From Homeroom to Eternity

Campus Report ^ | July 8, 2009 | Malcolm A. Kline

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From Homeroom to Eternity

by: Malcolm A. Kline, July 08, 2009

A new study by a trio of professors from the University of Minnesota found that 15 percent of teens surveyed expected to die young. Given what schools are teaching, that may not be too surprising.

Iris Wagman Borowsky, Marjorie Ireland and Michael D. Resnick looked at data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health from 1995, 1996 and 2001-2002. They found that “At time 1, 14.7 % of 20,594 respondents reported at least a 50/50 chance that they would not live to age 35.”

“In adjusted models, illicit drug use, suicide attempt, fight-related injury, police arrest, unsafe sexual activity, and a diagnosis of HIV/AIDS predicted early death perception at time 2, time 3 or both.” Meanwhile, last year, Steve Baldwin and Karen Holgate discovered a new field of study that may track with these results in their book, From Crayons To Condoms: The Ugly Truth about America’s Public Schools.

What they learned was that, at many grade levels, schools are increasingly teaching courses about premature deaths. “Verification that these practices are fairly common was dramatically demonstrated for us while on a speaking trip in the Midwest,” Baldwin and Holgate write. “When the topic of death education and tombstone exercise came up, several people began to shake their heads; they couldn’t believe what they were hearing.”

“Finally, a woman stood up and walked into a nearby third-grade classroom.” That was not a typo: Third grade is what they wrote.

“When she returned, she asked us to accompany her to the classroom,” Baldwin and Holgate relate. “We did and sure enough—there were the children’s tombstones hanging from the classroom walls.”....

[OCCASparky]

Well, considering that nearly one in four doesn’t even make it from conception to birth, is it really any wonder?

[Tired of Taxes]

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[netmilsmom]

In the 70’s we called it the “On the Beach” syndrome.
None of us thought we would live to 30. Nuclear war would take us out.

Between Carter2 in the Whitehouse and this, it IS the 70’s all over.

[JenB]

Thanks for pinging on this one.

Just... wow.

[wintertime]

What they learned was that, at many grade levels, schools are increasingly teaching courses about premature deaths.
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Well?....Isn't abortion a “pre-mature” death?

And...Abortion is definitely a part of the government sex education scene.

[wintertime]

“Some children have had the dubious honor of going on field trips to the cemetery or to the mortuary,”
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Definitely, Another Reason to Homeschool!

I am reminded of the scene in “Brave New World” where the school children visit the euthanasia building.

SICK!