Peer-reviewed study proves -- ABSTINENCE EDUCATION WORKS!
The Washington Times this morning published the results of a peer-reviewed study of the abstinence education program for young teen girls, BEST FRIENDS and its high school counterpart, DIAMOND GIRLS. The results were very encouraging.

"Girls who participate in the Best Friends abstinence program are substantially less likely to use drugs or engage in premarital sex than peers who are not in the program, a study says. The peer-reviewed study, published this month in the Institute for Youth Development's Adolescent & Family Health, also found extraordinary results among the Best Friends' high school participants, known as Diamond Girls. The Diamond Girls were more than 100 times less likely to engage in premarital sex than high school girls who were not in the program, study author Robert Lerner said yesterday. "

"The Best Friends program, in its 18th year, uses school-based curricula, fitness classes, mentoring, role models and community service to help girls in sixth through eighth grades make healthy choices during adolescence -- such as abstaining from drugs, alcohol, smoking and premarital sex. A companion program for boys, called Best Men, began in 2000. Best Friends, which recently won a three-year federal abstinence grant, does not teach girls about contraception. "

"Mr. Lerner found that Best Friends girls were eight times less likely... to use drugs and more than six times less likely to have premarital sex -- both strong outcomes."


Oh, I can hear our opponents jeering and screeching now, because of course, they can't abide by any program that actually encourages young teens to abstain. They think it is every teenager's God-given right (oops -- maybe not, sorry TTF!) to engage in sexual activity if they want to -- that is why all the fuss about opposing our efforts to make sure teens get all the facts about the dangers of early sexual experimentation -- what it can do to them physically, emotionally and yes, spiritually.

Programs like Best Friends, which has been around for 18 years, turn their arguments on their heads. Best Friends is a REAL abstinence program -- not just some lip service paid to satisfy state law or to placate us parents who want a REAL abstinence message. (And throwing the word abstinence around about 10 times in a 7 minute video does not qualify as a genuine abstinence message, no matter how much they want us to believe it.)

You know some people (who shall not be named) have been making a big deal about some news item that says that some teens who pledge to remain abstinent are more likely to be involved in other risky sexual behaviors. If there is the slightest bit of truth to that (and personally I do not believe that teens in a genuine abstinence education program would buy it) could it be that because of the efforts of groups such as SEICUS, GLSEN and Advocates for Youth to obliterate the ages old concept that hetersexuality is 'the norm', and their insistence on the message (as in the BOE's now famous video) that 'oral, anal and vaginal sex' are all co-equal --- that teenagers are growing up with the idea that this is the case?

You know, it used to be not so long ago (and I believe many if not most people would still agree) that anal sex was considered abberant behavior. Mostly homosexual behavior. Way out of the ordinary behavior. Erotic even. (Doesn't the COMAR prohibit teaching about erotic behaviors? Hmm.) Definately NOT something you need to know or practice in order to reproduce, right? (Who wants to argue THAT point?) The same with oral sex -- thanks go to Bill Clinton for bringing that out into the open. But because these groups want us to believe that AIDS is not a gay disease and that homosexuality is on a par with heterosexuality -- they also want us to believe that anal sex is normal and natural and should be just another sexual option -- for everybody. Do you see how insidious this is? These activists want our kids to believe that everything that used to be wrong is right, that everything that was considered abnormal is normal and that MCPS has the right to teach our kids these things whether we like it or not.

Well, I don't buy it.

But thanks to Patricia O'Neill and Sharon Cox and the Montgomery County Board of Education and of course Dr. Jerry Weast, our trusty Superintendent of Schools, parents like me now have to have a conversation with our kids about anal sex and try to undue the damage that this school board has done to the minds of our youth and quite possibly -- to their bodies as well.
- posted by bianca m @ 12:10 PM  

 
Mental Molestation By 'Educators'

Montgomery County is setting for offensive children's "fiction"

From the sick minds of 'educators' comes this book in the Alice series, whose sole purpose is to destroy the innocence of children disguised as education. Hiding behind the label 'educator', these people should be more rightly called mental molestors.

Sex/Sexuality "Education" Book in Elementary and Middle Schools

Alice on the Outside is the 11th book in the "Alice" book series. Alice is now a 13-year old and in 8th grade. This book is mainly focused on sex and boys but has two other significant subplots. One is about a lesbian friend and homosexual advocacy/acceptance in general. The other subplot is about a “Consciousness-Raising Week” training session in school.

The whole school is divided into different groups with different privileges, to “learn” about prejudice and “fear of difference.” Alice on the Outside has a very artificial feel, as if it is really sex instruction and formal consciousness training lessons, weakly tied together and disguised or packaged as children’s fiction.

Alice on the Outside takes place in Montgomery County, Maryland [gee I wonder why??] where several radical sex ed changes are currently being discussed. These include more homosexual advocacy and defining anything other than intercourse as not really sex.

One of the subject terms the Fairfax County Public Schools Library catalog uses for this book is "Erotic Stories." The FCPS library catalog reviews says, "Issues of sexuality.. are dealt with candidly." FCPS Family Life Education (FLE) Regulations say homosexuality and masturbation may not be included as part of elementary school FLE instruction. Despite significant homosexuality and masturbation content, Alice on the Outside is still in two elementary schools (Camelot ES - Principal Melaney Mackin and Colvin Run ES - Principal Sandra Furick).

Alice wants to know what sexual intercourse "really, really feels like". She asks her older cousin (like an aunt) who talks to her about things including the number of times an average woman has sexual intercourse, how the first time doesn't hurt as often or much since girls using tampons have stretched themselves, and what are "other ways" such as with "his hands.. lips.." Explicit sexual terms are used such as "both come at the same time," "orgasm," and "climax." From her brother Alice learns about his nocturnal emissions, wet dreams and ejaculating while sleeping. She asks him, "When a guy ejaculates, how much semen comes out?"

A significant subplot is about Alice's lesbian friend and views on homosexuality. In one scene Alice snaps at her friend who said, ".. being homosexual isn’t a sin, because people can’t help the way they are, but making homosexual love is." Alice derides her friends point of view as the same as "..telling someone it isn’t a sin to be hungry, but it is if you eat."

The values, attitudes and beliefs expressed about sex and sexuality in Alice on the Outside contradict the values, attitudes and beliefs of many parents. In making this sex/sexuality "education" fiction book available outside of the FLE curriculum, FCPS is circumventing a parent's rights.

Alice on the Outside is also in ten middle schools (Glasgow - Principal Deirdre Lavery , Herndon - Principal Frank Jenkins, Hughes - Principal Deborah Jackson, Irving - Principal Danny Little, Key - Principal Sharon Eisenberg, Liberty - Principal Audra Sydnor, Longfellow - Principal Vince Lynch, Poe - Principal June Monterio, Sandburg - Principal Donna Pasteur, Thoreau - Principal Mark Greenfelder).

Alice on the Outside has been added to the PABBIS website. There are now 87 books in the PABBIS excerpts section. See the excerpts for more controversial content.

Your Property Tax Money Hard at Work "Educating" Public School Children about Sex

http://www.pabbis.com/
PABBIS News Release 26APR2005
- posted by Bob @ 9:12 AM  

 
A Day at High School, or a Live R-rated Movie?
It is clear that there is a movement at the highest levels of the Montgomery County School System to shape young minds away from what their family teaches them is right and wrong and indoctrinate children into a socialist view of free sex among anyone at anytime. Not only does the Board of Education want to redefine words, relationships, and even gender, to stray children away from their parents but also the fundamental aspects of human life, all in the name of ‘tolerance’ and alleged ‘facts’. The new MCPS sex-ed curriculum redefines family, says sex play with children of the same sex is healthy, and produces a video that laughs at abstinence as a joke. All this and more are being used to serve an ideology. The BOE is not defining same sex relationships and homosexuality as is indeed tolerant and right, they are defending it all and if anyone disagrees with them, their minions marginalize them as ‘extremists’, ‘homophobic’, and ‘hateful’. In reality it is probably not really all their fault. All of this is part of a carefully planned offensive that is being played out across the county in the hope of scaring dissenters away.

Today, right now in county high schools, children live out their school day literally within an R-rated movie. Acts that these students couldn’t be shown in a movie theatre because of their young age are commonplace among the children. Students are ‘petting’ in the halls, performing oral sex on each other ('servicing' as the slang goes) in the bathrooms, on the buses, in the parking lots, and mouth out the ‘f’ word dozens of times in front of teachers who do, nothing.

This is the reality that the MCPS BOE and their $300,000 a year Superintendent do nothing about. Why? Because they desire to perpetuate this obscene behavior by ascribing to an ideology that is the threaded throughout the new sex-ed curriculum. This is not 'in the privacy of your own home' stuff, it's on government property in the public. One can only conclude that our elected Board Members and their million dollar man want to see this continue in the schools, among minors, between children. And with every new act performed, these children grow deeper into this ideology and the BOE pats itself on the back, ‘job well done’.

The BOE shows blatant disrespect to the majority of county parents who espouse to raise their children in any type of moral atmosphere, an environment where one man and one woman wait to have sex until marriage. They insist on exposing children to erroneous and untruthful information about sexuality that indeed purposely deprives a child of her or his innocence in order to tear away at the defenses that their parents instill in their own children, all so that the BOE can replace it with diseased teachings to spread their own ideological agenda.

But we are making a difference. The school system has recently released ‘a revision’ to the 8th and 10th grade teacher’s materials for the new sex-ed curriculum, and at least one pilot school says it will correct the 'mistakes' in the new condom sex video. Now why would they do that? Maybe they…

The BOE hopes we will go away. Well we won’t. We live here. This is our home and OUR government will not take our children’s minds away from us.

We don’t care if they call us names. We don’t care if their minions spew lies about us.

We are here to stay, and we can’t wait until election day.
- posted by stacie @ 9:57 PM  

 
War Against Abstinence
We here at the CRC have long felt that this battle we are waging in Montgomery County is but a small glimpse of what is really going on with sex education, systematically, thanks in no small part to the sex education and homosexual advocacy groups across the country.

In today's Washington Times there is a very interesting commentary from Robert Rector, senior research fellow in domestic policy studies at the Heritage Foundation entitled The War Against Abstinence. In it, Mr. Rector sites a Zogby poll:

" Clearly, it's in society's interest to discourage teen sex. Teens themselves realize this: According to a Zogby poll, more than 90 percent of teens say society should teach kids to abstain from sex until they have, at least, finished high school. Parents want a stronger message: Almost 9 in 10 want schools to teach youth to abstain from sex until they're married or in an adult relationship that is close to marriage. "

More than 90 percent of TEENS say society should teach kids to abstain from sex until they have at least finished high school! This reminds me of what I learned long ago in my own parenting journey. Kids want and need limits. As toddlers they quickly get out of control if they sense that your attention is elsewhere or you have no set rituals and expectations. My own child at age 10 told me that she WANTS me to tell her it is time for bed -- that when she asks if she can stay up a little bit later on a school night, she really KNOWS she needs to be in bed -- for her own good. She gets disappointed when I give in too often! In fact, she WANTS me to tell her "no, it's bedtime now". It makes kids feel safe when we are clear about what we expect and have confidence in them that they can (with our help) abide by our expectations.

It makes me wonder then, why all this fuss about the CRC and our fight against the new curriculum? Why do our opponents fight us so hard and so fiercely? The vehemence they show in their blogs speaks VOLUMES about the fact that they have bought into the world view that there is no right and wrong -- no black or white -- only gray. Its called moral relativism and its all about there being only your own reality and that infamous gray area where society (parents, church, community) need not tread. You decide whats right for you and I'll decide for myself, thank you very much. (More about that later.)

Getting back to abstinence education, Mr. Rector goes on to talk about Sen. Max Baucus (Democrat-MT), who will be introducing legislation soon that would abolish funds for federal abstinence education programs. Abstinence education funding is already a very small percentage of government spending on comprehensive sex education programs. The push behind all of this are two groups that we are already familiar with here in Montgomery County -- Advocates for Youth (their resources play a big role in the new curriculum) and SEICUS (Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States):

"SIECUS has a history of promoting the far boundaries of sexual permissiveness. One article published in its SIECUS Reports periodical actually encouraged society to overturn the "taboo" against sex among 9-year-olds. The article also asked readers to consider if society should arrange for "services of prostitutes for older teenage children who are not in a position to seek out sexual partners themselves." "

"Advocates for Youth is a close ally of SIECUS. Both groups vigorously oppose abstinence education and promote something they call "comprehensive sex ed." Not surprisingly, a review of "comprehensive" programs reveals they trample on parental and social values. Far from encouraging young people to wait until they're older before having sex, their message is that it's OK for teens to have sex so long as they use condoms. Only 7 percent of parents approve of that message. "


It's almost laughable how our opponents bang their heads against the wall trying to defend these groups and the new curriculum. They literally scream back with all their might anytime someone expresses concern or unhappiness with the curriculum, its accompanying resources and the BOE. But it is really indefensible to support the State (our elected Board of Education and Dr. Weast) in their efforts to usurp our roles as the first and most important teachers of our children. They think they know better, and cannot understand why in the world we would have a problem with their shoving this new curriculum down the throats of our children.

I encourage you to take a moment to read the commentary-- and think about the fact that what is happening here in Montgomery County is just one of the many first steps toward a world in which there are no boundaries, no right and wrong.

After all, everything and anything goes in this new world, right?




- posted by bianca m @ 7:31 AM  

 
MCPS BOE's "Day of Silence" Fraud

When BOE President Pat O'Neill spoke out at yesterday's Board meeting about the MCPS "Day of Silence", she said:

"The Day of Silence is not endorsed by or publicized by the school system in anyway. It is not listed as a holiday. "

This is code for:

'if we allow it to occur, we approve of it, otherwise we wouldn't allow it to happen'.

And make NO MISTAKE ABOUT IT, the MCPS BOE IS ALLOWING it to happen! This is not an extracurricular group having an activity after school, it's during the school day in your face protesting. And that's the FRAUD. The BOE CANNOT say they do not endorse something and then allow it to occur as if it wasn't happening.

Today, April 13, has been slated by GLSEN, the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network, as the Day of Silence in the schools. It’s a day when students in schools refuse to speak as a sign of their support for the students who feel they are gay. Many county schools will participate in this event.

Do you think that Board members, would allow Catholic or Jewish or Mormon kids to host a national “Day of Silence” in the schools to show their solidarity with one another? Shouldn’t we encourage tolerance and permit them to organize public displays of unity in the schools?

The Day of Silence is just as inappropriate as allowing one of the previously mentioned religious groups or some other group to proselytize on school property during the school day. The schools are not the place for social or religious advocacy.

This isn’t about learning core subjects, it’s about getting others to accept certain lifestyle choices. These students are being used, whether they know it or not, by adults who have an agenda to push, and school administrators, because they are wearing their “p.c.” glasses, are blinded and don’t see any problem with this activity.

Reminded recently by the death of a great world leader, we know the power of unity. The Solidarity Movement of the Polish people was an effective force against the real oppression of Communism. What the organizers of the Day of Silence lack is a situation of true oppression. There are no civil or basic human rights at stake here. This “battle” is a guise for the advancement of a cause and its’ beliefs. And, though gay supporters have every right to unite, we should not support the use of school time or property to achieve this goal. It’s time for parents to start speaking out against this blatant abuse of our schools.

- posted by Bob @ 6:06 AM  

 
Well, well, look who's aligning with whom...
Despite their insinuations and outright assumptions that Citizens for a Responsible Curriculum has the backing of national political groups (which we do not), our opponents over at Teach the Facts.org have come right out and aligned themselves with a host of extremist and other left wing, pro-abortion political groups. More than 140 radical groups to be more precise, including the ACLU, SIECUS, Abortion Access Project, Advocates for Youth (a major contributor to our new health curriculum), Center for Reproductive Rights, GLSEN (Gay, Lesbian & Straight Education Network), Human Rights Watch, NOW, NARAL, Planned Parenthood and Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations .

It's quite interesting, really because the instrument of this alignment is a letter TTF and all of these other groups have written to HHS Secretary Michael Leavitt regarding their collective opposition to a website that the Department of Health and Human Services has set up for parents called simply enough, www.4parents.gov.

They want the website taken down, because their agenda is not being accomodated. From their letter --

"All of us agree that parents should be the primary sexuality educators of their children. Therefore, it is incumbent upon all of us to make certain that parents receive the accurate information and resources they need to achieve this difficult task. Unfortunately, 4parents.gov fails to meet these goals and instead, relies on fear to motivate and contains many errors and biases that undermine its intent of encouraging parent-child communication around sex and sexuality. This website presents biased and inaccurate information as fact and does not address the needs of many youth, including sexually active youth, youth who have been or are being sexually abused, and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning (LGBTQ) youth. "

Interesting indeed.

Here's more --

"The website dictates values to parents rather than helping them to incorporate their own beliefs into discussions regarding sex and sexuality. For example, while discussing what they can do if their child has become sexually active, parents are told how to convince their teens to stop having sex by telling their children that they are “worth it.” No resources or suggestions are provided for parents whose teen remains sexually active, implying that these youth are not “worth it.” Another example suggests to parents that “always being prepared by having condoms” is a false sense of security, regardless of whether or not their teen is sexually active. Most parents want their young people to use condoms if they are sexually active. "

Can you imagine? According to TTF, telling your child that they are 'worth it' as a means of disuading them from becoming sexually active DISCRIMINATES against those teens who remain sexually active. It will make them --feel bad about themselves.

If you can stand to read further, after all their whining how the website does not provide parents enough information about transgendered youth and other alternative lifestyles there is this --

'The website defines abortion as “ending a pregnancy before a live birth occurs by removing the fetus or unborn baby from the uterus.” Again, there is an agenda inherent in the language used. '

No, the only agenda is the one that the pro abortion groups want to instill in every young teenager -- that sex for kids is ok, in fact its to be encouraged and that for backup -- after that condom fails ... the abortion and STD clinics at Planned Parenthood are right down the street.
- posted by bianca m @ 5:16 PM  

 
Guess Who?
Can you guess the author of these quotes?

Many...problems...are the result of a false notion of individual freedom at work in our culture, as if we could be free only when rejecting every objective norm of conduct, refusing to assume responsibility or even refusing to put curbs on instincts and passions! Instead, true freedom implies that we are capable of choosing a good without constraint. This is the truly human way of proceeding in the choices [we make]. 1987

One of the key...problems facing us is the widespread misunderstanding of the role of conscience, [where today, an individual's] conscience and experience are exalted above [all]. Young women and men are often victims of educational theories which propose that they 'create their own values', and that, 'feeling good about themselves' is a primary guiding moral principle.... 1995

Do these ideas ring a bell when contemplating the new MCPS Sex-Ed curriculum and the BOE/Superintendent approved teen sex video?

Who is this person? Someone who 67% of all Americans view favorably!

(above emphasis added)
- posted by DoctorJ @ 10:02 PM  

 
MCPS BOE and Superintendent say, “Look for condoms with a spermicide like Nonoxynol-9"

For the last 15 years, data has been accumulating showing that the use of the spermicide Nonoxynol 9 is not only ineffective but actually enhances the transmission of HIV and some other STDs.

But the MCPS BOE and Superintendent say that children should use it anyway! This is a direct quote from the MCPS Sex-Ed ‘Protect Yourself ‘ video:

“Look for condoms with a spermicide like Nonoxynol-9, we used to think that Nonoxynol-9 was effective in neutralizing HIV and other STIs. But recent research has shown that it is not. However condoms using spermicide are effective in neutralizing sperm this reduces the risk of pregnancy.”

Yes, the MCPS Superintendent and BOE are correct! Nonoxynol-9 not only doesn’t protect against HIV and STI’s, it may actually increase a child's chances of getting HIV according to the World Heath Organization.

"The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday that spermicides used by millions of people worldwide do not provide the protection against HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases previously thought. Experts agreed that Nonoxynol-9, contained in most spermicides and sometimes added to male condoms as a lubricant, may actually increase the risk of HIV infection in women having frequent sex, WHO said. Nonoxynol-9 clearly does not prevent HIV infection and may even favor infection if used frequently, it said, reporting on the final findings of an experts meeting in Geneva which it co-hosted last October with the Eastern Virginia Medical School. People using it as a lubricant in anal intercourse could also be under the false impression that it offered protection against HIV infection, the United Nations agency said." (Read the entire article)

So what does this mean?? With their endorsement of the new 'Protect Yourself' sex-ed video, the MCPS Superintendent and Board of Education are encourageing school children to use condoms with Nonoxynol-9, and studies have existed since the late 1980s indicating that Nonoxynol-9 did not prevent and may actually increase HIV infection risks.

This is NOT teaching the facts! And may even be endangering children who falsely think they are 'Protecting Themselves' after seeing the new MCPS Sex-Ed video. Why was this long standing knowledge left out??

- posted by MrADMN @ 2:18 PM