kengr

I am so frustrated. THIS is the kind of sex ed information I sought out for my boys, starting back in the middle 1990's, when they were in early elementary school grades.

I distinctly remember reviewing the materials for my older son's first "sex ed" type talk in fourth grade. I read it all. In the end, I decided that he would get an hour a day for five days to sit and read whatever he liked in the library, instead of putting up with the narrow, limited, and heavily biased information. The HIV/AIDS mention was downright horrifying-- pure scaremongering. I lost a good friend to AIDS, and there's no way I was going to let the school teach information debunked five years before.

Parents are arguing against those things not because they want their children to be ignorant, but because they seem to believe that if their kids don't know about these ideas, then the "problems" won't happen. For the same reason, parents did not allow the word "cigarette" or anything in media which showed someone smoking, or use the same kind of intense censorship to blot out references to alcohol.

I had plenty of unprofitable, frustrating discussions with parents on the topics, and was assured that my "horrible parenting" would endanger THEIR children, using pretzel logic that still makes me scratch my head.

It's not about sex ed; it's about the right to dictate One True Way, and anyone who thinks that they have the right to make me or my children conform to their... preferred mythology... can take a very long walk off a very short pier.