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Originally posted by nostatic
How about all the kids who have crappy ones, or scared ones, or absent ones?
It is sad that the public school system has to take care of so much of the spectrum of things normally associated with "parenting" but that is the reality of our current society.
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That's not the problem. The problem is that good, well meaning parents will not have the option of declining the schools sex-education program.
"There is no fundamental right of parents to be the exclusive provider of information regarding sexual matters to their children..."
That's not just "sort of" wrong, it's completely backwards. I believe that parents should have the absolute and inviolate right to be the exclusive providers of information regarding sexual matters to their children if they choose to.
Look, there are many ways to parent. I have friends whose home sex education basically amounts to ; "Sex before marriage is a sin and is not acceptable". That is not
my approach, but they are good people raising good kids. Sexuality is a delicate issue wrapped in morality, religion, psycology. It is
way beyond the mission of the public schools to think that they have a "right" to provide sexual information to a child despite the objections of a parent.