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Sex education is something that should be taught at home, not in a public school system. If you want to teach human anatomy, teach it in biology class, but don't call it sex education. If you want to teach about disease, teach it in biology. If you want to teach relationships of people one to another, teach it in sociology or psychology, but don't call it sex education.

Children learn to interact with one another relationally from birth. They continue to learn right from wrong and morality as they are taught by their parents, their clergy, and their peers. We don't need to teach children how to behave or misbehave sexually from any age in a public school system.

If you want your child to know the birds and the bees, teach them at home, where you have control of the environment that they are learning in. There are several materials on the market that provide the information that you need. Some will even educate you, as a parent, on what age(s) it's appropriate to teach different levels of sex education at.

Teaching children sex education at home also provides a safety valve for parents and children. Not every parent wants their child to know about varying sexual orientations and other people's moral (or immoral) views on relating to one another. Teaching sex education at home prevents these particular ideals from being presented to our children, as it also protects our children from being exposed to it. Not only that, but think about how uncomfortable a child might be in a classroom full of other kids, fearing that he/she might be exposed by someone when any sour topic comes up, whether it be disease, pregnancy, or sexual orientation...

There is a time and a place for sexuality, and it should not be in a public arena. It should be at home, behind closed doors. Teach the kids at home what they were created to be, boy or girl. Teach them at home the moral issues of sexuality. Let the parents become responsible for their children's knowledge of the birds and the bees. Let the parents take responsibility for the teen pregnancy or the sexually transmitted disease or for teaching the difference between straight, bi-, trans-, or homosexual. Let the parents pat their kid on the back for deciding to maintain their virginity until marriage to a partner of the opposite sex. It's an intimate matter. Let it remain intimate. Don't teach it in school.

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