The reality about public school...outrage

Many parents think they have control over what is taught to their children in school. The reality is, that's false. There was a Supreme Court ruling that when you choose to send your kids to public school, you choose to let the school teach the curriculum. When I first read that decision, I was outraged.

I'm further outraged today. A local public high school in Boulder had an assembly on sex education and drugs. Here were the types of things that the speakers said at this assembly:

• Have lots of sex--sex with the same sex, opposite sex, whatever sex, just not incest because you can end up with pregnancy with genetic problems
• Clinical pysch/speaker says: "I'm going to encourage you to have sex, I'm going to encourage you to experiment with drugs."
• Speaker says--I don't like condoms, I can't keep an erection, frankly they are terrible, that's what they don't tell you about condoms
• A student asks if she should have sex with someone that doesn't really care about her--the speaker says, "of course." Some of the best sex I've had is with someone who didn't love me.
• Go ahead and do drugs and have sex, just do it responsibly.
• Speaker mentions that sometimes when he has sex, he has blips of thoughts about young people
• Even now there are psychologists who have sessions under the influence of Ecstacy...if I had some now, maybe I'd do it with somebody.

I know it sounds outrageous, but I've heard the actual clips. If you're interested, you can listen to clips and the ENTIRE audio HERE (I'm not sure how long this link will be valid, I hope for at least awhile).

I've often heard "this wouldn't happen in my school." Maybe not, but I'm not willing to take the chance. My kids will know about sex--I'm a firm believer in education, but in such a way that my children learn how powerful sex is and that it is reserved for someone you love in a healthy relationship.

I worked at a clinic in college. For a year, I did health education. I saw the devastating effects of casual sex, I taught about the effects...and I don't want my children to have to learn the "hard way" about it.