Mike (
April 28, 2010)
I think McGuinty is a spineless excuse of a politician. After all the planning and modeling of a curriculum plan, he gets a bit of heat and bails on it. In other countries like the Netherlands where they have the lowest teen pregnancy in the developed world, they teach sex ed at a much younger age. Parents can still teach the morality of there own beliefs. The classroom just gives them something to start a conversation with, the parents can take over from there. |
Cynical in Kenora (
April 27, 2010)
Until there is an absolute "answer book" on ethics and morality that is accepted by all, then the best system is for the parents to teach their children the morality and ethics of sex, and the schools teach the science and biology of sex. It may not be perfect, in fact it may be far from perfect, but it still beats some navel gazing bureaucrat imposing THEIR morality and ethics on my children.
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lenny (
April 27, 2010)
I know you wont post this rebutle to DM, but i spoke of proper moral conduct. I never said Jesus.
This person I'm sure, typed a foregone conclusion.
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So Kenora (
April 27, 2010)
The sex education taught in the schools is a joke and they totally underestimate what the kids are picking up in the media, from peers, older kids they know, etc. Every kid in grade two in Kenora know what it means to "do it", even if they don't know the specific mechanics of it. Educators need to take off those rosey colored glasses, get down to the nitty gritty, and teach sexual respect and sexual health. If kids are losing their virginity at 12, it is too late to be introducing under developed silliness in grade 7 isn't it?
In the meantime, boys need to learn respect for girls, and the girls REALLY need to cover up a little more. One of my favorite pasttimes with my 12 year old daughter is rating the skankiness of kids her age by amount of makeup, revealing clothing, and behaviour. If she gets it, why don't the parents in this town? |
Karen (
April 26, 2010)
Let the education system do what it supposed to do, educate. The instant you leave it up to parents or to religious institutions, there is no control, no assurance that any child is ever talked to, and most importantly no control of what is being taught. Think about the radically different views on sex ed that exist in all the parents you know, and then think of mixing religion in there. What a mess! Our kids are smarter than we are already when it comes to sex ed, as they talk about it openly now whereas in previous generations it was not appropriate to talk about. If you can't have an open converastion about these topics with your kid now, is it because you deem them too young, or because you're not sure exactly how to go about it. Either way, wouldn't it help you if they were receiving some education in the schools at the same time? |
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April 26, 2010)
i saying yes because this is a big step forward for the children. What the parents won't do, the goverment will. All we have to do now is get the federal government to change the law. You want to harm a child sexually, you are going to federal pen for the rest of your natural life |
DM (
April 26, 2010)
Ah, yes. Jesus will teach our children about sex education.
It's this thinking that reinforces the need for informed and unbiased sex education in school. |
lenny (
April 25, 2010)
Well, for one thing, if you bring your children up in the truth (bible studies) they will be given moral conduct beyond any of today's sex education could ever hope to give them. |
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April 24, 2010)
If a parent is too ignorant to know they should discuss these issues with their child, what makes you think that same parent will take that same child down to the library and find a good book about sex education! Come on, these are the children who need this support in schools. The children who have direction at home already know so, why try and hide it in the classroom. |
Richard (
April 23, 2010)
I think he was on the right path, not that I'm a big fan of Dalton overall. There are those who think that sex education is the responsibility of the parent. Therein lays the problem. How many parents out there provide a proper eduation to their kids on sex? Are they educating based upon common standards, or more from their own experience combined with their religious beliefs? If that's the case, every kid outr there would get a different eduation regarding sex. Let's be optimistic and say 50% of parents do educate their kids on sex, then that leaves 50% of the population receiving either no sex eduacation or incorrect peer-to-peer education. Educating kids about sex through the schooling system catches ALL the kids, that's why it needs to happen. There will be issues with parents not wanting their kids hearing about certain things or certain words at young ages - these parents are also part of the problem. Kids hear this stuff everyday, on the playground, at the rink, on the Simpsons, South Park, Two and a Half Men, it's everywhere. Let the education system provide a consistent foundation of knowledge to our kids so that they have a frame of reference to use when they hear all the other information that no one can control. If the words 'lesbian' or 'lubricant' rock your world, recognize that you are part of the problem and more inportantly, your kids are already hearing these terms in their daily life. Wouldn't you rather they come from a teacher? |
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