Manitoba making sex-ed mandatory!

[Jackie]

Well, a town in Illinois (i think...?) voted to turn down the LGBT materials for grades pre-k (yes, I said PRE-k!!!) through fourth. Boy, oh boy, did it hit the fan!!! And the board IS NOT backing down! They have been targeted by all kinds of gay organizations, have received threatening emails, etc. All from people who are supposedly "against bullying"!

[Brenda]

Originally Posted by Jackie

They have been targeted by all kinds of gay organizations, have received threatening emails, etc. All from people who are supposedly "against bullying"!

Some of the worst bullies out there are those who are activists against it. The guy who heads up Bullying Canada has crossed the line a couple times in the past couple months making unreasonable demands (one of them was to a local school administrator demanding she reply/cooment within hours of him contacting her. She manages a school with 378 teenagers in it and when you approach her in the morning and give an unreasoanble time frame in which to respond...... yeah! Doesn't look so great for him. I see her car at the school at 6 am and she's there many nights until 7 or 8 pm.... she's a busy woman).

[MomToMusketeers]

Originally Posted by Brenda

I wish other parents felt the same way but all too often it's an awkward topic that is avoided which is why public schools feel the need to step in

This is true, and like I said before, sex-ed would be fine with me if taught in a responsible way...
My mother was extremely uncomfortable having any such discussions with me, so if it weren't for school sex-ed I would have been in the dark about a lot of stuff.
And like other posters said, kids hear a lot of stuff from their peers. I learned some things from my somewhat shady cousin, and she painted it in the worst possible light. Again, if it werent for school, I would have gone through my teens with a very skewed idea about sex and relationships!

[Jackie]

My aunt had a baby cesarian. I knew the baby was in her stomach, and then she had an operation where they cut open her stomach and removed it. So when the girl across the street told me how babies got out, I KNEW FOR A FACT that she was wrong! I can remember washing dishes with Mom, and telling her, "You'll never believe what Beth Fisher told me!" And then Mom told me that Beth Fisher was right.... My response was, "But it's not big enough!" Mom explained, "It stretches...." Well, three babies later, and I STILL don't see how it stretches THAT MUCH!!!

[MomToMusketeers]

hahahahaha, that was too fuinny, Jackie!! LOL!!!!!
Its not big enough

[Kitson]

I have to say that whilst I do not have a problem with sex education, I would rather be the person to decide how much to talk about and in what way, than to have the school insist on how, what and at what age these things are appropriate.

[teachmb]

I think we need to look at this article closely. The teacher's union is asking the government to stop letting parents opt out. The teachers are viewing this from a curricular stand point. This is not a law yet. Parents cannot opt their children out of any other curricular area. And, as this thread points out, many people do not receive that kind of education. Absolutely parents should be allowed to instill their values into their own children. As home educators, the opportunity is there to teach the curricular outcomes when and how you feel appropriate.

[Blessings4all]

Sad.