There is an uproar in Wisconsin over teaching sex education in the schools. Basically, the state has a new law which mandates teaching high school youths age appropriate birth control techniques. Parents can keep their kids out of the classes, and schools may opt not to offer them. And at least one Wisconsin local DA has threatened to arrest teachers who teach the course.
Oh what a tangled web we weave. One that could be avoided entirely if the government and the schools would simply get out of the sex ed business.
It is not your schoolteacher's job to teach sex ed at all, in any way, shape, or form. It is not the province of government at any level to compel teaching it. A great many issues could be avoided by schools and legislatures simply keeping away from areas not part of their true responsibility. Schools should stick to the three R's and lawmakers to making good and proper law.
Why is it that so many schools and so many government agents do not trust parents?
Arrogance, plain and simple. They know better than we do. We don't have the proper degrees and certifications and public electoral sanction. The people who do hold them are the ones who know.
And they wonder why there's a tea party movement. Or that so many school bond issues are at risk.
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