Posted on 08/10/2009 9:57:29 AM PDT by rhema
“It’d be interesting to compare the predictions and opinions of both the pro- and anti-sex ed advocates over the years,”
The predictions of the people who don’t think the state should be teaching our kids to have sex have largely come true. High pregnancy rates, higher STD rates, more abortions, less personal responsibility.
“I also suspect the whole abstinence ed thing is just another way for “conservatives” to get on the gravy train of curriculum writing and think-tank funding”
OR it could be them trying to save the kids from a lot of pain caused by promiscuity.
“Something like 25 percent of Americans don’t think sex ed should be in schools at all”
Sure, but its there. That argument is over, the action that needs to happen is to roll back the tide.
“Speaking of Ewww, a friend said the other day after her 10 year old leaned how babies are actually born, she swears she will only adopt ;-)”
It must be a 10 yr old thing..because mine said the exact same thing when she found out.
As if they would tell you. Teachers have been re-educated with this cr@p themselves. I have personal experience as a Christian and ex-teacher.
Pedophiles and perverts have lots of friends, of course the friends usually don't know that about them, because they are so friendly, and loving and kind.
It’s nice that you have such nice public schools where you are.. but everyone isn’t so fortunate.. I had to pull my eldest out of public school because they told me, to my face, that it didn’t matter that she couldn’t write legibly or do math, she could always “use a keyboard, and a calculator”, but that it was absolutely necessary that she take co-ed P.E. or she would flunk out. My youngest goes to private school even though its painful financially. The public schools here in Fresno are awful.. this article is NOT “biased crap” ..its straight on the mark for most school districts. You live in some sort of fairy world, where everything is happy and nice. The real world is uglier than you know.
No childbirth isn't a major topic, but abortion without parental knowledge is a pretty big item, totally secret.
Your comments are disgusting.
I don’t live in any kind of a fairy world, I just happen to live in an area where the parents actually are parents and understand what being a parent means.
I’m actually thankful for the few private schools in this area, they tend to attract the bad kids whose parents would rather pay the tuition than the bail or actually be parents.
Typical of those who hate the PS system, you resort to personal attacks rather than any attempt at legitimate discourse.
Gotta accomadate all Six Genders Ya Know!! ;-)
Maybe so, but nevertheless true. Of course I live in an area that delights in them.
Woah.....what are you implying? That the head nurse of Gabz' school is a pedophile and/or a pervert? That's wrong at so many levels
Not implying anything, just stating a fact. Perverts and pedophiles have become ensconced in public education, whether you want to believe it, or not.
You would think so, right? But, it doesn't work that way. Instead, parents are penalized for complaining. These types of lessons fall under the headings of "tolerance" and "diversity". Parents even have gone to court for the right to opt their children out of certain lessons/teachings, and the court ruled against the parents. The courts have ruled that, as long as your child is enrolled in public school, the school can dictate what your child learns.
That's why education outside the public school system (whether homeschool, private school, etc.) is the only way to fight it.
It's only going to get worse people.
I gave you legitimate discourse..and you ignored it. Why are you so enamoured of public schools? They actually shouldn’t even exist..the government has no more right to be involved in education than anything else they’ve screwed up royally. Why would you want your tax dollars going to people who support homosexual indoctrination and abortion on demand, because that’s exactly what the teachers unions are pushing. Just because you got lucky doesn’t mean the majority of school districts are any good.. Any school district run by the teachers unions are in danger of being ruined by their politics. I think you have your head in the sand.
and just for the record... you’re completely off base when it comes to private schools. They don’t attract “bad kids”, because you have to maintain a higher standard of behavior and grades to attend most private schools. And most private school parents I know, myself included, send their children there to get a much better education than they’d ever hope for in a government run mill. The parents are also expected to be involved with the school for a certain number of hours per school month. So I don’t know what your problem is with private schools, but you make absolutely no sense.
How about people who hate communists, nazi’s, Marxists, dictators, perfverts etc.? That would be more applicable as this is what us “haters” view too many of our public schools producing.
Gabz, i think you need to take a break from the education threads. You are embracing the very tactics that you despise in others. Denigrating private schools as magnets for BAD KIDS with lazy parents? Tearing down something else in order to prop up/defend one's own choice is never a good debating tactic.
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