Posted on 05/09/2005 11:15:31 AM PDT by JZelle
The sex educators in Montgomery County, Md., have devised a film for 10th-graders that features a young lady putting a condom on a cucumber. You do wonder, when you read about these things, why they stop there. After all, if the assumption is kids are too stupid to know how to unroll a condom unless it is demonstrated for them, why would they be smart enough to know it goes on a penis and not on a vegetable? But guess what? They are indeed worried about that. Wendy Shalit, in a City Journal piece in 1998 described a New York teacher's guide that urged ninth-grade health teachers to unroll condoms and stretch them out onto "two fingers."
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I already know, would you?
If they really care about the safety of the young girls maybe the film should suggest they just use the cucumber.
If the educators cared as much about actually teaching as they do about their agendas, we would all be better off.
Got Homeschooling?
This is the ultimate nanny government at it's worst.
"... you're suppose to pinch the top of a condom while rolling it on...."
You are? Geez, what I learn at FR.
At least they didn't use Mr. Garrison's demonstration technique! ;~D
My lack of illegitimate offspring speaks either of competance or infertility. I'm going with the former. ;-)
Then feel free to personally teach your own kids the correct way.
Why should I be forced to pay for it and subject my own kids to such nonsense?
Exactly! This type of teaching to every minor who is roughly 16 years old is ludicrous. All you do is raise the curiosity factor.
But alas, anyone critical of the hypersexualization in our schools is a mere puritan. Is there any wonder we are becoming engulfed in a culture of sexual predators and rampant homosexuality?
But you don't put condoms on your fingers, either.
talk about dumbing down. This Maryland school has just insulted their kids, and the kids' parents. Liberal dumbing down.
Sex is an important part of life, we would be remiss in our duty if we didn't help kids make good decisions about it.
It goes on a WHAT? OMG, no WONDER she got pregnant!!
I'd prefer teachers, along with their parents and the rest of the nation, teach them about abstinance. THAT'S the right way!
The problem arises when someone tries to put one on backwards, figures out the problem and then turns it around and puts it on correctly. In doing so a small amount of sperm often ends up on the wrong side of the condom. Condoms are something you have to get right the first time.
Emphasize it however you'd like, they're your kids. Keep it honest though, and be ready to answer any questions that they might have. Lies and exaggerations (even when they're told for good reasons) have a way of boomeranging on you. I still remember the debacle of the DARE program, and even 20 years later I have a hard time thinking of any other class where I've been told such a pack of lies.
There is nothing wrong about talking about sex in a scientific manner in school. It's basic biology.
Unfortunately, because it is taboo to even mention religion or morality in school, I don't understand why sexual behavior is OK to discuss when a large part of deciding to be sexually active has to with how religious or moral someone is. This is a subject between the child and the parent.
When parents do not teach religion or morality to their child should the public schools intervene and fill the gaps?
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