She further went on to state that the subject of genetics is only taught after secondary school. She cited this as a reason for the relative lack of knowledge in the general population, not just in minority communities. “It’s not something that we learn unless we go into biology or one of the sciences. We’re not taught that in school as one of the basic courses. I mean they do tell you about reproduction and they touch on the DNA, and they tell the kids about genes. My son comes home he tells me, ‘yeah, I know what a gene is. I have your genes.’ Okay, but in the big picture nobody really knows enough. They don’t teach us enough.”
