Posted on 01/16/2014 5:43:02 PM PST by narses
KANSAS MIDDLE SCHOOL: POSTER LISTING SEX ACTS PART OF 'HEALTH AND SCIENCE' CURRICULUM
The father of a 13 year-old girl who was upset by a classroom poster that listed sex acts was shocked to hear that the poster is part of her school’s health and science curriculum.
Breitbart: As local Fox News affiliate in Kansas, fox4kc.com, reported Tuesday, Mark Ellis said his daughter, a student at Hocker Grove Middle school in the Shawnee Mission School District, was “shocked” by what she saw on a poster on a classroom wall in school. Ellis said his daughter took a picture of the poster and showed her parents.
Originally, Ellis assumed the poster to be a student prank, until he called the school and discovered it was part of the curriculum.
Parents outraged over classroom poster that lists sex acts... “Why would you put it in front of 13 year-old students?” he asked.
The poster, entitled, “How Do People Express Their Sexual Feelings?” lists sex acts such as: Oral Sex, Sexual Fantasy, Caressing, Anal Sex, Dancing, Hugging, Touching Each Other’s Genitals, Kissing, Grinding, and Masturbation.
Ellis said after being told by the school principal the poster was “teaching material,” he is now concerned about what his daughter is being taught in school.
“It upsets me,” he said. “And again, it goes back to who approved this? You know this had to pass through enough hands that someone should have said, ‘Wait a minute, these are 13-year-old kids, we do not need to be this in-depth with this sexual education type of program.’”
According to Fox News, however, district spokeswoman Leigh Anne Neal said the poster must be viewed in the context of a bigger curriculum, which she identified as abstinence-based for students in middle school.
“The poster that you reference is actually part of our middle school health and science materials, and so it is a part of our district approved curriculum,” Neal said. “However the item is meant to be part of a lesson, and so certainly as a standalone poster without the context of a teacher led discussion, I could see that there might be some cause for concern.”
Neal added that the curriculum is similar to those used by other schools around the country.
“The curriculum it is a part of, it aligns with national standards around those topics, and it’s part of our curriculum in the school district,” she said.
In fact, the curriculum, titled “Making A Difference,” is published by selectmedia.org and recommended by the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) as a “pregnancy prevention intervention.”
According to the publisher's website, the goal of the program is:
...to empower young adolescents to change their behavior in ways that will reduce their risk of pregnancy and HIV or other STD infection. Specifically, this curriculum emphasizes that young adolescents should postpone sexual activity and that practicing abstinence is the only way to eliminate the risk for pregnancy and STDs, including HIV.
Module 2 of the program, which is called “Understanding Adolescent Sexuality and Abstinence,” offers “an overview of reproductive anatomy, discusses messages about sex, discusses how people express themselves sexually [apparently reinforced by the poster], and the benefits of abstinence.”
According to HHS, in the original study that explored the effectiveness of the Making A Difference program, the participants were African-Americans, aged 11-13.
Nevertheless, Ellis thinks the curriculum should change.
“This has nothing to do with abstinence or sexual reproduction, actually, a lot of these things,” he said. “I would like to see that this particular portion of the curriculum is removed from the school.”
As Fox News reported, Ellis said if the curriculum doesn’t change, he will remove his daughter from sexual education classes.
You too? I thought I was the only one with that kinky fetish.
Not having had children, and with none in prospect, I can only try to imagine the trepidation & loathing engendered in today's parents by the salaried child molesters of the NEA, et al.
I have never attended a PTA meeting but I heard about them.
Our two sons attended Catholic school and if their teachers had a negative evaluation of them, there was hell to pay at home.
My threat was always: “You screw up and I’ll send you to public school.” It was a very effective threat all the way through senior high.
The most dangerous thing is putting anal sex on a par with things like holding hands or hugging. It’s like there is no difference in the sexuality of the acts.
If my child had been in a class like this they would have been removed already, and I would have asked for the resignation of the teacher on grounds of immature judgment.
Go ahead and live blissfully in your imaginary bubble of delusion.
And I don't have to imagine anything because my daughter's a grown adult.
I pity children saddled with low expectations. Must create a really dreary outlook on their future.
LOL, I use the same threat. It is very effective.
This is not education in reproductive biology. It is sexualization. These are things that human beings seek knowledge of when they are ready and remain naive about until then. Many of the words are about private, personal and deeply intimate acts and the visual images they invoke do not belong in a classroom setting. They are not words that should be coming out of the mouth of an adult teacher that we have entrusted our children to.
And the only thing an educator should be saying about anal “sex” is that the rectum is not a sex organ, was never designed to be and that consequently abusing it in that way will damage a person’s health.
When we had drug education in school, we were taught the names of drugs and what they did so that we’d be better equipped to avoid the dangers of using them. Though this is about sex rather than drugs, the same principle still applies. Sex has its dark side in the wrong setting. This “education” is not encouraging abstinence which should be the only role of a responsible school system.
Yes, the internet introduces kids to sex. No surprise there since it is an adult medium, but it is wildly irresponsible of the school to merely provide a definition of terms and a user’s guide.
How do you have a responsible school system if the parents that provide students to the system are not responsible?
Yes, the internet introduces kids to sex. No surprise there since it is an adult medium, but it is wildly irresponsible of the school to merely provide a definition of terms and a user’s guide.
Pretty much every teenager I see has a smartphone which means they have a personal connection to the internet. It doesn't matter how good of a job a parent thinks they have done in keeping their kids on the straight-and-narrow path of life, one has to assume kids are exposed porn and someone should explain to them that just because the images/video seem appealing, doesn't mean such behavior is advisable.
Yeah, I'm sure all the girls at Notre Dame are "good" girls.
And I don't have to imagine anything because my daughter's a grown adult.
Which confirms you are just another clueless adult because you completely failed to grasp what I previously wrote about the proliferation of smartphones amongst teens.
“one has to assume kids are exposed porn and someone should explain to them that just because the images/video seem appealing, doesn’t mean such behavior is advisable”
Schools pass out condoms.
Schools also hand out pencils and paper to promote class participation. To not do so would invite legal action against them. Similarly, schools will stop handing out condoms once they are successfully sued for child support and other issues stemming from having promoted sexual activity via condom distribution.
I’m quite sure you lack any understanding of what I am or am not aware of, particularly with regard to my children. That you would even presume to know makes you look silly.
That your first instinct when confronted with an issue you don't understand is to spew personal insults says much about you too.
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