As a parent and a teacher who sees all to often the aftermath of not educating students in the middle schools, I applaud the principal of Valley View of being willing to schedule this presentation. There may have been ways to communicate better that could have been used, however, in a world where even a former President goes on TV and states that oral sex is "Not Really" sex and we have headlines screaming at us just this week in the El Paso Times that the rate of teen pregnancy is going back up, perhaps we should consider that no one wants to see their baby grow up, but they are going to anyway. I for one want my son to have all the facts, and there may be many out there that I just don't have. Who better to give this timely presentation than the County Health Dept.? Parents who think that their child is too young at the 7th or 8th grade for this information because they are not sexually active are hiding from reality. This is the age where they start experimenting. That is why we have so many freshman girls having babies. I want my son to go to a school where the administration is brave enough to give him the information he needs to keep himself alive to graduate from High School and College with a bright future in front of him. For those parents who are upset that their bady didn't need to know this, all I can say is "you have my sympathy and good luck". You may end up a grandparent long before you planned for it.
As a parent and a teacher who sees all to often the aftermath of not educating students in the middle schools, I applaud the principal of Valley View of being willing to schedule this presentation. There may have been ways to communicate better that could have been used, however, in a world where even a former President goes on TV and states that oral sex is "Not Really" sex and we have headlines screaming at us just this week in the El Paso Times that the rate of teen pregnancy is going back up, perhaps we should consider that no one wants to see their baby grow up, but they are going to anyway. I for one want my son to have all the facts, and there may be many out there that I just don't have. Who better to give this timely presentation than the County Health Dept.? Parents who think that their child is too young at the 7th or 8th grade for this information because they are not sexually active are hiding from reality. This is the age where they start experimenting. That is why we have so many freshman girls having babies. I want my son to go to a school where the administration is brave enough to give him the information he needs to keep himself alive to graduate from High School and College with a bright future in front of him. For those parents who are upset that their bady didn't need to know this, all I can say is "you have my sympathy and good luck". You may end up a grandparent long before you planned for it.