Good job, TN. Way to destroy sex ed

[basilosaurus]

I'm sorry I'm too tired to search for a real article, but they've just signed into law their backwards sex ed bill.

www.addictinginfo.org/2012/05/12/tennessee-governor/

Basically, in sex ed, you can't mention anything related to, you know, sex.

[ttt]

It's like Beetlejuice - if you say "sex", kids will start having it!!!

[Deleted]

The bill doesn't actually define what "gateway activity" is... yet it allows parents to sue teachers to suggest "gateway activities". It is the most ridiculous and I can't wait for the ACLU to sue.

I've warned SD to keep the netting on her buqua over her eyes lest she be caught making googly eyes at a potential mate.

[Deleted]

PS I'm glad you found your way over

[emisi]

Couldn't this get taken down as trying to get rid of free speech? Also, why is the GOP the party of both anti-abortion and anti-sex ed? Wouldn't more of the latter help them towards the former?

[Deleted]

May 12, 2012 20:28:37 GMT -5 emisi said:

Couldn't this get taken down as trying to get rid of free speech? Also, why is the GOP the party of both anti-abortion and anti-sex ed? Wouldn't more of the latter help them towards the former?

We try not to teach critical thinking and logic in TN.

The ACLU has already said they'll sue.

[PinkSquirrel]

May 12, 2012 20:28:37 GMT -5 emisi said:

Couldn't this get taken down as trying to get rid of free speech? Also, why is the GOP the party of both anti-abortion and anti-sex ed? Wouldn't more of the latter help them towards the former?

Because unless you're in a heteronormative marriage you should not be having sex and if you are you should be punished ... obviously

[erbear]

Everytime I see this crap, I'm more grateful than ever that my school has sense and lets me teach the sex ed program I want. This is ludicrous.

[eclaires]

Um, it's bad when I think the Catholic sex ed will be far superior than this hot mess.

We were in 4th grade when we started sex ed, and this is what some crazy site has to say about the books used, lol:

"My wife Karen and I will never forget the shock we experienced on Sunday evening October 6, 1990. As recent converts we were excited about our newly discovered Catholic faith. We enrolled our daughters in C.C.D. classes and were eager to see how the Church would help us teach them the faith. After the first class we reviewed the religious educational materials our daughters brought home. It is difficult to express the utter dismay we felt as we read our fourth grader's The New Creation Series sex education book. This is what we read:

"...At times the boy's penis may become erect. It becomes hard and stands out from his body. This erection [e REC shun] just happens. During puberty this may happen more often than before. The penis does not stay erect for more than a few minutes at one time. A boy is physically ready to become a father when his testicles produce sperm." (Changing and Becoming, Grade 4, The New Creation Series, Brown ROA Publishing, Dubuque, Iowa, p.12.)

Even though this book carried an Imprimatur it was not difficult with my pro-life background to see that it was a thinly-veiled Planned Parenthood type of curriculum. I removed my girls from the classes instantly. I could not entrust my children to teachers and programs that were playing into the heart of the pro-abortion strategy for passing on the sexual revolution to the next generation"

/dies

[eclaires]

I AM DYING HERE, PEOPLE.

Apparently my school was introducing me to S-E-X, not educating me on chastity.

www.veilofinnocence.org/critiques/new_creation.html

I can't believe my Catholic grade school was instructing me so! I might faint.

[eclaires]

I can't stop - this article is also hilarious. HOW DARE THEY TELL KIDS ABOUT ORAL SEX AND PLANNED PARENTHOOD?!?!

www.ncregister.com/site/article/sex_ed_books_set_off_a_parental_firestorm/

I wonder if the schools still use it?

[pugz]

TN makes me hate KS less

[bluelikejazz]

When I saw the title of this thread, I thought you were talking about the nest. I was like, um, shouldn't anyone posting on the nest already know about sex?

[MrsAxilla]

May 12, 2012 21:09:54 GMT -5 eclaires said:

"...At times the boy's penis may become erect. It becomes hard and stands out from his body. This erection [e REC shun] just happens. During puberty this may happen more often than before. The penis does not stay erect for more than a few minutes at one time. A boy is physically ready to become a father when his testicles produce sperm." (Changing and Becoming, Grade 4, The New Creation Series, Brown ROA Publishing, Dubuque, Iowa, p.12.)

Even though this book carried an Imprimatur it was not difficult with my pro-life background to see that it was a thinly-veiled Planned Parenthood type of curriculum. I removed my girls from the classes instantly. I could not entrust my children to teachers and programs that were playing into the heart of the pro-abortion strategy for passing on the sexual revolution to the next generation"

/dies

So now PP is responsible for erections instead of, you know, normal human biology? Man, some people are SO repressed!

[emisi]

May 12, 2012 22:01:23 GMT -5 MrsAxilla said:

May 12, 2012 21:09:54 GMT -5 eclaires said:

"...At times the boy's penis may become erect. It becomes hard and stands out from his body. This erection [e REC shun] just happens. During puberty this may happen more often than before. The penis does not stay erect for more than a few minutes at one time. A boy is physically ready to become a father when his testicles produce sperm." (Changing and Becoming, Grade 4, The New Creation Series, Brown ROA Publishing, Dubuque, Iowa, p.12.)

Even though this book carried an Imprimatur it was not difficult with my pro-life background to see that it was a thinly-veiled Planned Parenthood type of curriculum. I removed my girls from the classes instantly. I could not entrust my children to teachers and programs that were playing into the heart of the pro-abortion strategy for passing on the sexual revolution to the next generation"

/dies

So now PP is responsible for erections instead of, you know, normal human biology? Man, some people are SO repressed!

Well, they forgot to include a disclaimer that the erection is wrong and shameful, and a man should only use his penis with his lawfully wedded wife and only when you're trying to have a baby.

[ttt]

May 12, 2012 21:46:38 GMT -5 bluelikejazz said:

When I saw the title of this thread, I thought you were talking about the nest. I was like, um, shouldn't anyone posting on the nest already know about sex?

I guess you haven't been on the Bump. There are pregnant women on there who don't seem to know how they got that way. Or at least they can't bring themselves to actually say...that word. That scary, dirty, unspeakable word.

[bluelikejazz]

May 12, 2012 22:07:34 GMT -5 ttt said:

May 12, 2012 21:46:38 GMT -5 bluelikejazz said:

When I saw the title of this thread, I thought you were talking about the nest. I was like, um, shouldn't anyone posting on the nest already know about sex?

I guess you haven't been on the Bump. There are pregnant women on there who don't seem to know how they got that way. Or at least they can't bring themselves to actually say...that word. That scary, dirty, unspeakable word.

True. The only time I go to the bump is when it's a C&P.

With all the nest hate, though, it was a reasonable though prior to opening the thread...

[y4m]

Come on... Who else read TN as the nest and was wondering wtf that has to do with sex Ed?!?

[Mrs.Rad888]

May 12, 2012 22:07:34 GMT -5 ttt said:

May 12, 2012 21:46:38 GMT -5 bluelikejazz said:

When I saw the title of this thread, I thought you were talking about the nest. I was like, um, shouldn't anyone posting on the nest already know about sex?

I guess you haven't been on the Bump. There are pregnant women on there who don't seem to know how they got that way. Or at least they can't bring themselves to actually say...that word. That scary, dirty, unspeakable word.

But that's how we end up with such cute terms such as BabyDance! So it can't be all bad!

[emisi]

Mrs.Rad888, your sig pic cracks me up. My cats so wouldn't put up with that.

[belovedbride07]

May 13, 2012 3:48:11 GMT -5 Mrs.Rad888 said:

May 12, 2012 22:07:34 GMT -5 ttt said:

I guess you haven't been on the Bump. There are pregnant women on there who don't seem to know how they got that way. Or at least they can't bring themselves to actually say...that word. That scary, dirty, unspeakable word.

But that's how we end up with such cute terms such as BabyDance! So it can't be all bad!

::shudders:: I hate "babydance," but I loved the poster whose sig said something like "BD? You mean Bunny Dance?" and then had a gif of a bunny doing a pole dance.

[BlackSmoke]

There is no way I am leaving it up to schools to teach my kid about sex ed. I got the "if you have sex you'll get pregnant and die" kind of sex ed. Yeah, it wasn't very effective.

[racegrrl714]

May 13, 2012 0:07:00 GMT -5 y4m said:

Come on... Who else read TN as the nest and was wondering wtf that has to do with sex Ed?!?

I did at first, then thought, no, that has to be the state, not the board... lol