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HOW COULD SUCH A LARGE GROUP OF PEOPLE BE SO STUPID?I understand singular stupidity. One person doing something idiotic. Maybe even three or four.
But please explain to me how an entire classroom of students somehow thought it was ok to follow their teacher's assignment and share one stick of gum between everyone. So they could learn about the "dangers of sexual promiscuity." Now. Ok. Breathe. Before you slam your head on your desk, think about this: This has happened more than once. %#$%$%^%$ ADSF;KLJLSDFKJL980U0234KLJ;AFJK' 0945DFGJ;KLFDAS,MN 902845JF That's my fist. On my keyboard. I found that editorial (which I'll dissect in a second) through Think Progress. I laughed for a millisecond before I felt a bit of bile in my throat. It's not a joke. This actually happened. So I clicked on the hyperlink, which brought me to the Washington Post editorial. I want to first make it apparent that I do agree with Marc Fisher's stance: Why the hell was such a nutjob organization given the task of teaching students about the complexity of sexual relations, especially since their mission statement is so massively simplistic? (That statement: "Pregnancy is not the root problem, but a symptom of a lifestyle that is outside of God's will." Hmm. Are you surprised it's run by Christians?) And guess how many people were exposed to this? ...the county repeatedly approved the Pregnancy Center's abstinence program, which was presented to more than 6,500 Montgomery eighth- and 10th-graders last year. She produces a stack of evaluations of the program by teachers and students, many of whom singled out the gum game for praise as a dramatic way to get across the role peer pressure plays in making bad decisions. Even more baffling than this disgusting game are the other games they'd play. Like Pass the STD. Or "Exlax Game." Exlax Game. Shall I elaborate? (I shall.) In this game, students were handed squares of Hershey's chocolate, but before they popped the candy, they were told that a few kids had instead received Ex-Lax laxatives. Still want to eat it? Few did, and, in fact, Tierney assures me that although this exercise "really freaks them out," it is only a mind game designed to drive home the idea of random risk -- no laxatives were distributed to students. WHAT THE HELL. You know some teachers got a kick out of slipping in a real piece of ExLax. So why does this matter? Because when you leave this kind of education to a private organization with it's own agenda, this is what happens: Those outsiders have a hidden agenda of their own. Tierney assures me there is no religious content to the school lessons. But her abstinence instructor says she makes a point of offering each class free pregnancy tests at the center. There, Tierney shows me how each woman who comes in for a test gets the full-court antiabortion press: a showcase of cute little plastic fetuses, a walk through a treasure chest of baby clothes, a video on the ravages of abortion and a sonogram "so they can hear the beating heart and see that this is a real, live baby," Tierney says. "If a woman is totally panic-stricken and confused, if she wants to know that God loves her and has a plan for her, we're here for her," she says. "If she doesn't want to hear it, fine. There's no condemnation." Tierney suspects the school system was "looking for a way to get rid of us" because of the center's religious, antiabortion perspective. Edwards says religion played no role in the approval or expulsion of the center. Tierney is searching for a way back into the system's good graces: "If we're not there, who is going to give them the abstinence message?" How about the professionals we pay to do the job -- the teachers? I'd rather have the Queen of fucking England talk to me about sexual education than you.
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number one..EDUCATION DOES NOTHING BUT HELP PEOPLE. KNOWLEDGE IS POWER.
number two..LET HE WHO IS WITHOUT SIN CAST THE FIRST STONE. someone who is condemning young adults [or teenagers.. whatever] for their own personal choices needs to make sure they're perfect before they pull this fucking evangelical christian damn-you-to-hell BS. and they're not perfect.
number three..WTF AT THE EXLAX GAME. WHAT. THE. FUCK. i just cannot fathom these sick, self righteous people who think it's funny to mess with other people's children. please alert the parents. ugh.
and i am a christian, southern baptist, jesus loving, god-fearing, pro-choice, pro-gay marriage, pro-just about everything liberal democrat. i swear it. so nobody pull the "you hate jesus" card on me. thankyou.
this is me being afraid for not only myself and others, but for future generations. too many people have lost their goddamn mind.
That kind of pissed my off but I understand where you are coming from. I can't believe that some people are that stupid. Someone must have thought "Hey, ever think that this isn't the safest thing to do?" and they should have said something.
"Pregnancy is not the root problem, but a symptom of a lifestyle that is outside of God's will." They should realize that not everyone is going to follow in God's name like I have chosen. They have to make that choice on their own and not be forced to. That just causes people to rebel. No school system has the right to force anything on anyone and even if they were following in God's name, no one can be the perfect Christian or something.
So I guess that was my Christianity rant. Some people are just naturally stupid anyway if they really didn't feel comfortable doing what the teacher instructed then they should have had the nerve to say something. What ever happened to speaking or mind and standing up for yourself?
It reminds me of an episode of Boston Legal, where a teenager contracted the AIDS virus and the family sued the school [a Christian school, mind you] because they merely taught abstinence-only, and didn't teach about the different STDs, let alone the use of contraceptives. I wonder if I can find the ending statement on YouTube, seeing as it was extremely insightful and I agree 100%, they need to teach every aspect of it, and then let people go from there. People need to realize that regardless of what they teach, they can't control what people do in their private lives -- They should keep that in mind when creating their lesson plans and teach them to live the safest way they possibly can, and explain to them what could possibly happen.
As for sharing the gum.... Herpes Simplex 1, anybody? *Bangs head to desk* I wonder how many of those kids have genetic cold sores and could have spread that onto the rest of the class [considering you can contract it whether or not you have a sore, which anyone who's taught that would know]. Yes, not genital herpes, but that doesn't make it anymore attractive when you have an open sore on your face.
UGH! This is what makes me hate private religious schools, I don't think that they remotely get the proper education on life skills and learning how to safely live your life.... They learn the way the Bible was interpreted [seeing as it was written hundreds of years after Jesus died, plus they picked and chose what to put into the Bible, and the Bible we have now is LOOSELY translated, as they don't have anyone who speaks in the proper tongue to translate the original documentations.... And it's been altered and changed over the years, face it, it's fact]. Let's remember that "the Bible" merely means "the Book." Anything anyone gets out of it is simple interpretation.
Plus, if God didn't want us to learn from our mistakes and follow everything the Bible says, why do we have free will? If he made us, he could have taken it away, and he still could, but we still have it and as far as I know [Agnostic] we always will. Might as well teach us how to live our lives the safest we can and teach us the possibility of the consequences if we don't follow abstinence.
And not share gum. SERIOUSLY. Who's parents DIDN'T teach them not to do shit like that when they were three!?