Stan Brown’s response to my  comments about sexual educational, I believe, went a long way to prove my point:  Education is a key factor to lowered unwed pregnancy rates, along with a much lower percentage of single parent households, and a much lower level of poverty.  Which all ties into the fact that there is a strong correlation of a two parent household and attaining an education.  So when the “experts” start experimenting with their “social engineering” by usurping the need for a father at home, we get teenagers more willing to engage in risky behavior because the consequences for the risky behavior are minimized.  Quite simply, institutionalized dependency has lured the economically disadvantaged, who are typically under educated, into a false sense of security, relying upon the system to take care of their mistakes.

So now we must consider why the socially engineered educational system has failed to educate our youth.  There are a plethora or reasons, however, but staying with   sexual education, the schools have stepped over a line of their primary responsibility to educate on the fundamentals, and assumed too many roles that distract them from – yes – educating.  Simply, Health class should simply be a forum for learning safe and destructive behaviors, “wash your hands after going to thee restroom”, not where to buy the soap and from whom.  We do not teach our kids “don not play with fire, but if you do- here is the safe way”.  “Speed kills, but if you do it, here is the safe way”.  Seriously, where does the social pandering stop?  When do families start to take responsibility for themselves?  It is ironic that with the increase in the teaching of abstinence ( 15% in 1988 to 35% of all schools having sexual education in 1999) led to a decrease of 44% in teen birth rates in California (National Campaign to prevent Teen Pregnancy).   Mr. Brown and I agree, education is the key, but whose curriculum may be the real issue.  This is not a red state blue state issue -  I believe it to be Black and White- There are the right ways of doing things and the wrong ways.  Making them gray, blurring the lines or right and wrong,  only defer the inevitable swinging of the pendulum.

W. Daniel Tate

Victorville

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