Barack Obama is at again. This time he suggested that schools should teach sex education to kindergartners. When I first read the news headline, I thought he must have been misquoted or taken out of context. But no, he actually believes this nonsense as long as it is taught "age appropriately" whatever that means.
Here's an idea: Instead of teaching kids about sex how about teaching them to read and write and leave it up to parents to teach their kids about sex. No wonder our public school's are failing and that teenage sex is increasing rapidly. Obama's explanation for his position is that since kids are having sex they need to learn at an earlier age to avoid getting pregnant and catching diseases. But if you look at the facts, teenagers engaged in far less sex back when schools were more interested in teaching and parents were the primary source of sex education. And kindergartners aren't engaging in any sex that I am aware of.
Obama's comments once again highlight how out of touch he is with mainstream traditional values. Hopefully, people will begin to see through his centrist facade and view him as the radical liberal that he really is.
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I think the comment was taken out of context. Here's some commentary and further exploration of his comment.
http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/07/19/277886.aspx
Note the referrence to the CBN article.
Even the most liberal of liberals will agree with you that teaching sex education to kindergartners in an explicit sense is absurd. But, I think that teaching kids about appropriate touching, and an age appropriate responses to the "Where babies come from" question, and proper identifcation of body parts is not going too far. Plus, most schools have an opt-out clause for sex education in any age level.
When was school ever used for education?
Don, when parents actually paid for and were responsible for the education.
Dakotaranger said: "Don, when parents actually paid for and were responsible for the education."
Amen. And that is now called "Homeschooling" in my book---especially with the word "responsible" thrown in there. And I'm talking the kind of HSing where the parent actually picks out the curriculum, not "virtual charter schools" or things like that where you're still under a public institution's control.
Ironically, a lot of the homeschooling and intentional christian parents I know are a part of a trend to teach more about sexuality and their bodies to thier own children earlier and earlier. So perhaps the issue is not "how early" but "who teaches it."
But what do I know? I just happen to have children myself!
:-)
-DD
And, I should add, it's about "what's taught" = which is the real problem with public school sex ed--not the age with which it's taught. It seems to lack a basis for morality choices.
Of course, sexuality and spirituality are intertwined.
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