I work in a school. We see and deal with these issues on the daily, so I think I know exactly what real involvement constitutes thanks.
Real involvement does NOT mean simply saying "don't do it" and expecting kids to comply. Real involvement starts in the home, with loving and involved parents teaching their children the ways they should go.
Since that all too often doesn't happen, in schools, it mainly starts with teaching children the basic things they don't learn at home because they're in a one parent household (like the majority of black children- 63%) and no one has the time to teach them. Schools are being put in the position to raise the next generation of children, since their parents have completely bowed out of the process.
When it comes to sex it means that schools teach teens what they need to know as adults- which is not that sex is bad never do it, but that sex is a part of life (something that any of them with a TV that receives BET's programming already fully know) and that if you make adult decisions too early you deal with adult consequences, like pregnancy and AIDS. And that if you can't or won't abstain, then condoms are the only way to protect yourself and the people that you love.
I don't think that the message should be "be safe" first and foremost. The message should be "abstinence is the only assurance, BUT if you will not abstain then BE SAFE".
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Originally posted by DoggyStyle82
Whether parents are involved or not, is it the schools responsibilty to condone and promote sexual behavior among children. Kids smoke weed so should schools dispense top paper?
We are only creating a larger, more ingrained moral vacuum for society that is getting more irreversible everyday. It amazes me that we can push for condoms in school but as soon as someone invokes the name of God or any kind of morality on public property, people lose their minds, but yet we promote sexual behavior in minor children in the guise of "safe sex".
You cannot placate or coddle self-destructive behavior. It must be dealt with and stopped. Or does that take too much real involvement.
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