Never mind what “works” or what “doesn’t” when it comes to sexual education. Let’s not get ahead of ourselves. What else do we expect our schools to teach our children?
How to read? Of course, if they can’t read a STOP sign or a warning label, they might endanger themselves. How to do basic math? Definitely, without the ability to add and subtract, someone could take financial advantage of them. They’re taught how to participate in an election, and what to do if there’s a fire, but let’s go even further back.
We explain to our children that they’re teeth could decay if they don’t brush them, so how is that any different from supplying them with the cause and effect facts about sexual intercourse? If the aim is to protect the child—be it their physical, emotional or spiritual selves—then why would you withhold the tools they need to make good choices? Perhaps we should do away with reading and arithmetic, because they might make it possible for a child to purchase and read a racy book.
Remember, your child can’t make the right choice if they’ve been told that there isn’t one.
Category: General Politics, Scandals
Tags: choice, church and state, education, Ethics, life, morals, sex education
Thursday, 24. September 2009
Sex ed should be a major priority, especially as children get older. Even older kids need it. Sure, most kids have already experimented by the time they leave high school, but emphasizing the importance of SAFE SEX will make the big difference. Remember when Janet Reno mentioned that schools should teach masturbation in the 1990s? Sorry, on retrospect it doesn’t look that bad. We might have foregone a generation of teen pregnancies.
Thursday, 24. September 2009
I’m all for sex ed in school. They should do a Kama Sutra class too.
Friday, 25. September 2009
Would you believe this happened? I brought up better ACCESS to recycling within the schools at a Town Hall meeting with the Superintendant as a means of exposing children to environmental responsibility. Another Mom interupted me and said, “Shouldn’t that be taught at home?” It truely came across that my subject was closely related to religion, creationism or sex ed! I almost flipped out!
Wednesday, 30. September 2009
It was probably the pairing of the words “exposing” and “children” that flipped their crazy switch… next time speak slowly and say that you think “kids” should help “save” the “earth.”
Wednesday, 30. September 2009
Tantra 4 Teens?
Wednesday, 30. September 2009
Everyone, no matter the age, should be able to have their questions answered–but that would spread the power around, which scares people. Parenting is one of the only places where some people have ever felt that they had power or control, and many equate sharing power with losing it. If I give my child the information they need to save themselves from an unwanted pregnancy or STD, it’s WIN/WIN, isn’t it?
Wednesday, 7. October 2009
Yeah, let’s teach kindergartners anal while we’re at it.