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Why boys need to have conversations about emotional intimacy in classrooms

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imageAmerican classrooms do not talk frankly about teenage love or emotional intimacy.Brett Sayer, CC BY-NC

Last month, Tom Porton, an award-winning, veteran Bronx high school teacher, handed in his resignation after colliding with the school’s principal. Porton had distributed HIV/AIDS education fliers listing nonsexual ways of “Making Love...

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