One of the greatest of all parental responsibilities is teaching our kids about sex. We have been crazy to turn this enormous responsibility over to the secular humanist bureaucrats who run our schools.
Apparently textbooks that teach about birth control aren't working either.
Your passage of the new sex education program is another reason never to send my kids to public schools.
As a taxpayer, I am angry that you feel is it appropriate to have condom demonstrations with 15 year old kids in a co-ed classroom. All parents should have the right to opt-in to this program, not only opt-out.
Some people have said that abstinence-only sex education doesn't work. Well, when you tell students that abstinence is best but if you don't want to abstain then let me show you how to use a condom, of course they don't take you seriously. You are actually encouraging them to have sex, basically wink-wink we have to tell you not to have sex, but here's how to do it.
Is it any wonder that teen-age pregnancies are up, STD's are rampant, suicide is prevelent, and self-esteem is low? 15-year-olds can not emotionally handle the responsibility of a sexual relationship.
I hope you reconsider your decision. Thank you for having this form to share my concerns.
Hmmmmm...
Well, let's see: I've been completely abstinent for 28 years. Getting married in late July. Looking over the long haul, it wasn't that hard a thing to do...
(BTW, we still haven't kissed yet. Ever. Meaning, not even another girl or guy. Would love to present THAT as evidence to this school board :-)
It hasn't been difficult holding on to virginity all these years. Once it's settled in one's mind that he/she will hold off on that sensation until it can be shared with the one person you want to share your body with totally, it's a remarkably easy thing to do.
But I want to make another point: curbing one's sexual desires until the right one and the right moment is good for a person... and it's good for society! For the individual, it almost always leads to bending one's energies into other creative outlets, such as art, writing, sports, etc. A person rises above the more carnal instincts and begins developing all his/her God-given talents, becoming more of the person He made us to be.
But, when the sex drive is enticed to its ultimate peak before a person is ready, he or she will become less enamoured of love and more ensnared by petty sensation. Energies are increasingly spent on satiating those senses, at cost to personal development. The person stagnates.
What, then, is the cumulative effect on a society, when an entire generation has been encouraged to throw their limits to the wind, and cling to the passing moment?
Public schools are the breeding pit of cultural decadence. They're too tempting a target for those who see a fast buck to be made from leading our kids astray: that's too easy a thing to let them get by with. Wanna revitalize this country out of stagnancy? Yank the kids out of state-run schools and teach 'em yourself!
Ha. Wait until the GLADD fisting classes start.
Yep. Gladd indoctrination material 101.
Not all teens have public school teachers who won't try to have sex with them, either. What's your point?
But based on what!??? The condom-loving "safe"-sex people have no criterion for telling students when they should have sex and when they should not. Telling them to establish their boundaries is another way of telling them to do whatever they want. That is not the message I want for my kids. I will protect my kids from these damaging messages.
Let me see if I understand them. We should cater to the kids who choose the wrong behavior while ignoring the harm we may inflict on the kids who would otherwise, had their interest not been spurred or their comfort level raised, chosen right behavior.
Really smart. /sarcasm
Abstinence is a choice and with choice comes responsibility and respectability to self. No one can force your child to attend if they don't want to. Health and Safety can only be a required course as long as it does not offend in anyway the person required to take the course. Exercise your rights as a parent and make them dump this program...it is Clinton tacky and unnecessary to expose young people to this sort of not-as-common-as-you-think problem, it is your job as a parent to answer all questions about sex. Liberal activist want this instead of some true education. You have rights Parents! Use Them!!
I'm willing to bet they didn't send a Press Release to the local paper informing parents of this fact.
Has something changed in baby-making methodologies since the last textbook update (or since we were kids in the 70's for that matter)??
In addition, the so-called "textbook" approved by the Department of Health Services (big deal) was no doubt written by a special interest group with a radical left-wing agenda: Planned Parenthood, CDC Division of Adolescent School Health, NEA, CCSSO, NaSHEC, SIECUS etc.
Good luck parents! Keep fighting. Eakman suggests in some cases we should come in quietly with LAWYERS from a different direction, rather than "attacking" the school board.