Opinion | So why not a matriculation in sex education? | Israel today

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Has undergone a new reform on sex education, and now all schools will be required to teach from first to twelfth grade 13-6 hours a year Sex education depends on age group.

Yes yes, you read that right.

The maximum scope is 13 hours per year.

Not monthly - annual.

And what's 13 hours, come on, between us?

As I have been proud in the past: My average screen time and that of most of my friends is about ten hours a day, where I consume content on Instagram, Tiktok and even Twitter.

So 13 hours a year will not broaden my horizons: rest assured that what you need to know has already appeared in my fruit in Tiktok.

Of course, even this minimal and meager program will not go unchallenged, and MK Bezalel Smutrich tweeted: "The wave of progressive trolls sweeping the state education system could be the beautiful hour of religious education."

I do not think that some sexuality education classes will take me aside or change my consciousness.

Classes may open up a real-life discourse, and the one who will really learn something about gender from them will be the teacher, not the students.

A straight line connects those who are afraid to talk about sexual progress and those who think that sexual discourse at school is about to innovate something for today's youth.

The discourse on gender and sexuality begins online, even before it begins in the adolescent conversation that most children have with their parents.

In fact, it is more likely that a 12-year-old boy sitting in a sex education class at his school has already been exposed to explanatory content by ticketing or YouTube videos.

If so, what is the excitement?

And why did they remember to pass the reform right now, in an age where there is an answer and a discourse on such issues in the networks?

Tiktok Israel itself has launched a series of videos on sex education, in which the best tiktokers have taught and transmitted reliable information about sex through tiktok videos.

Important information in a reality where in the US women are deprived of the right to their bodies. Just saying that if there are sanctions for abortions in Israel as well, it is important that we at least know how to avoid pregnancy.

There are those who click on sex and gender education studies and say "look what the school puts in", and also "what the hell is the language of contact 'you / they' ?!", or those who say it is brainwashing.

I'm sorry to disappoint you, you're really not in the right direction.

An accurate ticketing algorithm might wash your mind, but at school?

Who listens at all?

And more in classes without a grade on the certificate?

You are not in the right direction.

In classes like this everyone has long been deep on Instagram, flipping through stories.

If it was up to me, I would build a gender lesson to be taught throughout the year, including an orderly matriculation exam.

Gender is a spectrum.

Society has accustomed us to think in binary terms: man - woman, straight - gay, rich - poor, school - school, Ashkenazi - Mizrahi, black - white, and many more.

And there is a wide range between them, or as Noa Kirl said: "Not everything is black and white, I want yellow."

Studies are not necessarily learned in school.

I already learned everything there is to know about sex from Mia Landau's ticking page.

Let's get out of the binary way of thinking because my generation, generation Z, is fed up with it.

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