Should Sex Education Be Left To Parents?

How would you feel about your 5-year-old learning about masturbation? Sex education used to consist of teaching anatomy and abstinence, unfortunately in recent years this has drastically changed. Not only has sex education changed, but also multiple school districts are arguing that they are under no obligation to inform parents about the adoption of new curriculum. Besides this, parents are not being given the option to opt their children out of these lessons. While schools are our educational institutions, sex education should now be left to the parents because this type of education is now interfering with a child’s academic education, imposing social beliefs, and frankly children are not capable of fully understanding. So what is this new curriculum? Political activists have presented several curriculums under the umbrella of Teaching Tolerance. This new curriculum consists of several aspects. First on the agenda is to teach sexual terminology starting in Kindergarten. Words such as homosexual, bisexual, transgender, and heterosexism will be part of their vocabulary education. Heterosexism is …show more content…
Children are curious little humans and will do anything to satisfy their curiosity. They can easily take an assigned vocabulary word; enter it into Google, and bam, pornography. A child cannot truly understand the ramifications of exposing themselves to pornography. Sexual overexposure can lead to early sexual experimentation with themselves and others. Opening doors that God never intended to be opened before marriage. This type of sex education is teaching that this experimentation is normal and should be embraced. If this curriculum is taught in schools there will be more children experimenting than not. Peer pressure is real and a very dangerous thing for