Sex education gone wild

I read this story and once again received confirmation that sending my daughter to a good, christian school was the right choice to make, expenses be damned!

Now, granted, this is 8th grade, and my daughter's school currently only goes through the 6th grade, but we will likely be transferring her to a christian private school until high school.

If you are not disturbed by this story and interview, please do me a favor and stay away from me and my family. If you are disturbed by the story, but wonder why we are at this point in the world, then allow me to give you my thoughts.

To me, it is real simple. Since the decline of our education system, which I think started in the early 80's, what has changed? We have taken God out of the classroom. We have taken parental choice out of the classroom and have replaced the choice with teacher discretion and teacher union backing. We have taken wrong vs. right answers out of the classroom. We have adopted a PC approach to teaching, where there are no wrong answers and no accountability. Letter grades and red pens are being replaced with smiley faces and partial credit for "thoughtful" answers. Children are no longer seen as innocent and must be inundated with a never-ending barrage of images and material pertaining to sex, drugs, inappropriate behavior, and anti-American view points. All in the name of a "better education". These things are more important than teaching kids how to read, write, perform math, and understand science. Unless of course, it is to teach evolution only.

And what has happened? Test scores are down. Kids graduate from high school without the ability to read. School violence rates increase and we have kids performing mass murder on school grounds. And the parents of these children often point the finger elsewhere, file lawsuits because the system exposes their kids as not being ready to enter the world, and other such challenges arise. Or even worse, change the way the test is written to get scores higher.

Does that make sense? A child cannot pass a test they should have been able to pass between the 8th and 10th grades, so instead of forcing that kid to study and learn, they want to make it easier? What message does that give our children? If you are dumb enough, you will get by? Is this education really better? How about you teach our kids how to read and write and develop skills necessary to compete in the real world and let the parent's give you input on this process, while they also teach their children about the horrors of the real world.