Oct 9, 2012
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Hundreds of Houston-area parents are outraged over a new sex education program that teaches 12-year-old children about oral, anal and vaginal sex – and uses graphic curriculum to instruct students on how to use condoms.
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“We don’t need the school district showing the kids how to put on condoms,” said parent Christine Kalmbach. “This is very alarming.”
Kalmbach’s son is a seventh grader in the Cy-Fair Independent School District, a suburb of Houston. She was one of many parents who attended a school board meeting this week to voice her concerns about the graphic sex classes.
The new curriculum is called, “It’s Your Game, Keep It Real,” – a program that includes real-life scenarios about condoms. School officials did not return calls for comment – but they told parents that the program was selected because it has a proven record.
District officails told television station KTRK that the curriculum was approved by a subcommittee made up of a group of parents — and the school board unanimously approved it during summer break — when many parents and students were on vacation.
School officials told local reporters that parents were given the choice of opting their children out of the sex education class. However, a copy of the permission slip sent to parents does not give them that choice.
Middle-schoolers will begin taking the class in two weeks –but parents have launched a Facebook page that they hopes will persuade the district to delay the class.
Several parents told Fox News that the information booklets provided by the school district did not indicate the graphic nature of the classroom instruction nor did it mention the level of detail.
“I started looking at the curriculum and I got this sense of dread,” she said. “I thought, ‘oh my gosh, what is it that they are putting in front of our kids?’”
Kalmbach said the videos include cursing and slang. The actors are dressed provocatively.
“It has heavy petting and making out – and this is the seventh grade curriculum,” she said.
Kevin Brewer has three children in middle school. He told Fox News that the material is simply not age appropriate.
“It’s just not appropriate for this level of children,” he said. “All the real world examples show teens driving to their friend’s house, hanging out at homes where there are no parents present — and that’s not the reality for the vast, vast majority of kids in this age group.”
He said one two of the school board members had actually watched the videos.
“This has not been vetted,” he told Fox News. “Now that parents are taking a truly active role, you have hundreds of parents expressing outrage over it.”
Some of the video was so graphic that a Houston television station was unable to air footage from the curriculum, Kalmbach said.
“I think it’s soft porn when they have a girl on the couch and she says, ‘Let me help you put the condom on,’” parent Mayte Weitzman told television station KTRK. “They’re teaching them oral, anal and vaginal sex,” she said. “They’re teaching them all kinds of sex. They’re not focusing on abstinence.”
But some parents defended the new program.
“We have to give them that info,” one parent told the television station. “They need to be aware as much as it may hurt us, but they need to be aware.”
But Kalmbach disagrees.
“Our kids see enough trash on tv,” she said. “We don’t need our school district showing this type of inappropriate behavior in a school district setting.”
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This moderate Libertarian can't help but wonder if a program like this would have prevented my classmate in 8th grade from becoming an unwed mother in jr. high? I mean, obviously she didn't learn it adequately at home, if she had indeed been "taught" at all (I have no real way to know if her folks attempted to properly educate her or not… but that's a moot point considering she had unsafe sex regardless.) Just food for thought from a different perspective…
And oh, btw – Before passing judgment on me for not immediately jumping on the right-wing bandwagon, please understand I have a natural inclination to play "devil's advocate." (I really don't like that term, but it happens to be the most well known description. If it were up to me, I believe a better term would be “cynics advocate.”) I suppose it's a residual effect of being good at journalism and debate in school.
And oh, btw – Before passing judgment on me for not immediately jumping on the right-wing bandwagon, please understand I have a natural inclination to play "devil's advocate." (I really don't like that term, but it happens to be the most well known description. If it were up to me, I believe a better term would be “cynics advocate.”) I suppose it's a residual effect of being good at journalism and debate in school.
Let me know if you do, Lisa. Considering you're not only a concerned mother of a 'tween in the Houston area yourself, but you're also an educator who has studied public health specifically. IMO, that makes you uniquely qualified to comment on this subject. (Well, at least compared to me, and most others I'd assume…) I'd be interested in hearing your informed take on the issue.
Let me know if you do, Lisa. Considering you're not only a concerned mother of a 'tween in the Houston area yourself, but you're also an educator who has studied public health specifically, I'd be interested in hearing your informed take on the issue. IMO, your background and expertise makes you uniquely qualified to comment on this subject. (Well, at least compared to me, and most others I'd assume…)
The parents should be allowed the option to say NO to the sex education described in this article. If it was my child, I would absolutely refuse to allow my child in that classroom. Nobody is going to tell me what I can allow my child to view. How many news stories have we seen about teachers who lost their jobs, their community status and respect due to any kind of pornogrophy found on their computers and yet this school is going to allow teachers to show them soft porn. Children this age do not need to be showed videos of compromising sexual situations or instructed on different sex acts in school.
I didn't have my son in public (government) school until the 10th grade. By that time, he was raised with upright values and was a leader, not a follower. He was not raised with TV, sex, violence, pop music, or rock music. He was socialized by functional adults, and by the time he was a teenager, he was quite responsible and level-headed. The culture that we surrounded him with was not one that despised education, glorified the flesh, or left him without purpose in life. Most kids today are growing up in a totally dysfunctional environment, both at home and at school. The main problem is what is, or is NOT, going on in the home. Garbage in, garbage out. Your kid will be the sum, or product, of what you pump into him or her. The culture many Americans needs to be changed. In fact, they lack culture. I used to live "on the east side of town", which is typically low-income. The culture there consists of sex, pop, chips, lottery tickets, cigarettes, drugs, welfare, and laziness. How the people lived was shocking. They would allow their children to just run all over the neighborhood, even at 7 years of age. I got to see into some of the places where these people lived. It was a nightmare. Their homes were filthy and like landfills, with dogs crawling though the mess. How in the world can anyone live like that? How in the world would a woman allow her home to be like that? And the kids are unhappy, totally miserable. And the girls who are in their early teens just run all over the neighborhood and some of them prostitute for a cell phone or a new pair of designer sneakers. Other teens push and sell drugs. They do not value education. They do not value being able to read or write or do arithmetic. They just live this meaningless existence. And the adults have no goals for their kids, except for them to have a boyfriend or a girlfriend, a pregnancy, and then another welfare check. It has become a culture of government entitlements and dependency.
Liberals only try and put bandaids on symptoms, and do not address the real source of the issues, the breakdown of the family unit. Until the culture of these kinds of people is changed, we will continue to deal with these same issues.
This is absolutely disgusting! What's next elementary school
Yes… American kids learn this while China, India, and the rest of the world teach their kids Math & Science. Maybe that's why o-Boob-o and his thug demofucks want to increase immigration. American students only know how to "wrap their wieners"!
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