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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (167673)	7/8/2002 5:09:05 PM
From: tcmay	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 186894

"...removing the words "under God" from the Pledge, or even removing the Pledge itself, is not going to solve the problem of bullying. "Either that, or you must believe that sex education also causes those who don't participate to be bullied and ostracized. Hey! Let's get rid of sex education." Damned straight! It isn't the function of a public school to teach highly personal things like "sex education." Until the1960s, that was a matter for parents, churches, and other kids to teach. By teaching sex habits in public schools, we have turned this into another political football: the queers want their quota of time to proselytize for homosexuality, the abstention crowds wants its message of "Just say no," and the PC crowd in general wants children taught the evils of "looksism." And they all want 5th graders who should be playing with the GI Joes and Barbie dolls to learn how to put a condom on. Meanwhile, more and more kids can't read with comprehension and can't write a coherent paragraph (evidenced by entirely too many SI posts). We even have the "JCs," or community colleges, now forced to teach remedial reading and math skills to their "13th graders" flooding the JCs. Teach the basics. Teach skills. And don't teach what should be a non-school matter. Sure, some kids will get pregnant early. So? It happened 100 years ago, it happened 30 years ago, and it's happening today even with all the push on "sex education." Ditto for AIDS. The perverts will do their queer business and AIDS will spread in their community. Look at the statistics: a good two decades after the cause of AIDS was identified, queers who have been bombarded with sex education information are still doing their old queer things...and contracting AIDS at rates comparable to in the early 80s. Think of it as evolution in action. --Tim May