Teacher Reassigned for Anatomy Drawings
Saturday, January 27, 2007
YONKERS,
N.Y. - A teacher has been barred from classes after having his seventh-grade students draw male genitalia on the blackboard during health class, a school spokeswoman said Friday.
The teacher, whose name was not made public, was assigned to administrative duties and Superintendent Bernard Pierorazio will ask trustees to fire him, said Yonkers school spokeswoman Jerilynne Fierstein.
"There was no way we were going to let him be in front of children," she said.
Fierstein said the state's seventh-grade curriculum calls for lessons in human anatomy and sexuality, but "as a teacher you have to be sensitive and you have to look at the age-appropriateness of any activity that you ask a child to do. And this was just not appropriate."
Pierorazio said the teacher had began his lesson by asking students to volunteer to come to the board to draw male anatomy.
Fierstein said the administration learned of the drawings, which occurred in a class of boys and girls at the Pearls Hawthorne school, when a parent complained.
Trustees will consider the teacher's firing at a March 21 meeting, she said.
Jon Klibonoff, a father of a student at the school, said he did not believe the material was inappropriate.
"This is biology, it's anatomy, it's human sexuality," he said. "They're in puberty. They're aware of it on one level or another." Go dad!
Fourth-grader Noah Klibonoff disagreed.
"They're not supposed to know what it's supposed to look like at this age yet, so I think it's a little embarrassing and it's also a little inappropriate," he said. WTF? They interviewed a 4th grader? What the fuck does a 9 year old know about 7th grade anatomy?? Sorry, ass monkeys, interview other 7 graders. Can we say RETARDED?
Pierorazio issued a statement saying, "I will not tolerate insensitive, inappropriate behavior by any staff member toward our students. Every student's physical and emotional well-being is paramount in our decision making, therefore immediate action was taken." So they want to fire him? Oh come on already!!!
Does everyone realize that the students would have to study pictures of the male penis and scrotum in 7th grade biology? Inside and out diagrams? They get tested on it, have to label the different parts? I know, I took 7th grade biology, and that is what we did. It needs to be taught, then people know how the body works, know where babies come from, and just might be less likely to get knocked up if they know about sperm and ejaculation. Oh my god I said it, I said ejaculation!!!!
3 comments:
"kids just don't like discussing those things in front of people."
really? because when I was in 7th grade, we asked all sorts of questions! Our teacher, an older lady, had a box for us to drop ?s into and she answered them all. We were fine about it, hell, at 13 all we talked about was boys and sex. we giggled a lot, esp when we watched the videos created for the oposite sex (the ones they made us watch in 6th grade, about becoming a woman and gettting our periods). The parts about boys having wet dreams was especially entertaining.
We learned and drew all that in 5th grade. No one was upset and we had a ball.
Every kid is different and I am sure he did not force anyone and had asked for a volunteer. It was scientifically portrayed not pornographically. BIG difference.
Good gawdamighty! Back when I was in school - in ANY grade - we never saw pictures of genitalia, much less drew them on the blackboard! This is great! Education is much better than ignorance.
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