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These teachers should be prosecuted.
Why should the teachers be prosecuted for something the STATE requires them to teach?
These teachers should be prosecuted.
Why should the teachers be prosecuted for something the STATE requires them to teach?
The latest rightwing legal thought in action:
DA to teachers: New sex ed course could get you arrested
A district attorney in Juneau County, Wisconsin, warned teachers in a memo sent to schools that if they teach the new sexual education curriculum mandated under state law, they could be arrested for contributing to the delinquency of a child.
Because the law requires teachers to instruct children not only about contraceptives but about how to use them, Juneau County District Attorney Scott Southworth said, schools are forced to encourage students to "engage in sexual behavior, whether as a victim or an offender."
And since minors can't legally have sex in Wisconsin, teachers would essentially be endorsing the behavior and could be held liable, Southworth said in the letter.
DA to teachers: New sex ed course could get you arrested – This Just In - CNN.com Blogs
First off, as a parent, I cannot imagine what business the school system has in teaching my children about contraception options. As a responsible person that is MY job.. not the schools.
Secondly... I don't understand why teachers would be seen as condoning sexual behavior if they follow the state mandate - they are doing what is required by law (even though as mentioned above, I believe it's up to parents to educate their children in this way). For crying all night.
Why can't schools teach general biological changes that happen to all of us, and leave the real sex ed to the parents?? I have talked with both my kids at length about sex, what happens when you have sex, the emotional asepct of it, we've gone over birth control options, how a woman gets pregnant, what it means to be a parent, risks of STDs.. etc., etc., etc....
I really don't believe sex ed in this fashion is really needed and why is the state mandating that this is required now??
Memo to DA allowing political pandering to hinder his ability to carry out justice: if the state mandates it, then you have no ability to charge a crime until the mandate is overturned.
**** off.
The state legislature did. It's a new law, not a regulation.
Not creationism. Try to pay attention.
Until Darwin can tell us where that first strand of DNA came from, there really isn't an absolute anything, eh?
While you personally may be a responsible parent, not every parent is responsible. What should we do for those children who don't have parents responsible enough to teach proper sex education to their children?
As I understand it, schools do teach the biological aspect of sex. And there's a lot to sex that parents talk about, such as what you mentioned in the emotions of sex and birth control and pregnancy.
But, like I said, there are other things that parents either don't feel comfortable about talking to their children about or things that could lead to harm if they experimented themselves without some kind of education.
That's mostly my concern - that these teenagers may experiment on themselves or others sexually and cause harm to themselves, a partner, or both. There's a lot to sexual hygiene that teenagers may not recognize or realize if they aren't educated on the subject.
To be fair, all the state is doing is teach kids how to use contraceptives. According to the article, all they're going to do is show how a condom is used, along with telling them how it's going to be used. I don't think that is that big of a deal.
This also brings up another question: what would happen if parents tried to teach their children the things the DA say would endorse sex among teens, which is illegal?
Thing is - I don't know how it is in other public schools, but the one where I work? There are irresponsible parents that probably would NOT speak with their children about these things.. however... these SAME parents are the same ones that won't sign the permission slip that allows their student to sit in on this human sexuality class.
Do other public schools have something like this, where the parents/guardians have to sign a form allowing the school permission to allow their children to participate?
Either way, irresponsible parenting runs rampant - in my experience this will ALWAYS be the case. My point is - how much parenting of these children do we do? How much are we responsible for?
There are children that come to school dressed inappropriately. Do we clothe them?
There are children that come to school and the only meals they receive are from the free/reduced breakfast and lunch program - but are we then responsible for feeding them dinner?
I'm not trying to sound like a cold hearted bitch here.. but there are things that parents and parents alone should be responsible for, and teaching them about contraception is one of them.
Meanwhile, we fall further and further behind in basic mathematics, language skills, science, and history.
Kids these days are stupid. But they know the proper way to **** without getting pregnant, even though they don't follow that either.
Studies show very clearly that comprehensive sex ed (with teaching birth control) reduces teen pregnancy.
Yet, teen pregnancy is skyrocketing and more than 80 percent of minority children are born out of wedlock.
For every kid that is convinced to use a condom, perhaps two more are convinced that teen sex is socially acceptable.
Erod said:Yet, teen pregnancy is skyrocketing and more than 80 percent of minority children are born out of wedlock.
For every kid that is convinced to use a condom, perhaps two more are convinced that teen sex is socially acceptable.
Teen sex is totally acceptable and I wholeheartedly endorse it.
misterman said:Awesome. You got a daughter?
Teens don't need sex-ed to convince them to have sex; their penises/vaginas convince them to.
Erod said:And sex ed classes convince them that it's perfectly okay and natural, so as long as you have a box of condoms, **** to your heart's content.
Memo to these people: Teenagers are going to have sex regardless of whether they have sex ed or not. Might as well teach them how to be safe.
Okay it's obvious that many here have strayed off the topic, and some have no clue who this DA really is. Well I'll tell you, he's a war hero who saved orphans in Iraq.Does the state board of education have the right to override laws? It would be helpful to know WHO put this requirement in place (i.e. state legislature vs. state BOE).
No but I wouldn't have a problem with it even if I did.
And sex ed classes convince them that it's perfectly okay and natural, so as long as you have a box of condoms, **** to your heart's content.