Science textbooks

Thanks, ThreeLittleDinosaurs - 2010 was the golden age, then? .

Hunting through books on puberty now. Most recent ones have immensely complex descriptions of gender identity/expression/queering, that I can't even understand, not sure how a primary school kid will fathom them.
Older ones have questionable terms like 'nympho' in the glossary ...

Somehow I feel like I've got to squeeze between old school sexism and trendy nouveau sexism.

Just the raising of eyebrows and correction in the classroom and lots of muttering of words under their breath. I haven't seen much said openly.
Luckily, the specification still clearly lays out what sex is and our diagrams accurately label male and female bodies so the exam bodies are firmly on our side.

I would recommend buying yes. There is a movement to change what is taught in college biology to become more inclusive, specifically of trans issues. That is for example instead of saying:

“Males get a Y chromosome from their father”

Saying

“Biological males get a Y chromosome from their sperm producing father”

And yes I’m serious I have seen a presentation on this nonsense. I can tell you it is going to be seriously NON inclusive to any ESL students or students who are less well prepared.

As usual, Inclusivity for privileged white people LARPinh as the opposite sex.

Exclusivity for everyone else, including non white and immigrant students.

but secondary biology teachers across the land are raising their eyebrows when a student suggests that somebody can change their sex.

But are they raising their voices or, like many of us, are they too afraid?

Biology teacher here and the woke hasn't quite infiltrated science departments or their textbooks.
Not so sure about PSHE or primary but secondary biology teachers across the land are raising their eyebrows when a student suggests that somebody can change their sex.

It's rather sad parents have to worry about and prepare children for being taught anti-science ideology in schools.

Don't worry too much - just give them a solid basic grounding. They may encounter creationist/'intelligent design' ideas - but they're not going to have much traction with a kid who likes dinosaurs who has had a simple explanation of evolution.

AncientLights

I agree re the sanitising of seminal books.
I had never read "Uncle Tom's Cabin" and recently listened to it as an audiobook - )free site LibriVox). I think listening to the use of words, the casual racism I found it really shocking, and quite distressing. I'm not sure such a book can be sanitised. But they are an accurate representation of attitudes at that time and serve their place recording history via fiction.
To remove all such records of the past is to remove the past itself.

My daughter’s got old encyclopaedias. One’s so old it has the USSR in it, but the science information is really useful. Old books are fine. You don’t even have to buy brand new.

Dinosaurs I am not sure if I have a view on the N word in literature and how it should be dealt with. I was listening to an interview with Martin Luther King recently - the spoken word obvs, nor the written - and he talked a lot about 'the negro'. He wouldn't say that now, I think, had he survived, but should it be bleeped out? Anyway, I am white so not my place. It just sprang to mind as an example of books etc being altered for 'sensitivity' and rights/wrongs of it. Whatever, we should be able to discuss it.

My basic point is to buy and keep hard copies of books as digital ones can easily be altered.

I just said to her in the car “if daddy wears a dress is he still a man?” And she said yes.

Does she want to be the new head of Stonewall?

I want to teach DD (4.5) the facts of life before she is taught some woke bollocks at school.
I’ve been talking to her about males and females for some time now. I just said to her in the car “if daddy wears a dress is he still a man?” And she said yes. 💪🏼

Dorling Kindersley

www.dk.com/uk/category/science/

PL Travers herself agreed to remove references in Mary Poppins to 'piccaninnies.' She thought it was wrong.

Enid Blyton was retrospectively amended to delete all mention of the gollywogs' names, previously Waggy, Woggy and N-er.

There may be a case for some bowdlerisation of children's editions of classics such as Tom Sawyer, but none if it's being discussed by university students.

The N-Word does indeed rhme with trigger.

And it's one thing to change the title of Agatha Christie's 'Ten Little Whathaveyous' to 'And Then There Were None,' quite another to change meanings and print lies.

Another example is the Battle of Britain pilot who was at the time listed as Palestinian, but who in the 1969 film is said to come from 'Israel,' and was in practice an Egyptian jew.

Same part of the world, nearly every history book repeats the falsehood that Col Nasser nationalised the Suez Canal, when what he nationalised was the Suez Canal Company, the canal itself having been freely ceded to Egypt by UK in 1955.

So my thought about anatomy for kids was Dorling Kindersley, but a quick look reveals a certain Alice Roberts is a DK author.

Yes that's the one Dinosaurs. Your post was quite specifically about human biology books, I know. And I know my post may seem a bit of a derail, apologies, but it's the whole re-writing thing that worries me. We start doing it for 'sensitivity' but where does that end?

Anyway, buy the book!