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.
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?