Teaching of homosexuality!

[billy]

I realize we've strayed far from Jack's original comment. My general view on all this is that usually when some concentrated effort is made to fix some great ill (poverty, teen pregnancy, etc) the cure usually not only isn't effective but the problem actually grows worse. It usually starts with a lot of probably well meaning people who say, "We have to do something" and our kids become the beta test. Here's the thing, it's not necessarily their fault that things get worse, but it's naive to think there's a one size fits all silver bullet to any problem. Schools are mainly there for social conditioning. If kids attend to age 13 they are statistically less likely to go to prison. While there the kids also get some basic educational skills. What I resent though is the often elitist attitude of educators that supposedly know better than me the parent on the values my child should hold. I'm straight if my son tells me he's gay that won't in any way change how I feel about him. And if my son asks a teacher a direct question that teacher can speak their conscience without me suing him/her for it. But to mandate that my son must have Sex Ed pisses me off. It would depend on the curriculum whether I would be in favor of it, but i'm opposed to losing that choice.

and because we as individuals don't want to lose that choice the majority of kids don't know anything till a kid comes a long, but our kids are safe so who gives a fuck.

my problem is this, we all think it's okay to say this or that to teach this or that but god forbid you mention sex to them. aish said she was thinking of home tutoring and i think thats good, then you have the right to teach your child sex ed or not. but in public schools you don't and shouldn't get to pick an choose. lots of life lessons are taught there so kids without decent parents don't fall through the net. sex ed isn't some new fangled fix it. it's been around for decades. they had it when i was of school age. it isn't new.

so after demanding our rights as parents that our offspring don't get taught sex ed; what next? can we say what books they should and shouldn't read. what games they can and can't play. what the school should serve at meal times. as a parent you have the right to tell your kids anything you want or hide anything you want but society has dictated that sex ed is on the curriculum. catholic schools hate it why? because they want to rule the child through fear, by implying that sex is dirty or evil and that to wear a condom goes against the teaching of the church.

if you child is in public school you have the right to tell said child what they got taught was wrong. me, i doubt i could bring myself to do so.