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cgod  ·  1540 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Boys today. Oof. (seriously intense article)

Shouldn't socio-emotional learning be taking place in health class?

I'm not trying to rip into you. It's great that kids are interrupting math class to gain some tools for living more grounded lives.

This whole conversation and your specific observations on your students and what is being done to help them has left me in shock at what I was taught in highschool health class.

Highschool health was very outside of the body. Draw a fire escape plan, don't do drugs and use a condom. Maybe you were unlucky enough to have Mr. Bolton as your health teacher. He was a compulsive lier and a straight up strange fellow. I've learned more about being a good human from my pets. I learned more about being a human in every literature class I've ever taken than I did in highschool health.

Health class seems like an incredible wasted opertunity that lacked any practical focus on the totality of what really includes a healthy life. Maybe it's better now a days.