Is Our Children Learning??
Mr. Waxman from California, did some research on abstinence-education and found some big problems. They are teaching things that aren't true, like the effectiveness of condoms and how many chromosomes people have and stuff.
I think it's pretty messed up to fill kids' heads with a bunch of lies to advance some kind of religious or political agenda. How can we in the U.S. compete with other countries in the fields of science and healthcare if we are teaching our school children a bunch of crap.
What's really scary is that Mr. Bush and his friends have agreed to give these programs a lot more money to spread these filthy lies.
I think they should teach kids that abstinence is the only 100% effective way to keep from getting STDs or pregnant, but that since lots of people are going to have sex, we should also teach the proper way to use condoms and other methods of birth control. What's so wrong about telling the children the truth and equipping them with the tools they need to be disease-free, happy, and productive adults?
There's a lot of interesting discussion about this topic here.
I think it's pretty messed up to fill kids' heads with a bunch of lies to advance some kind of religious or political agenda. How can we in the U.S. compete with other countries in the fields of science and healthcare if we are teaching our school children a bunch of crap.
What's really scary is that Mr. Bush and his friends have agreed to give these programs a lot more money to spread these filthy lies.
I think they should teach kids that abstinence is the only 100% effective way to keep from getting STDs or pregnant, but that since lots of people are going to have sex, we should also teach the proper way to use condoms and other methods of birth control. What's so wrong about telling the children the truth and equipping them with the tools they need to be disease-free, happy, and productive adults?
There's a lot of interesting discussion about this topic here.
posted by cookie christine @ 12/02/2004
1 Comments:
At December 03, 2004,
cookie christine said…
I agree. If the schools are teaching bunk, it's up to the parents to step in a teach the facts of life. It's just a shame that some kids probably will be confused when two authority figures are telling them different things.
I read a comment yesterday on Pandagon.net, that suggested buying a sex-ed book that you've read and is accurate, and rather than giving it to your kid, just put in on the bookshelf, and the kid will find it himself/herself. As most kids would rather chew glass than talk about sex with their parents, this seems like a pretty good idea.
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