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I read recently an article about the school system run for service members' children by the US Department of Defense ( https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/10/briefing/defense-department-public-schools.html ) which left me with a bunch of questions, so I tracked down some doc about their curriculum, which I found (at least the part I've read so far) eyebrow raising. Not in a bad sense, but in a "Well THAT is certainly an interesting choice; it is hard to surprise me and you have succeeded, sir" sort of way.
It leaves me with a new question: anybody know how to surface any data that might exist on what the political leanings are of adults who went through this edu system as children? I'd particularly like to find out if there's any comparative study of the political affiliations of adults who went through these DoD schools vs adults who were service members' children but went to ordinary civilian American public schools.
Can anybody help me out?
Don't have the answer to your question, but I'm of a conversation I had with a woman from a military family who said that sex ed classes on army bases are of course very comprehensive and included the five (or was it seven?) "stages of female orgasm."
She was talking about this with me and another then biology PhD student at a polyamory meetup, and said it like it was common knowledge, but neither of us had any idea what she was talking about.
Still don't know if it's a real thing.
@dynamic !!! Gracious. I will keep an eye out for that.
Some of the stages she described sounded more like arousal than orgasm, and I think there was something about pupil dilation in there. For all I know, she might have just had one teacher who had latched onto this idea for whatever reason.
Also couldn't tell whether this kind of curriculum would be geared toward female empowerment or male titillation or pick-up arts, or what.
There seemed to be a subtext to the conversation that of course teenage girls on an army base would need to know this stuff, which seemed... weird.
@siderea No concrete data for the here and now, but many years ago I was part of the team that built AFAIK the first online project for that school system (a browser-based collaborative multimedia MUD aimed at elementary school age, back in the IE/Netscape 3 days).
We were basically told to do what we thought was pedagogically right, and got no interference about content at all.
(Mind, this was DARPA, so I don't think it got deployed.)