"It's all for the chill-ren. They'ns need to learn these tings as early as possible."
Posted on 05/30/2008 3:10:19 AM PDT by Man50D
A middle school health teacher is under investigation, accused of teaching too much about sex.
Parents say the teacher is saying crude and explicit things that don't belong in the classroom. Dewayne Smith says, "These are our children, and we're not going to breach the firewall of innocence."
Parents say sex education went too far inside the classroom full of 8th-graders at Fort Herriman Middle School. Suzanne Johnson told us, "She explained how the teacher talked about masturbation. Girl masturbation, boys, the wrong ways … the right ways to have sex, the wrong ways to have sex. How long to make it last. I mean, disgusting."
"What bothered me is that, not only did we get into discussions of masturbatory activity, but we got into explicit descriptions of homosexual acts," Smith said.
Parents say the teacher also showed students fliers with explicit cartoon images.
Seventh-grader Marissa Poloei had a friend in the class. She told us, "He thought it was gross and stuff, and she showed a lot of pictures of stuff."
A spokesperson for the Jordan School District would not comment on the allegations but said there is an investigation. The teacher has been put on administrative leave, but parents don't think that's enough.
Johnson says, "We want her fired. We want her never to teach ever again."
Some of the parents plan to meet with administrators at the school tomorrow. They've invited Rep. Carl Wimmer to attend.
Again, the district said it cannot comment on personnel issues. We were not able to contact the teacher for her side of the story.
It's not right to judge sex ed on the basis of what it's like in the real world. The iDEA is a good one. Who CARES what's it's like in reality!
Another great moment in public education
Tenure is pointless. I can't imagine my school system firing me even if I didn't have tenure, because I do my job exceptionally well. Tenure does very little good except to prevent principals from abusing their power and firing teachers over peripheral issues or personality conflicts. My guess is that those firings would be far less common than the problems under a tenure system. Most teachers I work with are good or even great, but a disappointing number of incompetents remain, teachers who are not good enough that I would want them teaching my kids or anyone else's kids, but not bad enough that the administration considers it worth the effort to document their performance and eventually fire them. I'd support an end to tenure - as the Democrats say "it's for the children" and in this case that phrase would, for once, be true.
I don’t get a sense of “see I told you so” from all these posts showing how far downhill the government system is going. To me, they’re all reminders why so many of us have chosen to sacrifice for a better way.
“I’d support an end to tenure - as the Democrats say “it’s for the children” and in this case that phrase would, for once, be true. “
Heretic, HERETIC, BURN HIM!!!!!!
/sarc on the burning
So sorry about being so long on some of these pings. Life has kind of blindsided me the last couple of weeks or so.
Yes. I was going to post that one but thought twice about it ;) L0L
Thanks for the info. I had an absolutely evil teacher in 5th grade who degraded all of the boys in the class including hitting them on the head with a massive daimond ring...and this was in 1963. It is amazing to see what happened to some of the guys in the class including suicide and rampant drug use in later years. I’m OK but it took a long, long tme.
When I was in school sex ed was the back seat of a ‘54 Mercury.
"It's all for the chill-ren. They'ns need to learn these tings as early as possible."
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