All districts are now required to promote abstinence, exclude consent, and remove any pictures of reproductive organs.

The Florida Department of Education (FLDOE) has ordered local school districts to submit their sex education plans to the state for approval. The FLDOE has also said the classes must promote abstinence and cannot include discussion of contraception or pictures of reproductive health organs.

The sex-ed takeover removes local discretion when it comes to district sex education classes and materials.

  • @[email protected]
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    302 months ago

    Ok, the title comes from the linked article, but they aren’t banned from “mentioning anatomy”. They are banned from showing pictures of reproductive organs.

    I don’t know why some people seem compelled to take a story that’s plenty horrible as it stands and give it a deceptive headline… seems like I’m seeing more of that recently. Are we really in a post-truth era?

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      152 months ago

      I’d guess it was an attempt to keep the title succinct, then not proofing it properly. In any case, always read the article before commenting as titles are frequently misleading (intentional or not).

    • @[email protected]
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      112 months ago

      It’s even more unnecessary because the content is already plenty concerning in my opinion. I don’t see a need to embellish.

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        42 months ago

        That’s a fine rationale for omissions but the headline is directly misstating the guidance on anatomy. It’s unnecessary for the article to call it out in the headline.

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      32 months ago

      Ok, the title comes from the linked article, but they aren’t banned from “mentioning anatomy”. They are banned from showing pictures of reproductive organs.

      How is that any better? Next your going to rationalize having no books in a literature class, showing no pictures of cells in a biology class, or having a trigonometry class without using the devil’s radians.

      I don’t know why some people seem compelled to ignore all context and rationalize state sponored religious persecution in the name of “protecting the children”. It’s not post-truth just because you’ve decided to willfully ignore all the context.

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        12 months ago

        Exactly. Because it’s not any better (“plenty horrible as it stands” as I put it in my original comment), the deceptive headline is not only unnecessary, but also taints the entire story with falsehood when it should not be so degraded.

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          12 months ago

          Mentioning anatomy isn’t substantially different than photos of anatomy in a classroom setting unless you’re a troll looking for a knit to pick.

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      12 months ago

      We live in an age where people are obsessively needy about being outraged to the point where they need to make shit up topics one another off.

      Lemmy is probably the best example of this behavior.