Posted on 06/12/2012 9:54:54 AM PDT by Sopater
ONALASKA, Wash. - You can tell Onalaska is old fashioned just by looking.
"We're in the country, we're small town, we like it that way,” said parent Kadra Gilliland.
But something at the elementary school last week has folks in this quiet town making noise.
"What gives this woman the right to come down here and go above our authority, is the way I look at it,” said parent Curt Pannkuk.
"I was one pissed off cowboy," said parent James Gilliland.
These parents are upset about a sex education class for the fifth graders last week.
"She learned oral sex and anal sex, things 10- and 11-year-olds do not need to know,” said Kadra.
When the school's principal, who was teaching the course, was asked what oral and anal sex were, she told the students.
James Gilliland couldn't believe it.
"It's basically the same as raping a kids mind and taking their innocence,” he said.
"I think the principal handled it appropriately at the time; she only gave factual information, no demonstrations,” said Onalaska Superintendent Scott Fenter.
Fenter says state law requires fifth graders to learn about sexually transmitted diseases.
Parents can review the curriculum, which does mention oral and anal sex, and can have their child excused.
But Fenter does not think the lesson goes too far.
"Because in 6th grade they start becoming sexually aware and you've got to teach them ahead of time,” he said.
"There are some questions you just don't answer or you answer them politically correctly; she was not politically correct,” said parent Jean Pannkuk.
School ends Friday, but these parents won't let their kids go back unless the curriculum is changed.
"Might as well give the kids a Kama Sutra book and teach 'em the same thing,” said James Gilliland.
Since 1988, state law has required some sort of sex education beginning at fifth grade. A state spokesperson says the curriculum has only generated limited complaints since then.
The Greeks made Socrates drink Hemlock for less than this!
How about this for 5th graders..... Keep your hands to yourself and your private parts private. (would work also for adults)
I grew up in a large mid-western city and we did not get sex education outside of our homes until the 8th grade. Through school I knew of only two girs who got pregnant and STDs were unherd of.
But back then our mamas made us wear those Playtex rubber panty girldles too! They were more effective than a chastity belt or a 5th grade course in sex ed would have been!
Everyone can be positively joyous about their PS. They can do happy dances about how things like this could never happen.
Personally, I’m not taking that chance. One shot, I have one shot with my kids innocence. All it takes is one gung ho educator and it’s all gone.
And you my FRiend!
This used to be called corrupting a minor. A morals charge that would result in jail time.
Now it is considered proper guidance and edumacation to get kids sexually active before they graduate all in the name of advancing the sex positive agenda which sees orgasm to be a birthright that should be enjoyed (and exploited) at every age with no concept of morality in the number or type of partner(s) you choose. Free love is back, from the same socialist scum who pushed it generations ago.
They’ve come for your children and get to tell them their parents are WRONG and so is their church.
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Moral Absolutes PING
Ditto!
I _hated_ those things!
The mind boggles at how anyone could get up in front of a bunch of 10 year olds and tell them about anal sex.
Oral, they’ll learn in American History class, when they get to the Clinton Era...
My measure of what is acceptable to be taught in schools is that if the same information was presented to a child somewhere else by someone who was not a teacher would that person be prosecuted for doing so?
My point being is that if you teach your kids at home about oral and anal sex the police will come throw you in jail. Why should the schools be allowed to do this?
The real question is “Why do all these so-called ‘conservatives’ have their children in government schools?”
Answer: They’re a bunch of middle-class welfare queens. “Free” government stuff is more important than the welfare of their children.
no demonstrations,”
Basically, we should all be grateful that there were no "demonstrations" of anal and oral sex. Does that mean, that at some places there are "demonstrations". Is this an option for the teacher?
The curriculum HAS to become encompassing for them. Plus they need to learn proper cleaning of dildos (which are illegal to sell to minors even though Amazon does it).
This is not the job of a school. It is taken on by design as the job of RE-EDUCATION centers that seek to undermine other lessons learned.
They may not be able to get direct access to everyone's child, but they can turn the tide on the issue of same-sex marriage and whether or not teens SHOULD be engaging in pre-marital sex.
This is a parody, right? Paging John Semmens ...
The subject is state-mandated. The topics are identified in advance. The principal, one assumes, had the parents’ “support” up until just recently. And yet the parents are shocked and upset that a question on-topic was asked and answered?
My favorite is the one who said the principal should have given a “politically correct” answer. What is a “politically correct” answer to “What is meant by oral or anal sex?”
Some suggestions:
“These are gross, disease-transmitting practices in which decent human beings do not engage.”
“I’m not going to tell you. Ask your parents.”
“Oral sex was preferred by a Democratic former president, while anal sex is the focus of ‘Gay Pride Month,’ promoted by our current Democratic president.”
“This educational program is not intended to provide you with factual information about how sexually transmitted diseases are sexually transmitted.”
“.....these parents won’t let their kids go back unless the curriculum is changed.”
The principal should be fired, period.
Schools have no business, that is absolutely NO business, is sex education.
Period.
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