"Opt-In" for sexual education - Its Time to Take a Stand against KSB

[direness]

Some of you might know that I've been pretty upset the past couple of days over the Kansas School Board bowing down to conservative demands for "opt-in" (meaning that parents would sign forms to allow their children sexual education) as opposed to the mandatory sexual education we've had in the past, which included an "opt-out" option for parents

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[direness]

Exactly - if you can help those kids who will listen, and give those kids who *might* not listen (you'd be surprised at what gets through, I often think the kids Im teaching arent listening, and then the parents speak with me and tell me everything the kids have been recounting at home) a chance for it to soak through.

You've got to give kids a fighting chance. I talked with my little sister today and she pointed out that that not only is just sex covered in sex ed - but rape, molestation, rape drugs, alcohol, sexual harrassment - its more than just the act of sex itself, its also about protecting kids from predators and the tools they use to lure them in, even when those predators are other kids their age (which those do exist).

One of my friends who was molested as a kid said, "I didnt know it was wrong, it just *felt* wrong - it wasn't until I watched an educational program in school that I knew for sure that it WAS wrong and that something could be done about it."

[kittynamedbunny]

I think I love you.

[direness]

Hee hee *blushes* Gollllly!