Why are parents allowed to opt out of sex ed?

[Anonymous]

There are a lot of politics in that class- not just facts.

[Anonymous]

Parents are scared. They are idiots. It’s not political or religious. It’s just the basics. Chill out!

Kids already learn all this stuff on TikTok, YouTube.

They know it all. The stuff the school teaches is NOTHING!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It's how school systems manage the crazy parents. My school district got tired of parents griping about school library books so now they let parents opt their kids out of the library - problem solved!

See. I hate quotes like this.

Just because I don't want my 12 year to listen to their 55 year old gym-turned-health teacher discuss anal sex, that makes me a 'crazy parent'

Just because people have different levels of comfort than you does not make them crazy

You are sickening and stupid.

Your kid will be pregnant and if not a STD headed their way.

Different poster, but my kids have grown up on a farm. They knew all the biology and medical concerns by about the age of three.

I don’t need the state government’s input and neither do my kids.

(Animals have STDs as well, we regularly test before breeding. We also typically biopsy the uterus and conduct other testing if we don’t get a black dot first try. It is far more scientific than humans.)

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t think many parents are opting out of sex Ed. They’re opting out of people at school with their own values that you may or may not agree with teaching their kids sex Ed. There’s a big difference.

BS BS BS BS BS BS
There is no curriculum like this.

None zero nadda.

Put your kid in a religious Dumbass private that indoctriates your kid and now pregnant at 14 woo hoo.

Your kids must not attend school in a progressive area like ours because our kids were taught all sorts of woke insanity especially around males who think they are girls and vice versa magically becoming EXACTLY like the gender they pretend to be which is simply anti-science.

[Anonymous]

anecdotally - the parents i saw who opted their kids out are the ones who believe sex is best saved for marriage so let's not discuss it at all. I think that is recipe for disaster.

(not that saving sex for marriage is bad - but they think somehow if they tell kids that - they won't do it....)

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It is ridiculous. They're just setting their kids up for failure.

I'm reading a book written for adults of childhood dysfunction. An example of a boundary dysfunctional parents abuse is not teaching kids about sex. Keeping important information from them is abusive.

I work in criminal justice and there are multiple studies that children who learn about sex and proper terms early on are less likely to be victims of abuse than children who are not informed.

Parents who opt out of this are doing their children a disservice.

Hope nothing bad
You raise your kids, I’ll raise mine. I know mine will be ok.

Why are you so afraid of words? Is your child's life going to be ruined if they hear the word penis or vagina?

My kids know those words. We use them from birth. I don’t want teachers at school discussing sexual topics with my kids but it’s got nothing to do with my kids not knowing correct terminology.

NP. Me too. My kids know that boys and men have penises, girls and women have vaginas, they know what they look like and we’ve used the terms since birth the same as any other body part. They also know how babies are made and first learned it when they were preschoolers with new details added as they get older. And we don’t want teachers or other adults discussing sexual topics with our kids.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It is ridiculous. They're just setting their kids up for failure.

I'm reading a book written for adults of childhood dysfunction. An example of a boundary dysfunctional parents abuse is not teaching kids about sex. Keeping important information from them is abusive.

I work in criminal justice and there are multiple studies that children who learn about sex and proper terms early on are less likely to be victims of abuse than children who are not informed.

Parents who opt out of this are doing their children a disservice.

Hope nothing bad
You raise your kids, I’ll raise mine. I know mine will be ok.

Why are you so afraid of words? Is your child's life going to be ruined if they hear the word penis or vagina?

My kids know those words. We use them from birth. I don’t want teachers at school discussing sexual topics with my kids but it’s got nothing to do with my kids not knowing correct terminology.

NP. Me too. My kids know that boys and men have penises, girls and women have vaginas, they know what they look like and we’ve used the terms since birth the same as any other body part. They also know how babies are made and first learned it when they were preschoolers with new details added as they get older. And we don’t want teachers or other adults discussing sexual topics with our kids.

Because some boys have vaginas and some girls have penises?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It is ridiculous. They're just setting their kids up for failure.

I'm reading a book written for adults of childhood dysfunction. An example of a boundary dysfunctional parents abuse is not teaching kids about sex. Keeping important information from them is abusive.

I work in criminal justice and there are multiple studies that children who learn about sex and proper terms early on are less likely to be victims of abuse than children who are not informed.

Parents who opt out of this are doing their children a disservice.

Hope nothing bad
You raise your kids, I’ll raise mine. I know mine will be ok.

Why are you so afraid of words? Is your child's life going to be ruined if they hear the word penis or vagina?

My kids know those words. We use them from birth. I don’t want teachers at school discussing sexual topics with my kids but it’s got nothing to do with my kids not knowing correct terminology.

NP. Me too. My kids know that boys and men have penises, girls and women have vaginas, they know what they look like and we’ve used the terms since birth the same as any other body part. They also know how babies are made and first learned it when they were preschoolers with new details added as they get older. And we don’t want teachers or other adults discussing sexual topics with our kids.

Because some boys have vaginas and some girls have penises?

Not sure what your question is, but my point is that our kids learned the correct words for penis and vagina, and who has what, before they were two years old (because someone above claimed that anyone who rejects government /school sex ed must not be teaching their kids proper terminology).

[Anonymous]

Because if they're already parents sex ed would come too late for them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:It's how school systems manage the crazy parents. My school district got tired of parents griping about school library books so now they let parents opt their kids out of the library - problem solved!

See. I hate quotes like this.

Just because I don't want my 12 year to listen to their 55 year old gym-turned-health teacher discuss anal sex, that makes me a 'crazy parent'

Just because people have different levels of comfort than you does not make them crazy

You are sickening and stupid.

Your kid will be pregnant and if not a STD headed their way.

Different poster, but my kids have grown up on a farm. They knew all the biology and medical concerns by about the age of three.

I don’t need the state government’s input and neither do my kids.

(Animals have STDs as well, we regularly test before breeding. We also typically biopsy the uterus and conduct other testing if we don’t get a black dot first try. It is far more scientific than humans.)

From what I've seen of animals, they're not the best source of information about consent.

[Anonymous]

The poster having a fit that parents are allowed to teach their own children about sex ed is some pervert (non-parent most likely) who desperately wishes to talk about sex with strangers' children.

No normal person would be this salty about some families opting out of it. And just FYI, I am a parent who let my child learn about it at school. I know that some of my child's classmates opted out, and I could not care less. Because I am not a pervert, I don't ruminate about what other families teach their children about sex.

LOG OFF, PERVERT.

[Anonymous]

Great to know that my infertility makes me an “oddity”

Good job on the science too, statistically speaking

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Some of us want to teach about it ourselves - we are more equipped to explain the nuances and tailor the instruction based on our child's maturity level and our own respective values.

This has nothing to do with “values” and shoehorning that into the education makes for ignorance. Schools are better equipped to teach this stuff. Heck, some parents are afraid to or do things like demand abstinence.

[Anonymous]

Very few parents of kids in my school when I was growing up opted out of sex ed because the classes were segregated by sex and discussed puberty and the basic facts of reproduction. I don't blame parents at all for opting our now because classes are now coed (at least in our district) and the scope of topics discussed has broadened and include bizarre ideological claims about gender in some places.

Hopefully most of the posters that are triggered by parents opting out of sex ed are trolls because their seeming obsession with talking about sex with other people's kids is creepy.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It is ridiculous. They're just setting their kids up for failure.

I'm reading a book written for adults of childhood dysfunction. An example of a boundary dysfunctional parents abuse is not teaching kids about sex. Keeping important information from them is abusive.

I work in criminal justice and there are multiple studies that children who learn about sex and proper terms early on are less likely to be victims of abuse than children who are not informed.

Parents who opt out of this are doing their children a disservice.

Hope nothing bad
You raise your kids, I’ll raise mine. I know mine will be ok.

Why are you so afraid of words? Is your child's life going to be ruined if they hear the word penis or vagina?

My kids know those words. We use them from birth. I don’t want teachers at school discussing sexual topics with my kids but it’s got nothing to do with my kids not knowing correct terminology.

My kids know that boys and men have penises, girls and women have vaginas.

I can tell they haven't attended sex ed classes. If they did, they would have learned that that isn't always the case.