I assume that the ââinformedâ relationship decisions.â was to do with: there are some bigoted nut jobs out there be carefulâŚ
I was taken aback by the choice to keep using the material. It seems thereâs far more to the story than that linked article supplies.
http://tvnz.co.nz/national-news/christchurch-school-defends-use-cheap-prostitutes-pamphlet-6314295
This was an advance study class for people considering health professions.
The material was in the class as an example of attutdes they might encounter in the fieldâŚor âthings not to doâ.
And presented as part of a discussion about the materials.
Lydia Harrison Clark says the school told her that, unfortunately, the teacher was away sick on the day of the lesson and had left the pamphlet and questions with a reliever teacher, who had not undertaken the discussion part.
The only problem I have with this situation is that it should have taken place in the context of a political or religious studies class, not a health class.
The article eventually makes it clear that the propaganda wasnât distributed as any particular educatorâs efforts at indoctrination, but as an example of different views on families and lifestyles. It was just a ridiculously inflammatory counter-example that really didnât need to be presented in that class.
Itâs all very well to rant about these things, butâŚ
What is their effect ?
If someone did that with my kids, theyâd just laugh at them,
The effect is that Christians are made to look bad.
Yes, your kids would be illustrating the difference between information and affect., except that in this case, both end up being the same.
Information: theyâre idiots.
Affect: theyâre idiots.
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Yes, your kids would be illustrating the difference between information and affect., except that in this case, both end up being the same.
Information: theyâre idiots.
Affect: theyâre idiots.
[/quote]I find it interesting that Iâm pretty sure you meant âeffectâ, but âaffectâ still leaves the sentences totally accurateâŚ
Yeah. It seems the pamphlet in question was (appropriately enough) being used as an artefact to study WRT âsocial attitudes you may encounterâ, and the homework questions would have been along the lines of âhow many factual falsehoods can you findâ.
They were talking about it, not teaching from it.
The NZ sex-ed curriculum includes plenty of content on social and emotional development - the biological plumbing bit is only a small part of the whole program. Mental health, emerging maturity, and dealing with sociatal pressure, as well as studying the changes in attitudes to sex through the ages and across different cultures is very much a part of sex-ed.
As such, a copy of this pamphlet as an object of study would fit right in, alongside a few pages of an old Playboy magazine, a copy of national geographic, a Renaissance painting of outrageous codpieces, a recipe for contraceptives from Pompei, an information pack on male and female âcircumscisionâ around the world, and a few choice excerpts from Chaucer.
Yes, this is sex-ed, as these topics would not be allowed to fit comfortably into other disciplines of study at this level. And sex-ed just happens to be placed in those few hours per week broadly labelled âhealth and physical educationâ
New Zealand high schoolers taught that some people believe that gays await âdeath and hellâ
Look, fact-checking is hard.
This headline and story is misleading, as is practically every other story on what happened.
The students were given the pamphlets as part of an exercise in examining various attitudes towards sexual health that exist in the community. It was supposed to be a critical evaluation, not an indoctrination. Unfortunately, the source article is written to be deliberately inflammatory rather than a reliable accounting of events. If you read the whole thing, it amounts to âparent misunderstands context of studentâs lessonâ.
So yeah, itâs basically the difference between students being told that Nazism is brilliant and examining the causes of the Second World War. Come on BoingBoing, I expect better from you.
As a New Zealander / Aotearoan Iâm becoming increasingly concerned that God bothering extremists and financial fundamentalists are portraying us as common morons in the eyes of the world . Weâre a very complex and egalitarian society with many firsts to our credit. First vote for women, forty hour working week , first person on the highest hill etc. And now this. A nasty, bigoted, ignorant piece of junk has made itâs way into a school and onto the global media. As if prime minister john keyâs hair pulling bullying wasnât bad enough.
No, I meant affect.
To illustrate that I do know the difference:
When you study calculus, you learn that the derivative of f(x) = 3x^2 is f(x) = 6x.
Also, you learn that you hate calculus.
/Actually, I think calculus is very cool.
//Working from what I recall from Intro to Calculus and my high school Ethics class some forty years ago.
How about updating the post with some facts?
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