Panel favors broadening sex ed (North Carolina)

News and Observer ^ | March 20, 2002 | T. KEUNG HUI

[ppaul]

It really sums up the whole matter, doesn't it?

[hillary's_fat_a**]

HA! The good folks in NC are way behind the times; here in MA, the kids are being taught advanced topics like fisting! Just shows how much more advanced we Yankees are! < /sarcasm>

[billbears]

I agree!! Excellent quote

[Constitution Day]

ppaul,

I had never seen that particular quote before.
Thanks very much!

[billbears]

Just shows how much more advanced we Yankees are! < /sarcasm>

No just shows how much y'all move around!! One of the TV stations here reported on an informal census done recently. Over half the population in Research Triangle Park are not native to NC and it tells in who the newest Senator is (and soon to be Senator Liddy Dole) and it tells in our latest choice of Governor.

This story is sad though. Just another example of the liberal left attacking true Biblical and family values

[GrandMoM]

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[ppaul]

Jefferson made no distictions between "religious" and "secular" opinions.
They are all "opinions."
That is why he opposed the state financing a state "church."
The fact that state financed schools propagate "secular" opinions makes them no less odious and injurious to liberty.

[avenir]

"You need to get comprehensive education at an earlier age when they're the most sexually interested," said Devereaux Munn...

There's a parallel here with the world of drug use. In "A Primer of Drug Action" Dr. Rosen explained that a clear, factual approach to drug education was the best for avoiding hysteria and magical beliefs about pharmacology. However, he stated that "comprehensive drug education has led to INCREASED use..." by educating those who either are or are wishing to take drugs in the limits of safe use, not avoidance.

So why not tell the kiddies all about it? And be sure and do it "when they're the most sexually interested". Pathetic!

[avenir]

Ping! The self-education system works just fine...

[Zeroisanumber]

The point of homeschooling is to indoctrinate children into your worldview, this is as much a conservative practice as a liberal one.

[Sabertooth]

Public schools can't successfully teach Math, English, History, or Geography to many of their students.

But rather than the schools devoting more time and energy to those subjects, we're supposed to trust that they have a handle on Sex Ed?

[Zeroisanumber]

What's that old saying? "You can lead a horse to water..."

Teachers do their best, but you can't teach an unmotivated and disinterested student without help from parents. In a perfect world students would self-motivate, but I know for a fact that if my mother hadn't have made sure that I was doing my homework I wouldn't have made it into a good college after graduation.

[Valpal1]

Homeschooling is the answer. So many families homeschool in our area, that the local school district is financially destitute, because the state aid that would come with our children doesn't get into their pocket. Our local population is way up and school enrollement is way down. And seemingly, they can't figure out where the children have gone - HOME!

They are having to close an elementary school and lay off staff in droves. Whah! Their bond measure to save their sorry asses is expected to go down in flames. Homeschoolers are now being courted by the PTB to enroll for "select" classes/activities to enhance your home school. It's too funny.

[Ol' Sparky]

This panel believes in abstinence for teens and that's why they must be taught how to have anal and oral sex? Unbelieveable. It's time to get the kids out of these schools before their lives are destroyed by perverse sex ed teachers that get off on teaching the details of sex acts.

[Salvation]

Is this school in Wake Forest?
Raleigh?
High school

I tried to find a homepage on the internet, but could not. Ask Jeeves have a good layout for finding schools. Can you find an email address? Phone #?

[Future Snake Eater]

Wow! What area is that? I tell ya, I wasn't too sure about homeschooling when I was being taught at home, having been to public school and reading more and more about what they push on kids in those schools, I'm all for it now! Incidentally, I was homeschooled from K-9.

[Valpal1]

Oregon has extremely loose Home School lawa (next to none) We have to test at 2nd,5th,8th and 11th grades and keep the results on hand if the state should like to look at them. That's the sum total of regulation.

In the mean time school funding is centralized, all monies flow to the state capital and are doled out on a $$ per head basis. So inflating your actual enrollment is very useful. Rural areas are hard hit, of course, because they have big bussing bills and very little opportunity of economies of scale, while still having set building maintenance costs, etc. The overpopulated West Side gets all the money and the sparsley populated East Side is strapped. West is Liberal, East is Conservative Country with more homeschooling families. Not every admistrator has figured out, wooing instead of dissing home schoolers, is more cost effective. Ya can't tell the smart from the stupid, though.

[Salman]

Morality aside, I can think of no greater waste of taxpayer money than teaching teenagers about masturation.
What's next, giving swimming lessons to fish?

The issue isn't masturbation as such, but whether the government should be in charge of it.

Think of it this way: do you want Sergeant Schultz teaching your kids about masturbation?

[ppaul]

Can you find an email address? Phone #?

Ask, and ye shall receive.....

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[texlok]

They need to teach something about birth control. There is a teen pregnancy problem, and this current crop of parents (not counting freepers mind you) has not done a very good job of pushing abstinence. We don't need more people on welfare, and it would cut down on abortions, which would be a good thing.

I'm sure I'll get flamed (perhaps even as a racist ;-) since any discussion of welfare brings race into the equation ;-) ), but since abstaining from sex hasn't been pushed enough by their parents (if at all), I'd rather see kids using condoms than having abortions or going on welfare.