Quote Originally Posted by DaBudhaStank
What's so terrible is you'd rather have the school teach the least practiced form (and therefore least effective) of birth control, abstinence, but have parents teach about contraceptives, wasting my tax dollars in the process. I see absolutely no logic in that except that you want Christians to dominate our schools with their rhetoric.

Schools are centers for education. In this day in age, with so many parents being forced to take dramatic steps just to keep working, they aren't exactly around as often as they used to be. Therefore, the relationship between child and parent isn't quite what it used to be. I'd send my kids to school to learn everything they can, not simply academics. As a parent, of course it'd be my job to teach my children as well, but it should be supplementary to what they learn in school, not contrary or in spite of.

In this day and age, if you don't go to school as much as you possibly can, you're largely screwed, so I think I'd prefer it if they taught as much as humanly possible. I'm actually surprised that most dont teach about religions in more depth, that's something that REALLY needs to be taught.
Why would I care about christians? I'm agnostic.

The problem is that parents don't talk to kids about this sort of thing. If they did I guarantee you there would be a lot less need for sex ed. Many of the social problems we see today stem from poor parenting. It's not that I Feel it's bad it's that we need to not make it so easy for parents to let other people do their job.

So if we start taking away these services and force the responsibility back onto the parents I'm sure there would be much more benefit aside from being educated about contraceptives and safe sex. Parents don't seem to have time for uncomfortable conversation for their kids. They'd rather let someone else do it. It's not just sex ed, there are many other services I'd like to see put back into the hands of the parents just for the sake that they should be instilling values into their children. Being forced to teach your child about these things would help enforce those values.