Sex - Can the Classroom overcome off campus Influences?

I am all for education. I am sure we have all heard the different myths that different cultures have about how girls get pregnant, home spun beliefs that certain positions and actions will prevent pregnancy and the same mis-guided beliefs to keep from getting STD's. Educated people recognize these false premises and think that proper education of these uneducated groups of people will have a significant effect on their sexual behavior.

I am all for education. But, from my understanding of history and when I continue to hear about current human sexual behavior that continues to occur even with strong outside influence to curb it, I must ask why.


I read this today: China Communists sacked for having too many children: state media

See article below.

While this article does not directly speak to the level of education of the people effected, one would think that in a group that contained "seven national and local lawmakers or political advisors" and "More party members, celebrities and well-off people", there would be a cursory level of sex knowledge.


But it does speak to a 30 year plus, "harsh punishments and brutal methods to enforce it", policy that for some reason "has been routinely ignored in recent years in rural areas, while increasing numbers of China's urban new rich have been able to afford the requisite fines for violating the rules."

When one looks at sexual behavior of groups of people, cultural, social and economic factors may have more influence than sex education.

Are we to believe that if these people that violated the government policy had more sex education, they would not have had more than one child?

Is one to believe that these parents were not educated in the policy? And, since education didn't work, harsher consequences and polices will follow.

Understanding true influences on sexual behavior may be a key on how to effectively address changing it.



Article in full:
"Authorities in a central China province have expelled hundreds of people from the Communist Party or their government posts for having more than one child, state media said Monday.
At least 93,084 people in Hubei province last year had more children than they were allowed under the policy of one per family, Xinhua news agency said quoting the provincial family planning commission.

They included 1,678 officials or party members, it added, saying about 500 had been expelled from the party and 395 stripped of their official posts.

Previous reports said the officials had also been fined.

The violators included seven national and local lawmakers or political advisors, Xinhua added.

"More party members, celebrities and well-off people are violating the policies... which has undermined social equality," commission director Yang Youwang was quoted as saying.

No information was given as to the punishments meted out to the more than 90,000 other people in Hubei who violated the "one-child" policy last year.

China's family planning policy began in the late 1970s as a way to control the world's largest population, now at 1.3 billion people.

Generally, urban families can have one child and rural families can have two if the first is a girl. About 400 million births have been averted thanks to the policy, the government has said.

But in recent years the policy has been routinely ignored in rural areas, while increasing numbers of China's urban new rich have been able to afford the requisite fines for violating the rules.

Chinese parents have traditionally favoured large families -- and sons, in particular -- to support them in their old age.

The policy has been notorious from the start for the harsh punishments and brutal methods used to enforce it, such as forced late-term abortions and the sterilisation of women.

Several areas of the poor southern province of Guangxi erupted in riots last year after officials launched a harsh crackdown to enforce the policy, with residents saying forced abortions were among the methods used by authorities.

This Dot may be Huge if it is truly connected

While reading a story that appeared to be about the misstep of a Band Director, Texting Puts Teacher In Bind , I also read the comments.

If one reads this and follows the connections, it says a lot. First there is an allegation about a band director's ex-wife had an affair with the husband of a school board member who was having an affair with an administrator.

A more direct comment about the story is that apparently the "complaining parent" against the Band Director is also a "teacher". And the teacher/parent wants something.

This is just too much if it is true. Education just has to take a back seat to this story. And to think that decisions are made in the best interest of our children and our teachers.

This one stands out like a Dot of a solar ray:

Posted by ( cshultz110 ) on November 22, 2007 at 1:06 p.m. ( Suggest removal )

luvpercussion

You are completely correct! God forbid the truth come out. It is all politics, just ask Jenifer Felairo and Mark Hart (Opps, I forgot that affair was covered up . . . I am sooo sorry!) he, he Amazing how he just "left".

Folks, I have been in this district for 11 years and know for a fact that it IS a good ole' boys system. Lots of corruption and politics. To give you an idea (and yes, this is first hand knowledge), I was a band director and took a leave of absence last year after my now ex-wife had an affair with a promonent school board members now ex-husband. (Yes, they were both cheating on each other. See previously mentioned) After getting my act back together and returning from my leave, I was shocked to find that no principal would hire me. Not because of my performance, but because nobody wanted to touch the situation since it delt directly with a school board member and the politics it would involve. That is our school board folks!!! I can't wait for Mr. S to be obsolved of this accusations. Shame on the parent who is a teacher trying to play the system to get what they want. That should be the real headline: "How a teacher uses politics to ruin anothers career and how the school board helps them to do it."

We are Playing Those Mind Games Together

Hillsborough: Suspension without rules


I have written before about obfuscation.

I have a question. The administration (some)say that these suspensions are not a punishment.

How does a student process this information? From an educational point of view? From a behavior modification point of view?

In this case, we are talking a student with a processing difficulty.

Does anyone know what concrete thinking is?

Does anyone know what abstract thinking is?

Does anyone know how to ascertain when these different cognitive skills are needed to process information?

I keep hearing echos in my mind "But I didn't do anything wrong". (inside voice - I didn't get punished, so must not have done anything wrong.)

But other kids, when they get suspended, they are being punished. Why am I different? They are just playing mind games with me.

Training kids that suspension is not a consequence for "their" behavior, but the suspension is for the "parents" behavior is somewhat confusing.

Do they have different colored suspension forms so one can tell if it is the student behavior that gets the student suspended or the parents behavior that gets the student suspended?

Must be hell to have a parent that won't contact the school. In more ways than one.

Abuse of Power under the premise of sexual pleasure -wink wink

"Students in America’s schools are groped. They’re raped. They’re pursued, seduced, and think they’re in love."


And they think they're in love.


This is an example of abuse of power. It is more than about sex.

But we won't pay attention to this. We will promote our A Rated Schools, our 5 Star Schools and brag about our National Recognition.

From my experiences, I understand full well the difference between "paper" compliance and real compliance.

The proof is in what really goes on in the schools, not just the classrooms.

As the system complains more and more about "bad parents", what is being done to address this real phenomenon?

As the system does not address the unlawful actions of teachers, what is being done to address this real phenomenon?

A Cool Smoke after Hot Sex

There is an update about the King Middle School in Maine.

http://pressherald.mainetoday.com/story.php?id=142408&ac=PHnws

Having read a lot of the comments, there seems to be other issues with the Board.

Of interest to note is that the "health clinic" is "housed "in the school. One comment seemed to indicate that the actions of the health clinic were separate from the school. If so, then why is the School Board making a decision about how the health clinic will operate.

Frequently, so I have heard, some people like to smoke a cigarette after the physical exertion of passionate love making.

When I was a kid, well a "mature high school'er", I always heard that girls that smoked put out.

Both sex and smoking are illegal at some age. I think 11, 12 and 13 year olds are still illegal, but I am not sure about that.

Why doesn't the School Board provide "the nicotine patch" to those youngsters who ask for it along with the "the pill". Seems logical to me. Don't want the kids to get lung cancer. Those kids are going to smoke anyway. They won't tell their parents. Hit the "Mighty Mouse" cue: "Here he comes to save the day!!!".

The school board could easily put nicotine patches in the non-disclosed health services they provide. The unknowing parent, who trusts the school's authority, will never know.

I was under the impression that if a parent is found negligent to the point that the welfare of the child was endangered, the State had a legal process to deal with this negligence.

But if a parent is negligent when it comes to the child's sexual behavior, the State somehow decides to "take care of the welfare of the child" without notifying the parent. And the School Board holds up their hands since it is out of their control.
After they exerted their control to start the process.

Am I misssing something?

Sex in the classroom

There was a recent article in the Tampa Tribune about two parents that were pursuing legal action against the School Board over a teacher's behavior with their daughters. A wrinkle in the story was the teacher died a while back, and apparently the school board closed the case. So what is the function of the parents' suit? Some say money, some say because it's "what did the District know and when did they know it" and the resulting actions or inaction. Time will tell.

Interesting to note, within the last few days, an Associated Press report came out.
I have seen it online in many many newspapers. Again, interesting to note, I have not seen it in the St. Pete Times or the Tampa Tribune.

This is one site randomly picked:

Special AP Report: Sexual misconduct plagues U.S. schools
Martha Irvine and Robert Tanner - Associated Press National Writers
OneNewsNow.com October 20, 2007

http://www.onenewsnow.com/2007/10/special_ap_report_sexual_misco.php

"Beyond the horror of individual crimes, the larger shame is that the institutions that govern education have only sporadically addressed a problem that's been apparent for years."

If the statistics are true and the reported actions of the education system are true, then society should act. It is an abuse of power towards the kids.

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In April 2005, there was this:

"According to a draft report commissioned by the U.S. Department of Education, in compliance with the 2002 "No Child Left Behind" act signed into law by President Bush, between 6 percent and 10 percent of public school children across the country have been sexually abused or harassed by school employees and teachers.

Charol Shakeshaft, the Hofstra University scholar who prepared the report, said the number of abuse cases—which range from unwanted sexual comments to rape—could be much higher.

"So we think the Catholic Church has a problem?" she told industry newspaper Education Week in a March 10 interview.

To support her contention, Shakeshaft compared the priest abuse data with data collected in a national survey for the American Association of University Women Educational Foundation in 2000. Extrapolating data from the latter, she estimated roughly 290,000 students experienced some sort of physical sexual abuse by a school employee from a single decade—1991-2000. That compares with about five decades of cases of abusive priests.

Such figures led her to contend "the physical sexual abuse of students in schools is likely more than 100 times the abuse by priests."

http://archive.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2004/4/5/01552.shtml

Again, if these figures are true, then society should act. It is an abuse of power towards the kids.

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Recently a middle school in Maine authorized a policy that will provide birth control pills to the girls if they ask for them. The parents have to have signed some type of consent form previously, but the fact remains that when it comes to Birth Control, by law the school cannot tell the parents. The schools includes girls 11 to 13, plus older girls who were retained.

If this information is wrong, please correct it. I am not here to spin or twist information to further my beliefs. I am fully aware of how corrupt the media can be.

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My first question is how did a governmental education system ever been given the authority to address sexual behavior?

My next question is how does the School Board's responsibility to teach "Health Education" and the School Board's responsibility for sexual behavior fall under the same category.

Do Political Science classes take students to the poll to vote? Can't wait for this answer: "no, because they are too young to vote".

Do Science classes take students out to hunt cats or frogs?


Is there any other curriculum that conveys this much responsibility to a School Board?

I don't see School Boards providing cars or purchasing auto insurance for students in Drivers Ed.

Yet, it seems to be the "Group Think" thing to do for School Boards to take on the responsibility of student's sexual behavior.

Take each stated reason a School Board should have the power to monitor a student's sexual behavior and ask one question - "why isn't this the parent's responsibility"?

If parent's are irresponsible with their children, it certainly is a societal problem, but why are school's the next in line for being responsible?

My guess is it has something to do with power and money. What else could it be?