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Sex Education is Mandatory for Children as Young as 11 in New York City

Sex Education is Mandatory for Children as Young as 11 in New York City

Sex education will become a mandatory part of learning for New York City middle and high school students for the first time in almost 20 years. One of the lessons: how to put on a condom.

That’s according to a report from the New York Times, which says the teaching will also advise students on the appropriate age for sexual activity.

The mandate calls for schools to instruct a sex education class in either 6th or 7th grade, and then again in 9th or 10th grade. Students are required to take one semester of the classes. This teaching, of course, brings up the long-time  national debate about what, if anything, school should teach their students about sex.

“We must be committed to ensuring that both middle school and high school students are exposed to this valuable information so they can learn to keep themselves safe before, and when, they decide to have sex,” NYC Schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott wrote in a letter to principals and obtained by Fox News Radio.

This new requirement comes as a part of the Bloomberg administration’s efforts to improve the lives of young minorities in the city, according to the New York Times. The outreach is especially focused on young men.

“We have a responsibility to provide a variety of options to support our students, and sex education is one of them,” the chancellor, Dennis M. Walcott, said in an interview with the New York Times on Monday.

Officials say the intent of the lessons is to get young adults to wait longer before experimenting with sex, but didn’t shy away from admitting there would be indiscreet discussion about graphic topics such as anatomy, pregnancy and puberty with children as young as 11. Parents do have the option to remove their children from certain talks about birth-control methods. Also, local principals will be able to tweak the cirriculum to a certain extent, keeping their specific students and families in mind.

That said, school administrators say they are expecting some backlash from the community.

“We’re going to have to be the bridge between the chancellor’s requirements and the community,” said Casimiro Cibelli, the principal of a Bronx middle school, where many of the students come from immigrant, religious families with traditional views on sex. “Hopefully, we’ll allay their concerns because of their trust in us.”

Ray Parascando, pastor of Crossroads Church, called the news “disheartening.”

“Children are being forced to learn about this away from home,” he told Fox News Radio. “There’s nothing wrong with learning about the human body, but when you start going into discourses on sexuality, I worry that we’re opening students up to other agendas.”

While some have taken up arms, New York officials say sex education classes have been a point of contention before. They also point out that high schools in New York have been distributing condoms for more than 20 years.

The mandatory classes will begin in this coming school year for students in New York City.

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  • Gypsy123
    Posted on August 11, 2011 at 10:55am

    That is why I choose not to live in NYC to much control over your lives.

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  • mrsmileyface
    Posted on August 11, 2011 at 10:55am

    Its sad to see that there is no longer a moral compass when it comes to pre-teen and even teenage sex. In the past it was shunned and both parent and child would be embarrassed of the situation. Nowadays theres no shame and to some a badge of pride. This is how liberals destroy society and mold it into the perverted vision that they have for the world. Thanks but no thanks.

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    • encinom
      Posted on August 11, 2011 at 11:04am

      Back in the da teens would die from back alley abortions. Lets return to the good old days, where we told them nothing and buried our heads in the bible to keep reality out.

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    • mils
      Posted on August 11, 2011 at 12:22pm

      i think the sex at such an early age is a break down of our society..morals and ethics seem to be out the window. Perhaps more prevalent in the NE, CA etc..but it is spreading.
      When our moral fiber brakes down, we are doomed.
      The parents of these children need to be counseled in what they are doing that leads to this type behavior…if they even care.

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  • NuffSaid
    Posted on August 11, 2011 at 10:45am

    Screw New York. Like you give a s*** about your kids. You are filthy with low-life liberals and no one really cares what happens in the city- Least of all the money grubbing tight-a**** that live there

    Let them build the mosque-When you New Yerkers visit the 911 Monument, mayb you can go to the mosque to pee. No wonder the muz attacked you.

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  • marjorie faye
    Posted on August 11, 2011 at 10:13am

    There are two separate issues here. (Folks, please, always take the time to divide any issue into its possibly conflicting parts.)

    Issue One: Are parents failing to adequately inform their children about the birds and bees and of the consequences of various behaviors?

    Issue Two: Is it government’s role to step in and take over this job for everyone?

    Now we’ve divided this issue into its parts in order to see things more clearly. The fact that parents may or may not be properly teaching their kids regarding the intensely private matter of sex does not somehow give government the right to take over that role for them. Sorry, but schools are for the purpose of training children in subjects that will enable them to earn a living and support their own families someday. The only acceptable role for government in this area would be education regarding various STDs, which can be covered in health class.

    Having said that, it enables us to focus more clearly on Issue One. The truth is that this nation is now so hopelessly immoral that it approves of sexualizing kids, so naturally they think it is ok to go out and have sex and who cares since there is nothing wrong with that, just don’t get pregnant. There is where the real problem lies, and only the society itself can address that, not the government.

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  • Centralsville
    Posted on August 11, 2011 at 10:01am

    This is exactly what our kids need isn’t it. Teach them more about sex, that‘s what’s wrong with our failed schools isn’t it, the kids don’t know enough about sex. The insanity continues. The older I get the less respect I have for the people around me. As I get older I see that the people that surround me are even dumber than I could have ever imagined.

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    • encinom
      Posted on August 11, 2011 at 11:08am

      Thats your senility setting in. The younger generations no longer need a book of fairytales and myths to dictate our daily life. If teenageres are going to have sex anuway lets educated them on the health risks and maybe there won’t be as many knocked up teenagers seeking an abortion.

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  • rfycom
    Posted on August 11, 2011 at 9:54am

    Ain’t nothing wrong with this folks. I was born and raised in the sticks. I was sexual active when I was 12 so education ain’t no bad thing.

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    • marjorie faye
      Posted on August 11, 2011 at 9:58am

      There is plenty wrong with the government requiring these courses. Once again, the issue is GOVERNMENT CONTROL, government overstepping its bounds.

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  • Mustangdave
    Posted on August 11, 2011 at 9:40am

    Aside from the FACT that modern SEX ED is more an INDOCTRINATION…way back in the late 1960′s when I was in 5th grade…it was manditory to have SEX ED taught in school…but it was more an exercise in adults being uncomfortable talking about the subject. I got more of an education in procreation living on a ranch..

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  • Kerri g
    Posted on August 11, 2011 at 9:25am

    And just why do public servants think they have the right to teach our children things that should be taught at home by parents? They don’t care if these children can read or write or do basic math. They do however care that these children be instructed on imoral behavior.

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  • mattmo79
    Posted on August 11, 2011 at 9:19am

    Glad to see NY still has their priorities right. Kids can’t read, write or do math. They’re told science is boring so who would want to do that. In addition they are treated to a perverse progressive view of American and World History. We need waivers from the “No child left behind” program because it’s too hard (seriously?). But dam, forget that other crap, we’re going to teach the little kids about sex! Now that’s what will build the foundation for their future success!

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  • SamIamTwo
    Posted on August 11, 2011 at 9:05am

    Home school them…they are turning the youth of today into sex objects for future perverts. This sickness needs to be openly exposed for what it is doing to our youth. They are the ones that will be out in the streets rioting. So much for education, eh? Turning children into the cows of the future, moo

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  • Sean In LI
    Posted on August 11, 2011 at 8:52am

    My 5 year old nephew is in kindergarten in Queens, and he already knows how totally normal and expected it is for fellow students to have two mommies or two daddies. It was one of the first lessons he learned when he got into the NYC public school system.

    Sex education would be nothing to these people.

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  • nysparkie
    Posted on August 11, 2011 at 8:48am

    No Johnnie NO! You can’t put it on while it is like that. Suzie grab it and see if, yes that’s it! Now see how it got. Now take that condom and you, no no NO! It isn’t a balloon. Don’t blow it up, now stop it.
    See what happened. You can’t get it back on now. Now start all over. Class, look here. Jimmy that is well done. Good for your and Sally. You get an A for, no, NNO NO ! Sally put your dress down. You can’t do that…STOP STOP OOHHHHH!

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  • hi
    Posted on August 11, 2011 at 8:27am

    If they want to stop teen pregnancy, all they have to do is stop paying unmarried women to have a baby.

    I know one teen who intentionally got pregnant so “she could get a free apartment.” That’s what her mama taught her to do.

    Rewarding bad behavior=bad behavior

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  • gmoneytx
    Posted on August 11, 2011 at 8:09am

    I understand from a trusted source, Bert Sesame and Ernie Street, the NY school system will be teaching kids about gay sex too…Just in case they want to think about experimenting with that too.

    I’m really beginning to think these are the end times. This is way to crazy for normalcy…

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  • liberalsarealiens
    Posted on August 11, 2011 at 7:54am

    The two ends of the nation are sinking the ship! California is a lost cause and it’s looking like NY is following close behind!!

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  • kickagrandma
    Posted on August 11, 2011 at 7:10am

    I do not believe a course about “sex” belongs in public school. Home, Scouts, Church Youth Groups with parental permission, maybe; but NOT in public school. And NEVER that young. ENOUGH.

    Anyway, let’s be perfectly clear here. The course is NOT about “sex education”. It is about abortion and not telling your parents. Period. Or no period, precisely.

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    • smithclar3nc3
      Posted on August 11, 2011 at 7:19am

      Since they started sex ed ,pregnancy rates have only climbed ,STD rates have only increased and they want to double down on their losing ideology…..WTF IS WRONG WITH THESE LIBERALS
      .Sex comes naturally and there are 10,000,000 different advertisements that promote condoms as a safe way to have sex avoid pregnancy and std

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  • BillyPenn
    Posted on August 11, 2011 at 7:07am

    My first thought was a knee jerk reaction the same as Rev. Child. Then I had a flash back to last spring. I was driving in traffic and had to stop at a school crossing, school was over for the day. It was at a middle school. My mind said, don’t look, you will get arrested. I know I would have never allowed my daughter to dress the way most of those girls were. So, maybe it’s not all that negative to have a program such as this. As long as they keep the Kevin Jennings of the world away from it. Just wondering, will there be a film(s) at 11 AM ?

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  • Cat
    Posted on August 11, 2011 at 5:47am

    The education system wraps its arms around our children even tighter.
    Soon our children will be wrapping their arms around the government and not each other.

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  • Marylou7
    Posted on August 11, 2011 at 5:09am

    Educating our children about sex is one thing, showing them how is another. Which is it??

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    • loriann12
      Posted on August 11, 2011 at 7:03am

      I graduated high school in 1982. I only saw a condom one time and that was when someone filled one with mayonaise and put it in the water fountain. If they’re going to teach that, why can’t they teach abstinance and give a “balanced approach?”

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  • megansmom
    Posted on August 11, 2011 at 4:31am

    I really don’t know what to think about this. When I was in the sixth grade sex ed was ok you are going to change in these ways. The anatomy and biology of it all. When I was in high school it was all about the rest and how we had the choice to say yes or no but these were the consequences of your choice.
    Are they going to actually teach about the economic problems to the girls as well as the different diseases and the diseases to the boys and their true responsibilities to the child? Or are they going to say but hey if you do get pregnant the state will take care of everything, which is what most of them are learning at home. Are they going to teach them that abstinence is a real option?
    Are they going to really tell them the whole truth or just say your going to do it so wear a condom?

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    • marjorie faye
      Posted on August 11, 2011 at 10:17am

      No, the liberals in control of education fight tooth and nail all efforts to teach abstinence. This shows their mindset. They actually approve of the kids having sex, because deep down they themselves are perverted in their own spirits. They say it’s because they know the kids will have sex anyway, but actually they approve. If they disapproved, they would be all for teaching abstinence. The idea of the kids in their classroom having sex gives them some kind of vicarious excitement. By the time conservatives figure out that liberals are all mostly perverted, it might be too late.

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  • Jediusetheforce
    Posted on August 11, 2011 at 4:26am

    It used to be you couldn’t even kiss a girl on the first date. Now you can eat the whole apple!!! Get real sex education!!!

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  • Diane TX
    Posted on August 11, 2011 at 2:34am

    I had a Black family living next door to me in the late seventies. Their daughter, whom they called “Baby” , had a baby shortly after turning thirteen. The “good” things:

    The mother and father of “Baby” were actually married.
    This family took care of their home and yard. They cared.
    Their first response, wasn’t abortion of “Baby’s” baby.

    The “bad” things:

    They were thrilled that their just thirteen year old daughter just had a baby.
    Although I had thought that they were good parents, it threw me when they announced that it was completely acceptable to them that their very young daughter just had a baby. That meant the she got pregnant when she was twelve.

    When I was twelve, I still played with dolls. I had no notion of “sex”. Maybe it’s a cultural thing. My family had five daughters and none of us were molested by a crazy Uncle, or Dad.

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  • Reverend_Child
    Posted on August 11, 2011 at 2:30am

    Eleven seems a bit young, and the part of my brain that responds to my Fundamentalist upbringing sounds off with a hearty kneejerk “NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!”
    Then again, I personally know a 15-year-old girl whose boyfriend is 12. Her parents are pretty sure that despite their best efforts, the two have already engaged in some amount of sexual experimentation. So there‘s your incentive to tell’em something useful, really early in life.
    Next negative reaction: “But it‘s the parent’s job, not the school’s! Birds and the bees talk! Everyone knows about the birds and the bees talk! Let Mom and Pop cover this awkward necessity!”
    And reality intrudes again. Lots of homes out there wherein, for whatever reason fair or foul, lots of parents simply aren’t living up to that responsibility.
    Lots of teen pregnancies going on whether this happens or not, so it would seem fatuous to blame sex ed for the phenomenon. It’s already a phenomenon. Q.E.D.
    I think it’s the “mandatory” part that finally sticks in my craw. They mention encouraging the principals to work to whatever degree with the parents, I get it. Props to that Bronx principal, Mr Cibelli, for his commitment to do so.
    But still mandatory?
    Would it have been asking too much to make it mandatory instead to inform the parents of the intent to teach it, then let’em choose? If I say “I got it,” it means I got it, the info my son will someday need. And my wife has our daughter covered. Thanks, but option to

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    • marjorie faye
      Posted on August 11, 2011 at 10:02am

      Whether or not families do their job in teaching their children about sex, it is NOT, it is NEVER, the job of GOVERNMENT to intrude in that intensely private area of life that is reserved for family only.

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  • Ron_WA
    Posted on August 11, 2011 at 2:13am

    Where did the story on the TEA party being terrorists go? As of 22:15 Pacific it was there but as of 22:45 Pacific it was gone – what’s up w/ that????

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  • Ron_WA
    Posted on August 11, 2011 at 2:10am

    It should be mandatory unless the parent opts out in writing.

    Too many kids, pre-teens & teens having sex & don’t know the risks. Too many teenage pregnancies of which 75% end in abortion or single, dropout welfare moms who stay on “public assistance” for the rest of their lives.

    The philosophy of too many juvenile males is “old enough to bleed; old enough to breed”. Too many hormones & not enough parental guidance or morals.

    It happens even to kids raised in The Word, Faith & love – look at Bristol Palin as just one of way too many examples. This is the reality of modern & especially urban society.

    We can’t pray our way out of it but we can raise our own children well. Sex is going to happen; I highly recommend parents teach all of the technical stuff as well as the rights & wrongs before the govt. does it for you.

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    • Reverend_Child
      Posted on August 11, 2011 at 2:32am

      Appreciated your observations, Ron_Wa. Found’em reasonable, so much so that it helped remind me that my own often aren’t. Served as a nice reminder to keep an eye on my jerking knee and just try to talk like a grown-up. So thanx!

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