Superintendent Jim Morris at the Fremont (California) Unified School District said the faculty unanimously insisted that a new college-level textbook replace the decade-old textbook that didn't include the latest kinky sex training for the school's 14- and 15-year-olds. However, thousands of local parents insisting on their approval also, want the $204,600 book purchase trashed.
The media have provided extensive interviews with only one parent supporting the book, Becky Bruno, who is presented as the parent of a junior high boy, but the fact that she is a teacher in the district is not disclosed.
UPDATE 3/17/15: Pornography Belongs in Classroom, More Experts Say
UPDATE 10/17/14: President Obama Pays Pre-teens to Learn Anal Sex in Hawaii
For background, click headlines below for previous articles:
X-Rated Sex Ed for California 8th Grade; Parents Livid
New Hampshire School Teaches Porn, Complaining Dad Arrested
Parent Reports Obscene School Event with Sex Toys
Secret Sex Training of 6th-Graders in Oregon
Education Experts Say Use Porn in Teaching Sex Ed
Relax Parents, Sexting Simply How Kids Flirt Today
In addition, read how public schools integrate pornography and sex training into the curriculum and also read the myriad examples of kids' sexcapades starting in kindergarten and even pre-school.
UPDATE 11/15/14: Chicago Pre-teen Sex Ed Pornographic, Parents Say
-- From "Fremont Sex-Ed Textbook With Topics On Bondage, Vibrators Along With Explicit Diagrams Has Parents Riled Up" by Chris Filippi, KPIX-TV5 CBS (San Francisco, CA) 8/6/14
The book, titled “Your Health Today” is almost 400 pages long and among the subject includes information on bondage, orgasms, vibrators, along with explicit drawings and diagrams.
The text also describes how to buy and use condoms and addresses masturbation, binge-drinking and shows sex organs in various stages of arousal.
Students are even agreeing that the book may be going over the line.
“I don’t think we really need to know about that at this age,” said Judy Le, a senior at Kennedy High School. “I feel like it’s more of like, adults.”
Fremont is the only school district in California using the book.
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From "Too much sex in sex education book, Fremont parents say" by Doug Oakley, Oakland Tribune 8/8/14
Teri Topham, whose daughter is going into ninth grade in Fremont and who teaches high school at a Fremont charter school, said she would throw the book out.
"I flipped through it and saw sections that mentioned bondage with ropes and handcuffs," Topham said. "Not only does it have material that is too explicit and inappropriate, it doesn't meet their need for their ages. I am astounded the health teachers and school board said, 'yes, this is the best book we could find.'"
"There's a section that tells you how to talk to your prospective partners about your sexual history," said Asfia Ahmed, a parent and school district employee who said she may sue the district if it does not remove the book. "How does that relate to a 14-year-old kid? I don't see it at all."
"But I am a very liberal person, and, in spite of that, I still find the book shocking," Ahmed said.
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From "Sex toy, bondage topics spark backlash against ninth-grade textbook" by Veronica Rocha, Los Angeles Times 8/7/14
[Parents say the book is] "extremely inappropriate" for teens because it addresses sexual fantasies and sex games.
Parents organizing the petition have called for the college-level book to be removed from all Fremont schools and are asking for the formation of a Health Textbook Selection Committee.
A petition signer identified as Thomas Lo wrote: "In a city with diverse ethnicity and religions it is highly advisable to have a committee with broad representation to review the textbooks on sex education before they are allowed to use. This is the only way to avoid dispute later that tarnishes the Board of Education's reputation."
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From "Fremont district shelves sex ed textbook after parent outrage" Kale Williams, San Francisco Chronicle 8/8/14
In a statement released Friday, Superintendent Jim Morris recommended that the Board of Education shelve the implementation of the book, "Your Health Today," until parents' concerns could be further examined.
The district said it had been in contact with the book's publisher, McGraw Hill, and was exploring the possibility of modifying the text to both meet students' needs and address parents' concerns.
"Administration and staff believes the textbook will be an asset to our health curriculum in that it provides the current, accurate, factual and relevant information our students need to make responsible decisions about their health," Morris said in a statement.
In the interim, the district will go back to the textbook it used last year, pending approval from the board.
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UPDATE 11/12/14: "Why Schools Can't Teach Sex Ed in the Internet Age" by Alexandra Sifferlin, TIME Magazine
“I was just astounded,” says Fremont mom Teri Topham. “My daughter is 13. She needs to know how boys feel. I frankly don’t want her debating with other 13-year-olds how well the adult film industry is practicing safe sex.” Another parent, Asfia Ahmed, who has eight and ninth grade boys, adds: “It assumes the audience is already drinking alcohol, already doing drugs, already have multiple sexual partners…Even if they are experimenting at this age, it says atypical sexual behaviors are normal.”
“I think denying that [sex] is part of our culture in 2014 is really not serving our kids well,” says Lara Calvert-York, president of the Fremont school board, who argues that kids are already seeing hyper-sexualized content—on after school TV. “So, let’s have a frank conversation about what these things are if that’s what the kids need to talk about,” she says. “And let’s do it in classroom setting, with highly qualified, credentialed teachers, who know how to have those conversations. Because a lot of parents don’t know how to have that conversation when they’re sitting next to their kids and it comes up in a TV show. Everyone is feeling a little awkward.”
But the Fremont parents aren’t budging. “Any good parent monitors what their child has access to,” says Topham. “We don’t say, ‘they’re going to drink anyway, let’s give them a car with bigger airbags.’” . . .
TIME reviewed the leading research on the subject as well as currently available resources to produce the information that follows, as well as specific guides to how and when to talk to kids on individual topics. . . .
To read this entire very extensive article in TIME Magazine, CLICK HERE.
Also read how Planned Parenthood teams up with schools by providing "kinky sex trainers" for kids. After all, hooking kids on sex is Planned Parenthood's business model.
