Coalition releases new sex-ed guidelines is just wrong

Nation & World | Coalition releases new sex-ed guidelines - Schools encouraged to begin teaching sex in the 2nd Grade :(  | Originally published January 9, 2012 at 7:23 PM | Seattle Times Newspaper: http://t.co/L9P2Zaze

 
Coalition releases new sex-ed guidelines
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By KIMBERLY HEFLING | The Associated Press

WASHINGTON — "Young elementary-school students should use the proper names for body parts and, by the end of fifth grade, know that sexual orientation is "the romantic attraction of an individual to someone of the same gender or a different gender," according to new sexual-education guidelines released Monday by a coalition of health and education groups..."

This really ticks me off! Public schools are being told that they will start teaching SEX-ED in the 2nd Grade... that's our 7 year olds peeps! Do you understand this number? The Obama Administration has gone too far with this one! This is pure BS... I'm out! He lost my vote! Schools are there to teach reading, writing & math! Homes, families and parents are there to teach morals and values... What is up in America? We can't talk about God in the classroom but we sure as heck can talk abou intercourse and homosexuality to little kids... Public schools suck!!! pure and simple... We want to teach our 7 year olds about sex in the classroom when we spend no effort to teach them how to add? That's why our kids test score lack behind the rest of the world folks... Damn this really makes me angry... :|

  um... to 2nd Graders... that's 7 yr olds! How "age appropriate" is that we ask? Maybe in your kid's school... but I'm not going to stand for it in mine!!!

I place the blame for failed educational policies squarely in the Obama administration... my hats off to them... NOT!!! They all have missed the philosophical point here. Schools are NOT parents! We should not use public policy (and "non-binding translates to policy in practice) as a band-aid to "fix" a problem while ignoring the cause... that is how benign governments grow out of control and become tyranny personified... Parents need to be parents and take responsibility for their own families. If you give them the opportunity they will do just that... the issue is that the government needs to get out of our bedrooms and our homes. The problem is that we have created a welfare system among the lower classes of our society where we as a community take responsibility as a community for peeps behaviors. They expect the community to feed them, house them, find work for them and now to run their families for them... this catch-22 is fundamentally flawed. As parents you should know this! Do everything for your kid and run their lives for them and they become nothing- and eventually they grow to hate you... The same thing works in society. No I stand my ground. In my community of friends most parents send their kids to private school (where a paid tuition guarantees a good education) or they home school their kids- even though the high taxes insure fairly well financed public schools who have the money to pay dedicated teachers. We go to church on Sundays and keep our kids involved in sports and wholesome activities. We step up to the plate as parents and rearrange our lives around raising our kids... To tell you the truth most could care less about what happens in an inner-city public schools beyond something to chat about at lunch... That there is reality. But public policy- non-binding or otherwise- created by the government in Washington, their agencies, advisory groups or various political minions has a historical tendency to become the law of the land by well-meaning politicians who often need a broader spectrum of voters to stay in office... that there is a problem. Politically these people you are trying to "help" by fettering them with undue laws and taking away their liberty, initiative and sense of self worth as citizens (and parents) will grow to hate you and they will react historically in unintended ways... as parents we should know that a child has to fall down, to fail and make mistakes on their own to learn, grow and become a better person... we need to treat our communities the same way. Each community has the right to set it's own policies and guidelines without being dictated by National policies... Ok I do agree that the constitution does allow for a National government to make public policies but only to those things that the constitution talks about... SEX-ED is not specified in the constitution as an area for national policies, guidelines or otherwise. My community- a God fearing upper middle-class community of good people- will do as it deems right. When election time come we will look for what is best for our families and cast our votes. We do not need or want these policies and frankly do not have to subject our kids to them... But philosophically this new policy like other public educational directives designed to replace parents, families & God from their rightful places is wrong... and as a nation, it is simply bad parenting...