Posted on 08/01/2010 2:32:23 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o
It is not what you would want to read before breakfast, but it's the sex menu they are serving up to children.
Sex education for tots is in the headlines. Last month it was a policy in Provincetown, Massachusetts making condoms available to first graders. Student requests were to be kept secret and parents’ objections ignored.
Now the news is from Montana. If the Helena, Montana school district has its way, kindergarteners will learn about “reproductive body parts”: the penis, vagina, breast, nipples, testicles, scrotum, and uterus. Ten year olds will be taught that “sexual intercourse includes but is not limited to vaginal, oral, or anal penetration”. Two years later they will discover this may involve “the penis, fingers, tongue or objects”.
Have these people lost their minds? To the contrary. All these maneuvers are entirely consistent with the sex education programs supported by President Obama. Moreover, the administration would like taxpayers to fund their export to the rest of the world.
Who [decided] it’s necessary to teach the world’s children about high risk sex acts their parents never heard of? The usual suspects: Planned Parenthood and the Sexuality Education and Information Council of the United States (SEICUS, a private organization). Portraying themselves as guardians of our children’s health, they claim to provide students with all the information and skills they need to make smart choices. Their curricula, they declare, are comprehensive, age appropriate, ideologically neutral, and medically accurate. ...
If only it was so. The priority of this industry is not sexual health... Their objective is not for students to delay sexual behavior and remain free of infection, but for them to be open, from a tender age, to just about any form of sexual activity....
I don’t know about Montana, but where I come from, that’s called chutzpah....
(Excerpt) Read more at anglican-mainstream.net ...
I agree, that's very important. If one of my children is making steady progress in basic skills, I don't worry about how he compares to others the same age. I'm looking toward their reaching adulthood with the survival skills they need; differences at age 8 or 11 aren't very important.
Yeah.. I get all the behavior problem kids. They are missing basics, and if you try to push them at grade level, they lose it. You have to go back to the level they need to learn at and work up from there. Once they find out that they can do things, they settle down.
So, in your opinion, other than going in when I'm sick, what do you think I should do with my subs?
I teach kids with IEP’s, so I get you about finding them where they are.
School will be starting soon, and I’ll go through the annual ritual of having my heart broken when kids who were reading only 1 grade level below are now 3 or more below.
You’d think I’d get used to it at some level, but I never do.
There are no guarantees in life. Public school teachers are not immune to this fact, home schooling parents are not immune to this fact. All you can do is wake up each morning with God on your side and pray for the best.
Even then, God may decide to test your faith as he did Job's.
You’d think I’d get used to it at some level, but I never do.
I never do either. And it just about kills me when something simple would've fixed it - like holding an index card above the text as a placemarker rather than below.
I teach my middle schoolers to mark their place with their finger on the left margin. With the kids I have, we are frequently working on fluency.
However, a lot of problems I see in late August could be fixed by having parents taking the kids to the library, buying them a comic book, or giving them a book on an interest.
TV watching is easier I guess.
I hate TV for kids. Hate it, hate it, hate it.
They have no vocabulary, no logic, no critical thinking skills. Reading the back of the cereal box is more educational.
Disney channels are all “teen girl angst” channels.
DisneyXD for boys is run by a homosexual who has no concept of normal boyhood development.
Nickolodeon is all barf all the time.
>>So, in your opinion, other than going in when I’m sick, what do you think I should do with my subs?<<
I don’t really have an opinion on it. But it is a warning to parents that there are people out there who want to teach children these things. A great teacher is no guarantee.
Yep, you’re right.
But a parent who blindly says, “Not in my school.” or a teacher who says the same, may have a sorry surprise in store.
My child could walk into a campfire and be burned. We take that chance. However, if we never leave that fire unattended, have rules about walking on the outside of the chairs and watch our kids, we have a much lesser chance.
Life is a matter of odds.
If we have a roaring campfire and sit in the camper while the kids play tag, odds are MUCH better that they will be burned.
I don’t take my chance with fires or schools. Because every day that goes by improves the chance of getting burnt.
Not only child abuse, but everyone involved is a mandated
reporter, and liable for failure to report. I must add
that many of those most knowledgeable on the CPS (or DYFS,
etc) recommend ending mandated reporting.
Thanks for posting! Dr. Grossman tells it like it is. I’ve read her articles before, some here on FR, and it does make your hair stand on end.
“That crap is NOT being taught in my classroom.”
Nor mine. We home school our kids. They learn far more than they would in the public system, and at a pace the bureaucracy can’t match.
We’ve had many talks about sex. They know what it is, how the pieces fit together, and how not to make bad decisions. I’m not leaving it up to a government hack to write that curriculum.
If you’re a public educator, I wish you all the best, and I’m encouraged by your post. Likewise f you’re a home-schooler.
Public school, the front lines..... bad admin, bad district people, bad curriculum... Someone has to try to get those kids to think for themselves. And I will NOT have that crap in my classroom. Sex ed belongs at HOME. Other than my saying "don't - there are a lot of emotional things that come with it that quite a few adults aren't ready for, so just wait until you're older", I don't teach sex ed. Period.
“Public school, the front lines....”
The front lines. Well said.
“...bad admin, bad district people, bad curriculum... Someone has to try to get those kids to think for themselves.”
It’s the same in every district. I appreciate your stance. I really do. I wish we had more teachers who felt the same way. Conservatives are on the outside, looking in, when it comes to public education. I’m afraid you’re quite out-numbered.
“And I will NOT have that crap in my classroom. Sex ed belongs at HOME.”
May I add, “Amen?” I had “Sex Ed” when I was in Junior High. It was raunchy, illicit, and totally removed from the real world. At the age of 13, I remember my “sex ed” teacher explaining how semen could run down your tummy into your vagina, and would most definitely result in conception. She said it with a smile on her face. She was a “hero” to the rest of the kids in the class, who (being 13 at the time) thought she was the best thing ever. I was more confused about sex when I exited the class, 4 months later, than I was when I started. I learned more from Hollywood than I did from sex ed. I learned more from my parents than I did from either. That’s the way it should be.
“Other than my saying “don’t - there are a lot of emotional things that come with it that quite a few adults aren’t ready for, so just wait until you’re older”, I don’t teach sex ed. Period.”
Couldn’t agree more. Thanks for taking a stand. As I said earlier, we need more like you.
“But a parent who blindly says, “Not in my school.” or a teacher who says the same, may have a sorry surprise in store.”
Indeed, that’s true. A good parent wouldn’t say “not in my school.” A good teacher would. There is a big difference between a parent and a teacher. The teacher didn’t conceive the child. The teacher doesn’t have to reap the consequences of their children’s’ bad decisions. A good parent will educate their children while looking in the mirror of their own life, and a good teacher (according to the mandates imposed upon him/her,) will impose the mandates of their district’s curriculum.
“My child could walk into a campfire and be burned. We take that chance. However, if we never leave that fire unattended, have rules about walking on the outside of the chairs and watch our kids, we have a much lesser chance.”
You don’t leave your children unattended. Neither do I. The school system does it all day.
“Life is a matter of odds.”
Indeed. Prepare your kids for the odds that work for- and -against them. They’re much better off if they know how to make good choices.
“If we have a roaring campfire and sit in the camper while the kids play tag, odds are MUCH better that they will be burned.
I don’t take my chance with fires or schools. Because every day that goes by improves the chance of getting burnt.”
Home-school? Just guessing :)
You guessed right!
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