Parent files complaint over sex education program

Contra Costa Times ^ | December 23, 2002 | Contra Costa Times

[Gophack]

A Concord mother is calling for the end of a sex education program promoting abstinence in the Mt. Diablo school district, because she says it gives students biased and graphic information about abortions.

Ren

[Gophack]

Planned Parenthood has been all over sex education for decades, and this mom is upset because her son is being taught that abstinence is the only sure-fire way to guarantee you won't get pregnant or get a sexually-transmitted disease?

It's not just the kids ... it's the parents! God help us.

[Gophack]

ping

[fone]

||| I don't expect a political agenda in school. |||

Exactly what planet is she from???

[Hodar]

Ignorance is truly a pathetic thing. I've heard kids talking about how the 'withdrawl' method works so well. I asked them if a sneeze could pass a cold. They said sure ... I asked 'Why?'.

"Because colds are carried by microscopic bacteria and virus's" they answered.

I said, "How big do you think a sperm is?"

[the_Watchman]

That statistic is misleading, Burlingame said. In the first eight weeks of pregnancy, one woman in 530,000 dies from an abortion. The rate jumps to one in 6,000 at 21 weeks. That is far less than 1 percent, Burlingame said.

99.99% of aborted babies DIE!

[Texas Eagle]

It's not just the kids ... it's the parents! God help us.

Of course it's the parents, too. If that kid is in 7th grade, then he can't be older than 13 or 14. Odds are the mother was taught sex ed herself just a few years earlier and she was probably taught "safe sex" as opposed to "abstinence only" which means she can't answer his impertinent questions.

It's a selfishness and pride thing. You wouldn't understand.

[eastsider]

"I don't expect a political agenda in school."

Wake up and smell the noxious fumes!

[JoeSixPack1]

This is one super-selfish parent. Her "SONS" can't get prego, but they sure can get diseases so she just doesn't care about abstinence, abortion or consequences of a shattered life by teen pregnancy, she only cares about disease prevention.

And the statement on her outrage at seeing a line in her son's book that states "abortion kills a child" tells the whole tale!

[EdReform]

BTTT

[Hugin]

The only thing that surprises me is that this particular agenda is actually being taught in a California school. Pleasantly surprised, but surprised none the less.

[Gophack]

I'm 33 and went to public school in the 7th and 8th grades. I don't remember anything from sex education except when they separated the boys and girls and talked to us about puberty, getting our period, and the basics on how babies were made. It was all very scientific and sterile (sperm travels up tube, meets egg, egg divides, makes baby. If no sperm, egg passes during your period).

I didn't learn anything about the pill, "safe sex" (gag me), or abortion. I don't remember learning anything else.

This mother should be ashamed, but what's really troublesome is that this program will probably be killed by the ACLU and Planned Parenthood types, when we can't get rid of their lies and propaganda.

[Gophack]

And the statement on her outrage at seeing a line in her son's book that states "abortion kills a child" tells the whole tale!

You said it.

I think what I'm learning is that kids are becoming more knowledgeable about this kind of stuff at an earlier and earlier age. I have a third grade daughter, and she knows that a mommy and daddy love each other and God gives them a baby that grows in the mommy's stomach and is born. I've shown her pictures of the growing baby, and even some of the "yucky" stuff when the baby is born, but I don't want to have to talk to her yet about sex or abortion or anything like that. My kids go to a private, Christian school, and I hope that when the time comes (like when she starts going through puberty) that it'll be me that teaches her.

Another good reason to keep your kids out of public school.

[Texas Eagle]

You've GOT to be kidding me. If you're 33, then you were in 7th grade in what? 1981? Where did you go to school? Timbuktu?

You sure all the blood didn't drain from your brain during class?

[Lunatic Fringe]

Umm, in the 80s sex education WAS very watered down. People still believed the home was an appropriate place for that type of education.

[ladylib]

Sex education has no place in public schools.

[Kuksool]

This air-headed soccer mom won't complain about the sex education program if Planned Parenthood was running the show.

[muawiyah]

They were teaching the risks of asphyxiation during consummation around here.

[L.N. Smithee]

Renée Walker sent a letter of complaint to the district and state superintendent last week after discovering the eight-day CryBabies curriculum at her son's school is run by an organization that also operates pregnancy counseling centers with a reputation for being anti-abortion.

Y'know, going into this thread, I thought to myself, "Wow! A parent who is complaining about the explicitness of sex education is finally getting some positive media attention!"

Silly me, thinking that was the case.

[L.N. Smithee]

They were teaching the risks of asphyxiation during consummation around here.

Say what????

[Texas Eagle]

Really?....wow....I guess my school was on the cutting edge of Liberal indoctrination.....err, I mean education.....I was in the 9th grade in 1976 when I had sex ed....we got the full treatment....except we didn't call them condoms, we called them prophyllactics....I was on the golf team at the time and at just about every match, either one guy on our team or one guy on the team we would be playing would say to his opponent, "You swing like a pro....a prophyllactic".....but I digress......we were taught about abortion and Planned Parenthood and the whole works....if that is the "watered down" version, my goodness...what are they teaching them now?