Sounds a lot of hassle. Raise your hand, ask for the box, write a question, put it in the box, have it be pretty obvious it was your question when the teacher then pulls it out. Or do you think kids know what questions they'll think of before the actual talk? Do you think there will be a whole series of talks to make sure all questions are answered and you repeat in a loop until there are no more questions from the previous lesson? In sex education, which is embarrassing enough, you want to do everything you can do to make people feel comfortable asking questions. Separating boys and girls is a very simple and immediate way of helping achieve that for both boys and girls. I suspect you are against it mainly on ideological grounds. If you are worried about boys not learning about menstruation, explain to me why that wouldn't be included in the boys class also.
I'm sorry but that's an astonishing misinterpretation there?
Have you never heard of a suggestion box? I deliberately said 'leave a question'
As in, there's a box you can leave questions in, which are addressed to the whole class.
More-over, you can make everyone ask a question, and then the people with pressing questions can ask, and others could possibly leave it blank.
You suspect ideological grounds? such as?
I suggested the teaching of one class with a box for questions in a response to:
...you were split off with boys in one class and girls in another to talk about stuff related to your own gender.....
Which literally suggests boys would not be taught menstruation.
No it wouldn't. Male and female are sexes. It is unhealthy to teach that someone's behaviour or interests puts them in either category. A young girl like mechanics? WHY should that mean she is on the spectrum towards being a boy? It may make her less typical for a girl but it in no way makes her less female. Mermaids and Allsorts teach the opposite.
A male and female sex has nothing to do with traditional masculine and feminine roles.....
Mechanic being a traditional masculine role, so teaching someone that everyone falls between the two 'traditional binaries' and that only a minority of people actually lie at either end can be nothing but beneficial to a child discovering how they fit into the world.
Mermaids may teach 'how to sacrifice goats' for all I care, if they come to my child's school I'll address their educational materials with them an my child, I'm not arguing what they do and do not teach.