Posted on 01/18/2012 10:32:42 AM PST by Sopater
By the time they leave elementary school, children should be able to “define sexual orientation,” and by the eighth grade be able to “define emergency contraception and its use,” according to a report containing controversial new recommendations for sex education in U.S. public schools.
“Ideally, comprehensive sexuality education should start in kindergarten and continue through 12th grade,” says the “National Sexuality Education Standards” report, drawn up by a range of advocates, academics and public education officials. The Future of Sex Education (FoSE), an initiative started by sex education advocates, developed the standards “to create a strategic plan for sexuality education policy and implementation.”
Also involved are the American School Health Association, the National Education Association Health Information Network – the non-profit arm of the nation’s largest teacher’s union, the NEA – the American Association for Health Education and the Society of State Leaders of Health and Physical Education.
An advisory committee includes senior officials from Planned Parenthood and the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN).
The 45-page report determines “age-appropriate” guidelines for comprehensive sexuality education in the areas of anatomy, identity, pregnancy, sexually-transmitted diseases (STDs) and others.
“Specifically, the National Sexuality Education Standards were developed to address the inconsistent implementation of sexuality education nationwide and the limited time allocated to teaching the topic,” reads the report.
The authors argue too little time is devoted to instruction in HIV, pregnancy and STD prevention – a median total of 3.1 hours in elementary school, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
In its rationale for sex education in public schools, the report says there is “a pressing need to address harassment, bullying and relationship violence in our schools, which have a significant impact on a student’s emotional and physical well-being as well as on academic success.”
Standards to be introduced in kindergarten and be met by the second grade include: “Identify different kinds of family structures” and “Demonstrate ways to show respect for different types of families.”
Recommendations for students by the time they reach age seven include that they [u]se proper names for body parts, including male and female anatomy” and “[p]rovide examples of how friends, family, media, society and culture influence ways in which boys and girls think they should act.”
Starting in the third grade, and upon completion of the fifth – when most children are 10 years old – students should be able to “[d]efine sexual orientation as the romantic attraction of an individual to someone of the same gender or a different gender” and “[i]dentify parents or other trusted adults of whom students can ask questions about sexual orientation.”
By completion of the eighth grade, the report says, students should be able to “[d]ifferentiate between gender identity, gender expression and sexual orientation,” “[e]xplain the range of gender roles,” and “[d]efine emergency contraception and its use.”
Upon completion of middle school, students should be able to “[a]nalyze external influences that have an impact on one’s attitudes about gender, sexual orientation and gender identity”; “[a]ccess accurate information about gender identity, gender expression and sexual orientation”; “[c]ommunicate respectfully with and about people of all gender identities, gender expressions and sexual orientations”; “[e]xplain the health benefits, risks and effectiveness rates of various methods of contraception, including abstinence and condoms”; and “[d]escribe the steps to using a condom correctly.”
And by the time they graduate from high school students should be expected to “[d]efine emergency contraception and describe its mechanism of action” and “[a]ssess the skills and resources needed to become a parent.”
Also included in the guidelines are the following: “Compare and contrast the advantages and disadvantages of abstinence and other contraceptive methods, including condoms”; “Access medically-accurate information and resources about emergency contraception”; “Compare and contrast the laws relating to pregnancy, adoption, abortion and parenting”; and “Describe potential impacts of power differences (e.g., age, status or position) within sexual relationships.”
The report includes a glossary that defines gender expression, gender identity, gender roles, and transgenderism. “National Resources” for teachers, listed in the report, include GLSEN and Planned Parenthood Advocates for Youth, an organization that supports federal legislation for comprehensive sex education policy.
While the standards include references to abstinence, the FoSE advocates against abstinence-only programs. “Today, as the pendulum swings away from abstinence-only-until-marriage programs, advocates for comprehensive sex education are challenged to remain vigilant on the policy front, making certain that we maintain gains against this failed effort,” FoSE says on its Web site.
FoSE lists Focus on the Family, Concerned Women for America, Moral Majority and the Eagle Forum as groups that “spearheaded campaigns to discredit comprehensive sexuality education.”
The new perverted math: If Johnny is 7 and his boyfriend is 47, how much older is he and as extra credit write, as best as you can, why is it normal and why you don’t have an older lover.
Or the Agonizer from Star Trek “Mirror Mirror”.
[ x = 5 ]
HOW DARE YOU HURT SOMEONE’S FEELINGS BY GIVING THE MATHEMATICALLY CORRECT ANSWER!!!!
[ It’s been decades ago, but the only sex ed info we got at school was a film with cartoon characters talking about how our bodies were going to be changing. It was strictly limited to biological facts, and our parents had to sign off on our participation.
It’s strange, but I never had any problems in my life caused by a lack of sex ed. ]
I grew up on a farm, by the time i was 8 i knew a whole lot more about things than a lot of the city slicker 18 year olds.
Of course growing up with four older brothers could have affected this too.
Funny how the libs call the flyover country people “hayseeds” but those “hayseeds” know a lot more about sex edumacation than most urbanites.
When a pervert like Jerry Sandusky does it, it’s called “grooming” for future predation.
Which is why it should be the responsibility of the parents to teach it!
Everyone.
If you support a nationalized school system, which is the entire point of NCLB, the rest is simply a matter of details.
The way to avoid this is to trash NCLB and start taking local systems back to the local level with local curricula, local elected school officials, and local responsibilities to local residents.
Animals follow nature.
What the “sex ed” as described above is training kids to go against nature.
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THis is National. Not State, not County, not municipal. It's FedGov. There is only one solution, aside from yanking your kids out of public school for starters - SEPARATION OF SCHOOL AND STATE. Get the government out of schools. Schools should be extremely local. Local control of content, local supervision, local funding, local standards, and no mandatory anything. Homeschooling and private schools should be as easy to do as they were previously. Get the !!*@#*%! fed money - and their disgusting slimey leftist perversion - OUT OF EDUCATION!
Here’s a novel idea - the State gets out of people’s private affairs???
They’ll grow up to be ignorant.
“What country did we gain our independence from?”
“When did we fight the Civil War?”
“What’s 9 times 7?”
Et cetera,et cetera.
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Dismantle the public school system. It’s more than inept, it’s criminal.
Kindergarten? Have they lost what’s left of their minds???!!!
At this point I’m of the opinion that only a complete financial/economic collapse will destroy the beast of evil fedgov destroying our country. Which looks as though it’s going to happen this year anyway.
If the fedgov has no money, there can be no enforcement of “National Pedophile Grooming Indoctrination Standards”. Teachesr won’t teach if they aren’t paid, the buildings can’t be heated, etc, textbooks (ie pornographic how to manuals) cannot get printed, etc.
Of course, a moral renewal needs to happen simultaneously.
Cf, after posting enough of these arth articles over the last several years, there wasn't much to lose.
It was only a small step off into the abyss for them.
Actually, they were off into the abyss hanging on to the edge with a couple of fingers.
This means they have let go and are now hurtling into the abyss.
And when the age and time is right, humans do not need manuals, charts or movies to know how to follow nature. Somehow or other men and women have been producing offspring for thousands and who knows how many years without the benefit of sex education.
““Age-appropriate” guidelines from a panel of perverts. How nice.”
Now don’t go full snark on Obamoids in edumacation.
Do remember that it takes years of ‘educating’ to Libtard standards to make a bisexual or homosexual out of a normal student.
Surely you don’t want perverts to be in danger of extinction, do you? Because Perverts can’t reproduce in the time honored, Judeo-Christion approved, method, The Pervert in Chief is just observing recent court statutes.
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