Student Interview Results
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:

    • Writing your own obituary
    • Planning a funeral, including the cost of embalming, with children in attendance who had recently lost loved ones
    • Euthanasia (which is unlawful) as a solution for diseases such as MS, with a child in attendance whose parent has MS
    • The correct way to slit your wrists if you want to commit suicide, with a child in attendance who had actually attempted suicide
    • The R-rated movie "Bang Bang, You're Dead" without parental consent (click here to see a clip from this movie)
    • 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:

    • Suggestive masturbation story
    • Every child in attendance being coerced into answering the questions "Would you have sex?" and "Do you think about it every day?"
    • 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)
    • Student Medical Services slide presentation of STDs and diseased genitalia
    • 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
    • Indirectly learning about oral sex through a presentation on the dental dam and pictures of STDs around the mouth
    • Not stressing abstinence


Other matters of concern:

    • 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
    • Age appropriateness of material totally disregarded
    • The health teacher calling students derogatory, demeaning names in class
    • Little or no teaching about soundness of body and mind and emotional well-being -- true health


 
 
 
 
 
 
 



 
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