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Sex Ed Is Failing In America
http://cuttingthroughthefog.blogspot.com/2009/03/sex-ed-is-failing-in-america.html ^ | Cranky George

Posted on 03/19/2009 12:13:45 PM PDT by Petro

Obviously, the progressive viewpoint of providing sex education in our schools and the movement towards handing out birth control isn't working. And why should it? We've got an educational system in this country that can't teach the basics of reading and math, and somehow, we expect that same system to do a good job in teaching sex ed?

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KEYWORDS: babyboom; education; sexeducation; unwedmothers
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1 posted on 03/19/2009 12:13:45 PM PDT by Petro
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To: Petro
The problem isn't that teaching sex ed isn't working.

Problem is they're not teaching sex ed in the right language.

2 posted on 03/19/2009 12:16:00 PM PDT by skeeter
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To: Petro

Respectfully, I must call Bravo Sierra on “Sex Ed”.

What’s to teach?

One male & one female, married for life.


3 posted on 03/19/2009 12:16:45 PM PDT by GladesGuru (In a society predicated upon freedom, it is essential to examine principles,)
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To: Petro

The problem with sex ed is that many view it as a “how to” class rather than what it should be teaching, abstinence, birth control, and about STDs.


4 posted on 03/19/2009 12:20:11 PM PDT by LottieDah (If only those who speak so eloquently on the rights of animals would do so on behalf the unborn)
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To: skeeter
Problem is they're not teaching sex ed in the right language.

What's the difference? In Spanish, ¡No! still means "No"!

5 posted on 03/19/2009 12:24:46 PM PDT by andy58-in-nh (You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.)
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lol


6 posted on 03/19/2009 12:26:49 PM PDT by skeeter
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I don’t know anybody who took sex ed seriously. Seriously what can they teach you? You put on a condom, you get down— that’s it.


7 posted on 03/19/2009 12:30:24 PM PDT by exist
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To: GladesGuru
Even if you don't teach that it should be "married for life", there isn't that much to the biology unless the kids are planning to go to medical school to be an OB/GYN or urologist. What are the organs, how do they work, what diseases are associated with them and how do you prevent those diseases? Pretty much the same as most of health class. If you spend more than a week or two on it you're just playing with it.
8 posted on 03/19/2009 12:32:50 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (Obama: removing the speed limit on the Road to Serfdom)
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To: exist

In the early eighties sex education was given like a biology course that discussed reproductive systems and the development of a baby. It was not taught as a guide. It was so fact-loaded that it was quite boring.


9 posted on 03/19/2009 12:32:51 PM PDT by Pan_Yans Wife
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To: Petro

It needs more funding!


10 posted on 03/19/2009 12:33:22 PM PDT by Turbo Pig (...to close with and destroy the enemy...)
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To: Petro

Give it some time, the libs will fix this. All they have to do is kill more babies and more aggressively teach gay sex to our country’s children. See, it’s going to be fine.

Well, I guess I could be wrong, I mean, I don’t think anyone can get pregnant from anal and oral sex. Heck, maybe the Global Waring scientists will figure out a way.


11 posted on 03/19/2009 12:44:10 PM PDT by Gator113 (For America to Survive, Obama Must Fail..... Obama=Failure in Chief with the Audacity of Dope.....)
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I think it's working exactly the way the architects envisioned.
12 posted on 03/19/2009 12:46:25 PM PDT by constitutiongirl ("Duty is ours. Consequences are God's."- General Thomas 'Stonewall' Jackson)
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To: exist

“Seriously what can they teach you?”

In, out, in, out, in, out........


13 posted on 03/19/2009 12:49:47 PM PDT by mothball
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“We’ve got an educational system in this country that can’t teach the basics of reading and math,.... “

Stupid idea, when all we really need to know is where to pick up our ‘mo money check’ from the government.

You seem out of touch with todays reality by putting forth such wild and crazy ideas that could screw things up for Obama, who is already tired from all the hard work he’s doing for all of us.

Get real...

;>)


14 posted on 03/19/2009 12:51:24 PM PDT by Gator113 (For America to Survive, Obama Must Fail..... Obama=Failure in Chief with the Audacity of Dope.....)
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To: Petro
We were lectured that the progressive way was the only intelligent way of teaching young people about sex. Just like other progressive ideas, this one is now a quagmire.
15 posted on 03/19/2009 1:05:24 PM PDT by theBuckwheat
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To: skeeter
Problem is they're not teaching sex ed in the right language.

It should be taught in Latin--most of the key terms are Latin words anyway.

The other day I heard a talk given by a local lady in her 80s to a local group. She was telling stories from her childhood, and said that after her mother and father got married, they had three children in three years. After that, she quoted her father as saying, "We found out what was causing that."

16 posted on 03/19/2009 1:57:47 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: KarlInOhio

“If you spend more than a week or two on it you’re just playing with it.”

Corect.

On the other hand, think of all the deserving teacher/commies we are subsidizing with the present sex ed courses.


17 posted on 03/19/2009 2:37:04 PM PDT by GladesGuru (In a society predicated upon freedom, it is essential to examine principles,)
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To: Gator113

“I don’t think anyone can get pregnant from anal -— -— sex.”

Isn’t that how lawyers are conceived?

Source: Old lawyer joke, told to me by a medical student. Meddies know who their predators are.


18 posted on 03/19/2009 2:39:17 PM PDT by GladesGuru (In a society predicated upon freedom, it is essential to examine principles,)
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To: KarlInOhio

“you’re just playing with it.”
am i the only one who giggled at this?


19 posted on 03/19/2009 2:59:24 PM PDT by Nipplemancer (Abolish the DEA !)
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I’ve got 2 sons, one in college, one still in HS. They tell me that sex ed was pretty boring. Standard biology stuff, reproductive system in male and female, gestational info, diseases, a very little birth control info (ie, there are chemical, barrier and natural methods). 17 year old says there really wasn’t much detail and it was like a chapter in a science book. Nothing titillating, no how-tos or instructions or anything graphic.


20 posted on 03/19/2009 3:08:05 PM PDT by ktscarlett66 (Face it girls....I'm older and I have more insurance....)
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