A trainer who taught controversial sex-education lessons that included cartoon movies on masturbation for first graders on the posh Dalton Faculty has resigned, The Submit has realized.
Justine Ang Fonte, who additionally taught a one-day workshop on “porn literacy” to juniors at Columbia Grammar & Prep Faculty final month that angered some mother and father, is not going to return to the varsity subsequent 12 months, in line with an e-mail Dalton’s head of faculty, Jim Finest, sen to folks Friday. Finest additionally is not going to be returning to Dalton subsequent 12 months.
“All through her tenure at Dalton, Justine Ang Fonte has helped to develop an exemplary Okay-12 Well being and Wellness program. Dalton — our college, workers, administration, and trustees — proceed to face firmly behind this program and those that educate it,” Finest wrote.
“At college and workers conferences this week, Justine introduced her choice to depart Dalton to deal with her work as an unbiased Well being Educator. She has been working towards this aim for over a 12 months. We help Justine’s aspirations and look ahead to honoring her accomplishments as the tutorial 12 months involves a detailed.”
Fonte is the third high-profile Dalton staffer to depart the varsity this 12 months as the varsity struggles with a simmering battle between the school and fogeys over its progressive agenda. Domonic Rollins, the varsity’s director of DEI, (“Variety, Fairness and Inclusion”) left in February to “pursue different alternatives,” the varsity mentioned on the time.
Finest, Dalton’s headmaster for the previous 3 years who has been with the varsity a complete of 16 years, introduced in April he was resigning to pursue “different thrilling and galvanizing alternatives.”
One father or mother mentioned Friday she was not impressed with the varsity’s assertion about Fonte. “This incapacity to confess a mistake or acknowledge misstep is unusual,” she mentioned. “It reveals an actual lack of emotional intelligence and self consciousness on behalf of the management workforce.”
Final fall, Dalton mother and father, who fork over $55,000 per 12 months for his or her children’ tuition, realized that their first-graders have been being taught sex-ed classes that included cartoons exhibiting little children speaking about “touching themselves” for pleasure.
“Hey, how come typically my penis will get massive typically and factors within the air?” asks the little boy within the cartoon, resulting in an evidence of what an “erection” is.
The boy nods and says, “Generally I contact my penis as a result of it feels good.”
Then the little woman character chimes in: “Generally, after I’m in my tub or when Mother places me to mattress, I like to the touch my vulva too.”
The mother and father have been initially instructed they'd “misinterpreted” the content material of the classwork.
Fonte had reassured mother and father that she doesn't use the phrase “masturbation” at school, and that her classes educate children to not contact themselves in public.
Fonte additionally angered mother and father of juniors at one other elite NYC non-public faculty, Columbia Grammar & Prep, with a workshop she gave Could 5.
The customarily-explicit slide presentation and lecture by Fonte to the 120 girls and boys included classes on how porn takes care of “three massive male vulnerabilities”; statistics on the “orgasm hole” exhibiting straight girls have far fewer orgasms with their companions than homosexual males or girls; and images of partially-nude girls, some in bondage, to investigate “what's porn and what's artwork.”
Fonte’s presentation, a few of which was seen by The Submit, included an inventory of probably the most searched pornographic phrases of 2019, together with “creampie,” “anal,” “gangbang,” “stepmom” and extra.
One slide cited varied porn genres equivalent to “incest-themed,” consensual or “vanilla,” “barely authorized,” and “kink and BDSM” (which included “waterboard electro” torture porn for example).
One a part of the porn presentation concerned one thing known as the “marketability of Solely Followers,” the recent new app used principally for intercourse work. One slide included a photograph of a reasonably younger girl who gave the impression to be selling OnlyFans-type work.
Fonte didn't reply to quite a few calls from the Submit for remark.
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