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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 6259800" data-attributes="member: 177">If done really badly?  It can lead to kids having horrible misconceptions and hampered social and emotional development regarding human sexuality.Now, we already have a lot of misconceptions and such.  But at least it isn't systemic.  The unintended consequences can be kind of nasty when you start doing this to lots of people.Well, setting aside how sometimes even those interactions between kids don't end well - the power dynamic is entirely different.  Child-adult interactions are not the same as child-peer interactions.Because I don't believe the public school system can or will handle it better for children of such young age.  There are both well-meaning people, and folks with agendas and axes to grind that have hefty influence on public school curriculums, who turn subjects into things they should not be.  When you're hanging views of human sexuality into the mix, that's a recipe for disaster.If the educational system were really solid and healthy, I might be willing to consider it, if you had good behavior science backing you up rather than just personal assertion.  But, as a practical matter, there are many things we'd need to fix before we could address such with kids that young.The science behind vaccination is pretty clear.  I am not convinced the science on sexuality is behind you on this - the child psych world may not agree that this is a good idea.</blockquote>

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