Exactly, they should be mature enough to handle it. My kids are innocent about those things, too, and we’re glad we were able to help them preserve that innocence.
I do think that one person’s definition of “sex education” is very different from another’s. For example, as soon as my kids started asking about the facts of life, I answered honestly about babies, how they develop, giving birth, the differences between men and women, etc. What I didn’t tell them about was sexual intercourse or sexuality (and definitely not about homosexuality). The parents should decide what information a child should be given and when.
Obama did not specify exactly what he thinks kindergarteners should know. He sidestepped the question and was purposely vague.
Parents who really intend to leave their children in the public school system must storm the school board meetings. They must not wait until the officials put these things on the agenda. At the very first whisper of these things (it is beyond whispers NOW) parents need to be storming the school boards and telling them not even to consider such instruction.
While they are at it, parents need to storm the school boards and insist that sex ed be removed from ALL grade levels.
I am speaking to parents who can’t see anything beyond putting their kids on the big yellow public school buses. We have home schooled since 1982 and we would not go the government school route ourselves.
What business is it of ours, then? The government educated kids paly on OUR streets and they potentially affect the safety of OUR children. If YOUR kids are left in government kindergartens, and you let them walk our streets when they are 13 and 14, we will watch your children like hawks! We won’t want them near our kids. These are not meant to be personal remarks toward you, Originalbuckeye - - these are words that express the dangers ahead for our children who are educated to be moral Christian citizens.
The socialist state wants to end the innocence of youth as quickly as possible, then maintain everyone in a state of perpetual adolescence
But let me say in reply to:
Kindergartners aren’t even aware of sex.
Ah, no. I was aware of it in myself at that age. Knowing what the heck it was about, no. Mega perplexed, oh yes.
But this something for the parents to handle, not the state!
It’s getting ridiculous. There is no reason to teach 5 yr olds, in school, about sex. I’ve answered all of my kids questions regarding sex, and I answer them explictly depending upon their age and maturity/development. Probably far more explicitly than any teacher would (we even had an incident at our catholic school about this, I sided with the teacher who answered the kids questions honestly and factually). My teens even tell me I’m too detailed with them, but hey, they ask and I answer.
We, as a society (and in public schools) are trying to sexualize these kids way too early. And I’m no prude about any of this stuff. I’m really starting to believe that it’s the liberal agenda so prevalent now in our schools and society that insists on teaching children, younger and younger, that any kind of sex is ok.
Our township/school district approved a health class curriculum that teaches 3rd graders about homosexual lifestyles. 3rd grade is way too young imo to teach this kind of stuff but it fits with the agenda. Now they want to start them at Kindergarten. High school didn’t work, those kids don’t buy what’s being sold to them, then it was middle school and they found those kids (that age) aren’t buying it either, so they decided to make it a part of the 3rd grade curriculum. Now they want it to start in Kindergarten.
My kids went/go to catholic grade school so they don’t get that in the early grades. We have a family course in 5th grade and they learn about sex, marriage, etc. And my kids ask me and I answer them way more explictly than any catholic grade school teacher would answer. I’m their mother, it’s my job to teach this stuff, not the school or government. My two teens attend the public high school and they see what’s being taught there about alternative lifestyles and they see it for what it is - indoctrination. They’re seeing how this ‘anything goes’ mentality (other than anything conservative or God sanctioned) is blatant in their education.
Most people don’t speak out, imo. Be it because they don’t want to appear conservative or prudish or racist or whatever other phobia is attached to anyone who doesn’t follow the liberal line of BS. I don’t care if anyone considers me prudish (far from it) or phobic or whatever. I talk openly with my kids about sex, when they ask. I’m probably more easygoing about it than they are. They see all this stuff on TV, the internet, in their lives (as teens) and they see how ok all of the perversions are - anything is ok as long as it makes “me” feel good, etc. Our society is encouraging that and it’s up to parents to teach them it’s not all ok.
So ITA with you.