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 Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2008 1:20 pm
caffinated_tulip Lol, i nearly got myself suspended during that discussion in my highschool. My school was very big on the "...but abstinence is the only really effective birthcontrol" method of teaching. Where they'd give us good information about condoms and the growth of a fetus with out mentioning the a word at all and i almost kept my mouth shut... until the last class of the sex ed unit where our teacher spend the entire class period talking about teen pregnancy and abortion and how adoption is way better and healthier and abortion is selfish... I flipped. I called her out and said that a public school class room was no place to voice her biggoted pro-life ideals and that she shouldnt even be teaching... I said some other rather inflamatory things to (which is why i got in trouble, it was like 6 years ago) I then went into why abortion needed to be legal and talked loudly over the christian girls in the class that started talking about jesus.... the teacher stopped listening to me, picked up the phone, talked into it, while i was still going, then when i stopped she told me to go see the vice principal, he was expecting me. then what happened? You had every right to flip out on her, in my opinion. I would have too.
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Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2008 5:06 pm
Report That TeacherAs a teacher, she is supposed to be unbiased and fair. She is not allowed to bring her personal moral beliefs into it, and has absolutely no business teaching health/science classes if she can't keep them to herself. If you're sick and tired of teachers condemning abortion and bringing in biased or inaccurate information, call them on it.MipsyKitten Judging people on their choices has no place in the classroom, especially when you have no idea who's in the class, who's family has been through what, and who's been through those situations. Saying a woman is wrong, or condemning abortion in a public classroom is the same as condemning homosexuality, or a religion. She had no right to do that, so her a** should have been suspended. Quoted for truth.
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Posted: Sat Apr 12, 2008 12:37 pm
Teachers should always be objective when presenting materials, I mean a teacher should want a child to make their own decisions about current issues and such.
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Posted: Sun Apr 13, 2008 3:16 am
Its so odd to me how horrible it seems sexual education standards have gotten. I have seen this kind of thing discussed a lot in the ED and on other boards I frequent and it seems like there is quite a sad state in the US and England as far as sex ed. goes.
I graduated in 2002 in the US and seemed to have gotten really lucky, as my sexual education classes seemed to be much more accurate and unbiased as most stories I hear. Our classes were taught mostly by our school cousenlor and registered school nurse. If anything, they were actually a little slanted towards the Pro-Choice side, honestly. They explained abortion as an option. I could see where lifers would have called them biased towards that side of the debate.
Fortunately, they were also really supportive and informative of Homosexuality. That section was given to us by the school counselor and acceptance was heavily encouraged. Again, I can see where the right would consider that bias.
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Posted: Sun Apr 20, 2008 4:58 am
I'm lucky. In my school Sex Ed. is both taught from a young age and (usually) un-biased.
Teacher's should not be allowed to voice opinion like that. They have too much influence.
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Posted: Sun Apr 20, 2008 1:46 pm
We had the teacher and pamphlet that said anyone who had premarital sex would get an STD and that it went away when married. It was in fifth grade which was 10 years ago for me. We also had the teacher in 8th grade who was afraid of any kind of relationship discussion especially male-female. (I got a detention for drawing two characters kissing). Also we couldn't put two characters together in the same image if they were of the opposite sex. Never was abortion ever talked about, only during this one time that the schooled called "chapel" I think which was a little thing the christian school did for a half hour a day. We had a pro-life group come speak... I hardly listened despite being pro-life personal. Now that I think about it, I would have ripped down the pro-life ad they had on the buliten board which was a drawn picture of a fully developed baby (I'm not calling it a fetus because the image was very obvious that it was fully developed and to term). being pulled out going "I see the light, Mom I'm alive" and then the showing the doctor snapping the neck. I should have written across it "Not relevent, third trimester is illegal unless for life threatening reasons".
Schools do get extra money for using the abstinence-only method teaching and tons of schools need that money anyways due to lack of funding from students who drop out or have failing grades (you get less money usually if that happens).
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