Outraged, and Rightly So
People in Helena, Montana (as well as all around the country) are outraged at a proposed health and sex-ed
curriculum that the district wants to implement into the public school system. The curriculum is a Kindergarten-12th Grade program, teaching children various information on both health and sexuality. The outrage comes, most specifically, from the topics on sex, sexual orientation, sex positions, intercourse and so on. (Do a Google search of the topic and you will get plenty of articles, video, opinions and information.) Here’s a brief 0:45 second video depicting what the children will learn at various ages along the way.
If you can’t view the video, click HERE.
The outrage that I have is against the logic of the school board, superintendent and the, so-called, professionals that wrote this curriculum over the past two years. They believe that you need to teach kids about sex so that they can make more informed decisions about it – yes, that includes 5-year old kindergarteners. What faulty logic! This is similar to the faulty argument (typically about third-world countries in Africa) that HIV-AIDS will decrease with the distribution of condoms. Or the faulty argument that abortions will decrease with more-effective (oxymoron) birth control. One way to prevent adolescent sexual behavior (and to get rid of HIV and abortion, and so on) is not to mask it, or try to skirt the issue. The truth is that abstinence must be taught, as opposed to shunned. Just because someone hasn’t had sex before marriage doesn’t mean that they’re any less human than anyone who has. The truth of sexuality must be taught, embraced, lived and then we’ll start to see the changes.
In one report I saw, the reporter mentioned that high schoolers will view and discuss “erotic art”. WHAT?! They’re going to give children pornography and water it down by calling it art. Absolutely disgusting. They have no idea how detrimental this curriculum will be if implemented. And why do 10-year olds need to know about sexual positions?
The proper logic is to teach children about the sanctity of human sexuality and to do it in the home. This means that the education is up to the parents, to not only teach verbally, but to live out, through chastity, the proper, intended and ordered gift of the marital act. Sex-ed can’t be about depravity, about making sex ‘dirty’ or about preventing adolescents from knowing about sex… but too much info will destroy their innocence and distort their understanding. Sex-ed in the model proposed by the Helena School District lacks truth and will only continue to distort the proper orientation of sex in the world. Sex is reserved for a married man and his wife; any other definition of human sexuality is disordered.
I’ve heard other stories about kindergarten sex-ed programs in public schools teaching about homosexual sex, but never in this much detail. It’s quite disturbing and unnerving. If you live in Helena, please speak up and do something about this. If you don’t, but still care to see changes for good take place, check out the local curriculum in your neighborhood’s public schools – you might be surprised what you find.
TrueMan up!
If I am understanding this topic correctly, these kids will know more by the age of 6 than I knew when I was 14. That is rediculous. My first ‘sex ed’ course was in 5th grade and that was simply talking about what puberty was. I do not remember it once mentioning girls or sex, just gender specific reproductive health (boys and girls were separated for the class.) That is what I consider effective sex ed for younger ages, enough info for them to know how to take care of themselves without introducing them to what they dont need to know. In fact I didnt know what sex even was until 8th grade and by then I understood abstinence to be the way to go.
Still, all of this nonsense of giving the kids information to make informed decisions would work but only if these kids had the maturity of an adult which one cannot assume they do. If anyone in my field of study was to publish a theory with such a blatent oversight as that, they would probably be ridiculed by collegues without end. These are kids, they are still innocent minded, I pray that this school board will realize it and vote down this program and let them retain their innocence for as long as they can.
This is horrendous!!! We as parents know that our children are exposed to stuff that we know to be distorted when they go to school. We have tried to prepare them for the times when they must come to us with they questions and curiosities, not friends who more than likely don’t have their facts straight. But to think that they’re going to get distorted info from those who we want to think we could trust them with? Argh!!!!
A big handful of churches in our town sponsored a weekend human sexuality workshop for youth and parents when I was that age. I think I was in 7th grade… They presented everything properly and according to the order of the Word, not the World. We took the class with our parents. The workshop is still offered to this day. I hope it’ll still be around in about 7 more years… Love you David. Keep up the good work sweetie.