{"id":91915,"date":"2015-04-01T00:10:45","date_gmt":"2015-04-01T07:10:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/?p=91915"},"modified":"2015-03-17T09:44:53","modified_gmt":"2015-03-17T16:44:53","slug":"reason-to-homeschool-98237987","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2015\/04\/reason-to-homeschool-98237987.html","title":{"rendered":"Reason to Homeschool #98237987"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

A reader writes:<\/p>\n

I apologize if I\u2019m emailing you about something you\u2019re already aware of, but I thought you might be interested to know and make others aware of an ongoing controversy in Oregon, where the Department of Education has for several years been contributing funding to and promoting attendance of an \u201cAdoloscent Sexuality Conference.\u201d It is described as being targeted at educators, parents, and teens, and focused on preventing pregnancy and promoting healthy relationships. After receiving complaints, one of the local news stations found out their ideas about this go beyond the usual modernist interpretation of \u201chealthy relationships\u201d or even contraception.<\/p>\n

Let me just quote one of the articles:<\/p>\n

\u201cLisa Maloney, St. Helens School District board member, said she was concerned by what she witnessed. \u2018All kinds of speakers about Internet porn, using Internet sex toys, using meth as is shown in this book for when you\u2019re engaging in sex. It encourages using meth because it helps your sexual drive and what not in here,\u2019 said <\/a>Maloney. \u2018It says it in this booklet that was handed out and given out to all young people.'\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen KOIN 6 investigator asked whether he thought the material in the pamphlets would be effective to prevent teen sex, [conference director Brad Victor] said<\/a>, \u2018I\u2019m not going to address that question. That question is inappropriate.'\u201d<\/p>\n

About 25% of the attendees are described as youth with ages ranging from 11 to 18.<\/p>\n

The excerpts above came from here:
\nhttp:\/\/oregonoptimist.com\/community\/sherif-ready-to-shut-down-inappropriate-oregon-adolescent-sexuality-conference\/<\/a><\/p>\n

One of the local news outlets has covered the controversy with several articles, including these:
\nhttp:\/\/koin.com\/2015\/03\/03\/oha-disagree-with-koin-on-sex-conference\/<\/a>
\nhttp:\/\/koin.com\/2015\/02\/17\/doe-sex-conference-pamphlets-not-appropriate\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Moving away from the reported facts to my thoughts after reading the\u00a0 details, including quoted excerpts describing how to perform certain acts, instructions on how to participate in cybersex and bestial fantasies, and more, I\u2019m disturbingly reminded of the safe-environment courses I\u2019ve taken. In every one, we\u2019ve been warned to keep an eye out for adults teaching this sort of stuff to teens as a way of grooming them either by teaching them to view acts a predatory adult might later suggest to them as ordinary, or by gaining the victim\u2019s attention by titillation. Whoever developed, approved, and presented this curriculum creeps me out!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

A very sane reaction. \u00a0If priests instituted this in their parishes, people would rightly wonder if Catholics had gone insane. \u00a0But since it\u2019s public school teachers, somehow it\u2019s okay. \u00a0And this despite the fact that sexual abuse statistics in public schools dwarfs <\/a>the crimes of priests. \u00a0But, as Mr. Polanski\u2019s sycophants demonstrated years ago, sexual abuse of minors is kinda cool, as long as you are the Right Kind of Roman<\/a>. \u00a0Sexually abused minors are, for many in our Chattering Classes, not subjects of concern, but objects of utility.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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