Sex Survey in Middle School

Sex Survey in Middle School

It’s hardly new to cite the failure of America’s public school system to educate kids.

Much of the world, including the “developing world,” has been running rings around our students for decades, a sad fact of education life attributable to a variety of factors including the emphasis placed on political correctness and building self-esteem in lieu of teaching the basics. Another obvious cause, and not only in inner cities but in suburbs as well is that the bulk of public school teachers are the products of public schools.

Aside from PC, self-esteem, and sex-ed successes, most public school teachers and administrators have little to brag about. Ok, many are also delighted with their salaries, and too many teachers, male and female, are very happy with the opportunities they have had to seduce students but that’s a whole other topic that has already been explored on this blogsite.

Memorial Middle School in Fitchburg, Massachusetts was interested in exploring a related subject, although how it came under the province of education is a mystery.

Acting without parental consent, a “passive consent” the school felt was implied, seventh and eighth grade middle school girls as young as 12 were surveyed on their sex lives, their “sexual behavior”–how often they engaged in sex and particularly how often they “gave” oral sex.

One outraged mother, Arlene Tessitore, described the ”Youth Risk Behavior Study” as “shocking” both because of the questions and because she never gave her consent for her daughters to participate in the survey. Her Rutherford Institute attorney called the district’s action as illegal based on federal law and Supreme Court decisions predicated on parental rights to “direct the moral and spiritual upbringing . . ."
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=4824.)