Kansas: parents must sign sex-ed sonsent form for students

buttmunch · March 16th, 2006, 02:25 PM

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(AP) School districts in Kansas must get parents' written permission before teaching their children sex education, the state Board of Education decided Wednesday.

The board adopted the policy in a 6-4 vote. Up to now, most Kansas districts had an "opt-out" policy, they enrolled children in sex ed unless a parent objected in writing.

Only a few other states have such "opt-in" requirements on sex education, according to the Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States, a group that promotes sex education. Among them: Arizona, Nevada and Utah.

Board members who voted for the new policy said some parents told them they did not know their children were taking sex education until the classes had started.

"It's about empowering parents. That's the bottom line," said board chairman Steve Abrams.

Critics of the measure said that the children whose parents who won't see a permission form or won't turn it in are the ones most likely to need the courses. Some also said that the rule may violate the Kansas Constitution, which gives local school boards broad authority.

One board member wants the new policy to go further and require abstinence-only courses. "We need to send the correct message," Kathy Martin said.

Under her proposal, a school could lose its state accreditation if it did not offer nine weeks of instruction on "abstinence until marriage" at least once in grades 6-9.

The board said it would discuss Martin's proposal at a later meeting.

Wednesday's vote came less than three weeks after the state Senate approved a bill requiring all school districts to continue requiring sex education classes and prohibit them from going to abstinence-only courses. The bill is now before a House committee.

The board had similar regulations in place for nearly two decades, but they expired.

In November, after a debate that attracted worldwide attention, the board adopted standards that treat evolution as a flawed theory.

How much you want to bet that Ms. Martin was such a slut in high school that she did the entire football team on the fifty-yard line? Dumb cow. Sex-education is more likely to stop kids from having sex because, duh, knowledge is power. That must be what scares them: knowing that incest is wrong and can lead to fucked up babies.

Grimmlok · March 16th, 2006, 02:34 PM

We need to send the correct message? Which message is that, that sex is evil and dirty and should only be engaged in according to 1 person's retarded biblical views?

I FUCKING HATE CHRISTOFASCISTS!! GRRRRRR!!!!!! *shoots them all*

alcohol the honey · March 16th, 2006, 08:57 PM

It's a good thing that I dropped religion a long time ago.

buttmunch · March 17th, 2006, 04:14 AM

Spot on, Mr. Grimm. What is up with this idea that having sex is somehow wrong? Certainly tell the kids that you should pick and choose carefully, that birht control and protection are a definite, don't let yourself be used, etc etc etc. This is the sort of stuff that leads to some girl not only getting knocked up but being labeled the town slut because she slept with her boyfriend whom she 'loves'. Dumb, dumb people.