As for sex education for children. Is 6th grade still the recommended age for such courses? If so, then teach them the journey down the fallopian tube. Teach them about diseases. Tell them the truth! And that is that by NOT having sex (of any kind) STD’s can be avoided–and so can pregnancy. How hard of a concept is this? Oh, and you obviously do not know how to use he word oxymoron. There is no possible oxymoron in the phrase “abstinence only education”

You say that conservatives want children to be ignorant of the “facts.” I want 5 years olds to be ignorant, and 6 years olds, and 7 year olds, and 8… I am not a child educator, but I still think 6th grade (maybe 5th) is a good time to discuss the biology of it all. Aside from that, leave it alone. If an 8 year old wants to learn about sex all they need to do is Google it. Or as mommy and daddy.

Public education, in some settings, is a joke. (not to demean my dear friends who are teachers). We need to fight for school vouchers and our churches need to unite and form “education coops” to educate “our own.”

Thanks for playing Allison, but I submit that you are wrong in all of your assumptions. Compare achievement test scores over the last 50 years with teen pregnancy rates and STD’s. The only conclusion…more kids are having sex, and at a younger age. This is wrong—do you admit that it is wrong? Or is desensitized sex the new moral standard? If that is the case, why bother to teach kids the biology of procreation?

tootles!

K

I can agree with some of what you said. I have a problem with the oxymoron statement. Abstinence education doesn’t teach that sex is bad nor does it avoid the topic of sex. It isn’t finger waggin either. If it were to become that, I would be against it. Rather, abstinence education seeks to educate about how sex is best and how it is safest. I don’t see how this is upholding ignorance.

First the idea that the school is responsible for teaching kids about sex is just ludicrous. I certainly hear what JD is saying but I think an abstinence friendly government is soon going to be gone. If Obama gets his way, Kindergartners will have sex ed added to the curriculum. I can see it now: after calendar time the little ones trot on over to the story carpet for their “age appropriate” sex ed lesson. (Wonder what a dumb idea like that will do to teenage pregnancy levels in the future?)

Obviously parents of all backgrounds have completely dropped the ball on this and now schools are expected to pick up the slack. Just like in every other issue that parents don’t want to deal with. And then this episode. Grrr….

Of course the girl wouldn’t think that she was responsible. Well only a little responsible… They way she and her lawyers portrayed the whole thing you would have thought the principal was there holding her down… Amazing. Yeah, honey. Obviously this is the school’s fault not your own.

Good thing it is fiction and I can’t wait until next week’s episode.

I’m going to go ahead and say that I don’t know which side of the fence I fall on here. Part of me thinks that sex education in the hands of the public school is dangerous thing. As disturbed as I am at thought, it pales in comparison to the thought of some parents I know education their kids about sex. To them, sex education is supplying their kid with a pack of condoms and some privacy.

If good abstinence education is in place, I’d have to say that (on the whole) I’m more comfortable with the school handling sex ed instead of stupid parents. Of course, the best is to have it handled by Christian parents who know what the heck they’re doing.