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This week we talked about gamification in class, and although I like it a lot and I find it very interesting, despite the work involved when putting it into practice, I will not talk about this in this post. Because, the truth is, I am bit fed up and I feel like if I talk just a little more about gamification these days I will end up hating this technique.
So, instead of talking about this week’s unit, I am going to write something I have been thinking about lately. It will not be a great reflection, nor an in-depth analysis of the problem, nor will I provide data, but it is something I have been thinking about a lot this week. And the subject is sex education. Something that today, in 2021, I think we should all see as necessary and apparently it is not that evident for everybody.
Last year as a Spanish assistant in France, I unfortunately witnessed a somewhat difficult situation. It was March, and we developed different classes on the subject of women’s day: gender violence, inequality between men and women, macho language vs inclusive language (although for some this term produces hives, because what a great offense to include the female gender in our daily lives or in official texts. I suppose you know who I am referring to ;) ). The fact is that, during one of those classes, a student began to get very nervous, and she ended up crying and suffering an anxiety attack. I stayed in the class with the other students, while the teacher left with this student outside the classroom. Well, in the end, the student ended up in the infirmary, and then went to the police station with her parents. But, what happened? A couple of subhumans, because they do not deserve another qualifier, had raped this girl. Yes, two other minors raped this student. Let’s start writing these kind of sentences more accurately and make clear who is to blame. Ah! And by the way, these boys were white. And I specify it only because, well, we all know that later these matters can become quite controversial.
It is terrible and heartbreaking, to find such situations, difficult to face and for which we are not being prepared, I do not even know if that is possible. Luckily, we now have the opportunity to deal with these issues more freely, abandoning, little by little, the taboo surrounding these kinds of issues and we are also able (in theory, anyway) to train the people who will develop the future, and it seems that this scares some people, because if not, we would not talk about the pin parental. Ugh, it is really frustrating. But what are these people scared of? Is it scary to talk and educate about sex? Are they not going to continue experimenting anyway? Is it not natural? Then why the determination not to talk about it, why not make the next generation aware of things that are right and things that are wrong? And yes, well, a lot of people will say that these things are learned over time. Maybe, and just maybe, even some of you have this thought, and it is true in a lot of cases, but don’t you know, for example, any girl who during the first years of ESO had to buy a pregnancy test because the boy did not enjoy as much using a condom? Because I do know this case, and this is just a minimal example of everything that happens, really.
And I do not want to talk about politics here, I really don’t, nor about the rest of the issues covered by the pin parental, because otherwise I would never finish this post, but, we must stop these people because the future cannot be the return to the past and to ignorance as they intend.
So, please, let’s all try together, as much as we can, to create a safe space in which students can express themselves and receive information not only related to academic matters and develop. Let’s not educate in terms of past, but in terms of future.
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