Comments on: Hysteria stalls sex education at Hardy Middle

By: Michael Diviesti

Michael Diviesti — Sat, 23 Oct 2010 16:06:06 +0000

Adam,

a questionnaire doesn’t assume anything. The fact is that there are 12 year olds doing that kind of stuff and there is not a single 12 year old that hasn’t heard of those because, after all, they go to school with other kids who talk about it.

I will gladly say that I never gave in to peer pressure. I have never taken drugs, and I remained a virgin until I was 19 years old. My family was and is proud of me for sticking to my own values. This does not mean that I didn’t have peer pressure to do those things.

By the age of 10, I knew what drugs were and I knew what sex was. It was all other students talked about. Other students asked on a regular basis if I engaged in them.

Parents SHOULD be asking what their 12 year olds are doing. We have an issue with teen pregnancies as well as drug use in our country. Many parents refuse to talk to their kids about it because they assume that their kids know better.

Why is it such a bad thing that the schools want to learn their own demographics? It would really help both the school and the parents to better learn what is going on and figure ways to promote the positive and deter the negative.

No, I did not see the questions, there wasn’t a link to them in this post that I can tell, however, I do know kids. Some of them (not all and maybe not even a majority) are causing some serious harm to themselves and their futures. It is time that we figured out what it is that they are involved in and find a way to fix some of these issues. I’m sorry, you’re not going to get there by dancing around the subject.
Mike

By: Adam

Adam — Sat, 23 Oct 2010 00:07:37 +0000

Did you see the questionaire? Look at it and tell me if you’d be fine with having anyone ask your daughter these questions without your knowledge or consent. Part of parental responsibility is making sure that 12 year olds are personally responsibe and adult activities be left for adults. It is not okay to assume that tweens are involved in oral and anal sex within the past month.

By: Michael Diviesti

Michael Diviesti — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 21:15:46 +0000

I find it interesting how a school (many actually)will put things to a halt because of a ‘vocal minority’ on questionnaire about sexual identity but doesn’t do a darn thing when kids are physically being harassed by other students in their schools, even when it is brought to their attention.

12 years old is certainly NOT too young for these questions because 12 year olds are already talking about these issues. How do you think it is that 2 of the kids who completed suicide were only 13 years old?

This is common sense, and it’s sad that these parents are lacking this common sense. These are the parents who perpetuate the stereotypes and the lies that are told about the LGBT community that leads to their children harassing other students.

It is a matter of education and it’s sad that these parents will deprive, not only their kids but, every kid of standard education because of their own ideology.