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When Sex Ed Stopped Being About Sex – Or Education
Remember that time I warned you that you’d be made to care about the transgender movement’s activism? It was Monday, reviewing Ryan Anderson’s book When Harry Became Sally. Well, here’s a prime example of what I was referring to (as reported by a local news station):
The Sequim School District has stopped teaching a sexual health education course after some parents said it was not age appropriate.
Superintendent Gary Neal tells Q13 News that some parents had concerns after this year’s curriculum concentrated more on gender identity than the lessons in previous years.
Jason Peterson is a single-parent of five children. He said when he first agreed to allow his 12-year-old daughter to take the course in November, he thought the lessons would be about the same when his older two children took the course.
“I assume, like most other parents, that we would be covering pregnancies, STDs and all of those things that you want your kids to know about,” Peterson said.
That wasn’t the case for Peterson, who said his daughter came home crying and confused about the class in November.
“They told her that if she was into fishing and wearing athletic gear, or playing basketball, that those were boy things. And that would mean that she was a boy inside and that she was gay,” Peterson said.
Got that? If you like sports as a young girl, you’re not normal, you must be gay or transgender. This is what the sexually woke are teaching children just as they’re entering puberty.
Meanwhile, remember how outraged the left was about abstinence-only sexual education? We were told that schools shouldn’t be worried about indoctrinating children with ideology; sexual education was about preventing teen pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases.
Now, none of that matters; students are now simply cogs for a gender identity-obsessed left, where being a woman is broken down into if you like to wear dresses or nail polish. Young women will learn how they aren’t really women, but not about how to prevent their female bodies from becoming pregnant. Think this is hyperbolic? Peterson explained to his local news: “Twenty out of 32 pages [of the curriculum] are generated to gender identity. It’s heavily weighted towards that. It’s biased toward that.”
Published in General
What they are telling kids in schools, like the example you gave of the girl being told she’s really a boy or is gay, would be grounds for being arrested or beaten up if it happened elsewhere. Try going up to some little boys or girls in your neighborhood and talking to them like this. See where it gets you.
From the course description at the link:
Stop the train. I want to get off.
Thank you Stad for finally saying what has been on my mind since the first time I heard “gender” instead of ‘sex.’ It started out as a trickle but now it (the word gender) is both pervasive and mandatory. I still use sex when referring to sex (not that kind of sex, well come to think of it – that too but I digress) and it actually confuses the younger set. Try it sometime (using ‘sex’ instead of “gender”) if you dare.
School vouchers anyone? Can you imagine how ugly that debate would get in Congress?
You know, I think you guys are right. Memory is a funny thing. One thing I know for sure, that in grade school in small-town Louisiana in the 60s, I can guarantee you that the word “sex” never passed the lips of anyone, child or adult, or a trip to the principal’s office would follow as surely as night follows day. I don’t know if I even heard the word “sex” until All in the Family hit the airwaves.
But on the other hand, I don’t know if the word “gender” was used outside of grammar, and maybe not even then. I think there was simply phrases like: “boys and girls” instead of “both sexes;” or “you use ‘she’ when talking about a girl” instead of “when talking about the feminine gender.”
This is part of why we’re homeschooling.
I have great admiration for you and all families who make the decision to homeschool. That was my stepdaughter’s plan as well; unfortunately as sometimes happens in life, things went rather sideways, and it was no longer feasible, in the conventional sense, at least.
Fortunately for my granddaughter (who’s now ten) the school district (Hollidaysburg PA) must be exceptional, at least at the grade-school level, and we are very satisfied with her placement and progress.
But I don’t think it is exclusively an either/or proposition–that either you’re “homeschooled” or you’re “not.”
Homeschooling goes on in my granddaughter’s life every day of the year. In the kitchen, where there are weights and measures, lesson in the application of heat and cold, changes of state, leavening agents, chemical reactions, fractions and math, acids and sugars, and many other small experiments that are conducted continually and on an ongoing basis.
Outside, there is the world of nature, wildlife, biology, botany, weather, the seasons and the heavens.
There are construction and building projects, some of a “feminine” nature, achieved through sewing and knitting; others involving woodworking, basic tools and even supervised lessons in electrical circuitry.
And books. And play. And friends. And dirt, and mud, and unstructured play time, just being a kid. Always living out the dicta that her mother drilled into her as soon as she was able to understand: 1) it is better to make than to buy, and 2) it is better to do than to watch.
All her mother and her family had to do (and it’s a big “all” in this day and age), is clear away the clutter and noise of early twenty-first century life in the form of television, social media, computer games and other thieves of time and childhood, pay attention, get creative, get back to basics, and develop a little girl’s naturally insatiable curiosity and her inquiring mind.
So I do not believe that we have to tolerate the “nonsense.” Even if a child is in a government school, that’s no reason to give up. As do traditional homeschoolers, my stepdaughter has made significant sacrifices in her own life in order to be present and available to her daughter, especially during these most important early years. And it’s been a family effort. So I’d say that perhaps the most important thing for children at this time is a stable, supportive, and determined, family.
And, unfortunately, I think that’s where things fall apart for a lot of today’s children.
Parents: The Primary Catechists
Home school, private school … whatever. Do not subordinate your responsibility for your children’s education to atheistic government institutions.