Posted on 03/19/2006 6:23:35 AM PST by Liz
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HERE'S another reason to keep my precious daughter away from the public schools: Childless eggheads who dictate educational policy think it's high time kids her age were indoctrinated in the ways of AIDS. Like hell. My child is a first-grader, thriving in an outrageously expensive private school. There, she is learning about arctic puffins and can run faster than most boys. This child is still an innocent - unschooled in the intricacies of procreation, death and incurable disease.
It would not be that way in a public classroom.
Faceless activists there want to add these words to the vocabulary of children her age - Virus. HIV. AIDS. Even cancer. Under an updated curriculum, all public-school students - starting in kindergarten! - are required to learn about the disease that we know is spread through unsafe sex, intravenous drugs and tainted blood.
But the first-grade learning guide, of which I have a copy, dances around the issues of sex and drugs while needlessly scaring the heck out of little kids.
Who will explain what he or she is not ready to know? As always, parents may "opt out," in writing.
But parents should demand that those who want to be included should "opt in" to the program - so as not to subject their children to embarrassment.
My child will learn about AIDS when she is ready. That day will certainly come sooner than I'd like. She is not a guinea pig for people with an agenda. My only agenda is to let her grow up. And keep her away from that trash heap known as public school. andrea.peyser@nypost.com
It's really a shame how the public schools are out of control. If I had kids in school now, I'd send them to a private school. It's only going to get worse because the liberals in charge.
Nuff said!
Exactly the premise of perverts over at the North American Man Boy Lovers Association (NAMBLA) that wants to legalize sex between children and adults.
Excellent article! And exactly the reason why one of my children was homeschooled, and her younger sister is in a private Christian school. And I believe that if you don't have kids in a public school, you shouldn't have to pay taxes for it.
The posting rules prevent my responding with anything but UGH.
I agree. This would turn the "public" schools into a system funded solely by its users ... and then they might find they cared a great deal about content, results, and cost-efficiency!
Crayons, snacks ... & HIV
Kindergartners will learn about virus come Monday
BY KATHLEEN LUCADAMO
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
http://www.nydailynews.com/03-17-2006/news/local/story/400415p-339244c.html
Damn right----why should Christians tax-subsidize these pervs?
I encourage everyone to read the original article. The details demonstrate the ridiculousness--and danger--of their approach.
The chemical-AIDS hypothesis proposes that the AIDS
epidemics of the US and Europe are caused by recreational
drugs, alias lifestyle, and anti-HIV drugs (Duesberg
J. Biosci. | Vol. 28 | No. 4 | June 2003
Peter Duesberg, Claus Koehnlein and David Rasnick
390
Table 4. The HIV-AIDS hypothesis*: 17 predictions versus the facts.
No. Prediction Fact
1. Since HIV is “the sole cause of AIDS”, it must be abundant
in AIDS patients based on “exactly the same criteria as for
other viral diseases.”
But, only antibodies against HIV are found in most
patients (1–7)**. Therefore, “HIV infection is identified in
blood by detecting antibodies, gene sequences, or viral
isolation.” But, HIV can only be “isolated” from rare, latently
infected lymphocytes that have been cultured for
weeks in vitro – away from the antibodies of the human
host (8). Thus HIV behaves like a latent passenger virus.
2. Since HIV is “the sole cause of AIDS”, there is no AIDS in
HIV-free people.
But, the AIDS literature has described at least 4621 HIVfree
AIDS cases according to one survey – irrespective of,
or in agreement with allowances made by the CDC for
HIV-free AIDS cases (55).
3. The retrovirus HIV causes immunodeficiency by killing
T-cells (1–3).
But, retroviruses do not kill cells because they depend on
viable cells for the replication of their RNA from viral
DNA integrated into cellular DNA (4, 25). Thus, T-cells
infected in vitro thrive, and those patented to mass-produce
HIV for the detection of HIV antibodies and diag nosis
of AIDS are immortal (9–15)!
4. Following “exactly the same criteria as for other viral diseases”,
HIV causes AIDS by killing more T-cells than the body
can replace. Thus T-cells or “CD4 lymphocytes . . . become
depleted in people with AIDS”.
But, even in patients dying from AIDS less than 1 in 500
of the T-cells “that become depleted” are ever infected by
HIV (16–20, 54). This rate of infection is the hallmark of
a latent passenger virus (21).
5. With an RNA of 9 kilobases, just like polio virus, HIV
should be able to cause one specific disease, or no disease if
it is a passenger (22).
But, HIV is said to be “the sole cause of AIDS”, or of 26
different immunodeficiency and non-immunodeficiency
diseases, all of which also occur without HIV (table 2).
Thus there is not one HIV-specific disease, which is the
definition of a passenger virus!
6. All viruses are most pathogenic prior to anti-viral immunity.
Therefore, preemptive immunization with Jennerian vaccines is
used to protect against all viral diseases since 1798.
But, AIDS is observed – by definition – only after anti-
HIV immunity is established, a positive HIV/AIDS test
(23). Thus HIV cannot cause AIDS by “the same criteria”
as conventional viruses.
7. HIV needs “5–10 years” from establishing antiviral immunity
to cause AIDS.
But, HIV replicates in 1 day, generating over 100 new HIVs
per cell (24, 25). Accordingly, HIV is immunogenic, i.e. biochemically
most active, within weeks after infection (26, 27).
Thus, based on conventional criteria “for other viral disea ses”,
HIV should also cause AIDS within weeks – if it could.
8. “Most people with HIV infection show signs of AIDS within
5–10 years” – the justification for prophylaxis of AIDS with
the DNA chain terminator AZT (§ 4).
But, of “34×3 million . . . with HIV worldwide” only 1×4%
[= 471,457 (obtained by substracting the WHO’s cumulative
total of 1999 from that of 2000)] developed AIDS in 2000,
and similarly low percentages prevailed in all previous years
(28). Likewise, in 1985, only 1×2% of the 1 million US citizens
with HIV developed AIDS (29, 30). Since an annual incidence
of 1×2–1×4% of all 26 AIDS defining diseases combined is no
more than the normal mortality in the US and Europe (life ex pectancy
of 75 years), HIV must be a passenger virus.
9. A vaccine against HIV should (“is hoped” to) prevent
AIDS – the reason why AIDS researchers try to develop an
AIDS vaccine since 1984 (31).
But, despite enormous efforts there is no such vaccine to
this day (31). Moreover, since AIDS occurs by definition
only in the presence of natural antibodies against HIV
(§ 3), and since natural antibodies are so effective that no
HIV is detectable in AIDS patients (see No. 1), even the
hopes for a vaccine are irrational.
10. HIV, like other viruses, survives by transmission from host
to host, which is said to be mediated “through sexual contact”.
But, only 1 in 1000 unprotected sexual contacts transmits
HIV (32–34), and only 1 of 275 US citizens is HIV-infected
(29, 30), (figure 1b). Therefore, an average un-infected
US citizen needs 275,000 random “sexual contacts” to get
infected and spread HIV – an unlikely basis for an epidemic!
(Table 4. Cond.)
J. Biosci. | Vol. 28 | No. 4 | June 2003
The chemical bases of the various AIDS epidemics
391
Table 4.
No. Prediction Fact
11. “AIDS spreads by infection” of HIV. But, contrary to the spread of AIDS, there is no “spread”
of HIV in the US. In the US HIV infections have remained
constant at 1 million from 1985 (29) until now (30), (see
also The Durban Declaration and figure 1b). By contrast,
AIDS has increased from 1981 until 1992 and has declined
ever since (figure 1a).
12. Many of the 3 million people who annually receive blood transfusions
in the US for life-threatening diseases (51), should have
developed AIDS from HIV-infected blood donors prior to the
elimination of HIV from the blood supply in 1985.
But there was no increase in AIDS-defining diseases in
HIV-positive transfusion recipients in the AIDS era (52),
and no AIDS-defining Kaposi’s sarcoma has ever been
observed in millions of transfusion recipients (53).
13. Doctors are at high risk to contract AIDS from patients, HIV
researchers from virus preparations, wives of HIV-positive
hemophiliacs from husbands, and prostitutes from clients –
particularly since there is no HIV vaccine.
But, in the peer-reviewed literature there is not one doctor or
nurse who has ever contracted AIDS (not just HIV) from the
over 816,000 AIDS patients recorded in the US in 22 years
(30). Not one of over ten thousand HIV researchers has contracted
AIDS. Wives of hemophiliacs do not get AIDS (35).
And there is no AIDS-epidemic in prostitutes (36–38). Thus
AIDS is not contagious (39, 40).
14. Viral AIDS – like all viral/microbial epidemics in the past
(41–43) – should spread randomly in a population.
But, in the US and Europe AIDS is restricted since 1981
to two main risk groups, intravenous drug users and male
homosexual drug users (§ 1 and 4).
15. A viral AIDS epidemic should form a classical, bell-shaped
chronological curve (41–43), rising exponentially via virus
spread and declining exponentially via natural immunity,
within months (see figure 3a).
But, AIDS has been increasing slowly since 1981 for 12
years and is now declining since 1993 (figure 1a), just like
a lifestyle epidemic, as for example lung cancer from
smoking (figure 3b).
16. AIDS should be a pediatric epidemic now, because HIV is
transmitted “from mother to infant” at rates of 25–50% (44–
49), and because “34×3 million people worldwide” were already
infected in 2000. To reduce the high maternal transmission
rate HIV-antibody-positive pregnant mothers are
treated with AZT for up to 6 months prior to birth (§ 4).
But, less than 1% of AIDS in the US and Europe is pediatric
(30, 50). Thus HIV must be a passenger virus in newborns.
17. “HIV recognizes no social, political or geographic borders”
– just like all other viruses.
But, the presumably HIV-caused AIDS epidemics of
Africa and of the US and Europe differ both clinically and
epidemiologically (§ 1, table 2). The US/European epidemic
is highly nonrandom, 80% male and restricted to
abnormal risk groups, whereas the African epidemic is
random.
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Heck, I can't even think about teaching it to my first graders and I won't.
Actually, what is needed is for more parents to give the kids a moral foundation so they WON'T have sex. Mine certainly did that. I personally don't feel sexual topics should be addressed in the k-6 grade classrooms. We do have a sex-ed program for fifth and sixth graders that is NOT taught be teachers, but by others/parents. I for one, am glad that I don't have to "teach" it to my first grade class or that any of us teachers have to. Grade school teachers shouldn't be teaching the crap.
I'm sorry, I've just never gotten the "they're going to have sex anyways, so we might as well tell them about 'stuff." My mother's five minute lesson on sex was enough--that it was a beautiful thing to share between husband and wife.
And yes, I went through both the abstinence type programs and the contraceptive based sex-ed programs as did my siblings in junior high and high school. Neither one affected us too much as we ALREADY knew what our values were and how to deal with things. One thing my parents did was that they attended the preview sessions EVERY time. Sometimes they allowed us to participate, sometimes they didn't. It wasn't any big deal either way.
For what it's worth, here the 5th/6th grade boys had only about half the parents show up with the kids while almost ALL of the girls had a parent with them.
Frankly, I just wish the whole thing would go away, as it gives more ammunition to the bashers.
As I shouldn't have to pay taxes for someone's personal choice of alternative education as well, especially having no children.
However, that could be applied to pretty much the majority of taxes I pay.
I would agree with you. And I AM a first grade teacher.
Anyone who wants to know why children aren't being taught how to read, write, and do math are invited to look at this curriculum - and the heaps of other curricula that teachers are obligated to teach on self-esteem, harassment, preventing racism, condemning bullying, balancing the needs of girls and boys, making sure that all races and ethnic groups are equally represented, drug education, tobacco education, driver education, and looking for the signs of sexual and physical abuse. (I'm in a classroom and I can show you the material, if you have a wheelbarrow and are willing to take it out of my room.) Where does a teacher fit reading, writing, math, history, and science in among all that?
By good fortune I work in a place where I can teach students how to read and write and they don't bother me about the superfluous stuff. In New York, however, I'll bet there's an administrator peeking into every kindergarten room making sure the new AIDS curriculum is put into place. And their test scores show how successful they are, too.
That is true. There are practical considerations regarding which government functions could realistically be converted to fee-for-service, as well as philosophical differences about whether something *should* be a private enterprise.
Oh, please. Operating in a vacuum is not allowed on FR.
Examine their motives----Hollywarped's craven proselytizing is so very obvious. They knew they are deliberately offending believers.
For years, Hollywarped's busy entertainment industry has chipped away at Western civilzation under the guise of "artistic expression." Politically correct Hollywarped films, TV and music are loaded up with gratuitous sex and violence, then Follywood types get thoughtful and start talking about "artistic meaning."
"Artistic meaning," my Aunt Tilly.
Hollywarped's MO includes endless poselytizing, continuous brainwashing of audiences into Christian-hating and American-hating, and subtle and not-so-subtle left-leaning social commentaries.
Follywood firmly believes that 24/7 of their sexually salacious and violent TV, movies and music are not harming kids and the culture.
OTOH, Hollywarped also believes----with the religious fervor of Tammy Faye Baker---- that a single 15-sec commercial will compel tens of millions of Americans into thousands of stores to buy billions of dollars worth of soap, soup, breakfast cereal and cars.
They can't have it both ways.
I think it's great that a five minute conversation was enough for you to see sex as the beautiful thing it is. THe problem is that everyone is not like you. Everyone has their own childhoods. Some kids dont even have parents to have that conversation with them. Knowledge is power. What's wrong with kids having knowledge?
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