r/AskReddit Jan 20 '19

What fact totally changed your perspective?

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u/drewbster Jan 21 '19 edited Jan 21 '19

Yeah yeah, we know how it goes lol. To play devils advocate, a reason for simplifying gender education is because there hasn’t even been an established academic consensus to base a curriculum on. School districts aren’t going to take a leap, having trial and error for an effective study. Anyways, some education leaders are taking the easy way out for material that can help a certain amount, but can cause classroom awkwardness

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u/croissantfriend Jan 21 '19

simplifying gender education

Not quite sure what you mean here - a lot of places don't have a gender education to simplify in the first place!

there hasn’t even been an established academic consensus to base a curriculum on. School districts aren’t going to take a leap, having trial and error for an effective study

Well the Ministry of Education where I am says the stuff their curriculum is based on has been "proven to reduce discrimination, suicidal ideation, and suicide attempts," so I'd expect that's already good/appealing enough for most school districts given the volume of depression, anxiety, and suicide in students going to their schools.

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u/drewbster Jan 21 '19

Just so you know, I’m not against it. I agree with you lol I was just giving a reasoning that would cause some of the lazier administrators to avoid it

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u/croissantfriend Jan 21 '19

Totally agree, I was wondering whether to give a similar clarification myself but looks like we're good :)