Posted on 04/22/2002 4:24:42 PM PDT by hsmomx3
OPPOSE UNBELIEVABLY OFFENSIVE HB 2249
SEX EDUCATION BILL IN THE ARIZONA SENATE
The Center For Arizona Policy
www.azpolicy.org
Last Week’s Action. Last week the Senate Health Committee passed a deceptive “Trojan Horse” sex education bill by a unanimous 7-0 vote. The bill seeks to require all future public school sex education programs to be “in accordance with…information provided by the American Medical Association [AMA] or the National Centers For Disease Control [CDC]…”.
Current Statewide Requirements. Arizona’s State Board of Education Administrative Code (§R7-2-303.A.3) currently allows local school districts to design their own sex education programs using good pro-traditional values, broad abstinence-only guidelines. HB 2249 seeks to override these requirements and utilize AMA or CDC programs as the new sex education standard.
New CDC Program Examples. The Center For Arizona Policy has investigated the CDC programs and was shocked by its findings. For example, the CDC has approved the following two sex education programs:
CDC’s 4th to 9th Grade Program – “Focus on Kids”
Condom Race Activity. “Divide youth into two teams and give everyone a condom. Have the teams stand in two lines and give the first person in each line a dildo or cucumber. Each person on the team must put the condom on the dildo or cucumber and take it off…The team that finishes first wins.”
Brainstorming Activity. “Ask youth to brainstorm ways to be close to a person and show you care without having sexual intercourse…The list may include…bathing together, masturbation, sensuous feeding, fantasizing, watching erotic movies, reading erotic books and magazines…”.
Suggested CDC Parental Permission Slip. “I understand that all discussions that my child will have with the group leaders of this project will be confidential and will not be reported to me or anyone else.
CDC’s 7th to 12th Grade Program – “Be Proud! Be Responsible!”
Brainstorming Activity. “Invite participants to brainstorm ways to increase spontaneity and the likelihood that they’ll use condoms. Examples: Store condoms under mattress; eroticize condom use with partner.”
“Now ask participants to suggest ways to make condom use fun and pleasurable by finishing these sentences…‘Condoms could make sex more fun by…’ ‘Condoms would not ruin the mood if we…’”
“Add to the brainstorm list the following ideas, if they weren’t mentioned by participants.” “Use condoms as a method of foreplay.” “Think up a sexual fantasy using condoms.” “Tell your partner how using a condom can make a man last longer.” “Act sexy/sensual when putting condoms on.” “Hide them on your body and ask your partner to find it.” “Tease each other manually while putting on the condom.”
Planned Parenthood’s Goal. It is clear that the goal of Planned Parenthood’s HB 2249 bill is to endorse a “reduced risk” sex education program that would [1] overrule the State Board of Education’s emphasis on the abstinence aspects of sex education, [2] lower a youth’s natural modesty and inhibitions through explicit participatory teaching activities and [3] position youth sexuality as normal, morally acceptable and consequence-free.
Talking Points. Here’s some additional information you may want to utilize in your correspondence with your Senator:
Sex Education Curricula Should Be Determined Under Local Control Using the Existing State Board of Education Guidelines. Local school districts currently have the freedom to design their own sex education curricula. The State Board of Education guidelines establish appropriate parameters on which effective sex education curricula can be based. Besides an emphasis on abstinence, these curricula may address any of the biological aspects of human sexuality as well as the types, prevalence and curability of various sexually transmitted diseases.
CDC Sex Education Curricula Are Objectionable To Most Parents. Sexuality deals with some of the most intimate and sensitive activities that a person will ever be involved in. The CDC materials encourage students and their classmates to experiment with bathing, masturbating and watching erotic movies together. Most parents, if forewarned, would not want their child to receive this type of message or maintain continuous enrollment in a classroom where it was taught.
There is No Statewide or National Consensus As To What Constitutes Appropriate Youth Sexuality. In the absence of a statewide or national consensus, the expansion of sex education instruction into so-called “reduced risk” alternatives should not be brought into public school classrooms.
CDC Curricula Fail To Acknowledge that Condoms Provide Little or No Protection Against the Three Most Common STDs. CDC curricula are replete with pro-condom messages. Condoms, however, are nearly useless in protecting against the three most common STDs – human papilloma virus, genital herpes and chlamydia. These three STDs are estimated to account for 2/3rds of all U.S. annual STD infections.
The Myth: “Abstinence-Only Sex Education Deprives Youth of Access to Important Information”. No. An abstinence-only sex education program provides a high moral standard while maintaining the flexibility to instruct on the biological nature of sexual reproduction and the types, prevalence and curability of STDs. What abstinence-only sex education doesn’t do is purposely lower a youth’s natural modesty and inhibitions through explicit participatory teaching activities.
The effort to 'classify' is driven by the fact that the child's academic scores are NOT counted when the school is evaluated for meeting the standards.
Religious private grammar schools are affordable but don't do well with the above average child. Discipline is strong and the middle of the road student does well.
They say they prefer that to the girls coming home from government school with pierced tongues and green hair.
What sort of info. are you looking for? Most teachers are union members. The union speaks for them and the school boards have to "play ball" to a certain degree. The whole "union" mentality begins in the schools of education at the university level. Call it "indoctrination" by the credit hour.
More importantly, the NEA is one of, if not the most, powerful lobbies in Washington. Surely the extreme number of delegates to the Democratic convention that are NEA members illustrates the hold the NEA has over the Democratic Party as well. Democratic candidates that oppose the NEA might as well not run. The NEA "buys" the loyalty of the Dems each year and the Dems cannot afford to do without their money or their influence.
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