Posted on 04/23/2005 4:36:22 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
The Montgomery County public school system has changed parts of its new sex education curriculum after parents criticized it as favoring a homosexual agenda and encouraging promiscuity.
'It's a teeny little step in the right direction,' said Michelle Turner, president of Citizens for Responsible Curriculum.
Educators have removed a sentence in the curriculum that said: 'Sex play with friends of the same gender is not uncommon during early adolescence.'
In addition, the school system has removed a statement that said students would 'discuss how you develop your sexual identity.'
Curriculum coordinator Russell Henke, who reports to the school board, is responsible for the changes. He did not return phone calls seeking comment on why the changes were made.
'We think [the school system] has realized that their wording was misleading and that it needed to be corrected, and we are hoping that they will continue to realize that there are pieces of the revised health curriculum that will cause some real health issues for students,' said Mrs. Turner, a mother of six.
Her group — Citizens for Responsible Curriculum — formed in December to protest and oppose the new curriculum after the board approved it unanimously in November.
The sex education course will be tested in three high schools and three middle schools starting this month. The school board will vote on countywide implementation this summer.
(Excerpt) Read more at washtimes.com ...
Bethesda Chevy-Chase High School in Bethesda, Seneca Valley High School in Germantown and Springbrook High School in Silver Spring will take part in the high school course in which 10th-graders will be shown how to put condoms on cucumbers.
Martin Luther King Middle School in Germantown, Tilden Middle School in Rockville and White Oak Middle School in Silver Spring will participate in the middle school curriculum in which eighth-graders will learn that homosexual couples are the newest American family.
School system officials have noted that some schools were unenthusiastic about testing the new curriculum, which also will teach students to "develop" a sexual identity and that gender identity is "a person's internal sense of knowing whether he or she is male or female." ............***
I'm wondering how many sex ed teachers get their rocks off watching 15 year-olds handling cukes in such a manner.
School system officials have noted that some schools were unenthusiastic about testing the new curriculum, which also will teach students to "develop" a sexual identity and that gender identity is "a person's internal sense of knowing whether he or she is male or female." ............***
--> Gimme a break! hahahaha, sense of knowing whether your male or female? Kids need to be learning math, english, stuff like that, not this crap they are trying to teach them. There's no way in hell i'd let my kids goto some public school if i can help it. or any school for that matter. Homesckool baby !
Sex Education classes should be against the law for anyone under the age of 18 (age of consent). If you feel that "kids are going to do it anyway", then I will ask where is the boundary?
Are you going to teach how to get drunk because "kids will do it anyway"?
Are you going to teach how to cheat on tests and homework without getting caught because "kids will do it anyway"?
Are you going to teach how to rebel against family and society because "kids will do it anyway"?
I am against teaching anything that would contribute to the delinquency of a minor. As an alternative, I would suggest an economics class to teach how much money public schools continue to waste.
We had to teach "something", so I ordered some literature from a conservative company....who taught the "basics" and nothing more. The parents and teachers loved it. We had a few whiners... but they were promptly told they could "teach" anything else they felt necessary ......AT HOME. What a concept!
How refreshing!
Bump!
SHeesh! As if you don't have a clue! (You had better know which restroom you are supposed to be going in by Middle School).
Maybe the meddlers should quit confusing the kids and just let them figure it out...
But then, confusion is the opening salvo in the battle for predatory exploitation.
Fudge packing 101 ?
PING !!!!!
What ever happened to teaching Reading, Writing, Arithmetic, Geography etc. Information that you need in order to live and thrive in the real world.
You are absolutely right. I do not see why sex ed should be taught in schools. Heck, all kids need to do is watch TV anyway and they'll learn all they need to know.
In honor of "Career Day," shouldn't we expect the teachers to simply be demonstrating with the students the "proper" technique of "condom fitting"?
Afterall, doesn't the nation need more lap-dancers, skanks, gay hookers, and gigolos?
Thank God for the NEA. /sarcasm
I think we ought to send this to the B-16 at the Vatican and maybe convince him to have a sit down wit these extremeist school boards. PaPa's email is benedictxvi@vatican.va
Thanks... I just wish it were this easy in the bigger school systems. Like dumb sheep... everyone just "goes along" to keep from making waves or jeopardizing their jobs. Besides, most nurses I know are very liberal and wouldn't have batted an eye at teaching 5th graders the stuff PP sent out to them.
Amen to that! You're right on!
I would suggest in the interest of fairness and education wording should be added to explain terms used.
ie: Normal-----Biology. Functioning or occurring in a natural way; lacking observable abnormalities or deficiencies. excerpted from Dictionary .com (Google)
The use of Normal in this sense would be to explain the relationship between Heterosexual couples as opposed to
non Normal relationships.
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I've got news for you: All sex education courses that are not abstinence based encourage promiscuity.
This is a very good question. I think it's a big mistake to assume that the motives of the Planned Parenthood types are educational in nature.
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'discuss how you develop your sexual identity.'
TMI. Way too much information for me about what 15 year olds need to learn. Da*n. You'd think they'd know by then.
As for the cucumber thing, I am just plain speechless. Besides, in many schools, girls already have children by age 15.
Had a friend who wrote his thesis on how schools are really places for adults to work and not really places to educate
children.
He took a school from it's inception at the citizen committee's initial meeting to the recommendation to the board of education to planning, construction and finally, opening day. In a 280-page text (excluding tables and other matter) he got to page 250 before students were ever mentioned.
It seems to me, then, the sex education courses are for sex education teachers and the administrators. By implication, these courses might have little to do with students.
Am I saying that some sex ed teachers might be in the business for their own jollies. No, I'm not saying that.
No, I'm not really saying that.
(I suppose I could be saying that.)
ping.
LOL :-)
Next on their reading list will be:
"101 reasons why a cucumber is better than a man"
"It seems to me, then, the sex education courses are for sex education teachers and the administrators. By implication, these courses might have little to do with students."
These curricula are designed by gay-lesbian ideological activist groups to spread their viewpoint.
In other words, its indoctrination.
If you took the indoctrination out of the school, kids could graduate years earlier.
Some googling revealed ...
(1) This program was NOT DESIGNED BY EDUCATORS, BUT BY A SPECIAL-INTEREST PRO-GAY ACTIVIST GROUP:
http://www.washtimes.com/metro/20050209-113152-2518r.htm
The group Advocates for Youth (AFY), which promotes programs that help young people nationwide make decisions about their sexual health, says it sees an opportunity in Montgomery County to help end discrimination against homosexual students.
"The great majority of parents want their children to receive accurate and complete sex education," said Barbara Huberman, AFY director of education and outreach. "My hope would be that a success example like Montgomery County would give confidence and support to other communities that this is the right thing to do for their children."
The groups website ...
http://www.advocatesforyouth.org/culturalcompetency.htm
"Youth who face prejudice and discrimination by virtue of their identity, life experience, or family circumstances disproportionately experience teen pregnancy and HIV/STI infection. Such young people may include youth of color, those from low-income families, immigrants, and gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and questioning youth (GLBTQ). "
(hmmm. They are horrified at the higher rate of pregancy and STDs amongst the most promiscuous youth... gotta shake my hea dat that; imagine, a teen engaged in gay sex is morely likely to have AIDS than a teen who abstains entirely. this is discrimination, and must be stopped. No better way to stop the discrimination than to get ALL youth to be equally promiscuous.)
(2) THEY USE BOGUS DATA TO CONVINCE SCHOOL BOARDS TO ACCEPT THEIR CURRICULA SUGGESTIONS, AND VICIOUSLY ATTACK OPPONENTS:
http://www.parentsrightscoalition.org/Contents/Writings/venomous.htm
What our friend from the Board failed to mention is that Evelyn Reilly of the Christian Coalition and I both testified that the 1989 suicide statistics have been proven false (Boston Herald, "Gay teen suicide state refuted", May 25, 1997, 5). I personally have a letter in which Marcel admits that the statistics are untrue. So, I asked the Board, if the "Commission was founded on false premises, ... what does the Commission do?" They continue to propagate false information regarding homosexuality through the 1997 Massachusetts Youth Risk Behavior Survey, which Marcel offered in his letter last month. This report "reveals" that gay youth are more bulimic, truant, violent, and sexually risky than their peers.
Marcel rails against Mrs. Reilly for her "omissions" related to documentation of pædophilia, but Marcel "omits" to mention that the Youth Risk Behavior Survey is "self-reported" and "there is no way to establish its accuracy" (from a letter by Marcel LaFlamme). In fact, the Youth Risk Behavior Survey compares percentages of gay youths involved in risky behavior to straight youths involved. By comparing percentages, we are expected to "open our hearts" to the gay youth, and we do. But once I realized the propaganda machine through which the information was run, I was not sympathetic, rather frustrated that we have been fed lies through governmental misinformation. We have based our public policy on the potentially false or misleading statements of 14 gay kids. One hundred sixty seven straight kids have skipped school because they felt unsafe, 153 more than gay-youth.
As we testified before the Board of Education in December, the Governor's Commission has a vested interest in keeping gay youth troubled youth. David LaFontaine's position of authority as Chairman of the Commission would cease if it could be established that gay youth are not more prone to "risky behavior" than straight youth. It is not too difficult to imagine that gay-straight clubs, formed with $1,000 of taxpayer money, might suggest to their members to "self-report" false or misleading information regarding their "risky behaviors." With so few gays in Massachusetts schools, only one or two has to lie to "establish" this epidemic of gay-related "risk behavior."
(3)THE SCHOOL BOARD REJECTED INPUT FROM OTHER GROUPS:
http://www.pfox.org/asp/newsman/templates/newstemplate.asp?articleid=180&zoneid=2
(4) BACKLASH WEBSITE:
http://www.recallmontgomeryschoolboard.com/index.htm
Interesting. the special-interest group that made this pro-gay sex ed lesson plan has embedded in their workbook a lesson in MORAL RELATIVISM:
...As an alternative, I would suggest an economics class to teach how much money public schools continue to waste...
True, but I bet that that is not very high on the NEA's list of things to do. :-)
..and how long ago was this?
What you did..... removing the Planned Parenthood curriculum...
... took my county months, and the organization of parents across the county, hundreds of them, attending school board meetings and protesting the very graphic curriculum.
Kudos to you!!!
It's been 15yrs...
Most larger school systems have the gym or special ed teachers give out the PP materials. Being a parent that is not plugged into or employeed in the process of sex ed.....will put you at a disadvantage in having a particular say-so, unfortunately.
I have to mention also, that this little school (350 students from K-12) is as close to a private-type atmosphere I've ever seen. It's in po-dunk USA.....but has very high scholastic ratings. We moved to Austin when my daughter was 15yrs old and in 9th grade. She was a full year ahead of her classmates in all the basic curriculum....for which she was promptly advanced to 10th grade.
She's returned to this area specifically to put her own children in that school.
..my son was in junior high, and the principal was gracious (and relieved actually) that parents would take the lead in this and save him some grief.
When all was said and done, we had an abstinence only curriculum, and the principal even put in an 'option out' clause.
You have FReepMail.
Good for you!!! Most Principals and Administrators I've known.....feel their hands are tied. They have the same concerns we do, but fear losing their jobs if they initiate anything themselves. I'm really glad it all worked out for you.... We may only save a small corner of the world in our own backyards.....but it's worth it!
#35...So true!
That is one goofy suggestion. As if the Pope has some influence over the RAT-dominated school systems.
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