Posted on 03/16/2013 5:17:16 AM PDT by IbJensen
A new policy approved by the Chicago Public Schools (CPS) will require all public school students to participate in sex education instruction, beginning in kindergarten. According to the CPS website, the new mandate, passed on February 27, will require each student to receive “minimum instructional minutes” of sex-ed information that is “medically accurate” as well as (supposedly) age-appropriate.
“It is important that we provide students of all ages with accurate and appropriate information so they can make healthy choices in regards to their social interactions, behaviors, and relationships,” Chicago Public Schools CEO Barbara Byrd-Bennett said in the CPS announcement about the policy. “By implementing a new sexual health education policy, we will be helping them to build a foundation of knowledge that can guide them not just in the pre-adolescent and adolescent years, but throughout their lives.”
In its announcement, the CPS explained that in the earliest grades students “will focus on the family, feelings, and appropriate and inappropriate touching, while students in fourth grade will learn about puberty, including the physical, social, and emotional changes that accompany it, and the causes and transmission of HIV infection.”
After that, instruction gets more intimate, said the announcement, with content in grades five through twelve including “information appropriate for each grade level on human reproduction, transmission and prevention of HIV/AIDS and other sexually-transmitted infections (STIs), healthy decision-making, sexual orientation and bullying, and contraception, including abstinence.”
The announcement emphasized that “as is the case under the current CPS policy, parents and guardians are able to opt out of having their children participate in the sexual health education instruction.”
The CPS noted that the plan was developed by the Chicago Public School Office of Student Health and Wellness, with help from a consortium of community action groups, including Mikva Challenge, the Chicago Department of Public Health, the University of Illinois-Chicago, the Illinois Caucus for Adolescent Health — and, not surprisingly, Planned Parenthood of Illinois.
Stephanie Whyte, the CPS chief health officer, told the Chicago Tribune that the new sex-ed policy was prompted by statistics supposedly showing that a majority of the district's students are sexually active. “Fifty-two percent of our students have had sexual intercourse,” Whyte said, pointing to the school research. In addition, the CPS announcement said the new policy is designed to align with the Obama Administration's 2010 national HIV/AIDS strategy.
Not surprisingly, the announcement was met with stern opposition from conservative, Christian, and pro-family leaders, who especially criticized the policy's intrusion into younger grades. “They're very much pushing an extreme agenda across the board, both to normalize sex and begin the conversation earlier,” Valerie Huber, executive director of the National Abstinence Education Association, told Baptist Press News.
Huber challenged the idea of an “age appropriate” measure for sex education that would take the curriculum into kindergarten and lower primary grades. “The groups who are promoting those standards would essentially define age appropriate as anything that can be cognitively understood even though it's not developmentally appropriate,” she said. “So really there are no limits to what you can share as long as you make the vocabulary elementary enough.”
Peter Sprigg of the Family Research Council told the Christian Post that the notion of early-childhood sex education “is part of the legacy of Alfred Kinsey, and the belief that 'children are sexual from birth.' This is a false and pernicious idea that introduces words, thoughts, and concepts to children long before it is developmentally appropriate for them. This premature exposure may contribute to early sexual activity, when we should be working to prevent it.”
Laurie Higgins of the Illinois Family Institute, the state's leading pro-family group, told The New American that in addition to promoting and encouraging sexual activity at an earlier age, the re-vamped CPS sex-ed policy will doubtless indoctrinate children into embracing homosexuality as a normal lifestyle. Higgins pointed out that “comprehensive sex ed dogmatists believe it’s appropriate for kindergartners to learn about families that are headed by homosexuals, whereas many parents believe that no child in early elementary school should hear anything about homosexuality. What’s worse, comprehensive sex ed proponents will present these disordered family structures positively.”
Higgins said that “it is not the obligation of public schools to teach about every sexuality-related phenomenon that exists, and it is neither the obligation nor the right of public schools to affirm phenomena, like homosexual relationships, that many believe are immoral.”
If comprehensive sex-ed proponents have their way, the type of curriculum CPS is foisting on its students may well become the norm nationwide. In January 2012 a group calling itself the “Future of Sex Education” unveiled its k-12 “National Sexuality Education Standards” that Higgins warns is nothing less than a plan to “usurp local control and impose liberal assumptions about sexuality on our nation’s children.”
Predictably, the groups involved in designing the standards include the radical Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education Network (GLSEN), the equally radical Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States (SIECUS), the abortion giant Planned Parenthood, and the National Education Association.
Higgins said that under such a streamlined, nationalized sex-ed curriculum, “it is likely that, starting in kindergarten, not only will children will be introduced to disordered family structures, but they will also be introduced to the idea that 'gender' is constructed by society. This paves the way for teaching kids positively about gender confusion (and cross-dressing), which will likely take place in grades 3-5.”
Schools in Massachusetts are already well on their way to embracing the spirit of such a curriculum. As reported by The New American, in February the Massachusetts Department of Education “issued a directive for how schools should deal with 'transgender' students, including the rule that students who claim that they identify with the opposite gender must be allowed to use the opposite-sex restrooms and locker facilities.”
Higgins told The New American that her advice to the parents of kids in the Chicago schools is to make plans now to opt their children out of the city's dangerous new sex-ed curriculum, which is slated to be adopted in 2015. “Teach your kids at home,” she advised.
She predicted that teachers slated to instruct in these classes “will not be experts in child development, psychology, ethics, morality, theology, and biology — all of which subjects are critical to education on sexual health. And they will have been inculcated with non-factual progressive beliefs about sexuality, beliefs which are awash in ignorance.”
They won’t be able to read but they will know how to breed.
They won’t know how to breed if the larger part of the curriculum is how to enjoy homosexuality.
It may be better that way, put Darwin to work.
I too entered military service in 1956 when Dwight Eisenhower was our CIC.
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Having been born in ‘da Bronx’ and being raised Irish RC, in ‘downstate/upstate NY, my Grandfather not only had a ‘problem’ with me joining while that ‘damned Republican (probably the ONLY time I heard him ‘swear) was in Office and no war going on, he also ‘refused’ his Govt Retirement (40 some years as US Mail Carrier) letter signed by IKE.
Could never really ‘figure’ it out, I was Conservative but toleratd JFK and LBJ couldn’t stand JEC and despised (at least politically) Clinton and BO so guess I would have the same reaction as he....
The funny thing about him not liking IKE, if the situation was more favorable, Ike could just as soon run as a “D”.
They’ll be taught about the honor of being defiled at age eight by an elderly Mohammed, something to look forward to. Thanks IbJensen.
I have four friends — that’s two happily married couples — with a total of 20 children (and one on the way). All homeschooled. I homeschooled mine also.
It doesn’t cost much when you have a computer and a few secondhand textbooks which can usually be found at a library book sale.
You save money on the kids’ wardrobes too, when they don’t have to dress for school. (Ok, I’m a Stone Ager, we used to dress up for school. Now, maybe not.)
You save time — which is money — by not having to prepare for school, travel to school, and sit there waiting to learn something.
The 20 kids of my four friends are all good products of homeschooling, as mine are also, and that’s the main thing, but I never did understand the argument about cost. One parent home, doing the teaching, one less salary? But look at the benefits!
More INSANITY!.
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Yet,....On Monday, the GODLESS and socialist=entitlement K-12 schools will be filled to the brim with the children of **conservatives** and **Christians**.
God will not save this nation. Why should he when even Christians and conservatives treat their children so badly?
In even the Marxist states, if conservatives and Christians removed their children these GODLESS abominations ( misnamed “public” schools) could be severely crippled in the damage they do. In the red states there are many counties and even entire states were the entire GODLESS and socialist-entitlement system of K-12 schooling would completely disintegrate.
Public schooling exists because conservatives and Christians allow it to continue. Why should God save this nation in the face of such evil done to children? Yes, indeed, there will be millstones.
Post 4 well shows the mind set of the mother who sends her kids to a public school. Life’s physical comforts and status symbols, plus the easy way out is why parents ignore the junk and dirt public schools push into our kid’s heads.
Caring parents who make the choice that one of them stay with the children at home to nurture and educate them may suffer financial hardships as our economic system makes living on one wage or one job hard, but their children have a much better chance to become good, intelligent, productive and moral adults.
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Half the city can’t read but they have time for sex ed? Yikes, what fools,
I guess that’s because you don’t need to read to have sex.
I mean, really, even animals can have sex and they can’t read.
You don’t need to know how to read to vote for jackasses.
You’re right about Ike.
The founder of the John Birch Society labeled DDE as ‘The Politician’ and then wrote a book where he expounded on his theory.
You don't even need to be alive to vote for them.
Hmmmmmm.
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