Public School Sex-Education Classes --- Bad News For Parents And Children


One of parents' most important duties is to protect their children
from harmful sexual values and behaviors.

Yet many public schools
force potentially harmful, sometimes shockingly explicit sex
education on their students.
Most of the time, parents have no control over the content of
these classes. Occasionally, a group of parents finds out about a
particularly obnoxious sex education class and protests to the
principal or local school board. The class may be dropped, only to
be replaced by another class that teaches equally objectionable
material.


School authorities' cavalier attitude towards parents on this
issue shows their anti-parent bias, and their contempt for parents'
rights to control the values their children are taught.
Many school authorities insist that children need comprehensive
sex education from kindergarten through high school. They believe
parents can't be trusted because they have shameful feelings about
sex or have "outdated" moral or sexual values. School authorities,
claiming that they know best regarding sex education, usurp the
parents' role, allegedly for the good of the children.

In doing so,
they show contempt for parents' rights, values, and common
sense.
Many sex-education classes indoctrinate children with sexual
values that can cause them irreparable harm. For example, these
classes often promote the idea that most sexual behaviors are
acceptable, including adultery, homosexuality, masturbation, and
premarital sex.
The sex-education instructor simply tells the kids to "be
careful" or use their "common sense" when they engage in these
behaviors.

As if we can depend on teenagers with raging hormones to
be careful or use their common sense. The soaring teen pregnancy
rate in this country puts the lie to this notion.
Horror stories about sex education classes and flagrant
violations of parents' rights confront us from around the country.
Here are only four of those stories:
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On March 19, 1996, a public school in East Stroudsburg,
Pennsylvania made 59 sixth-grade girls submit to a genital
examination as part of a routine physical. The school did not ask
for parental consent. During the exam, school officials blocked the
exit doors and refused to let the crying and pleading young girls
call their parents.
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In Stephens County, Georgia, parents were shocked to discover
that their fourteen- and
fifteen-year-old daughters had been
driven to a birth control clinic by a public school staff member
without their knowledge. The county clinic administered AIDS
tests and Pap smears to the girls and gave them birth control
pills and condoms. The school denied parents access to the test
results and defended its actions on the grounds that the
counselor believed that she was doing what was best for the
girls.
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The Pacific Justice Institute filed a lawsuit on behalf of
parents against the Novato [California] Unified School District for
authorizing pro‑homosexual presentations without any prior notice
or consent. According to the Pacific Justice Institute Press
Release, "The presentations entitled "Cootie
Shots," exposed elementary
school children as young as seven years old with skits
containing gay and lesbian overtures. The presentations were
followed by question and answer sessions about what constitutes
'normal' families and acceptance of those who choose the
homosexual lifestyle." 6 (see Notes in
"Public Schools, Public Menace")
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Carol (last name withheld for privacy), a schoolteacher,
couldn't believe what she was being asked to teach in her sex
education class. The curriculum forced her to show second-graders
pictures of nude boys and girls and ask them to name body parts.
School authorities told Carol and her fellow elementary school
teachers that there were no absolute moral rules, so she shouldn't
be concerned about what she had to teach the children.
Parents, it might be advisable if you periodically asked your
children if their school is giving them sex-education classes and
what the school is teaching in these classes.


If these classes force your children to sit through shocking,
obnoxious, or embarrassing sex-education material, you can do
something about it. Many states have Parent Notification laws that
allow you to demand that the school "opt-out" (withdraw) your
children from these classes. You can find more information about
this important issue in "Public Schools, Public Menace."
Joel Turtel is the author of "Public Schools, Public Menace: How
Public Schools Lie To Parents and Betray Our Children.

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According to Joel Turtel,"busy working parents can give their
kids a quality, low-cost, private-schooleducation at home using the
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Contact him at .mykidsdeservebetter.com

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