Posted on 09/12/2013 4:33:23 PM PDT by markomalley
“Sex is so bad, we should ban it once and for all...”
No, sex is not bad. Sex is wonderful, life-giving, bonding and... hell, it’s awesome.
But inappropriate sex is not good. Sex, for the sake of sex, can be degrading, hurtful, and harmful.
Sex is powerful, and should be respected.
I tried to teach my kids that sex, within the bounds of a loving, committed relationship, was great. Kick up your heels and have fun.
But I don’t want them to feel abused or to be abusers.
When kids are hormonal and animalistic, perhaps we should cut back on the sex until their brains and emotions are developed enough to manage the responsibility, shall we?
What horrible, turgid drek. And to think only 45 years ago I was reading David Copperfield, The Idiot, Crime and Punishment, Les Miserables, Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes, and Huckleberry Finn in 8th through 10th grades. How far we’ve fallen.
Go to the Herald and get the details. A mom complained about this text when she learned her 11th grader was required to read a bathtub sex scene out loud in class. The mom read the passage to the school board at last night’s board meeting. Before she started, the board president asked that the door be closed. She knew darned well what was coming.
“This author doesn’t even speak correct English”
That’s pretty racist of you, to expect correct English in a book for English class.
I mean sheesh already, you really set the bar too high!
You must be one of them wingers.
My next-door neighbor, who is half-Mexican and half-white, was good friends with my kids while they were growing up but when she was in about 6th grade she came over and talked with me and explained that once a kid reaches her age they’re not supposed to hang around with whites. They’re supposed to become “brown”, which means they do the stuff they are hard-wired to like: drugs and booze, sex, and fiery emotion which includes violence. I told her I didn’t think that was true, that there are Hispanics who don’t do any of those things. She said if you don’t do those things you are considered a traitor to the Latino “family”.
This girl was really struggling to figure out her identity. And that’s the message she had gotten from all around her. She knew it was a racist view of life - she said that Hispanics are proud racists and will laugh at anybody who thinks that’s bad - and she didn’t agree with it, but she thought she had to live by it.
Then my kids got into high school Spanish class, where we had to sign a waiver for them to watch R-rated movies/videos because they were supposed to try to interpret Spanish speaking in real-time from the videos, and the only Spanish-language videos the teacher could find had lots of sex, drugs, and violence.
Where do you suppose my neighbor got her confused ideas of what it means to be Hispanic? The school worked really hard to push into public eye the Hispanic kids who did well in school and extra-curriculars, with scholarships like crazy. My daughter looked at a book of scholarships to apply for and since she’s neither Black nor Hispanic there wasn’t anything for her to apply for. And I understand that and I’m happy that those kids are on a path to success.
But what the kids are taking away from it all is that you’re either a brain, or you’re a girl and pregnant at 12 (my daughter’s class had 2 Hispanic girls pregnant in 7th grade - one who deliberately got pregnant by her brother because she wanted a baby to love her - and another 3? were pregnant before their freshman year; the school was thinking about putting in a nursery between the middle school and high school because so many middle and high-schoolers had babies already. 30% of her class dropped out by sophomore year - a higher rate than even in north Omaha) or a guy in a gang.
My son’s best friend is Hispanic, comes to our house every day. When he was in 8th and 9th grades he was hanging by a thread, not sure which direction he wanted to go - to actually try at school, or to join a gang. I’m glad and proud that he chose to keep trying at school. He hopes to go to college and wants his grades to allow that. There are some really, really neat Hispanic families, and the pull of the stereotype is tugging at their kids.
Some of these kids need help figuring out their identity. I don’t think English class is necessarily the best place for that, or that reading trashy, poorly-written novels that fit the stereotype is going to be helpful to their identity struggle or to their English skills. I would love to see the behavioral objectives behind the suggested reading of this book. The student will be able to (TSWBAT).....?
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