This is what went on in the “Health” class I took at a public elementary school (6th grade was part of elementary school back then and middle school) from another post:
If you send your child to an American public school, you’re going to get the barnyard version of human sexuality from the “Teach”.
No Christian morality or any morality present in that class.
I remember 6th Grade rolls around in public grade school, and this chain-smoking Italian-American teacher told us boys and girls in the class to masturbate and wait “for later” (she died of lung cancer a few years later).
The subject was shelved for a year, and then 8th grade rolls around, and there is some funky class called “Health”.
The class dealt with a number of issues like euthanasia, teenage suicide, I think drugs and alcohol, dissecting frogs, some basic study of the human anatomy, the environment, and human sexuality.
The message about human sexuality was the same as 6th grade; they even talked about male homosexual sex (granted, I don’t think at that time circa 1981-1982 it was part of the official curriculum, but this one student asked about it, and the 8th Grade teacher went into all this unbelievable graphic (that would make a sailor blush) detail for several minutes.
If you ever wanted to know what an American public school “Health” class is like, that’s what it is like.
Although I imagine now the public schools probably have homosexuality and lesbianism as part of the official curriculum
That’s what it was like.
It’s really up to you, but you certainly don’t need these state bureaucrats and the Ministry of Culture explaining their non-Christian version of sex to your child.
I think it would help if you’re willing to have a sit down and explain it to your son (if your son watches the junk on TV and goes to public school, he probably knows about it already).
There might be some Catholic literature on explaining this to your son, maybe even at this forum, for instance, CA’s Apologist’s Jason Evert’s Pure Love Tract.
Look, if they sent you **a note **and you have to
sign it, those bureaucrats only bother to do something like that in order to cover themselves from parent complaints when their kid comes home and tells his folks that it was all about contraception. And then Mr. So And So will say, well parent, you signed it!
Now your kid might get razzed by some of his peers in the “class,” but it is almost the end of school anyway, and they’ll forget it over the summer.
And, if he lucks out, some “cool” kid’s parents will opt their child out too; then he’s got nothing to worry about. I’d tell him not to care too much about the opinions of a bunch of eleven year old kids.
(So much for the theory that there should be no prayer or Bible readings in public schools, because so students might feel “left out” or “made fun of”).
OOPS just noticed this advice is too late.
