Every year around this time Asian (including Indian) parents start petition against the sex-ed. Every year. In Cupertino and Fremont school districts where the majority of parents are first generation immigrants from Asia. The excuse is the same - it’s too graphic , Kids too young etc. I find the arguments ridiculous. Example of what they find graphic - a boy touching girl’s breasts and she saying no. And the class is trying to teach appropriate behavior to kids in these kind of circumstances. What’s wrong ? Why can’t you accept that this is the society you have live in, and children are going to be exposed to a lot than what we did when grew up. Isn’t it better that they learn the right things as applicable to this society? Where no means no and any forceful action can be construed as assault ? I am afraid that my children do not get the advantage of sex Ed because of these protests. The people driving this opposition are mainly house wives whose life revolves around their children only. /smh Disclaimer- I am first gen Indian immigrant in one of these school districts, but I am a minority on this matter.
Multiculturalism is a dirty word.
I am from India, not a parent though. I was not aware of this and find this shocking. What can we do to stop such petitions? Can schools get together and start providing compulsory sex-ed to parents and why it is needed so that they understand? Or make sex-ed be graded? I don't want my kid or the kids they spend time with to be unaware and uneducated when it comes to sex-ed.
Sex-Ed has always been optional.
Nope not really. It is opt out, not opt in. You can request your kid to not attend it, and they will spend that time in the office waiting and feeling as an outsider.
LOL. I never thought of this, but magikarp16 makes an awesome point: it’s the parents that need sex education!
Simply put asian parents have to accept the fact that this is a third world country and should adapt to such petty circumstances.
And that is why I avoid schools with huge ethnicity unbalance. Schools in Fremont and Cupertino are, at least, 90% Asian.
a parent who'll not live in a good neighborhood just so his kids can have sex early and forgo making smart kids for friends. Bravo.
Wow that’s not what I read and that’s not what sex Ed is about. You are assuming / stereotyping that Asians are smart. And sex Ed teaches porn. Please atleast understand what others are saying and get off of that high horse
Why is this a surprise? India is a very socially conservative country. (maybe even more so than the American south), and most other Asian countries are socially conservative. Shouldn't you just try to be more tolerant of other's cultures?
I think problem with Indian parents is they grew up in India and they never had sexual freedom in their young days and now they are trying to cockblock their kids.
Exactly!
Absolutely. But I don’t want to generalize. I was raised in India and although I didn’t have sexual freedom back there , I couldn’t leave those values behind for myself in this country. But it’s wrong for me to impose those values on my kids, who are being raised here and need to be more assimilated in this society. So they will be exposed to whole set of things that I wasn’t and I would rather help them with that than let them grow in ignorance.
Maybe because they grew up without sexed and turned out just fine? Also maybe because they dont see American way and culture of free sex any better. Maybe because they feel it is unnecessary to talk about things which might distract the kid . Also maybe seeing how well asian kids do at school, their parents must be doing something right.
I don't think on an average they turned out fine in this regard. I see most people in my generation struggling to marry their girlfriends / boyfriends because of the 'fine' parents. Even if they did turn out fine, I would think most of them grew up without a smartphone and turned out 'fine'. Yet most of them here would be without a job without smartphones. People need to accept changes and dare to aspire for something better, especially for their kids. I think a kid would stay distracted (I did, my whole class did) and spend too much time trying to figure things out (incorrectly) on their own. Sex-ed would only help. I think we forget this as we grow up and are too worried for things to happen differently than they happened for us. Free sex, hookup culture is perhaps an extreme example and presents a strawman argument.
How about your example of bf/gf ? Or struggling in class? Looks pretty weak. I know a lot of friends who had string social support ( example church) which provides them with guidance on these topics. The point being, the focus on sexed at school when a kid is 9 years old might be not what their parents want forced on them.
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Asian parents believe in sex after marriage
and only to have kids. that's the important part
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