State Lawmakers May Bring Mandatory Sex Education To Schools

Green Lantern · #1 12-14-2009, 09:00 AM

Pa. Lawmakers Mull Mandatory Sex Ed in Schools

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How would you feel about a state lawmaker making it a law that your school district MUST teach Sex Ed?

Are you for the schools taking that responsibility?

Or should this be a parental issue?

And what if it is passed?

I am not quite sure where I stand on this issue. I am pretty well involved in my kids and their schooling and I know what they are covering and what they are not. I know when the school or teacher is teaching a subject and not entirely covering the whole topic. For example, there was a history section that a niece was learning about Harpers Ferry and was only learning about how John Brown was this militant terrorist but didn't explain in detail the background of the event and how Brown was an abolitionist and the whole movement back then (but this is a topic for another time)

That being said, I know that there are a lot of parents that are not as connected to their children for whatever reason. And it is these children that are missing out and a large portion of them are the ones getting into trouble in some form or another including having sex.

So how and where can we reach these children? At the school.

I mean we have drivers ed where we trust a teacher to teach a child how to handle a 2000 pound speeding bullet. Where we trust that teacher to teach safe driving. And yet we have thousands of children across the country dying in accidents every year. Young drivers that kill or injure. That take and change lives all the time.

How is sex ed any different? Where lives are changed, where sex can kill (AIDS for example) or injure (herpes and other stds for example) every year.

How many lives are saved when young students go through drivers ed? How many can be saved if they had sex ed?

Like I said, I am on the fence on this one and would love to hear from others their POV on this topic.

Buba · #2 12-14-2009, 09:03 AM

I thought it was mandatory!

Summerrain · #3 12-14-2009, 09:48 AM

They taught it when I was in school... I am of the belief that a lot of parents just think that their kids know, learned from other kids or what have you. I don't think it would be a bad thing for the kids to learn about STDs and pregnancy and prevention... As long as they aren't watching the same videos that I had to watch as a kid... Those things were old and useless then.

I am still of the belief that the parents would do well to take on that responsibility, but maybe with a start from the school, it would be easier to open the subject up for discussion.

Orion · #4 12-14-2009, 12:34 PM

Like other here I also thought sex ed was taught in all schools today. Many parents are very uncomfortable talking about the subject with their offspring. It's better to learn about the birdies and bee's in school not on the street.

Some schools in other states give out rubber boots for birth control and std prevention.

daisy-dog · #5 12-14-2009, 12:51 PM

One of their latest offensives is the Obama administration’s appointment of militant gay activist Kevin Jennings to be the Department of Education’s director of the Office of Safe and Drug Free Schools, i.e. the “Safe Schools CZAR.”

Jennings’ career has largely been dedicated to advancing the radical homosexual agenda. Jennings was a member of the radical group ACT UP, which used violent tactics to push its equally radical AIDS agenda. He helped fund a pornographic ACT UP exhibition at Harvard University’s art museum.

Early in his teaching career, Jennings encouraged a teenager who was in a homosexual relationship with an older man. If the boy was underage, as Jennings claimed in a 2000 speech, then Jennings may have violated the law by not reporting statutory rape to authorities. He has since admitted he should have “handled this situation differently” but has also altered the story, now claiming the boy was sixteen, i.e. of legal, consenting age. Surprise, surprise, the boy has come forward to the leftist Media Matters, saying he was sixteen at the time. But actually, the relevant state law requires reporting of sexual activity between an adult and any child less than eighteen years of age.

Finally, Jennings has the singular distinction of being identified in his own words as someone who openly admired National Man-Boy Love Association (NAMBLA) cheerleader, Harry Hay. Hay was a communist homosexual considered to be the “father” of the American gay movement.

The new Pearl Harbor: Safe Schools CZAR pushes pornography on children