Religious group teaches unusual sex-ed lessons in Maryland PUBLIC schools

[xoxoxoBruce]

That's all well and good but not that easy. 30% is black and white, but 70% is a broad range of gray. The gray areas will be lighter or darker depending on perspective. Saying it is easy, doing it is not.

Actually I'd prefer the schools to be teaching real subjects, but historically, we know the parents don't/won't.

Most of us here think the message being taught by Rockville Pregnancy Center is at best incomplete. I'd have little problem with it, if the school brought in another group next week, like Planned Parenthood, to teach contraception. That would give the kids the whole ball of wax.

But, and it's a big but, what do the parents want taught? What do the parents want the schools to give their kids besides the book learnin'? I think they deserve to be consulted of this.

You might be able to make a case for contraception and STDs in Biology class, but not everybody takes Biology. So what subject heading does this fall under, for the whole school? Very gray.

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

That's all well and good but not that easy. 30% is black and white, but 70% is a broad range of gray. The gray areas will be lighter or darker depending on perspective. Saying it is easy, doing it is not.

Actually I'd prefer the schools to be teaching real subjects, but historically, we know the parents don't/won't.

S-what private school is for.

Most of us here think the message being taught by Rockville Pregnancy Center is at best incomplete. I'd have little problem with it, if the school brought in another group next week, like Planned Parenthood, to teach contraception. That would give the kids the whole ball of wax.

Incompetent and possibly dangerous, not incomplete.

But, and it's a big but, what do the parents want taught? What do the parents want the schools to give their kids besides the book learnin'? I think they deserve to be consulted of this.

You might be able to make a case for contraception and STDs in Biology class, but not everybody takes Biology. So what subject heading does this fall under, for the whole school? Very gray.

Keep in mind, if you don't want your kids in sex-ed, you can opt them out. I have never heard, or read, of a school system, and it was this way when I was in school and teaching (we taught it in Science where it belongs).
If parents did their job and taught their kids about sex and contraception this would be a non-issue.

Everyone, once they are old enough to read & think for themselves and access to a library has control over their religious beliefs.

Originally Posted by Flint

I need a smilie of a referee throwing a penalty flag.

#1: Illness is not voluntary, religion is. If you choose to adhere to a religion, you still have the responsibility to behave according to the standards of the society you live in. If certain people have an excuse to break the rules, what you have is anarchy.

#2: Religion is not analogous to an illness...bet you never thought I'd say that!

#3: An illness is not analogous to religion, neither is homosexuality.

Now wait a min. Many of the religious say that homosexuality is an illness, perhaps...