6th grade Students Horrors of Sex Education

Sixth Grade Student talks about the Horrors of SEX ED Listen to this brave student who was not called to testify at the hearing in Olympia Washington February 20! She attends Curtis Junior High. This gutsy middle school girl came up with a great concept: CSE "ELECTIVE!" She is fed up with the sexual harassment from boys at school. It started with mixed class CSE in 6th grade! "In 6th grade our school started the FLASH curriculum. I will never forget the day our MALE teacher taught us what intercourse was, that was mortifying. We had to sit and hear very personal things with boys constantly joking about it. It made me feel violated, like I was just an object. Since the sex ed curriculum started, those kinds of things go on all year long. Sexual comments are common. Boys will even grab girls’ butts at school, including mine. When addressed, they simply move on to someone else. I want it to stop but if you say anything you are made fun of and no one takes you seriously. This is wrong but everyone seems to just accept it and girls suffer in silence. Sexual harassment is being tolerated and actually encouraged by the culture that has been fueled by sex being in every day at school. Girls already have a hard time being respected and having sex discussed every day just makes it hard. I, and many others, prefer to have these sensitive discussions at home with those we trust, not in front of our peers and teachers. And by the way, opting out is not really an option. Anyone who does that gets teased and bullied even more. This really should be an elective class that you CHOOSE to take. Why can’t it be that way? We should have a choice. In my other class we are learning about our first amendment rights. I am supposed to have the right to exercise my religious freedom yet every day I am being forced to go against it in order to pass a class. I am a pastor’s daughter. Where are my rights? Where is my right to have safe boundaries? I don’t want this mandated on me and I certainly can’t imagine making younger kids to through this. Today I ask you to guarantee that ALL kids’ voices are heard. Please vote no and give us a real choice, a choice to keep our honor." Parents rights in education https://vimeo.com/user59385969