Why is this important to you? Hey - maybe it's not. Maybe you don't give two rips about it because your kid is 3 and you don't live in Montana. Eventually, though, this WILL be a big deal to you. Take heed.
Here's how it's proposed:
In KINDERGARTEN: Children will be taught basic anatomy of their gender and the opposite gender including anatomically correct names for parts.
I'm lulling you into a false sense of, "So what? That's a GOOD thing!"
In FIRST GRADE: Children will be taught that love/sex does not have to happen between people of opposite genders. Love/sex can be boy/girl, girl.girl or boy/boy.
Now, don't get all homophobe on me here. You can teach your kids what you want or believe or don't believe. I don't think it's the public school systems job to tell my SIX YEAR OLD that being Gay is ok. If I think it's ok, I can tell my kid that.
By FIFTH GRADE: Children will learn about the various forms of sexual intercourse. This means vaginal, oral and anal. "By fifth grade, they are taught there are several types of intercourse, and by the sixth grade, the draft document states that students should, "Understand that sexual intercourse includes but is not limited to vaginal, oral, or anal penetration; using the penis, fingers, tongue or objects." (From here.)
Yes, you read that correctly. TEN and ELEVEN year olds will be taught what it means to have oral sex and anal intercourse as well as the fact that it's not limited to that but you can use other OBJECTS.
Don't believe me? Here's the curriculum. (It's hit and miss to get it to load. Their server keeps crashing, it would appear.)
Apparently there are some teachers that are looking into their legal right to NOT teach this curriculum. Parents are in an uproar both for and against this proposed curriculum.
Sure, you can opt out. I pulled my third grader out of school on the day they were teaching sex ed this year. I gave her the information she needed at home - here - under MY supervision. Are there kids that are already having sex at 11 and 12 years old? You betcha. When I was 11 years old I walked in on my BFF having oral sex with her boyfriend. I was horrified and disgusted. It happens, I get that. That doesn't mean you need to be teaching my kids what kind of relationships are acceptable NOR does it mean that you have ANY RIGHT to teach my kids about the various forms of intercourse or self pleasure methods.
Why not just hand out a how-to manual with pictures and a porn flick?
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OH MY GOSH!
I am speechless and horrified!
WOW!
I am in SHOCK! I may be old school but heck, some of that stuff I didn't learn about until high school! 5th grade USED to be the START of sex ed and while I am all for it - come on people - do we need to put those images in kids brains???
Bill Clinton needs to take that course. Heh.
Oh wow.... There are more and more reasons every day of why I should homeschool my son... We are seriously looking into private school this year. This is just too much.
Makes me want to throw up..
Ain't happening here as our kids are attending our church school and I'm on the board..nuff said.
I think this is totally the parents right to teach their child. NOT a teacher, a school, etc. This is absolute horseshit and I swear to you if they start teaching this shit in the schools here I will pull my kids out and quit my job to home school. I will have no choice because I am TOTALLY NOT ok with that!
That does seem to go over the line. I mean, I think that kids get in trouble because they don't know what sex is but really, I don't think that that is the answer!
I am with you 100% on this one!
I'm furious! That is wrong on so many levels! Help us Lord!
I will pull my kids out of school when that happens...possibly forever and just homeschool!
Wow I am with you on this one!!!!!! That is so not right and I don't think it should be taught in schools.
Ok, here I go. :D I read the News article, the other won't load. I think it all boils down to HOW it's presented.
You of all people know, that MANY parents aren't as involved with their kids as we are, or we THINK they ought to be. :-P Think of them. It's NOT ok for kids to be spewing around hatred towards other people for who they love, just because some other idiot does. 1st grade might be a little early for them to be introduces to that, but I dunno. Just this past year J and I had a discussion about that. to which she responded "ewwww" and then said "that's really dumb that some people don't like other people because of who they love." So if they go for a straight up "Some girls like boys, some boys like girls, some girls like girls and some boys like boys" approach and leave it at that. then I don't see the harm. They learn stuff at school, you discuss it with them at home. :D
As for the 5th and 6th grade, initially I was all, WHAT?! Then I read your own little memory. Perhaps that's part of WHY they are presenting this. Maybe there's a bunch of 6th graders running around thinking oral & anal sex is no big whoop. Informing them that these acts ARE sex and they CAN get diseases this way isn't a bad thing. One photo of a mouth full of herpes would be enough to swear me off of any form of sex when I was 11-12. LOL I really don't see that as a bad thing.
And I know the reason for this is because there ARE parents who don't teach their children. Sad but true!!
Most places should allow a parent to opt out of this discussion, which you have done. . . but then your kids go back to school and hear it from the other children.
Still, I think 5th grade is a bit early for a discussion of the mechanics of sex!!! I guess the rationale is that "pre-teens and teens don't know what sex is and they are just playing around and THIS is the reason their pregnancy rate is so high" but ya know, that just sounds like BS.
Another reason for me to home-school!
I do think at 6 it is too young to teach them those things - at 11 and 12 I am on the fence. Some folks have a great point - there are many parents who don't teach their kids ANYTHING (my parents never did - what I learned I did from reading, experience, and sex ed in high school). I do think there does need to be some education about sex at that age...but how much and who draws the line is a very tough decision....
Ask me again when my kids are in school and it is being offered to them....maybe I'll feel more strongly about it - but right now I'm a bit wishy wasy I guess...
Are you kidding me??????? I'm so appalled that some of these topics are actually being considered for sex ed curriculum at those young ages that I cannot even leave a proper comment!!!!!! CRAZY!
[shuffles off to take her blood pressure medicine]
Eeeeeeeew! And another reason I'm glad I homeschool.
YIKES! I think we watched a video in 6th grade, then again in Health in high school; my mom had to give signed permission for me to watch the video (even in HS when I was 16).
I can't believe they are wanting to teach the kids that early in elementary school. WOWZERS!
That just boils my blood. really none of their business to teach my kids that stuff. My job thanks. I pulled mine out this year too.
Wow, I'm pretty stunned that so many people are that against teaching these topics. I already posted my opinions elsewhere, so I will just say that I totally agree with Cyndi. Go Cyndi! ;-)
How many of those who have commented have children who would have been through a program like this? I wonder if that makes a difference in how you look at things.
Kim - I went with the Bill Clinton comment earlier as well!
I found your blog via minor catastrophes. :)
I just want to say as a former teacher, I agree with Cyndi. And have you all read the curriculum before stating your opinion? Or are you just going by what you read in the post?
Knowledge is power. :)
No one ever taught me the mechanics of sex and somehow I figured it out and managed to have four kids.
I don't have a problem with the biology part of sex ed, but I prefer to teach the morality part myself. I don't need my 6yr old introduced to the idea that he can want to have sex with boys and it's fine. My 6 yr old should remain blissfully unaware of sex in all its forms.
In my own personal opinion, the public schools are going too far. School is for learning the "3 R's". Leave moral discussions to the family. And that includes The Talk about sex ed.
Whoa! Never heard about this one. I think that sex ed has its place. I went to a pretty old school conservative Lutheran elementary school and we learned about the birds-n-bees there....in a way that I think would be acceptable to most parents. But this Montana thing? This is NOT acceptable to me....or probably to most of the parents out there. Geezzz....aren't the ding dongs on the board parents too? Crazy town.
Having boys who have been through the school system you speak of, there have definitely been times I've worried they're telling kids too much...
I am absolutely horrified at the thought of that!! Are they serious??
Like many others I am speechless, just at a loss...
I'm with Cindy. The knee-jerk "OMG, TEACHING CHILDREN ABOUT SEX" does a disservice to the children. This isn't a Piers Anthony novel; teaching children the mechanics of sex and that it's an acceptable behavior does not cause some magical change in their natures.
Moreover, clearing the air before childhood nastiness can set in ("gay" as a pejorative, mockery, etc.) can only be a good thing.
My parents exposed me to reading material about anatomy and the mechanics of sex almost as soon as I could read, and I didn't become some sort of licentious pervert. I grew up to respect my partner, and lacking prejudice against others for their own choice of partner, same sex or otherwise.
As much as I recognize that it's your opinion, stated freely, I worry for any school board that would be swayed by your opinion - it can only do harm to children to conceal these things unduly.
(And my apologies for the late comment. I opened the comment box, and then left the province for two weeks.)
Ok, I just hopped back here to see what was up. I am shaking my head in disgust.
God have mercy.
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