Welcome to your brave new world where common sense is generally abandoned for the sexualization of America’s kids. I am so relieved that super Fenter defended a stupid act by yet another principal and very much appreciate his defense of his underling. Thank goodness the principal in question withheld demonstrations of oral and anal sex and only gave FIFTH GRADERS factual info about these acts! Maybe the demonstrations will be available in advanced sex-ed classes during their sixth-grade year. One can only hope.
I wonder if the good superintendent ever considered that doing outrageous things like this might just contribute to these kids’ sexual awareness? The whole thing is just ludicrous and all involved should both apologize for their stupidity and lack of judgment, not to mention be ashamed of their behavior.
It is a good thing they do not have me as a boss because they would be banned from ever setting foot in a school again. Kids have a hard enough time growing up these days without having to deal with leaders who show terrible judgment and lack common sense.
Fifth-graders at Onalaska Elementary School were supposed to get a lesson about HIV-AIDS, but the class discussion turned graphic when a child asked about other forms of sexual activity. The principal, who happened to be teaching the class, then told the children about oral and anal sex.
“I’m one pissed off cowboy,” parent James Gilliand told Fox News Radio. “I didn’t appreciate them teaching my daughter – who is innocent of that – at all.”
Gilliland and his wife, Kadra, were among the moms and dads in Onalaska, about 73 miles south of Tacoma, demanding answers from their local school system – and so far – they are still waiting.
“I was just shocked because I trusted my little country school,” Kadra Gilliland told Fox News Radio. “I didn’t think they were going to talk about such things. I trusted by school – that’s the bottom line and they crossed the line.”
School officials did not return calls seeking comment.
However, Superintendent Scott Fenter defended the principal’s action to local media and said that the lesson did not go too far.
“I think the principal handled it appropriately at the time; she only gave factual information, no demonstrations,” Fenter told NWCN.com. “Because in sixth grade they start becoming sexually aware and you’ve got to teach them ahead of time.”