O8/16/07
at 7:00 p.m.: Due to being given the run-around regarding the health
teacher's specific health curriculum, concerned parents came together to
interview health class students and learned the following, which we consider
to be wrong. Bear in mind that this was also the curriculum for 8th
graders.
The
first red flag: Students
have to stand, raise their right hand and swear an oath that whatever is
said or done in health class stays there (a promise to keep the curriculum
secret).
The
following are subjects covered in health class that reveal the health teacher
being abnormally intrigued by the gruesome or unwholesome, such as:
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Writing your own obituary
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Planning a funeral, including
the cost of embalming, with children in attendance who had recently lost
loved ones
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Euthanasia (which is unlawful)
as a solution for diseases such as MS, with a child in attendance whose
parent has MS
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The correct way to slit your
wrists if you want to commit suicide, with a child in attendance who had
actually attempted suicide
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The R-rated movie "Bang Bang,
You're Dead" without parental consent (click
here to see a clip from this movie)
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The role-play date-rape trial,
with kids being coerced into playing roles if no one volunteered for a
role
The
following are subjects covered in health class which might potentially
arouse or stimulate kids to engage in sexual activity or to pursue pornography:
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Suggestive masturbation story
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Every child in attendance being
coerced into answering the questions "Would you have sex?" and "Do you
think about it every day?"
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Doing a report on an STD (sexually
transmitted disease) that must include graphic pictures of diseased genitalia
from a Google search at the school library and group picture-sharing time
in class (click
here to see an example of the photos your children are being required
to view -- WARNING: GRAPHIC MATERIAL NOT SUITABLE
FOR CHILDREN UNDER 18)
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Student Medical Services slide
presentation of STDs and diseased genitalia
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Seeing, handling, and explaining
how to use condoms, dental dams, and other protection or contraception,
and children under the age of consent being told these items are available
from Student Medical Services without parental knowledge
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Indirectly learning about oral
sex through a presentation on the dental dam and pictures of STDs around
the mouth
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Not stressing abstinence
Other
matters of concern:
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Doing a report on an assigned
drug -- for example, a date-rape drug -- and through a Google search finding
facts about it such as the cost, and even finding a recipe for it
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Age appropriateness of material
totally disregarded
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The health teacher calling students
derogatory, demeaning names in class
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Little or no teaching about
soundness of body and mind and emotional well-being -- true health
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