Veggie porn in school?

The Washington Times ^ | Mona Charen

[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."

[Zeroisanumber]

Or pulling it on too tight and not leaving room for the reservoir in the front.

[frogjerk]

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.

You mean drugs are "good" for you?

[R. Scott]

Where else can it be worn?

On the fingers?

[Zeroisanumber]

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.

I've always thought that sex ed programs should be there to teach the technical side of sex and leave it up to parents to teach the "whys" and "wherefores". But so many parents these days adbicate their responsibility that it's left to the schools to try to teach everything, which is a job that they're not cut out to do.

When parents do not teach religion or morality to their child should the public schools intervene and fill the gaps?

I suppose that it's better than letting them run without any instruction at all.

[OXENinFLA]

[tx_eggman]

My lack of illegitimate offspring speaks either of competance or infertility. I'm going with the former.

I'm calling BS on this one and casting my vote for lack of opportunity ???

[Zeroisanumber]

You mean drugs are "good" for you?

No, but they aren't nearly as bad for you as the program would lead you to believe. I made it through college relatively intact, if what the DARE program taught was true I'd be some crack addicted loser living under a bridge.

Which I'm not, btw. :)

[Zeroisanumber]

I'm calling BS on this one and casting my vote for lack of opportunity ???

This is the post where I affirm my conquests in a manly manner. You follow it up with another meant to needle me about being an internet nerd. I reaffirm in a stronger fashion, you refuse to believe it.

Eventually the two of us realize that the argument is inherently stupid and give it up.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

You should be arrested for veggie kiddie porn.

True. They were very young when they were picked for this shoot.
I hesitated to post it...it's almost too risqué...but it's so funny. I have a couple of others that are way too naughty to post here. The AMs would pull them immediately.

[freekitty]

Is this what our tax dollars are being spent on? I would think reading, writing and arithmetic would be the top priorities.

I guess it just gets dumber.

[Junior]

Ah, the carrot-and-stick approach to teaching sex ed...

[evets]

I'd rather they used a pickle.

[ibbryn]

Apparently a lot of people aren't aware that you're suppose to pinch the top of a condom while rolling it on...Really unless you're reading the box (which according to most posters here, isn't necessary since it's so easy) or someone tells you, how would they know?

Do the instructions on the box come with pictures for the learning disabled?

[ruiner]

Actually, I think they do. Seriously.

[frogjerk]

I've always thought that sex ed programs should be there to teach the technical side of sex and leave it up to parents to teach the "whys" and "wherefores". But so many parents these days adbicate their responsibility that it's left to the schools to try to teach everything, which is a job that they're not cut out to do.

Where do you learn to brush your hair or brush your teeth, or dress yourself, or tie your shoes, or be polite, or go to the bathroom, or wash yourself or a million other things that are much more important than learning how to have an orgasm, from your parents. I think the preconcieved notion that parents are dropping the ball on this subject is BS.

Why does the public school have the "right" to teach my kids subjects that should not be part of the three "R"s? Another nanny government doing what it believes is good for me.

In the years of the liberalizing of sex "education" we have more abortions, more teenage sex, more homosexuality, more deviancy than ever. The sex ed program for the last 30 years has failed miserbly.

[ClaireSolt]

When sex ed began there were questions about who might be qualified to teach it. Are teachers now credentialed for this subject or is it like history where 80% of the teachers have neither majored or minored in the field? Is it an entire course, or is it squeezed into the curriculum of other courses, somehow?

Frankly, the two tips on condoms explained here do not justify much class time. As men supposedly think about sex often, I think ambitious ones can read the directions on the box. I taught high school and college for years, and I regard some of this as child abuse. I cannot imagine teens being comfortable doing the role playing I hear about.

[cloud8]

> Really unless you're reading the box...

I've read the cereal box while eating breakfast, but, um...

[tx_eggman]

This is the post where I affirm my conquests in a manly manner. You follow it up with another meant to needle me about being an internet nerd. I reaffirm in a stronger fashion, you refuse to believe it.
Eventually the two of us realize that the argument is inherently stupid and give it up.

This is the post where I concede defeat and accept your manly affirmation of many conquests and slink off into the sunset.

Don Pardo, tell Zero what he's won ... could it be ??? YES!!!

[CGTRWK]

In the years of the liberalizing of sex "education" we have more abortions, more teenage sex, more homosexuality, more deviancy than ever. The sex ed program for the last 30 years has failed miserbly.

Calling that a failure assumes noble goals.

[Zeroisanumber]

W00T!