw a sexually explicit video on the photo-sharing app, \u003ca href=\"https://help.instagram.com/646840095358740/\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram\u003c/a>. And she has seen porn pop up on \u003ca href=\"https://www.tumblr.com/policy/en/community\" target=\"_blank\">Tumblr\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even if you only follow Disney blogs,” she says, “you still get porn on Tumblr a lot.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not only are some of the things she discovers shocking, she says, they're confusing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It's kind of scary,” she says, “because you'll be like, what is this? And then you're like, oh, and then you realize it is not what it is. And it's like you think that something is way different.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While kids are increasingly seeking information about sex and encountering it online, teaching materials in sex-ed classes are often outdated. Linda Wilhelm plays a movie from 1992 to her seventh-grade class every year at Valley View Middle School in a Bay Area suburb. In order to make the picture clear on her old TV, she has to give it a whack. Wilhelm says it is hard for the kids to take this seriously.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wilhelm has few materials at her disposal. Beside the video, she has a chart with some obsolete contraception information and a textbook showing the rudiments of the reproductive system. Wilhelm says, “It's basically what I call ‘the plumbing.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">Sex ed is not on most standardized tests, so it is not prioritized. Plus, there’s always the chance fresh materials will cause an uproar.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Each school district in California approves its own curriculum content. 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It is a website with information on puberty and sexuality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.cde.ca.gov/\" target=\"_blank\">California Department of Education\u003c/a> says there are state funds to help provide current, medically accurate information. Schools can also check out new resources — websites like \u003ca href=\"http://goaskalice.columbia.edu/\" target=\"_blank\">Go Ask Alice!\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://sexetc.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Sex, Etcetera\u003c/a>; as well as services where teens can text questions and get answers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Monica Rodriguez says these digital tools are not in widespread use. She heads the \u003ca href=\"http://www.siecus.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States\u003c/a>. It is an advocacy group for sex education. She says schools “are still focused on very traditional materials -- paper and pencils and textbooks, while young people are living their lives digitally.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rodriguez says part of the problem is that sex ed is not on most standardized tests, so it is not prioritized. Plus, there's always the chance fresh materials will cause an uproar. At a high school in Fremont, for example, parents petitioned to \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/education/article/Sex-ed-textbook-shelved-by-Fremont-school-board-5687817.php#photo-6688435\" target=\"_blank\">remove a new textbook\u003c/a>. It covered topics like online dating, sexual fetishes and hooking up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most parents support teaching up-to-date, comprehensive sex education, Rodriguez says. 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