Sexy Sex Ed?
There was a time when a teacher asking students to write sexual fantasy stories would have faced firing or criminal charges. That time is not today. Current school teachers seem to be infatuated with sex, sexual orientation, gender preferences, pronouns, and identity. In this blog, I’ve written about books like Gender Queer and Let’s Talk About It that have been used in class and are in many libraries. These books are inappropriate for school-age readers but, they are merely the tip of the iceberg.
During a recent “health class” at Churchill High School in Eugene, Oregon, some of the students were asked to write about their sexual fantasies. While instructions for this exercise did specify, “NO penetration of any kind or oral sex (no way of passing an STI).” However, the instructions did encourage the literary use of candles, massage oil, feathers, and flavored syrup. According to Fox News, one parent stated, “If an adult male asked my daughter to share her sexual fantasies with him, I would be livid and be going to the police. No teacher has any business asking this of a child.” The sexual fantasy assignment is part of the Our Whole Lives (OWL) curriculum and is utilized by many districts across the state of Oregon.
Station KEZI, in Eugene, Oregon, recently reported on another assignment given to the same class. The task was called, “With Whom Would You Do It?” You may have already guessed the direction of this assignment. Students spun a wheel labeled with various sex acts. When the wheel stopped students were told to, “write the initials of both a boy and a girl in the class that they would do the activity with.”
In a related issue, the New York Post reports that the city is “showering taxpayer funds on a group that sends drag queens into city schools—often without parental knowledge or consent…” The article states that Drag Story Hour NYC is a nonprofit organization whose, “outrageously cross-dressed performers interact with kids as young as 3 — earned $46,000 from city contracts for appearances at public schools, street festivals, and libraries, city records show.” The group has performed dozens of times in public elementary, middle, and high schools across the city. New York City schools are under pressure to improve like many others across the country. Why are they taking time away from instruction to allow drag queens to perform for children? Parents need to be aware that this is not just happening in liberal New York. These exhibitions are endorsed by the American Library Association and have spread across the country to states like Texas, Florida, Maryland, and my own state of Washington.
However, that isn’t the worst. In New Jersey new state sex education standards tell students as young as thirteen about anal sex and pregnancy options. If a school district fails to comply with these new standards they face a loss of funding or other disciplinary action. I think they should face disciplinary action for following these policies.
America’s public school systems are struggling with students in many schools falling behind. To change that, parents in all states need school choice and public schools need to focus on core subjects like reading, math, and science, not on sex education and gender studies.
Do you send your children to an American public school? How are your local schools doing? Let us know in the comment section below.
