Posted on 05/14/2015 10:23:47 AM PDT by Sean_Anthony
There is no knowing what they are learning, for good or ill, in school
In the 1940s and 50s, what passed for sex education was literally about the birds and bees as metaphors for inception and child birth. The emphasis was on waiting until marriage to engage in sex. There were instructional books with a mostly medical orientation to the information they provided but whether they could be found in the schools is anyones guess.
Somehow that generation (and earlier ones) managed to learn enough about sex to engage in it within the context of a society that regarded sex outside of marriage as sinful. By the 1960s, the generation fathered in the wake of World War Two told everyone not to trust anyone over thirty and that sex, drugs and rockn roll were the only things that really mattered in life.
In 1979, with Jimmy Carters blessing, the federal government took control of the nations educational system via the Department of Education, but the real takeover began much earlier. It has been in serious decline ever since with huge dropout rates and failures to learn reading and math that put us well behind when compared to other nations. Traditional American values have often been abandoned.
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It’s a pain in the butt.
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