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Video: Parents Angry at Sex Ed Teacher for Teaching Sex Ed
In Onalaska, Washington, parents are furious that an elementary school principal described sex acts during a sexual education class last week (video below).
According to KCPQ-TV, the unnamed principal of Onalaska Elementary School was teaching to 11 and 12-year-old students about HIV and sexually transmitted diseases when she was asked about oral and anal sex by the children.
The principal’s answer allegedly included biologically accurate descriptions of those sex acts.
Parent James Gilliand told KCPQ-TV: “Basically, how I feel and others that I’ve talked to, it’s just the same as raping somebody, but you’re raping their innocence instead of their physical being. When you hit those levels and the sexual acts, you might as well hand them a Kama Sutra book or something, you know?”
Superintendent Scott Fentor defended the principal, who was following the state’s sexual education requirements that were adopted in 1988: “In reality, she stuck to the curriculum, it’s pretty difficult to talk about STDs, sexually transmitted diseases, without explaining what that is."
“Kids leaving 5th grade and moving into middle school start getting exposed to a lot more information, and we know that`s the age where many children start to become sexually active, unfortunately. And that`s a scary thought, [but] that’s the truth.”
A notice was sent to parents on March 26 giving them a chance to review the program and opt out. Fentor said only three parents showed up to examine the curriculum, and only one or two parents asked for their kids to be excused from the class.
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These are the parents who are
These are the parents who are going to blame the TV or the culture or the gays when their kid gets pregnant or gets HIV. No, when they're taking their kid home from the clinic with a positive STD test it will be nobody's fault but the parents. It's the Christian Taliban's insistence that children remain as ignorant as possible that is going to ruin this country long term.
BTW, am I the only one wishing that idiot who compared this to rape, would just get raped so that he can learn what rape really is?
I would bet that every one of
I would bet that every one of the parents that objected, have never bothered to pay any previous attention to what was being taught in their schools.
I'll also bet that they all had religious objections, too. That's just one more problem religion brings into the world. They prefer people to stay ignorant about everything. That makes it easier to control their sex life. After you have control of that, controlling the rest is easy.
Kids should only be learning
Kids should only be learning about sex from their pastors, or from other 12 year-olds and the messages scrawled on bathroom walls. This whole learning about things in "schools" is ridiculous. What qualifications do these "teachers" have for imparting knowledge into the minds of children?
Seriously, we all know that the only way to stop kids from having sex before graduating high school is to make sure they never have any accurate information about how their bodies work and how adults do their secret bedroom rituals. After all, nothing done in school is about preparing the kids for adulthood - that's just silly talk. ________________________________
In all reality, if the kids are old enough to ask a pertinent question about something, they're old enough to be given an honest and accurate answer. Sheltering kids from seeing the real world is the surest way to make sure they fall victim to it in the worst ways possible when they eventually find themselves in it.
Parents need to pay attention
Parents need to pay attention when the school sends home a note about what is going on at school. So many are afraid showing up will expose them to a PTA meeting, or they feel they are too busy. As a working parent who did PTA, Little League, Boy Scouts and Brownies, I know this for a fact.
This is your child and if you want them to to be exposed or protected from things, you have to know what they are. Schools have changed, society has changed. How can you know what is going on at school if you never show up?
I chose to educate my children myself about sex. I was honest and open, and I taught them values. That is a parents job. If you aren't willing to do this and put in the time, then don't complain about when someone else does it. Kids will learn about sex, so decide who will be the teacher.
My class was the first in the
My class was the first in the State of Hawaii to undergo sex education in the 5th and 6th grade. The way it was taught was age appropriate. The fact remains that kids are going into puberty earlier and earlier, which means the hormones and the interest in sex is there at that age. Today, with HIV/AIDS, high levels of teen pregnancy and the spread of STDs especially in schools in the South or anywhere "abstinence" is taught instead of proper sex education, the rates of of these diseases is in epidemic proportions. It's a shame that some vocal but uneducated parents are imposing their narrow minded values on the rest of society. This society has got to start maturing where sex is involved. There are nations that rank much better than we do in terms of prevention of unwanted pregnancy and spread of sexually transmitted diseases. It is unacceptable to allow ignorance of some of these noisy parents dictate what is in the public health interest of our nation.