Obama’s Sex Ed: All About Inappropriate Touching?
Posted on September 16, 2008
Photo credit: Children’s Learning Institute
Senator Obama thinks it’s fine to discuss with a 5 year old, with medical accuracy, just why a baby’s delivery by stork is a myth. Our grandparents or great-great-grandparents came up with that sweet story for a reason, didn’t they? What is the teacher to say? Daddy put the baby in mommy’s tummy?…and then what? This is what Democrats do…they want inside your child’s head.
According to Senator Obama, his vote for Illinois Sex Education Bill 99 would affect kindergartners only by teaching them about inappropriate touching. Everything about Illinois Senate Bill 99 is considered to be “medically accurate,” and “age appropriate,” according to Obama.
The Bill does not address who makes the decision about what is age appropriate and what is not?
1) Do you trust school administrators? Senator Obama did.
2) What are first graders taught that kindergartners are not?
3) What are second graders taught that kindergartners are not?
4) What are third graders taught that kindergartners are not?
5) What are fourth graders taught that kindergartners are not?
Parents had “an opportunity” to opt-out. Many teachers wouldn’t have a clue how to explain, with medical accuracy, how not to spread a sexually transmitted disease to a 5 year old, a six year, or a 7 year old. And when the parent opts the child out, what is the child doing as the class proceeds?
On July 18, 2008, ABCNews.com interviewed Senator Obama:
When Obama’s campaign was asked by ABC News to explain what kind of sex education Obama considers “age appropriate” for kindergartners, the Obama campaign pointed to an Oct. 6, 2004 story from the Daily Herald in which Obama had “moved to clarify” in his Senate campaign that he “does not support teaching explicit sex education to children in kindergarten…
Nobody’s suggesting that kindergartners are going to be getting information about sex in the way that we think about it, Obama said.
If they ask a teacher ‘where do babies come from,’ that providing information that the fact is that it’s not from a stork is probably not an unhealthy thing.
My question is, and no offense to the millions of wonderful, wonderful educators out there, but who knows what some whack-job teacher might teach? We know many of them WON’T even teach documented history! Who knows what their view of appropriate sex ed might be?
According to Amy Proctor’s Blog, Senate Bill 99 (which was never enacted, by the way) was mandated to follow SIECUS (Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States) READ THE ACTUAL SIECUS curriculum for kindergartners through 3rd grade and 5th grade through 8th grade at Amy’s. I don’t know what happened to 4th graders.
If you think “vagina,” “penis,” and “uterus” are inappropriate for kindergartners…and then there’s this: “Some people are homosexual, which means they can be attracted to and fall in love with someone of another gender,…” then you will not want Senator Obama making decisions about your child’s sex ed.
When the teacher says one can “be attracted to” someone, and the child asks what that means, what does the teacher say? Well, they “fall in love,” – oh, okay.
When the child asks: where is the vagina? How does the teacher explain that? With pictures? Ditto penis and uterus. These are 5 year olds. Leave it to Mom and Dad until 5th grade.
I’m not sure how to teach a child what inappropriate touching is. Maybe, let no one touch you from your neck to the top of your legs – except Mommy when she’s bathing you, and dressing you? Except Daddy when he’s doing the same. Except for Grandma when she’s doing the same? Except for Grandpa when he’s doing the same? Except for the babysitter doing the same? Except the Doctor when you need an exam? Be sure to tell if you are ever touched between the neck and the top of your legs, except for these times. What???? How is a child to take all this in?
Leave it to the parents. It is indeed a dangerous world out there for children, and especially for small children. We can make it better by putting offenders in prison FOREVER on the first offense – and no, I don’t think I’m off topic.
Check out John McCain.com for excellent documentation of this and more: John McCain.com documentation
Read the full text of the failed Senate Bill 99
More:Wake up America: Fact Checking McCain Ad Saying Obama Voted for Sex Ed for Kindergartners Byron York: On Sex-Ed Ad, McCain Is Right
* In the Illinois State Legislature, Barack Obama voted for legislation to alter Illinois’ Sex Education standards to include instruction in any grade from Kindergarten through 12th grade. The legislation passed Barack Obama’s Illinois Senate Health and Human Services Committee that he chaired. As the Chicago Daily Herald stated, “the legislation included a provision to allow students from kindergarten through fifth grade to be added to the middle and high school students receiving sex education.”
* Despite the Obama campaign’s claims, this bill was intended to provide children as young as Kindergarten with sex education. According to the legislation itself, “Each class or course in comprehensive sex education offered in any of grades K through 12 shall include instruction on the prevention of sexually transmitted infections, including the prevention, transmission and spread of HIV.” This legislation stated expressly that children in grade 12 were to be education about sexually transmitted diseases.
* In 2007, Barack Obama told Planned Parenthood that he supported sex education for Kindergarteners as long as it was “age-appropriate.” Thus on two separate occasions we have Barack Obama supporting the expansion of sex education to Kindergarteners.
* Defending Barack Obama’s statement, the Obama campaign cited far-reaching SIECUS curriculum as the model. The SIECUS curriculum goes far beyond appropriate touching. The Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States (SIECUS) supports a comprehensive approach to sex education, beginning as early as ages 5-8. For Level 1 sex education (ages 5 through 8), the guidelines include much more than appropriate touching. The curriculum includes lines that are not appropriate for us to state here but please see the link to the guidelines here: http://www.siecus.org/_data/global/images/guidelines.pdf. This is the model provided by the Obama campaign and no one else.
HyScience provides with a list of Level 1; Developmental Messages:
• Each body part has a correct name and a specific function.
• A person’s genitals, reproductive organs, and genes determine whether the person is male or female.
• A boy/man has nipples, a penis, a scrotum, and testicles.
• A girl/woman has breasts, nipples, a vulva, a clitoris, a vagina, a uterus, and ovaries.
• Some sexual or reproductive organs, such as penises and vulvas, are external or on the outside of the body while others, such as ovaries and testicles, are internal or inside the body.
• Both boys and girls have body parts that feel good when touched.
• Bodies change as children grow older.
• Puberty is a time of physical and emotional change that happens as children become teenagers.
• People are able to have children only after they have reached puberty.
• Human beings can love people of the same gender and people of another gender.
• Some people are heterosexual, which means they can be attracted to and fall in love with someone
of another gender.
• Some people are homosexual, which means they can be attracted to and fall in love with someone
of the same gender.
• Homosexual men and women are also known as gay men and lesbians.
• People deserve respect regardless of who they are attracted to.
• Making fun of people by calling them gay (e.g. “homo,” “fag,” “queer”) is disrespectful and hurtful.
Obama thinks these things are appropriate to teach a five year old. Shameless once again.
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I am no fan of Obama, but I would like to point out that this is a lot of fuss about something that should just be part of the rhythm of life. Only in the last hundred years or so has most of the population become insulated from the facts of nature. Before that, families lived on farms, and kids knew from the time that they could toddle to the barn where babies came from. Children helped early on with the birthing of lambs, watched in awe as calves and foals were dropped in the field, buried the afterbirth with a shovel. It was as natural as watching leaves fall of the trees in autumn. Why make such a big deal of it?
American Daughter, your example shows families making these decisions, not schools – and the example is not being made in a classroom of students. Obama has said over and over that this Bill would only teach “inappropriate touching” to younger students. That is clearly not true.
Maggie
Sally: Where do babies come from?
Teacher: Go ask your mother, Sally.
Gee, how tough was that to figure out? Is it such a bad thing to teach kids about the stork, or about the “real” way babies are made? Who cares. Leave it up to the parents.
Liberals always bitch about “the man” and government intrusion, but what they can’t see is that the biggest threat is not when the government listens to a phone call or reads a terrorist’s email, but when the government and the government schools simply substitute themselves for the parents.
I have no problem with sex-type education when I am the one telling my child about it. I’m sorry, but this stuff should not be taught in schools unless the subject of reproduction presents itself in a science class. Inappropriate touching, homosexuality etc. should be taught by the parents in a manner of their choosing. When my son is old enough to attend school, if this type of thing is taught, I will demand to look at the lesson plan and sit in on a class before my son sees it.
Sally, excellent points. I don’t want them in my child’s head.
Maggie
AirborneVet: I agree. I’m not even sure if, in the lower grades, a parent sitting in is sufficient. I guess it depends on how often the classes will be conducted. Who knows what they say when you’re not there.
Thanks for the comment.
We have 7 kids. We taught 6 about inappropriate touching at 4 years old. One is three now and we know that at 4 he will be able to understand what a safe touch and a bad touch is as we, the parents, teach it. They also know what appropriate relationships regarding gender and age is, no thanks to the schools and the media.
So parents take heart, because there is a such thing as appropriate teaching!
ABSOLUTLY,POSITIVLY NO SEX EDUCATION AT ALL IN AY SCHOOLS COLLAGES OR UNIVERSITIES ANY WHERE ANY TIME
You state:
“I’m not sure how to teach a child what inappropriate touching is. Maybe…”
If you have young children, take some time to educate yourself, for their sake. It is because of parents as ignorant on this subject as you that our nation’s kids need and deserve age-appropriate sex ed at school.
Frank,what I intended to say is: I don’t know how inappropriate touching can be taught in schools. I gave scenarios demonstrating how ludicrous it is to tell multiple children about a situation they are not able to separate from Mom and Dad and other people, at the age of 5.
Parents understand this. They don’t need the education. They just need everyone else to leave their child alone. I don’t think parents are ignorant on inappropriate touching – maybe on other parts of sex ed, but not this.
Maggie
To the John McCain poster: That was my point. SEICUS went far beyond inappropriate touching, and I put the words in the article.
Obama did not tell the truth about his intentions for the Bill.
Thanks for the info.
Maggie
From Hyscience: This is the exact SEICUS curriculum. While it may be correct, only a parent should be teaching this at kindergarten to 5th grade.
Maggie
I have a sex education book from 1911 that discusses the rampant molestation in a school amongst the students…by older students..the book is called “Herself…Talks with women Concerning themselves” by E.B. Lowry, MD. Probably highly controversial for its time; the good doctor was prohibited by law to discuss any type of contraceptive in the book, but had lots to say about “self-abuse”..his term, not mine. anyway…this had apparentloy gone on for a long time, because the students did not talk about sex with their parents at that time, and some were too afraid..this was 1911!!!!!! Come on..is this what you want a return to?
Lynn, I’m not sure “return to” would be accurate. Molestation is as old as man, but the parents should have the responsibility to prepare their young children.
Today, if older children are abusing the younger, of course, that isn’t right. We have some checks and balances. They usually work…sometimes they fail. We cannot right every wrong, try as we might. There’s no way to know who is right, so I choose the parents.
Maggie