Posted on 12/15/2007 11:49:58 AM PST by wagglebee
PORT ST. LUCIE, Florida, Dec. 14 /Christian Newswire/ -- With a 4 – 1 vote, the St. Lucie County, FL School Board approved a graphic, explicit, risky Condom Ed Curriculum. Only Troy Ingersol had the wisdom and courage to reject this outrageous curriculum. Kathryn Hensley, Carol Hilson, John Carvelli, and Judi Miller all followed the recommendation of Planned Parenthood's Michael Panella to support the following:
For 4th Graders, the curriculum instructs teachers to: "Read students the following statement of fact: 'The AIDS virus is transmitted only through blood, semen, and vaginal fluids; people most commonly contract the virus by using needles contaminated with the blood of someone who's infected or by having sexual intercourse with someone who's infected.' Ask if anyone was surprised by the facts."
The curriculum changes implemented began as a curriculum for grades 9-12. Then, curriculum opponents found that condom education would begin in 8th grade, but finding out that 4th graders were going to learn details of how HIV is contracted shocked Port St. Lucie Pastor Bryan Longworth.
Longworth, who was one of only 5 private citizens to review the curriculum, read the above curriculum quote to the board prior to its vote. Longworth comments, "I was appalled to learn that 9 and 10 year olds will be exposed to sexual content. In teaching this to 4th graders, the school board will rob children of their childhood. I have not met one person who is in favor of teaching sexual content to 4th graders. Even some supporters of this curriculum think this goes too far." Longworth, who has already picketed one school board member's house, plans to publish flyers of the school board members next to quotes from the curriculum. Longworth promised, "We're going to let the community know which board members voted to teach sexual content to 4th graders. The community can then decide whether the board members are fit to make decisions about their children's future."
Pastor Bryan Longworth is the associate pastor of Covenant Tabernacle in Port St. Lucie, FL, cofounder of Youth for America, and is part of a group of parents and concerned citizens that gathered over 3,750 petitions in opposition to "Get Real about AIDS." Notes, video footage, and links from his October 12, 2006 press conference can be viewed at http://www.covenanttabernacle.com/covenant_tabernacle_sex_ed.html.
Petitions, information the curriculum, and video footage can be found at www.SexEdFacts.com.
Photos of Longworth are available in high resolution and thumbnail formats.
The left long ago abandoned any pretense of caring about public opinion when it interferes with their agenda.
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Sure, 4th graders will understand every word! /s
Agreed...
It’s a weird twist on invasion of the body snatchers.
I learned about sex when I was about seven or so. I wanted to know why we only had one bull, thirty or so cows and why the bull was always trying to hitch a ride. Amazing how country folk learn about the birds and bees at such an early stage without harming their childhood years. Ever wonder where the word piggy back comes from? I am sure all kids know that phrase.
The moron voters who elected this board should be pubicly accountable for their decisions.
We need publicly accountable voters to elect school boards, that are not shills for PP.
For 4th Graders, the curriculum instructs teachers to: "Read students the following statement of fact: 'The AIDS virus is transmitted only through blood, semen, and vaginal fluids; people most commonly contract the virus by using needles contaminated with the blood of someone who's infected or by having sexual intercourse with someone who's infected.' Ask if anyone was surprised by the facts."
My guess is that those voting for such explicit instructions, are themselves perverts. Why otherwise would anyone in their right mind expose children at that age? I remember 4th grade quite well; it is inappropriate to encourage such pornography. IMO the people who do that are no better than pedophiles; they are, or should be liable for untold psychological damage to children.
This is another reason to consider home schooling to protect our children.
That’s fine for those who grew up on the farm. Our kids also learned that not all chicks that hatch are normal or survive. And while we aren’t going to keep those that are malformed, the same doesn’t apply to HUMANS. Animal husbandry is not human reproduction.
There is a vast difference between the biology of reproduction and the introduction of all those words and the lack of any moral content.
Children do not need to be taught sex by our schools. That is not their purpose period.
But don’t bring a knife to cut up your lunch.
look no further than the education system to see what will happen to healthcare, social security, your taxes, your paycheck and the American way of life. The education system since the 1960’s has turned into an outpatient clinic for psyciatric care, family counciling, sex ed, including the promotion and encouragement of alternate life styles, revisionist history and the fostering and nurturing of an inner hatred for America, and the promotion of ethnic diversity over assimilation. This big ugly black hole where all of our monies to educate our children have fallen into is out of control! NO ONE IS ACCOUNTABLE so no one can be blamed for its failure, the liberal scam, programs run by the government. If we don’t keep up the heat and push these parasites back under the rock from whence they came I see the collapse of that shining beacon in the night.
“...plans to publish flyers of the school board members next to quotes from the curriculum.”
This is a pretty good idea!
My county, i’m so proud.
These folks deserve to be stoned right at the county building.
Course st. Lucie County Schools Suck with the exception of Lincoln Park.
Very high drop out or nongraduation rate.
In the documentary "Monstrous Regiment of Women" (extremely cool), they speak to a former abortion mill honcho, who said that her goal was to get 3-5 abortions per girl from middle school to high school - and the way to get that rate up was to introduce birth contol, sex ed., etc.
Sick.
Homeschool, anyone?
Find out which day this is to be taught, and have a full scale ‘sick day’, when parents keep their kids home.
This is a pretty good idea!
As a general rule, when politicians want to keep secret something that's public (educational curricula are public, since they are revealed to students without any voluntary agreement to keep them confidential) that's a pretty good indication that it should be published as widely and broadly as possible.
What's interesting is that liberals always seem to brand such publication as an "attack". I think my favorite example was when Charlton Heston showed up at a shareholders' meeting for Warner Records (he was a shareholder) and read aloud the lyrics from one of the CDs they were publishing. The CD was discontinued shortly thereafter. Mr. Heston hadn't applied particular pressure to discontinue the CD; he merely made sure the shareholders knew what it contained.
This is more support for my theory that the religious right needs to have teenage pregnancy and people infected with STDs, perhaps just to have people to look down on. No matter how much evidence supports the fact that ignorance only leads to more STD transmission, people somehow still support ignorance.
Yeah but who explained it to you? Sex education is a parents responsibility. They should have the right to decide what to teach and how.
Yep...the wonderful simplicity of a rural upbringin’
Biggest question I had was how all that procreation stuff got boiled down to just birds and bees. Still don’t have a good answer for that one.
Out of Control School Board to Teach About Sex to 4th Graders...
the curriculum they will teach the following:
1) heather has 2 mommies
2) daddy and his boyfriend
3) how to put a condom on a cucumber
4) per the former perjurer in-chief ~ oral sex is not sex
Out of Control School Board to Teach About Sex to 4th Graders...
the curriculum they will teach as follows:
1) heather has 2 mommies
2) daddy and his boyfriend
3) how to put a condom on a cucumber
4) per the former perjurer in-chief ~ oral sex is not sex
Here is one of the left’s favorite new books:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1933665/posts?page=83#83
Nothing wrong with that. Perfectly innocent matchmaking!
And that's quite different from an introduction to human perversion. I would honestly rather have my kids learn about sex from a barnyard pig than from a Barnard professor. There's a much higher likelihood that the pigs would be normal.
-- Mark Twain
Good rant. Worth building on.
And why is that?
Is this because of a lack of sex-ed in the public schools?
Apparently not. Accoring to the Los Angeles Daily News, the California Department of Education reports that "96 percent of California school districts provide comprehensive sexual health education" and all California schools have been required to teach HIV/AIDS prevention education since 1992.
Can we blame the abstinence-only programs promoted by the Bush administration?
Not in California. Weinkopf notes that state law prohibits 'abstinence-only' education in the public schools. In addition, California may be the only state in the country that has refused to accept millions of federal dollars for abstinence education, and instead makes condoms "ubiquitous" in school counseling offices and student health centers.
One factor in the out-of-control disease rates among California children and young adults may be the introduction of the “morning-after” pill. According to testimony offered to the FDA in 2004, sexually-transmitted infections soared in the British Isles when “Plan B” (the morning-after pill) was made available without prescription in 2000.
Ignoring the warning signals from the UK, California subsequently became one of the first states to permit the sale of Plan B over-the-counter without an age limit. (Compiled testimony of Wendy Wright, Carole Denner, and Jill Stanek, "The Morning-After Pill: An Ill Wind This Way Blows.")
The new study on sexually-transmitted infections among young people in California was completed by the Center for Research on Adolescent Health and Development at the Public Health Institute in Oakland. Study author Dr. Petra Jerman told Medical News Today that the statistics revealed an epidemic of which, like an iceberg, only a small part is visible.
The authors acknowledged that their figures are underestimated because of incomplete screening of sexually active young people, and failure to confirm the effectiveness of treatment through follow-up testing.
Ed Thomas of OneNewsNow.com added another dimension to this distressing picture by reporting that a striking increase in suicide rates among people ages 10 to 24 has been confirmed by recently released statistics from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control.
At the same time, says Thomas, Dr. Miriam Grossman , a psychiatrist with the UCLA Student Health Services, is convinced that promiscuity is the root cause of much depression. Dr. Grossman argues that the promiscuity-depression-suicide link is being ignored by doctors who fail to caution students against the documented self-destructive dangers rampant in the university’s sexual “hook-up” culture.
Waiting to see you brush off
“Amazing how country folk learn about the birds and bees at such an early stage without harming their childhood years.”
learning on the farm is much different. Instructing in the classroom, with demonstrations, etc., does far more than teach - it promotes the activity, and children that age often (usually) act out those things they learn in such a manner.
Excellent play on words! I'm going to steal it.
Hi, there. Hildy! Nice to see you here. Sure, steal it. Heh.
Wicked.
The good Pastor needs to take up a collection and start his own church/school, or...here is opportunity for an online school to set up shop.
I live in Port Saint Lucie and am thankful that my children have both graduated. But explicit, inappropriate material is not new. When my daughter was in 5th grade she brough home a quiz she had taken. I looked it over and read “ AIDS is caused by _____ sex”. My daughter had written in the word anal. After I awoke from the floor I gently as possible asked my daughter if she knew what that word meant. Getting ready to call up a Squad of Super Nuns if she said yes. She told me no. She only copied what had been put on the board.
You can damn well believe I went up to the school and raised a bit of holy hell. I had no idea that the AIDs education part of health class was anything more than you can still be friends with a kid who has AIDS cause you can not catch it from just shaking hands, etc. This was around the time of the Ryan White case. I withdrew my daughter from that class.
As was the case then parents are not given full information and are basically told “ all your children are belong to us”.
If you as a parent want to rear up your sons and daughters to be skanky sluts who catch and spread disease. Who view pregnancy as an inconvience to be handled by the folks at Hoover & Kirby. Who believe true love means never having to say your first or last name. Who think a 10 year old should know words such as anal sex. Fine by all means go and parent to your heart’s content. But stay the F away from my child cause my child is for heaven not for the gutter you embrace.
You forgot zero tolerance and what a success that is, too. Now that line of thinking is creeping into our judicial system...no one is innocent until proven guilty anymore.
Pastor Longworth is the son of my 9th grade teacher. I went to a private Church of God school. I am delighted that the values of the father stayed with the child.
Yes you are right. As a matter of fact pencillin resistant STD were developed in an underground lab financed by Pat Robertson and Pope John Paul II. The pharmaceutical companies begged to receive money to develop a birth control pill that inhibited certain STDs but the International Christian Conspiracy put a kabosh on that. Holding the CEO’s mum hostage is effective by the way.
I myself remember fondly my days at the Trogen factory. Lining up the needle poking the hole in the tip and folding the condom just so to keep anyone from seeing the flaw. Ah glory days in the service of the Lord’s army.
Why the heck would I need pregnant teenagers and people infected with STD to look down on when the world offers a new crop of idiots every day.
Sick indeed. Do psychopaths like that really exist? If so, they need to be locked up.
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>Don’t blame the school board as they are merely reflecting the values of those who elected them.
Whoa. that hurt.
I live in Port Saint Lucie, and I am appalled.- I have no idea who these people are.
I certainly never voted for any of them.
You are getting mixed up between the St. Lucie Country which includes such charming areas as Fort Pierce - or as I call it, Fort Ghetto - and the incorporated city of Port St. Lucie, which lies within St. Lucie county.
Fortunately, I home school my two children.
This entire area is getting bizarre, and I’m currently making plans to leave it forever.
We are neighbors.
As I say to various and sundry bourgeois types;
“What test did you have to flunk to get this job?”
And I have said that. - I am as un PC in person as I am on FR.
In some areas, popular culture and what they've seen at home have already robbed children of their childhoods.
Several years ago, we had a pregnant 6th grader, who didn't know which of 10 men (or boys) was the father.
I've taught 9th graders who already had 2 children.
I don't think it's right that children this age need to learn these things, but you can bet there are some children that age who do need to learn these things before they get much older.
Get ‘em, pastor!
Fort Pierce has a debt of over a hundred million dollars in capital improvements going for it. I didn’t thinkall of Fort Pierce was worth that much.
The real estate market is down and Port St. Lucie as a bedroom community for West Palm and the only things to do to actually make money in P.S.L. is garage sales.
The school system is woeful and instead of trying to make it better the board wants to have actual demonstrations on how to put on and use condoms in the damn 4th grade.
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