Does anyone think that school aged children including teenagers NEED to know about homosexuality?

I was reading an article the other day concerning homosexuality and sex being taught to children as young as 6 in school. What do you all think of this? Please, mature answers also. Thanks!Does anyone think that school aged children including teenagers NEED to know about homosexuality?
I hate this. A 6 year old is not thinking about sex, they haven't reached puberty at all yet. When I was six girls were just guys with long hair and I was kicking a ball around, climbing trees. If someone told me about gays I'd be so indifferent then.





Homosexuality deals with sexuality so to me it makes sense that the issue could only be required when a child has a sexual interest.Does anyone think that school aged children including teenagers NEED to know about homosexuality?
I think that younger kids just need to know that some men love other men and some ladies love other ladies. That's all. They won't understand much more than that anyway. However as you get towards puberty they really do need to understand a little bit more about homosexuality- bear in mind that this is the age where a lot of gay kids will realise they're different, and knowing they're normal is going to make growing up a lot easier for them, especially if the other kids also understand that being gay is okay.





Regarding sex education in general, you need a similar approach. If they're very young and/or they ask questions, start off with the whole 'mummy and daddy love each other and a baby grows in mummy'/s tummy' stuff. As children get older, they'll ask more questions anyway, and you have to tailor what you tell them so it's appropriate for their age. Of course, that means that teenagers need to be told about the emotional aspects of sex and its consequences as they'll be starting to experiment. But before that, no need to go into it that far.
I think it's more a diversity issue than a sexual issue. I don't think they should have special sex classes for 6 year olds but I think the learning environment should be more gay friendly. Like how they started showing black people in cartoons who spoke standard english and not the uneducated slave's ';shol' is massah'; english, or how school textbooks started showing more black kids math books or literature books, etc. I just think it should be blended in more. Instead of ';Timmy's mom and dad'; try ';Timmy's mothers'; when you're making up some lemonade math problem or something. Subtle hints like these aren't very ';sexual'; at all, and might peak the child's curiosity concerning social norms without making it a big deal, which is what I think this is aiming for right? To make being gay not such a big deal?


As for teens, like they won't know! But it could be touched upon in sex ed, if whomever administrates feels it's necessary.


Edit: I'm sorry I forgot the question. No, I don't think it's necessary but considering all the prejudice around right now, it'd be stupid for a school not to talk about it. It would be like ignoring the gay movement elephant in the room.


Good Luck! :)
I think that to a certain degree, young children should be taught the difference between homosexuality/heterosexuality/etc. It would help them grow up with a more open-minded outlook on the world and the people who live in it. Same goes with exposing kids to different cultures and races. That way, they can begin to understand that our world is a complex place that can't always be explained in terms of black and white, right and wrong.
I think it's fine. When we're that age, we're not sexual, and don't think sexually, so information about sexuality is just information about the adult world. You may as well be talking about tire repair or how goat cheese is made.





The benefit of early introduction is that they've already heard about it before they and their peers become sexual, so they aren't surprised and tend not to reject others when they find out their sexual preferences.





As far as early sex education in general, I look at it this way; if you grow up with animals, such as on a farm as most of our ancestors did, you get an early introduction to sex and reproductive anatomy. There's no ';OMG You can't teach children of that age about sex!'; Only in a society of people distanced from nature (for whatever reasons) is there a problem with preteens knowing anything about sexual reproduction.
I think that children as young as six shouldn't because the can keep there innocence, but as a teenager should because they need to wise up to the world, and maybe if they understood it more there wouldn't be so much prejudice, but not as young as 6- they won't understand to a full capacity. When there older and do want to know then but not now. So many of us have to grow up at so a fast rate that we miss out on childhood.


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they might not need to but there's no harm in it. it's better for kids to learn it from an adult than each other or through experimentation. i once heard a little girl asking her mother all kinds of questions in public. it was so funny. she must have been 4 years old and she was saying ';mommy you and me have a vagina... but your vagina has hair and mine doesn't... because you are an adult and i am a child... my brother doesn't have a vagina...my brother has a penis...'; then she would ask what grandma had and what daddy had and she would say ';and you pee from it'; and her mother would just keep answering yes. ';and me and my brother came out of your vagina... and nobody is supposed to touch my vagina, right? unless you say it's okay?'; her mom just kept on answering yes. the little girl even started asking about how she and her brother were ';made'; and where they came from. she was really really curious.


children have parts too. some of them want to know what these things do. you don't have to talk about why to a little kid. you just tell them what's going on. you don't have to talk about sexual preferences. and even if you do, you aren't talking about fantasy type things. you talk about purpose. men have penises and women have vaginas, and penis+vagina = baby. vagina+vagina does not equal baby. it's that simple.


explain different family structures and things like adoption and all that. i've seen the stuff they show to the kids. it's harmless. they don't even talk about sex parts. they just talk about ';love'; and ';family.'; they show the traditional family with mom, dad, and child. then they show single mom/dad and child. they show aunt/uncle and child, or grandpa or cousins or whatever. and two of those families happens to be dad, dad, and child and mom, mom and child. that's all.
There is no need to teach a child about homosexuality or sex period in grade school or middle school. In high school fine, but younger than that, no I disagree. Let the child's parents decide if they want to teach it at an earlier age.
Not to kids, but it shoud be part of sex ed. (only to explain it, not condone it, I know some teachers can't resist sticking their political agendas into children's education)
You should know that homosexuality exists by the time you are a teenager.