When did we start teaching sex education in elementary school?

Question

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_&_King
I'm not attacking gays by no means but this is ridiculous to start introducing kids to homosexual relationships at an early age.
If this is allowed the next question is raised how young is too young to learn about sex and reproduction.
You can argue that this book isn't about sex ed. in general but questions are going to be asked when your 3rd grader comes home from school and asks how does a man and a man make a baby mommy? What will you say?

Answer 1

Don't know about you, I always believed in telling my kids the truth, in an age appropriate manner. I see no problem with exposing children to information, neither promoting nor criticizing any behaviors, as long as it is age appropriate.

Answer 2

I'm sorry, I just don't see how this is a problem. If homosexual relationships as treated as normally as heterosexual relationships and no one around them acts as though there's something wrong with it then there's not any reason they should be confused or affected negatively by it. They absorb as normal what we adults treat as normal. This book has nothing about sex in it, you are right, and you are also right that eventually the subject will come up. When they start to get an idea of basic reproduction and they ask how two men or two women can make a baby what's so hard to explain? They can't. They either adopt or they do the same as straight couples that can't conceive, by using a surrogate mom, etc. Homosexual relationships are normal and common and something that children will see more and more as gay people refuse to stay in the closet any longer. Isn't it better for them to learn that some people are just different right off the bat, rather than just let the usual go on - playground taunts and name calling because no one ever bothered to teach them that these people aren't freaks?

My kids asked me the same thing when they were around 10 or so and started to put two and two together about sex, and started wondering about several of our friends we have who are homosexual couples, and who have known our kids for many years. When they asked, we had a very sane and very logical conversation about it. It wasn't inappropriate and it wasn't stressful to us or them. Kids aren't going to be confused by the truth or disturbed by it unless they get the cue from their parents that they should be.

Answer 3

Sex education is important from a young age so children can grow up understanding that there are many different types of people in the world, and hopefully it will help them to grow up showing more acceptance for those who have different lifestyles. Some children at school will most probably have gay or bisexual parents [yes it happens] - they also need to feel included.

When your 3rd grader asks how a two men make a baby - tell them that they cannot - unless they find a surrogate mother, or adopt - just like other infertile couples in love do. It's pretty simple really. :-)

Answer 4

Since we are talking about ridiculous: How about watching national geographic with my 4 and 7 year olds and dang near every commercial goes:
I didnt know that my high blood pressure could lead to my ED.... If you experience an erection lasting more than 4 hours go see your doctor.

In the waiting room to get my wifes mammogram I was treated to Elton John's the ***** is back. Its cute and a little funny the first time a 4 yr old says ***** but they NEVER say it once. See even Y!answers censors *****. It has only one use and thats a reference to a female dog.

I am by no means a prude. Very far from it but public life and what kids are exposed to is vastly different from all the fun we have behind closed doors. This junk needs to take a very long hike out of the US schools and popular culture.

Answer 5

I wonder who would be doing the teaching. The students or teachers? Kids are sexually active in middle school. Not a single school program has stemmed the tide. It must start at home. And the blatant sexual innuendo that permeates the media is probably the single biggest contributing factor in the rampant STD we see today. Advocating condom use will not do a thing. Keep education of children to the fundamentals and leave the rest to the parents.

Answer 6

The poster above me is my friend and is asking that this stuff leave public culture. Why. Its not going to leave public culture. People are gay. So what.

Regarding the schools, I didn't really learn about puerto rican people till middle school, and there are puerto rican people in pop culture, but it wasn't neccessary for me in grade school to know about diversity.

In 5th grade I had sex ed.

3rd grade might be too young.

The truth is parents need to do a better job of not allowing their kids to be exposed to "stuff".

I suppose the end of 5th grade it makes sense to explain some things. Women start getting "women" issues and need to know scientifically whats going on. Boys are going through their things and need to know whats going on.

The reality exists, people when they are in middle school and high school are going to be giving one another bee jays. Parents need to step up and tell their kids not to. Not the schools job.

Thats how I feel.

Answer 7

It makes me sigh to read posts like this. The ignorance is astounding. Kids don't relate man, woman and child as being sexual until they're old enough to understand that a man and a woman do MAKE A BABY, but that some couples can not have children of their own for multiple reasons. some can not reproduce, and some are gay. these people have the option of adopting. you're trying early on to make something kids would never see as a problem, stand out as odd to them. you make the union between spouses as love, not sexual intercourse.




and they should teach kids about appropriate touching. same thing goes with this situation. if you don't teach them it's bad, they won't know.

Answer 8

My 3rd grader never came home and asked such a question. I am fortunate to live in a county that requires the Principal to send home an informational letter when the school is giving a controversial presentation.

So far, we have opted out. I still provide the education at home, though, so he doesn't get it second-hand at school after the presentation.

I do not think anyone is more qualified than parents for sex ed.

ADDED: Lindsey, my pre-pre-schooler was taught about appropriate and inappropriate touching before he ever entered. It's not rocket science.

Answer 9

It started when the pollution that is the ACLU slimes and Liberal activists judge's sleaze their way into our schools. The NEA (National Education (Extortion) Agency)), a pointy headed, Nazi regime-like Union for teachers, swims in the same dirty water as the ACLU. Your kids have no chance. The only way they are going to actually learn reading, writing and arithmetic and not homosexuality, drug use and having safe sex, is to home school them. Keeping your children in public schools is going to ruin them.

Answer 10

Then everyone wonders why our children are failing.
When schools stopped teaching Math, Reading, Physical Ed, and History and thought Sex Ed, social equality, and political correctness were more important,
we lost something in this country.