Posted on 03/13/2005 12:36:37 PM PST by wagglebee
I'm sorry. I just don't get it.
Being a home educator and mother of two, I have often been asked the question: "Why do you homeschool?"
But I've come to the conclusion that the question most begging to be asked is: "Why do you public school?"
It's a legitimate question, especially in light of the recent news out of Maryland. According to news reports, the Board of Education in Montgomery County wants to show all 10th-grade students a video ironically dubbed "Protect Yourself" in which a young woman shows students how to put a condom on a cucumber while giving helpful tips.
Not only is the video an outrage, but it has been both produced and paid for by the taxpayers through the Montgomery County Public School system. A grass-roots action group called Citizens for Responsible Curriculum is to be commended for efforts to counter this insanity, which bears a frightening resemblance to the downward slide of our movie ratings systems. Today's PG ratings resemble what R used to be. Evidently, parents are growing more complacent and comfortable with what sex-ed purveyors peddle before innocent eyes. While the very idea of public sex-ed itself once offended, now it takes more raw sexual content to get the same result.
Consider this quote from CRC's website:
The CRC was surprised at the graphic content of this video that the school system itself created. We question the judgment of the MCPS Board of Education's decision to include oral and anal sex in the video when the Surgeon General of the United States has said: "Condoms provide some protection, but anal intercourse is simply too dangerous to practice." Parents need to consider the language and concepts included in this video in order to make an informed decision about allowing their child to view it.
While I applaud Citizens for a Responsible Curriculum in fighting this outrageous move, I don't know why they're surprised. What shocks me the most is the fact that parents continue placing their kids in public schools.
It hits like a brick between the eyes when you understand CRC's questioning of the school board's decision to include oral and anal sex in the video and then their request for parents to make an informed decision about whether their child should view the video or not.
Although I'm sure the CRC agrees that any type of sex is inappropriate for teenagers, there is a perceptible implication in their statement expecting that many parents will not object to their children viewing a sex-ed video as long as it leaves out anal and oral sex.
Think about that. The very fact that public schools continue to be big business says that most parents either see no problem with their children viewing such trash, or that they cling to the false notion that schools are wonderful institutions of learning. The question must be asked of every parent continuing to place a child in the government school system: Why do you continue trying to work within a broken, failed, corrupt system aiming to undermine your every parenting effort? Isn't it time we stopped working to mend a hopelessly broken system and simply look to alternative education methods?
Studies now indicate that your child's school is failing academically and morally. It does not matter if your child's fourth grade teacher is a kindhearted Christian or not. She cannot speak the truth about these issues without getting disciplined, fired or being dealt a lawsuit. It doesn't matter if your child is an honor student. He or she is still being fed immoral and historically incorrect garbage.
Like the frog slowly being heated to death in the pan, have we American parents grown so accustomed to the concepts of sex education that we now barely blink knowing our children are being instructed in intercourse?
The CRC is warning parents about graphic content, including anal and oral sex. How much worse is it going to get before you make the decision to pull you child out of the system? Do you think the time will never come when drama presentations will be utilized? Don't kid yourself. The public school system is being used to feed the financial coffers of pro-abortion groups like Planned Parenthood through these sex-ed courses.
Could it be that we as parents have grown so lazy in teaching our own children moral standards that we actually desire that the public schools do our job for us? And are we so naïve as to think that if abstinence education is included as part of the sordid "do-it" sex ed, that our children will do the right thing?
It's way past time to wake up and take action. I'm not necessarily talking about joining groups fighting the system, although they have their place. I'm talking about pulling your child out. Don't fool yourself into thinking your child won't be negatively affected by the system. Studies are showing that most Christian public schooled children are losing their faith, not gaining converts, within the system.
Twenty years ago it may have been a challenge to home educate, but today there is huge support – academically, through curricula choices, and emotionally, through support groups for any parent considering homeschooling. Grandparents now home educate their grandchildren. Single mothers are accomplishing it. Take the blinders off. Stop making excuses. Teaching and evangelizing your own children is a prime responsibility, and there will never be a better time to do it than now.
But I've come to the conclusion that the question most begging to be asked is: "Why do you public school?"
The simplicity of this really puts things in perspective.
It hits like a brick between the eyes when you understand CRC's questioning of the school board's decision to include oral and anal sex in the video and then their request for parents to make an informed decision about whether their child should view the video or not.
That any school board would even consider this appropriate is disgusting!
My kids go to a private Christian school. Recently I noticed a book in my 15 year old daughter's bedroom, called "The State of the Arts: From Bezalel to Mapplethorpe". Knowing who Mapplethorpe is, I picked the book up to see what my daughter was studying about this freak. Well, she read about Mapplethorpe's photo of a man urinating into the mouth of another man. And Annie Sprinkle's performance art of masturbating on stage then inviting the patrons to come up and view her genitalia with a flashlight. I blew a gasket at the school but they defend their position on having the book in a Christian school, to teach the children what is not Christian art. I'm of the opinion that any moron would know that what I described is not Christian art, so my kids are not going back to this "Christian" school next year.
What crapola. Try watching Raiders of the Lost Ark again. Or Temple of Doom, where a guy's heart gets pulled out while he is still alive. (and this was 1981/84)
Won't the boys feel inadequate after seeing this and need psychological counseling ? ;^)
Apparently where you child goes is really NOT a Christian school. Many like to label themselves "Christian" including schools.
I believe that if the left had their way, children would be taken from their parents at a young age so as to not interfere with their leftist indoctrination.
More like public prisons, actually. Perish the thought that one day all those bright yellow school buses take the kids to mandatory Islamic schools. If that ever happens, it may be high time to "eliminate" those school buses during the night.
I guess it all depends . . . :)
We found that out the hard way. We took it at face value when they said they were a Christian organization. Never again will I make that mistake.
I saw Annie Sprinkle once and they should have used a searchlight. A flashlight just didnt do her justice.
As for putting Condoms on Cucumbers, I think maybe they should use carrots, Cucumbers are much too large.
What is wrong with the method we used in the 50's Trial and error.? We got things right with practice.
In all seriousness the only thing they should teach in school about sex is abstinence till marriage.
Won't the boys feel inadequate after seeing this and need psychological counseling ? ;^)
Why? Isn't everybody's the size of a cucumber?>
/sarcasm
---"a young woman shows students how to put a condom on a cucumber"
Won't the boys feel inadequate after seeing this and need psychological counseling ? ;^)---
Yeah, but their cucumbers will be safe!
All they should be teaching is biology.
Kids need to know about reproduction. They need to know how a baby is conceived, about ovulation, gestation, etc. They should know the differences between different animals, and humans are still an animal.
Lets hope the parents win out on this. It's too bad so many parents check out of their kids lives as soon as they darken the door of the classroom. That in large part is the reason some schools stink and others don't.
Enzyte natural male enhancement?? ;-)
Ping
Rob Reiner is involved in a cigarette tax funded program to convince parents that they ought to put their children in day-care as soon as possible after birth. There are adds on the television all the time heralding the benefits to society if children are placed in day care centers at an early age. It is stated that the earlier they enter, they more likely they are to be well adjusted, excel in early school, more likely to go on to college and ultimately more sucessful in life.
Relatinships or bonding with parents, is obviously non-essential.
Posted by sodpoodle to EllenMarie
On News/Activism 03/05/2005 10:20:39 AM EST · 3 of 10
Ah yes, Steny from Maryland, where taxpayers are about to fund a new, experimental species of sex education. Students will be instructed on the correct placement of condoms on cucumbers.
A majority of parents support using the seedless variety of cucumber, a minority prefer bananas, gourds were ruled out as too seasonal, although longer lasting.
Most Maryland residents support a higher level of taxation so that all students from ages 3 to 18 can participate. Teachers anticipate that a fully funded program will enable them to achieve optimal dexterity in this vital intellectual pursuit.
3/13/05 Glad to see this post - see my previous comments (sarcasm) sp
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