Does Your School Use Planned Parenthood for Health/ Sex Ed Classes?

[Anonymous]

I have heard that ours brings in PP DC for a program for middle schoolers but have never witnessed that myself. In any case, parents in NY are not happy about it, and I don't think I would be either. How is this any different from bringing in any group with a political bias -- Focus on the Family, for example?

It seems to me that agreeing to send one's kids to a private school does not confer permission to have them "educated" by an outside organization. Thoughts on that?

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10439669/56-000-year-girls-Nightingale-school-NYC-blasted-workshop-Planned-Parenthood.html

[Anonymous]

The education department of PPMW focuses on STI prevention, pregnancy prevention through birth control and abstinence and sexual health and development with teens. It is a well run and science based program that prevents teens from getting sexually transmitted diseases and/or pregnant. I was glad PPMW was teaching my kid these important facts well before they would be sexually active.
Much better than some teacher doing it with shoddy curriculum.

[Anonymous]

Focus on the Family is a fundamentalist Christian ministry group. Planned Parenthood is an actual medical provider with doctors. Not sure they are two sides of the same coin that can be equated.

Anyway, our school uses the Our Whole Lives (OWL) program for health and sexuality classes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The education department of PPMW focuses on STI prevention, pregnancy prevention through birth control and abstinence and sexual health and development with teens. It is a well run and science based program that prevents teens from getting sexually transmitted diseases and/or pregnant. I was glad PPMW was teaching my kid these important facts well before they would be sexually active.
Much better than some teacher doing it with shoddy curriculum.

what does PPMW stand for?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Focus on the Family is a fundamentalist Christian ministry group. Planned Parenthood is an actual medical provider with doctors. Not sure they are two sides of the same coin that can be equated.

Anyway, our school uses the Our Whole Lives (OWL) program for health and sexuality classes.

Both organizations have a strong political agenda. Families on the opposite side of each organization's agenda would not want the organization anywhere near their child.

Need proof? Let's see if anybody on this Board can honestly make either of the following statements:

"I voted for Trump and I would be fine having Planned Parenthood come to my child's school and teach my child."

"I voted for Biden and I would be fine having Focus on the Family come to my child's school and teach my child."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The education department of PPMW focuses on STI prevention, pregnancy prevention through birth control and abstinence and sexual health and development with teens. It is a well run and science based program that prevents teens from getting sexually transmitted diseases and/or pregnant. I was glad PPMW was teaching my kid these important facts well before they would be sexually active.
Much better than some teacher doing it with shoddy curriculum.

PPMW (pp metropolitan Washington) did a parent presentation at our school last year in which the presenters obviously and proactively avoided using the words “boys,” “girls,” “males,” “females,” etc. it was almost comical how they worked themselves into a knot to avoid using those apparently offensive words, when trying to describe a sex Ed class.

Agree with you OP. It’s ideology over science and if the school plans to bring them back again, I will speak up and oppose.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The education department of PPMW focuses on STI prevention, pregnancy prevention through birth control and abstinence and sexual health and development with teens. It is a well run and science based program that prevents teens from getting sexually transmitted diseases and/or pregnant. I was glad PPMW was teaching my kid these important facts well before they would be sexually active.
Much better than some teacher doing it with shoddy curriculum.

PPMW (pp metropolitan Washington) did a parent presentation at our school last year in which the presenters obviously and proactively avoided using the words “boys,” “girls,” “males,” “females,” etc. it was almost comical how they worked themselves into a knot to avoid using those apparently offensive words, when trying to describe a sex Ed class.

Agree with you OP. It’s ideology over science and if the school plans to bring them back again, I will speak up and oppose.

You can opt you kid out. Why oppose something other parents want?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The education department of PPMW focuses on STI prevention, pregnancy prevention through birth control and abstinence and sexual health and development with teens. It is a well run and science based program that prevents teens from getting sexually transmitted diseases and/or pregnant. I was glad PPMW was teaching my kid these important facts well before they would be sexually active.
Much better than some teacher doing it with shoddy curriculum.

PPMW (pp metropolitan Washington) did a parent presentation at our school last year in which the presenters obviously and proactively avoided using the words “boys,” “girls,” “males,” “females,” etc. it was almost comical how they worked themselves into a knot to avoid using those apparently offensive words, when trying to describe a sex Ed class.

Agree with you OP. It’s ideology over science and if the school plans to bring them back again, I will speak up and oppose.

You can opt you kid out. Why oppose something other parents want?

Agree. I just think it’s important to recognize that most parents have no idea how radical PP has become

[Anonymous]

They are not telling your kids to take political positions. They are literally talking about the birds and the bees.

Settle down, Francis.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They are not telling your kids to take political positions. They are literally talking about the birds and the bees.

Settle down, Francis.

Really? By using non gendered terminology? Sorry; that’s a hard pass, Francis

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The education department of PPMW focuses on STI prevention, pregnancy prevention through birth control and abstinence and sexual health and development with teens. It is a well run and science based program that prevents teens from getting sexually transmitted diseases and/or pregnant. I was glad PPMW was teaching my kid these important facts well before they would be sexually active.
Much better than some teacher doing it with shoddy curriculum.

So planned parenthood actually came to your child's school and taught classes - which school?

[Anonymous]

Planned Parenthood is known for providing sex education. I’m surprised people are surprised!

https://www.plannedparenthood.org/learn/for-educators

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Focus on the Family is a fundamentalist Christian ministry group. Planned Parenthood is an actual medical provider with doctors. Not sure they are two sides of the same coin that can be equated.

Anyway, our school uses the Our Whole Lives (OWL) program for health and sexuality classes.

Both organizations have a strong political agenda. Families on the opposite side of each organization's agenda would not want the organization anywhere near their child.

Need proof? Let's see if anybody on this Board can honestly make either of the following statements:

"I voted for Trump and I would be fine having Planned Parenthood come to my child's school and teach my child."

"I voted for Biden and I would be fine having Focus on the Family come to my child's school and teach my child."

I'm a Biden voter, and a liberal democrat, and I'd be fine having Focus on the Family come to the school and teach my child if they had something valuable to teach them. Like... I dunno, if my kids English class needed a primer on some basic bible stories to better understand symbolism? Or if my kid's business class was learning about how non-profits balance their budget in the real world? Or something like that? I care what my kid learns. The ideology of the people teaching them isn't important to me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The education department of PPMW focuses on STI prevention, pregnancy prevention through birth control and abstinence and sexual health and development with teens. It is a well run and science based program that prevents teens from getting sexually transmitted diseases and/or pregnant. I was glad PPMW was teaching my kid these important facts well before they would be sexually active.
Much better than some teacher doing it with shoddy curriculum.

PPMW (pp metropolitan Washington) did a parent presentation at our school last year in which the presenters obviously and proactively avoided using the words “boys,” “girls,” “males,” “females,” etc. it was almost comical how they worked themselves into a knot to avoid using those apparently offensive words, when trying to describe a sex Ed class.

Agree with you OP. It’s ideology over science and if the school plans to bring them back again, I will speak up and oppose.

Agree, Wtf.

Remind me of when my 2nd grader came home believing boys could make babies just because they felt like a girl.

Cart before the horse with that Jazz Jenning lesson before basic biology, anatomy or health case sex Ed….

[Anonymous]

It seems like a natural partnership. It also provides students the knowledge of providers who will help in an emergency. Sure many students know about Planned Parenthood but wouldn’t you rather your child go to a proven institution for advice than Tik Tok? Planned Parenthood is more than a political movement. However with everything at schools being politicized these days, I’d rather schools align this way than with anti-science groups.