After all the furor over two sixth-graders engaging in sexual activity in an Indianapolis school -- apparently while teacher was being distracted -- it's nice to know that schools in Fort Wayne are taking "precautions to stop sex in schools." But these seem to involve "behavior codes" prohbiting sex in schools, not to mention kissing, hugging and all that other stuff that might lead to sex. But presumably that school in Indy had such a behavior code; in fact, it would be surprising to find a school without such a code. The problem is not the lack of a code.
Love this line:
Many parents hope the classroom is used for learning, not exploring sexuality.
Only many parents? Not all of them?
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Leo...back in "the day", you used to get told NOT to even HOLD HANDS in the hallways....
And I was sent to the office (by the girls vice principal) for giving my girlfriend a peck on the cheek as she went to class...(totally taboo)
Whereupon the school disciplinarian, asked me what I was doing there (he knew me from office work I did for him), and after I told him what happened, he said "Way to go, now get the heck out of here...you've been disciplined..don't let it happen again, OK?"
And THAT man commanded respect...trust me.
B.G.
The very last sentence of the article says it all "The best way to define that(appropriate behavior) is for parents to talk with their children about what is appropriate sexual expression for their age."
Well, duh. common sense can be so allusive, can't it?
Not to mention eliterate.
Oops...my bad...elusive...
sorry
It's 11 o'clock.
Do you know where your children are?
Johnny and his friends are watching sexually explicit movies, courtesy of a "community leader."
It's 11 a.m.
Johnny is in school.
"In my day," a couple of sixth graders engaging in sex in a restroom would be more than rare, they'd be nearly unique in school history, and that public perception would brand them degenerates or deviates or mental defectives, if not all of the above.
For the record, that's how far afield of the norm such an act would have been perceived "in my day." The two students would have been expelled from school, and their families might have moved away to shed the community stigma.