Utterly Meaningless

I could care less about how consenting adults choose to live. They should be allowed civil unions and marriages in churches that permit it. However, I don’t trust the public schools to discuss anything other than basic birds-and-bees facts with my kids, and certainly not in kindergarten.

I also resent schools thinking they are the ‘experts’ on the time and place for these kind of discussions. My five year old is still at the point at being a little hazy on why she can’t marry daddy or her brother–I certainly wouldn’t want the school discussing the more complicated, controversial kinds of topics in Kindergarten when her understanding is still so immature. Teaching general kindness and respect for others is fine and should be taught all the time, but leave the rest for the parents imo.—

Don’t forget that this all took place in Massachusetts, where gay marriage is legal. To top it off, Lexington has a fair number of gay couples. Gay families are part of the community. It’s no different from discussing ethnic diversity or families with one parent rather than two.

It sounds harmless, but it’s easy for the “discussion” to get way out of control. For example, what was supposed to be a discussion of basic biology and STD’s in my 12-year-old’s science class quickly turned into a graphic discussion of pornography, masturbation and butt sex which was concluded with a banana-condom demonstration by the teacher.

I’d prefer they stick to reading, writing, math.

Uhh–why were they discussing STDs in science class?

They called it a unit on “Family Life” – very misleading information was sent home. Maybe they thought science teachers were more qualified than the gym teacher doing a health class. It was lumped in with biology.

I suppose it’s easy for those kinds of discussions to “get out of control.” But if you’re going to talk about STDs, butt sex is, um, on the menu.

Maybe watching porn and masturbating was offered as a safe alternative to having sex with a partner. Don’t know, but the unit of study sounds better suited for kids a couple of years older.

That said, the Lexington kindergarteners were not being taught about sex. They were being taught about families and couples. If it’s okay to talk about mom and dad, then it’s okay to talk about mom and mom or dad and dad. Sexual activity doesn’t enter into the discussion when kindergarten teachers talk about heterosexual couples, so there’s no reason to assume it would be any different when they talk about gay couples. The mere discussion of gay couples does not equate to a discussion of butt sex, birds and bees, whatever.

Gay couples shouldn’t have to be ignored or whispered about. Some people want to pretend like they don’t exist, but they do.