Oakwood School in North Hollywood, where my daughter is in eighth grade, has been holding Glove Affair since 2000. In reality, it's not a "condom party" but a fundraiser for L.A. AIDS-prevention groups.
Sad...the education system is sad. But at the end of the day the "system" is responsible to the parents who seem to be asleep at the wheel.
I'd hazard to guess that they've got the basics pretty well figured out.
I can't get the rest of the article. Is this a school class? A school sponsored event? What is Glove Affair? (I got the subject idea...what is it in reference to schools)
How tragic.
OK, so the point is that knowledge is power and protection. So when do they start holding firearm awareness fairs, where the kids can learn about weapon safety and the need for personal protection.
If knowledge is power and fair is fair.....
No need to read any more of this article.
I am already sufficiently disgusted.
The author is a woman: Randye, not Randy.
"RANDYE HODER is a writer in Los Angeles."
So what are you going to say when your daughter asks you if she can attend a "rainbow party"?
Just one more reason to homeschool.
This is no more than a PR fluff piece.
This is an article on glove Parties that was ptiched to an editor and the editor said write it from the most sensitive POV Write 1st person as the mother of a 13 year old. Write this as a mom who has a daughter on the edge of puberty. Write it as a mom uncomfortable with this even being a influential person in the media. Write this piece that you have discovered that your daughter on the verge of puberty is so much more mature than you
The dead giveaway is the last few paragraphs where this "Mom" completely steps out of character and then proceeds to spout planned parenthood and Feminist dogma concerning children and "Safe Sex"
Further notice that mom is "Uncomfortable" and the daughter's assurance that no kid could go to this school sacntioned condom party UNLESS THEY FIRST ATTENDED CLASSES where they did all these things first -- pushing the age from a thrirteen year old to 12 or 11 year old to which "Mom" at this revelation does not blink or twitch.
So with this revelation "Mom" is not mollified with her 13 year old attanding this school sanctioned condom party/ dance -- so they can meet guys to share what they learn with. This is a mixer, this is a druge ed program handing out crack pipes and showing how to select good crack and then haveing your daughters and sons with the dealers.
Now elsewhere we have an article of a Teacher having sex with an eleven year old, elsewhere we have had probably 100 articles over the last year or so with teachres having sex with students.
I'm going to say that his has not been the norm. I'm going to say that this phenomenom is realtively new in public schools -- s what is the difference is that these teachers in teaching and talking about sex are themselves titlated and turned on by the talk -- as are some of their students. And in this unnatural sex charged atmosphere you have a certain percentage of teachers crossing the line whereas if these programs were not in place these things would largely disappear.
I am simply saying that the teachers are not prepared to to what they are called to do -- that is to teach children to sexually corrupt themselves -- and then they are in turn being drawn in themselves.
I consistently amaze the kids I teach that I remember a day - about 40 years ago, when I was a child - when a boy getting a girl pregnant meant that he would have to marry the girl, and a girl who got pregnant meant that she would now be a mom and that the teen years are now over. I mention the fact that the men were obligated to care for and support their wives and children, and women were obligated to spent their time making sure that their babies grew up well. (Certainly, there were loads of exceptions, but this was the value system, undeniably, of my youth where I grew up.)
Here's the interesting part: these ideas resonate in my students. The girls, especially, are especially wishful that they could find a man with that kind of devotion to them and their children. The boys seem sad in their knowledge that those kinds of expectations have now almost completely vanished from their lives, leaving them with mere sexuality in their relations with girls. When we read the old stories - such as "Beowulf," which we're reading now, or "Odysseus" - the boys aspire to the kind of honor and integrity expressed by those heroes, and the girls like their men to be that way.
Reducing relationships to mere sex will leave these children, as it left many people of my era, empty and agitated. Just as arrogance is self-esteem in the absence of ethics and virtue, decadence is sex in the absence of commitment and honor.
My belief is that the Glove Party, like the Roman orgy before it, will pass away, but not before there are many, many innocent victims.