Posted on 05/23/2007 2:47:50 PM PDT by george76
Senate GOP leaders bemoaned freshman Gov. Bill Ritter’s signing of an education bill they say micromanages sex-ed at local school districts, while leaving more urgent reforms on the back burner.
Democrats once again are forcing their agenda on local schools, while overlooking legislation they say would have a much more positive effect on the education system.
“I don’t understand how Democrats support telling schools how and what to teach their children about sex, but disapprove of creating math and science standards,” Assistant Senate Republican leader Nancy Spence ...
Spence, also the ranking GOP Senate Education Committee member, pointed to Sen. Josh Penry’s Senate Bill 131, which would have mandated four years of math and three of science in order to graduate from high school. The bill died at the hands of the Democrats in the House Committee on Education after receiving bipartisan endorsement in the Senate.
Advocates of the bill said the globalized job market demands higher standards, especially in terms of math and science skills. Colorado is one of the few states in the nation that does not have any graduation standards.
(Excerpt) Read more at coloradosenatenews.com ...
The State feels more equipped to indoctrinate your children in “the new morality” than parents.
Homosexuality is now the norm.
Teen sex is now the norm.
Abstinence is “unhealthy”.
Religion is bigotry.
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