The decision could leave the state’s largest district without a sex education curriculum for much of the upcoming school year
are students of color . More than half of all Miami-Dade students are considered economically disadvantaged.Because of the pandemic, many students across the country lost access to important sex education as schools went remote, Goldfarb said.
Zoey Brewer, a student at the University of Tennessee Knoxville and intern at the survivor advocacy group Know Your IX, said withholding sex education means preventing students from having a “real understandings of boundaries, healthy relationships and bodily autonomy.” A survivor herself, Brewer noted that students “are already experiencing [sexual] violence on campuses.” According to Brewer, who coordinates student-led sex education trainings, many students what more comprehensive sex education, particularly centered on“I think a lot of parents minimize what students want to learn about and believe that it’s an attack on your [kids] who learn about these things or it’s an attack on your parental rights,” she said.
“Have they ever even asked a student what they want or what they need?” Brewer said of sex education critics. “If you went to the students of the school district and said, ‘What do you want out of your sex education?’ You would probably get a response that would be in stark contrast to what their parents said in that meeting.”
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