A few? The United States has the highest teen pregnancy rate in the industrialized world. The Center for Disease control says that one-third of girls get pregnant before the age of 20.
How's that sex ed working for you?At least admit that your child-efforts in high school, and every other effort that your tax dollars are going to have failed miserably, continue to fail miserably, and that, at least you and a few other posters here, want to continue to throw good money, effort and time after bad.
If her peers were more educated on the topic I'd be a lot happier.
It's not working, or do you not read your own posts?
I think peer learning could be a great tool in a lot of areas.
Could? cuz by your own statements and efforts it's failing miserably. Find a petri dish for your experiments outside of the public school system until you find something that works. It seems that EVERYTHING done now is backfiring and you're educating kids who really don't give a shit about condoms and consequenses how to have sex. Don't break your arm patting yourself on the back.
However, since there are people like you that just make blanket statements like "Children should not be teaching children about sex." like it is fact and not opinion we have children who are full of misinformation spreading more misinformation instead of informed children spreading good information.
fyi: the kids can't tell who's right or wrong on this.
If you really think you are doing okay with your child that's great, but I don't see how it would be hurting you to have sex education in schools.
take a moment of clarity, if you're able, and read what you believe the current efforts, research, shitty 'peer counseling', and money have helped:
The United States has the highest teen pregnancy rate in the industrialized world. The Center for Disease control says that one-third of girls get pregnant before the age of 20.
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If you don't want your child to participate, opt out, but don't tell me you believe all parents are choosing the same good practices you are because you are wrong.
If you need your child to participate, find somewhere outside the public school system and "opt in" to help what you believe you lack in parenting ability.
I'm suggesting kids should know about contraception and sex and STD's and not all parents are going to teach this. I'm personally going to talk to my child regardless of whether or not the school does. Not everyone does this though.
ONce again, your liberal view of a few parents won't so let's mandate it for all the kids. FAILED POLICY by your own admission.
Now I believe that if you aren't a complete idiot you are at least judgmental, horrible, and you speak of dead religious conservative women with a great amount of disrespect.
You used them as well as yourself as examples why you want it taught in the public school system. If there was any disrespect, it was you who disrespected them as well as yourself. I think it's great that you want someone else teaching your child about sex. I don't need to opt out of your child's need. Find your own program outside of the public school system. Honestly, it wouldn't bother me if our tax dollars went to some program like that because it's just helping out another special needs group instead of dragging the entire school into it.
Find somewhere else to educate your kid that doesn't involve mine. The school programs out there now are failing miserably and I don't want to be part of your grand continued failed experiment.