Sex Ed for Kindergarteners?!?

A six year-old raises her hand in class one day and asks, "Mrs. Smith, where do babies come from?" The teacher looks at the young girl for a moment and then proceeds to tell her about how the reproductive system works in the human body. She explains to her how sex, from a biological standpoint, works.
This story is a fabrication. But a certain presidential candidate, Sen. Barack Obama, is willing to let this happen. He is willing to forego the rights of the parent to educate thier children about sex at whatever age they deem appropriate. The Obama campaign states that Sen. Obama "does not support teaching explicit sex education to children in kindergarten. . . The legislation in question was a state Senate measure last year that aimed to update Illinois' sex education standards with 'medically accurate' information . . . '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 a stork is probably not an unhealthy thing. Although again, that's going to be determined on a case by case basis by local communities and local school boards. (Daily Herald, 10/6/04)'"
Children of this age do not have the cognitive capacity to process this type of information. In addition, they have not yet mastered 'discretion' when it comes to telling thier peers about they have learned and separating truth from fiction. They will, in this blogger's opinion, take away some fact from the teacher and some untruth that they inevitably will get from other peers/TV/radio/print media and jumble it together until they create thier own pseudo-truth. There are sexual education programs put in place around the country already stating scientific fact educating at around grade six. This is ok, this is what is needed! When we as a country start showing children how sex is performed then we will end up with more curiousity. The more curious the person, the more apt they will be to try out what this new information teaches.
That said, I believe it is up to the parents whether or not thier childen should learn about sex and at what age. I took a sexual education course as part of the curriculum in the seventh grade, and the parents had a right to include thier child in the course (some of which chose not to include thier children). I found the information adequate and also found that I was told at the right age. I could process this information more adequately given my knowledge at the time and my experiences. Six years old is much too young and inexperienced to be able to handle what would be taught to them, but as I stated before it should be left up to the parents. Parents should have the right to educate thier children how and when they deem it necessary. You still have rights! Read the full story from ABCNEWS at http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2007/07/sex-ed-for-kind.html
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