Parents at elite school angry 'masturbation' videos shown to children
Justine Ang Fonte, right, the health and wellness teacher at the Dalton School, allegedly showed students a video last fall in which a cartoon boy asks about erections.
- Justine Ang Fonte, the health and wellness teacher at the Dalton School, allegedly showed students a video last fall from the sex education series AMAZE
- Fonte's classes also reportedly included lessons on gender identity and consent
- Lessons allegedly instructed children that their parents and grandparents should not touch them without asking permission
- Fonte reportedly told parents that she does not use the word 'masturbation' in class after they complained to school administrators
PUBLISHED: 18:46 EDT, 29 May 2021 | UPDATED: 23:52 EDT, 29 May 2021
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Justine Ang Fonte, the health and wellness and the Dalton School, is under fire for her sex education classes
Parents at an elite private school in New York City are furious that first-graders have been shown sex education videos that appear to include information about masturbation.
Justine Ang Fonte, a health and wellness teacher at the Dalton School, allegedly showed students a video last fall from the free sex education series for children called AMAZE, in which a cartoon boy asks about erections.
Fonte's classes also reportedly included lessons on gender identity and consent, instructing children that their parents and grandparents should not touch them without asking permission.
Fonte has told parents that she does not use the word 'masturbation' in class after they complained to school administrators but were told they had misinterpreted the lessons, the New York Post reported.
The video also teaches the first graders about the differences between a penis and a clitoris
In the video, a cartoon little boy asks: 'Hey, how come sometimes my penis gets big sometimes and points in the air?'
'That's called an erection,' the cartoon adult woman responds.
'Sometimes I touch my penis because it feels good,' the boy adds.
Then a cartoon little girl says: 'Sometimes, when I'm in my bath or when Mom puts me to bed, I like to touch my vulva too.'
'You have a clitoris there, Kayla, that probably feels good to touch the same way Keith's penis feels good when he touches it,' the adult character tells the little girl.
The adult woman adds: 'Have you ever noticed that older kids and grown-ups don't touch their private parts in public? It's okay to touch yourself and see how different body parts feel - but it's best to only do it in private.'
Hedge fund billionaire Bill Ackman's Pershing Square Foundation provided the school, where his ex-wife Karen is on the board of trustees, with a $450,000 grant which reportedly funds Fonte's work.
The series in which the controversial video appears is created through a partnership between the Washington D.C. based nonprofit Advocates for Youth and the organizations Answer and Youth Tech Health.
YouTube statistics show the channel's videos have been viewed 619,938 times.
Parents at an elite private school in New York City are furious that first-graders have been shown sex education videos
Dalton School parents who wanted to remain anonymous told the New York Post the video was 'quietly removed from the curriculum.'
'I'm paying $50,000 to these a**holes to tell my kid not to let her grandfather hug her when he sees her?' an anonymous parent said another parent told her.
Another mother said: 'Kids have no less than five classes on gender identity – this is pure indoctrination. This person should absolutely not be teaching children.'
'Ironically, she teaches kids about 'consent' yet she has never gotten consent from parents about the sexually explicit, and age inappropriate material about transgender to first graders,' that mom said.
She then slammed the school administrators who she said 'gaslit' parents into thinking they were 'confused' about the lessons, the New York Post reported.
'We are in fact just seeing very clearly for the first time what a 'progressive' education really means at Dalton,' the mother said.
