A Georgia school board voted along party lines Thursday to fire a teacher after officials said she improperly read a book on gender fluidity to her fifth grade class.

    • @Nythos@sh.itjust.works
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      2 years ago

      That seems like a perfectly reasonable age to introduce a person to a topic like puberty.

      Like I’m pretty sure I was taught the basics of it and what it does to your body when I was that age.

    • WalrusDragonOnABike
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      Isn’t that a bit late to be starting basic health education? For girls, that’s above the average age of beginning puberty and for both, it’s years after the cutoff for it being consider precocious.

      • It is a bit late, but for what it’s worth, we started the puberty lessons at 10 years old and I was one of the older kids in class. Most were 9.

    • @dontmindme@feddit.de
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      Nowadays a lot of girls at that age already menstruate. It is not only appropriate, you might even argue it is a tad late.