End of Statutory Rape

[abbey1227]

Just call it 'tutoring' from now on.......part of a lesson plan.

National Review
Chicago School Defends Sex-Toy Event amid Backlash over Undercover Video
Ari Blaff   Thu, December 8, 2022 at 6:48 PM

A prestigious private school in Chicago, Francis W. Parker, defended dean of students Joe Bruno on Thursday following the release of a video in which he said the school’s LGBTQ sex-education programming includes passing around sex toys and instructing students on how to use them.

“During Pride — we do a Pride Week every year — and I had our LGBTQ+ health center come in. They were passing around butt plugs and dildos to my students. Talking about queer sex. Using lube versus using spit,” Bruno says in one clip.

Bruno, who has been in his current role for four years, added that students asked him: “‘How does this butt plug work? How do we do — like, how does this work?’ . . . That’s a really, like, cool part of my job.”

Bruno reportedly wasn’t aware that his statements were being recorded at the time by a member of Project Veritas, an American organization known for making similar undercover videos. The outfit has been successfully sued by an organization over its tactics.

However, the release of the undercover video apparently has not shaken Francis W. Parker School’s faith in Bruno. The school defended him in a statement released Thursday.

“He was filmed without his knowledge or permission while describing one example of our inclusive, LGBTQ+ affirming, and comprehensive approach to sex education. Veritas deceptively edited the video with malicious intent,” the statement said, as reported by WGN-TV.

According to the outlet, the statement also said: “Parker administrators and Parker’s Board of Trustees support Parker’s programming, the strength and inclusivity of our curriculum, and the dedicated and talented faculty and staff that teach it.”

The revelations have prompted the school to offer “mental health check-ins” for students, Chicago’s NPR satellite, WBEZ, reported.

During the surreptitious video recording released by Project Veritas, the interviewer off-camera tells Bruno: “You have so much freedom. So much wiggle room,” to which Bruno responds: “So much freedom. So much money to do stuff.”

According to Parker’s tuition and fees website section, cost of enrollment at the institution ranges from just over $37,000 a year for junior kindergarten up to over $42,000 for grade twelve.

www.yahoo.com/news/chicago-school-defends-sex-toy-004827966.html

[permutojoe]

I don't know. Seems like things have maybe gone a bit too far here.

[merh]

I would think they would have gone off site/field trip parents signed for, but it IS a private school.
They follow their own curriculum

That's what the parents pay the bucks for

It is probably advertised as a plus

Why no mention of the age?
I'm betting High School

I know this is part of your hate public education series, but it isn't public.

[abbey1227]

Dec 10, 2022 16:39:45 GMT permutojoe said:

I don't know. Seems like things have maybe gone a bit too far here.

where is the line?

[abbey1227]

Dec 10, 2022 19:07:37 GMT merh said:

I would think they would have gone off site/field trip parents signed for, but it IS a private school.
They follow their own curriculum

That's what the parents pay the bucks for

It is probably advertised as a plus

Why no mention of the age?
I'm betting High School

I know this is part of your hate public education series, but it isn't public.

It's more the attitude of so many teachers these days. They can't all get hired on with public schools..........which is how so many end up in private and secretly undermining their employers.

Would you have been OK with your high school student being 'coached' in such a way by their teachers? I gotta be honest, I thought the Sex Ed we received was lacking because of censorship..........but these days? What can't the kids find themselves already on the internet/cell phones anyway?

[merh]

Dec 11, 2022 2:50:29 GMT abbey1227 said:

Dec 10, 2022 19:07:37 GMT merh said:

I would think they would have gone off site/field trip parents signed for, but it IS a private school.
They follow their own curriculum

That's what the parents pay the bucks for

It is probably advertised as a plus

Why no mention of the age?
I'm betting High School

I know this is part of your hate public education series, but it isn't public.

It's more the attitude of so many teachers these days. They can't all get hired on with public schools..........which is how so many end up in private and secretly undermining their employers.

Would you have been OK with your high school student being 'coached' in such a way by their teachers? I gotta be honest, I thought the Sex Ed we received was lacking because of censorship..........but these days? What can't the kids find themselves already on the internet/cell phones anyway?

Parents pay for private school to be premium so it's not really the same, dude.  

This is up to the rich mofos paying for their darlings to go there.

[abbey1227]

Dec 11, 2022 4:44:54 GMT merh said:

Dec 11, 2022 2:50:29 GMT abbey1227 said:

It's more the attitude of so many teachers these days. They can't all get hired on with public schools..........which is how so many end up in private and secretly undermining their employers.

Would you have been OK with your high school student being 'coached' in such a way by their teachers? I gotta be honest, I thought the Sex Ed we received was lacking because of censorship..........but these days? What can't the kids find themselves already on the internet/cell phones anyway?

Parents pay for private school to be premium so it's not really the same, dude.  

This is up to the rich mofos paying for their darlings to go there.

I don't think anyone paid extra for their kid to be coached how to F better. Just me?

It's indicative of what teachers have been getting up to for years

[Prometheus]

Dec 10, 2022 16:39:45 GMT permutojoe said:

I don't know. Seems like things have maybe gone a bit too far here.

Ya think?

[Prometheus]

It's one thing to use a banana to illustrate how to put on a condom, but discussing masturbatory techniques?

[merh]

Dec 11, 2022 12:22:12 GMT abbey1227 said:

Dec 11, 2022 4:44:54 GMT merh said:

Parents pay for private school to be premium so it's not really the same, dude.  

This is up to the rich mofos paying for their darlings to go there.

I don't think anyone paid extra for their kid to be coached how to F better. Just me?

It's indicative of what teachers have been getting up to for years

THESE ARE NOT PUBLIC SCHOOL TEACHERS.

Damn, you have some real issues with teachers, don't you?

Time was fathers took their sons to a prostitute to "learn sex". The man was supposed to be experienced while the woman was expected to be a virgin. 

Do you not know history?

So who knows?
Maybe the parents didn't care or even approved.

[abbey1227]

Dec 12, 2022 5:24:57 GMT merh said:

THESE ARE NOT PUBLIC SCHOOL TEACHERS.

Damn, you have some real issues with teachers, don't you?

Time was fathers took their sons to a prostitute to "learn sex". The man was supposed to be experienced while the woman was expected to be a virgin. 

Do you not know history?

So who knows?
Maybe the parents didn't care or even approved.

THEY ARE TEACHERS. They came from a college setting in order to get their degree.

You figure it's a separate course of training for private vs. public school teachers, do ya?

I absolutely do have a problem with the entire educational system in this country. They have skipped over the necessary and required basics for decades.......and yet have all the time and resources for this garbage they refer to as being 'well rounded'. It's disgusting and embarrassing, imo. They should all be ashamed of where it's gotten to these days.

I was just watching a podcast with a husband and wife and they were talking about how younger women are now expected to perform 'scrum' work. (Never heard the term before, fyi)

Doesn't matter to me.........the teachers were in the wrong......and if the parents approved, they're complicit.

[merh]

Dec 12, 2022 8:17:16 GMT abbey1227 said:

Dec 12, 2022 5:24:57 GMT merh said:

THESE ARE NOT PUBLIC SCHOOL TEACHERS.

Damn, you have some real issues with teachers, don't you?

Time was fathers took their sons to a prostitute to "learn sex". The man was supposed to be experienced while the woman was expected to be a virgin. 

Do you not know history?

So who knows?
Maybe the parents didn't care or even approved.

THEY ARE TEACHERS. They came from a college setting in order to get their degree.

You figure it's a separate course of training for private vs. public school teachers, do ya?

I absolutely do have a problem with the entire educational system in this country. They have skipped over the necessary and required basics for decades.......and yet have all the time and resources for this garbage they refer to as being 'well rounded'. It's disgusting and embarrassing, imo. They should all be ashamed of where it's gotten to these days.

I was just watching a podcast with a husband and wife and they were talking about how younger women are now expected to perform 'scrum' work. (Never heard the term before, fyi)

Doesn't matter to me.........the teachers were in the wrong......and if the parents approved, they're complicit.

I figure what is allowed in a public school setting is vastly different from what is allowed in a private school setting.

The administrators of the schools have final say over curriculum 

So you take issue with parents allowing 16 yr olds+ to see sex education on this level?

[abbey1227]

Dec 12, 2022 17:49:38 GMT merh said:

Dec 12, 2022 8:17:16 GMT abbey1227 said:

I figure what is allowed in a public school setting is vastly different from what is allowed in a private school setting.

The administrators of the schools have final say over curriculum 

So you take issue with parents allowing 16 yr olds+ to see sex education on this level?

But WHY would that be? Aside from the occasional prayer or a class on theology..........WHY would the basics of education be all that different? Reading, writing & 'rithmetic.

Jesus Christ merh..........I have said age appropriate how many times? This is how the Left keeps framing this shit........while Sesame Street is playing Drag Queen storytime and Biden's strange guy is stealing luggage.

So at what age do you feel full on pornographic material is appropriate on school grounds? And are you open to it all? or just a few of the less severe genres?

[merh]

EDUCATION NEWS CHICAGO
Francis Parker evacuated due to bomb threat days after right-wing attacks on sex ed program
The elite Chicago private school in Lincoln Park was targeted with an emailed threat that warned a bomb would be placed on the school grounds, Chicago police said.
By Nader Issa and Tom Schuba Dec 12, 2022, 5:26pm PST
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Francis W. Parker School, 330 W. Webster Ave. in Lincoln Park, was subject to a bomb threat Monday afternoon resulting in an evacuation of students to nearby Lincoln Park Zoo.

Students and staff at the Francis W. Parker School evacuated their building Monday because of what turned out to be an unsubstantiated bomb threat just days after a far-right group publicized a covertly recorded video of the school’s dean discussing sexual education classes.

The elite Chicago private school in Lincoln Park was targeted with an emailed threat that warned a bomb would be placed on the school grounds, Chicago police said. Francis Parker’s security team found the threat “originated from out of the country,” officials said.

Officers responded to the school at 330 W. Webster Ave. about 11:30 a.m., and the rest of the school day was canceled with students evacuated to nearby Lincoln Park Zoo for parent pickup. All athletics and extracurriculars were also called off.

A few parents and students filed in and out of the school late Monday afternoon to pick up leftover belongings. A Chicago police squad car was parked outside, and a member of the school’s security staff stood out front. Several parents declined to discuss the threat or the newfound attention on the school over the past few days.

“Nothing is more important than the safety of our community, and we take every precaution to protect them. We regret this unfortunate disruption,” administrators emailed parents.

“After an extensive search by the authorities, we write to let you know that the campus has been cleared by the Chicago Police Department. Our campus is safe.”

Police officials couldn’t say whether the threat Monday referenced the viral video published by the far-right group Project Veritas last week.

The New York-based Project Veritas is best known for producing highly edited, undercover videos targeting progressive groups and media outlets for supposed misdeeds. The group and its founder, controversial activist James O’Keefe, were banned from Twitter in 2021 for repeated violations of the platform’s rules.

But the social media company recently reactivated Project Veritas’ account, and the group last Thursday published a video of an undercover operative talking to Joseph Bruno, Francis Parker’s dean of students. Bruno is seen in the video describing an optional lesson held at the school by educators from Howard Brown Health about queer sexual health and the use of sex toys. Bruno went on to mention a photo-op with a drag queen.

The video — which was edited and does not mention the sessions were optional for students — has been viewed millions of times and was picked up by right-wing media including Fox News. #ExposeGroomers trended last week on Twitter, continuing the trend of right-wing groups falsely attacking sexual health educators and queer-identifying people as pedophiles.

The Project Veritas sting has been promoted by both the local Proud Boys chapter and Awake Illinois, a group that has advocated against the teaching of critical race theory and COVID-19 mask mandates in schools. Shortly after Monday’s bomb threat, Bruno’s phone number and email address were posted to a Proud Boys channel on the Telegram messaging app.

The video targeting the Francis W. Parker School comes amid a wave of attacks against LGBTQ+ events across the country, including in the Chicago area.

In July, a bakery in suburban Lake in the Hills was vandalized and faced threats and harassment over its planned “Starry Night Drag Brunch.” Members of the Proud Boys’ Northern Illinois chapter promoted a protest against the drag brunch with Awake Illinois.

Yeah for lies!

[merh]

Dec 13, 2022 3:56:18 GMT abbey1227 said:

Dec 12, 2022 17:49:38 GMT merh said:

I figure what is allowed in a public school setting is vastly different from what is allowed in a private school setting.

The administrators of the schools have final say over curriculum 

So you take issue with parents allowing 16 yr olds+ to see sex education on this level?

But WHY would that be? Aside from the occasional prayer or a class on theology..........WHY would the basics of education be all that different? Reading, writing & 'rithmetic.

Jesus Christ merh..........I have said age appropriate how many times? This is how the Left keeps framing this shit........while Sesame Street is playing Drag Queen storytime and Biden's strange guy is stealing luggage.

So at what age do you feel full on pornographic material is appropriate on school grounds? And are you open to it all? or just a few of the less severe genres?

Did Younkin not run on parents having a say in school curriculum?

DeSantis?

Governor Ron DeSantis Signs Bill that Requires Curriculum Transparency
On March 25, 2022, in News Releases, by Staff
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — Today, Governor Ron DeSantis signed HB 1467, which requires school districts to be transparent in the selection of instructional materials, including library and reading materials. As a part of the Year of the Parent, this legislation aims to preserve the rights of parents to make decisions about what materials their children are exposed to in school. Additionally, the bill sets 12-year term limits for school board members. For more information about the bill, click here.

“In Florida, our parents have every right to be involved in their child’s education. We are not going to let politicians deny parents the right to know what is being taught in our schools. I’m proud to sign this legislation that ensures curriculum transparency,” said Governor Ron DeSantis.

“While teachers, school administrators, and school board members have a tremendous amount of authority over what and how our kids are taught in school, at the end of the day, parents — not schools — are responsible for raising children,” said Senate President Wilton Simpson. “Florida parents are seeking greater involvement in many aspects of our education system, and this legislation speaks to that effort. The books our kids are reading in schools need to have proper vetting. Parents have a right, and a responsibility, to be involved in that process. Not all books are appropriate for every grade level. This legislation makes sure that we have a transparent and consistent process for public participation in the review of books and other materials used in school lessons and in the school library.”

flgov.com/2022/03/25/governor-ron-desantis-signs-bill-that-requires-curriculum-transparency/

Utah Senate Committee passes bill allowing parental approval of school curriculum
Posted: Jan 27, 2022 / 05:28 PM MST

UTAH (ABC4) – A bill that will establish an open process, allowing parents to review and recommend instructional materials to school boards across the state passed through a Utah Senate committee Thursday.

Bill S.B. 114 establishes an open process involving parents of students enrolled in the school district to review and recommend curriculum – but with school board approval.

www.abc4.com/news/local-news/utah-senate-committee-passes-bill-allowing-parental-approval-of-school-curriculum/

Parents Want More Say In School Curriculum
BY
LARISSA MARULLI
PUBLISHED MAR 17, 2022
Parents in the United States want to have more say in the public school curriculum.

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Parents in the United States want to have more say in the public school curriculum their kids are being taught and have taken steps to gain more control and have more access. The last two school years have been hard and controversial. There has been a political divide created in schools that has found its way into the classroom. As a result, parents are attending school board meetings a lot more with the intent of having a say in how schools teach controversial topics such as race, history, sex education, and religion.

There have already been transparency bills introduced by 12 Republic states where elected officials want to require that teachers post their teaching curriculum online and incur consequences for schools that don't do that. There is even a bill that has been presented into US Congress called the Parents Bill of Rights. This would allow parents to know exactly what is being taught in school and where all school funding is going. This bill is unlikely to pass.

This bill is being supported by conservative politicians who say the opposite side is giving all educational control to teachers' unions. The goal of these bills is to give more control to concerned parents and to keep them at ease over what their kids are learning every day. The coronavirus pandemic has been a divider in parenting and as result, schools have been a focus.

Parents now want to be highly involved and informed about what is being taught in school. Learning English reports that these legal requests in these introduced bills are already legal and are already happening. Public school curriculum is readily available and a lot of these rights to information already exist. Teachers are allowed to share their curriculum and upon request, can even share some of their lesson plans. Teachers even agree with getting parents more involved in what is being taught in schools.

Still, these bills are seeking to put a legal caveat on school curriculum and demanding accountability. The controversial teaching topics will never please anyone. Not everyone will be happy with all the information given, or information that's being kept away. Parents will disagree with teachers and parents will disagree with each other. The biggest guarantee to ensure a child is getting the education the family wants is to go to a private school or charter school.

www.moms.com/parents-more-say-school-curriculum/

63% of Americans Think Parents Should Have the “Final Say” in Kids’ Curriculum in Public Schools
November 22, 2021


One of the most important cultural and political issues of 2021 has undoubtedly been the debate over the extent to which parents should be involved in choices that are made over what is taught to their children in public schools.

Heated school board meetings have become a mainstay of public education this year, to the point that the National School Board Association issued a controversial open letter to President Joe Biden recommending his federal agencies assess the situation as akin to “domestic terrorism,” causing massive backlash.

The NSBA, while it piqued the interest of the Biden Department of Justice, which directed the FBI to assess the situation, caused division in the ranks, with over half the nation’s member school board organizations either distancing themselves between the shocking letter or making moves to pull out completely.

Meanwhile, concerns over curriculum that appears in their children’s public schools have by no means had their concerns abated as lessons surrounding race, gender, and sexuality continue to divide and anger the tax-paying parents of public school students.

The issue has become so heated, in fact, that it was a central issue in Virginia’s last gubernatorial election, with the candidate who ran on the platform that parents should have the final say, Glenn Younkin, turning out the victor.

Clearly Younkin’s message resonated with Virginians — and it appears that Americans as a whole agree that it is parents who are the ultimate gatekeepers of what their children are taught.

A majority of Americans, 63%, believe that parents should have the “final say” on the curriculum that is taught to their children and that their right to opt their kids out of lessons that are at odds with their personal values ought to be protected

elizabethjohnston.org/63-of-americans-think-parents-should-have-the-final-say-in-kids-curriculum-in-public-schools/

So did you guys mean it, or was it just an attempt to elect more Republicans?

Lip service?

Propaganda?

Did you mean it or not?

So yes, Private School Curriculum is the problem of the patents paying $40,000 per year for their little darlings to attend those schools.

It was an optional class specifically aimed at LGBTQ students.
A parent of a child of that persuasion might choose to have an educator teach their child about safe sex practices they may not be comfortable discussing.

[abbey1227]

Dec 14, 2022 0:45:06 GMT merh said:

So yes, Private School Curriculum is the problem of the patents paying $40,000 per year for their little darlings to attend those schools.

It was an optional class specifically aimed at LGBTQ students.
A parent of a child of that persuasion might choose to have an educator teach their child about safe sex practices they may not be comfortable discussing.

carry on................ I'm sure there will be no completely avoidable problems or predicaments in the future.

[abbey1227]

Dec 14, 2022 0:45:06 GMT merh said:

A parent of a child of that persuasion might choose to have an educator teach their child about safe sex practices they may not be comfortable discussing.

This guy one of yours? Dirty Santa? 

www.cbsnews.com/news/california-school-board-steven-llanusa-accused-high-school-choir-party-dirty-santa/?fbclid=IwAR3_0fRAD2j52uWLAUTP2IPLS4Xk7el4DkmdBbwj4whwmJZdQthU_i9igmE

California school official accused of bringing high school choir to "private adult party" with "dirty Santa," "open bar" and "half-naked men"
By Li Cohen    December 13, 2022

The president of a California school district board appears to have resigned after he was accused of paying high school choir students to perform at a "private adult party" at his residence. During that party, according to the complaining parents, the students were offered alcohol and subject to inappropriate comments from a "dirty Santa," among other things. 

Steven Llanusa was the president of Claremont Unified School District in Los Angeles County, a district representing two high schools, an intermediate school and six elementary schools. He had just been reelected as a school board trustee in the November election after campaigning as a 35-year teacher and a delegate to the state California School Board. 

But last week, his track record with the area came to a screeching halt when allegations emerged that he had subjected high school students to an inappropriate situation at his home. 

He was accused of hosting a private party at his home the weekend of Dec. 3, for which he allegedly invited high school choir students to perform. But according to the parents of the students who went, the party seemed to be one of debauchery.

"Mr. Llanusa invited the high school choir group into his private adult party in his home," Sabrina Ho, one of the teen's parents told the Claremont school board at a special meeting on Friday, according to video shared by CBS Los Angeles. "They were encouraged to take part in food and festivities. The students didn't begin their scheduled performance until over an hour later and were offered alcohol by party guests among inappropriately dressed adult entertainers."

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You know it's bad when even a Ho gets upset. 

[merh]

Dec 14, 2022 6:47:58 GMT abbey1227 said:

Dec 14, 2022 0:45:06 GMT merh said:

So yes, Private School Curriculum is the problem of the patents paying $40,000 per year for their little darlings to attend those schools.

It was an optional class specifically aimed at LGBTQ students.
A parent of a child of that persuasion might choose to have an educator teach their child about safe sex practices they may not be comfortable discussing.

carry on................ I'm sure there will be no completely avoidable problems or predicaments in the future.

Remember the joke in shows.
How the awkward parent goes to have "the talk" with their teen & is relieved the kid learned the basics in school sex ed?

A lot of parents are uncomfortable talking about sex with their kid. 

It's like getting a puppy. People want a puppy. They don't want the dog so that gets dumped at the pound by those not up to dealing with it. Like the shelters emptied during the quarantine but filled back up as people went to work again.

People have a baby. They don't have a child. They don't have a teen. 

A baby draws on all those motherly instincts. 
A child is a bit more work, but still dependent on the mom.
A teen?

A teen is that space between child & adult where that dependent child is becoming its own person. 

That is the whole purpose of parenting.
To produce productive adults.
Sadly People don't realize that 

They're focused on themselves. 
What the child does for them & their ego.

So that baby that needs you for everything turns into the child learning to care for itself with your guidance becomes the teen learning how to make choices that will affect its life. 

The whole purpose is to make future cogs so this mudball rolls on.

It's NOT to have children that love you to fill some hole in your soul because your parents didn't love you enough.

It's not to have kids because that's what grown ups do. Get married,  have kids, etc.

So yeah.
The private school guy says it is an OPTIONAL class for his HIGH SCHOOL students ages 14-18.

So you think a 14 yr old is scarred for life being shown a butt plug?

OPTIONAL. 
Do you think the average heterosexual teen wants to sit through an optional class where they are discussing gay sex issues when they could be playing video games or whatever?

[abbey1227]

Dec 15, 2022 8:53:09 GMT merh said:

Remember the joke in shows.How the awkward parent goes to have "the talk" with their teen & is relieved the kid learned the basics in school sex ed?A lot of parents are uncomfortable talking about sex with their kid. 

It's like getting a puppy. People want a puppy. They don't want the dog so that gets dumped at the pound by those not up to dealing with it. Like the shelters emptied during the quarantine but filled back up as people went to work again.

People have a baby. They don't have a child. They don't have a teen. 

A baby draws on all those motherly instincts. 
A child is a bit more work, but still dependent on the mom.A teen?
A teen is that space between child & adult where that dependent child is becoming its own person. 

That is the whole purpose of parenting.
To produce productive adults.
Sadly People don't realize that
They're focused on themselves. 
What the child does for them & their ego.

So that baby that needs you for everything turns into the child learning to care for itself with your guidance becomes the teen learning how to make choices that will affect its life. 

The whole purpose is to make future cogs so this mudball rolls on.
It's NOT to have children that love you to fill some hole in your soul because your parents didn't love you enough.
It's not to have kids because that's what grown ups do. Get married,  have kids, etc.So yeah.
The private school guy says it is an OPTIONAL class for his HIGH SCHOOL students ages 14-18.

So you think a 14 yr old is scarred for life being shown a butt plug?
OPTIONAL. 
Do you think the average heterosexual teen wants to sit through an optional class where they are discussing gay sex issues when they could be playing video games or whatever?

What percentage of kids do you think have access to a smart phone or the internet? or both? There's really hardly a need for 'the talk' anymore.

Agreed, too many see their kids as disposable or not worth the effort it takes to raise them.

Agreed 1000%.  Yet, we're really not seeing a society filled with young adults prepared for Real Life.

I'm sorry merh.......while I am not a prude by any means.......after all these years of grooming and stranger danger....... I just don't think it's appropriate for ANY teacher to be pulling out the sex toys for the kids. Call me olde fashioned that way.

I think a 14 yr old interested in butt plugs can find them on the internet just fine.

Do you think a typical hetero kid wants to get preached to about gay and lesbian and transgender issues the entire time they spend in school?  I could maybe see a Guidance Counselor discussing it a little and making some references.......but not interactive.

[merh]

Dec 15, 2022 14:27:23 GMT abbey1227 said:

Dec 15, 2022 8:53:09 GMT merh said:

Remember the joke in shows.How the awkward parent goes to have "the talk" with their teen & is relieved the kid learned the basics in school sex ed?A lot of parents are uncomfortable talking about sex with their kid. 

It's like getting a puppy. People want a puppy. They don't want the dog so that gets dumped at the pound by those not up to dealing with it. Like the shelters emptied during the quarantine but filled back up as people went to work again.

People have a baby. They don't have a child. They don't have a teen. 

A baby draws on all those motherly instincts. 
A child is a bit more work, but still dependent on the mom.A teen?
A teen is that space between child & adult where that dependent child is becoming its own person. 

That is the whole purpose of parenting.
To produce productive adults.
Sadly People don't realize that
They're focused on themselves. 
What the child does for them & their ego.

So that baby that needs you for everything turns into the child learning to care for itself with your guidance becomes the teen learning how to make choices that will affect its life. 

The whole purpose is to make future cogs so this mudball rolls on.
It's NOT to have children that love you to fill some hole in your soul because your parents didn't love you enough.
It's not to have kids because that's what grown ups do. Get married,  have kids, etc.So yeah.
The private school guy says it is an OPTIONAL class for his HIGH SCHOOL students ages 14-18.

So you think a 14 yr old is scarred for life being shown a butt plug?
OPTIONAL. 
Do you think the average heterosexual teen wants to sit through an optional class where they are discussing gay sex issues when they could be playing video games or whatever?

What percentage of kids do you think have access to a smart phone or the internet? or both? There's really hardly a need for 'the talk' anymore.

Agreed, too many see their kids as disposable or not worth the effort it takes to raise them.

Agreed 1000%.  Yet, we're really not seeing a society filled with young adults prepared for Real Life.

I'm sorry merh.......while I am not a prude by any means.......after all these years of grooming and stranger danger....... I just don't think it's appropriate for ANY teacher to be pulling out the sex toys for the kids. Call me olde fashioned that way.

I think a 14 yr old interested in butt plugs can find them on the internet just fine.

Do you think a typical hetero kid wants to get preached to about gay and lesbian and transgender issues the entire time they spend in school?  I could maybe see a Guidance Counselor discussing it a little and making some references.......but not interactive.

Did you not get a sex ed class in school?

Damn, dude.

Because my mom wasn't told about puberty by her (nurse) mother, she insisted I attend the free class held in the evening at the school with the parents allowed to attend  when I was in 4th grade (it was offered to 5th & 6th grade classes).

So I am quite familiar with the setting & concept.

Is that the problem?
You think they show the sex act in person or some such?