Kansas Middle School: Poster Listing
Sex Acts Part of 'Health and Science' Curriculum
by Dr. Susan Berry 16 Jan 2014,
2:12 AM PDT
The father of a 13 year-old girl
who was upset by a classroom poster that listed sex acts was shocked to hear
that the poster is part of her school’s health and science curriculum.
As local Fox News affiliate in Kansas,
fox4kc.com, reported Tuesday, Mark Ellis said his daughter, a student at Hocker Grove
Middle school in the Shawnee Mission
School District, was
“shocked” by what she saw on a poster on a classroom wall in school. Ellis said
his daughter took a picture of the poster and showed her parents.
Originally, Ellis assumed the
poster to be a student prank, until he called the school and discovered it was
part of the curriculum.
“Why would you put it in front of
13 year-old students?” he asked.
The poster, entitled, “How Do
People Express Their Sexual Feelings?” lists sex acts such as: Oral Sex, Sexual
Fantasy, Caressing, Anal Sex, Dancing, Hugging, Touching Each Other’s Genitals,
Kissing, Grinding, and Masturbation.
Ellis said after being told by the
school principal the poster was “teaching material,” he is now concerned about
what his daughter is being taught in school.
“It upsets me,” he said. “And
again, it goes back to who approved this? You know this had to pass through
enough hands that someone should have said, ‘Wait a minute, these are
13-year-old kids, we do not need to be this in-depth with this sexual education
type of program.’”
According to Fox News, however,
district spokeswoman Leigh Anne Neal said the poster must be viewed in the
context of a bigger curriculum, which she identified as abstinence-based for
students in middle school.
“The poster that you reference is
actually part of our middle school health and science materials, and so it is a
part of our district approved curriculum,” Neal said. “However the item is
meant to be part of a lesson, and so certainly as a standalone poster without
the context of a teacher led discussion, I could see that there might be some
cause for concern.”
Neal added that the curriculum is
similar to those used by other schools around the country.
“The curriculum it is a part of,
it aligns with national standards around those topics, and it’s part of our
curriculum in the school district,” she said.
In fact, the curriculum, titled
“Making A Difference,” is published by selectmedia.org and recommended by the U.S. Department of Health & Human
Services (HHS) as a “pregnancy prevention intervention.”
According to the publisher's
website, the goal of the program is:
...to empower young adolescents to
change their behavior in ways that will reduce their risk of pregnancy and HIV
or other STD infection. Specifically, this curriculum emphasizes that young
adolescents should postpone sexual activity and that practicing abstinence is
the only way to eliminate the risk for pregnancy and STDs, including HIV.
Module 2 of the program, which is
called “Understanding Adolescent Sexuality and Abstinence,” offers “an overview
of reproductive anatomy, discusses messages about sex, discusses how people
express themselves sexually [apparently reinforced by the poster], and the
benefits of abstinence.”
According to HHS, in the original
study that explored the effectiveness of the Making A Difference program, the
participants were African-Americans, aged 11-13.
Nevertheless, Ellis thinks the
curriculum should change.
“This has nothing to do with
abstinence or sexual reproduction, actually, a lot of these things,” he said.
“I would like to see that this particular portion of the curriculum is removed
from the school.”
As Fox News reported, Ellis said
if the curriculum doesn’t change, he will remove his daughter from sexual
education classes.
Kansas
Kathleen Sebelius
was the Kansas state government governor, Dora
Hughes was her counselor at HHS,
and is the secretary at the U.S.
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for the Barack Obama administration.
Note: Dora Hughes was Kathleen Sebelius’s counselor at HHS, and is a senior policy adviser for
Sidley Austin LLP.
R.
Eden Martin is counsel at Sidley
Austin LLP, and the president of the Commercial
Club of Chicago.
Commercial Club of Chicago,
Members Directory A-Z (Past Research)
Tuesday, December 17, 2013
Newton
N. Minow is a member of the Commercial
Club of Chicago, and a senior counsel at Sidley Austin LLP.
Michelle
Obama was a lawyer at Sidley Austin
LLP.
Barack
Obama was an intern at Sidley Austin
LLP.
James
D. Zirin is a senior counsel at Sidley
Austin LLP, and a director at Human
Rights First.
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for Human Rights First, the Brookings
Institution (think tank), and the Committee
for Economic Development.
George Soros is the
chairman for the Foundation to Promote
Open Society.
Harold
H. Koh was a director at Human
Rights First, a trustee at the Brookings
Institution (think tank), the legal adviser for the U.S. Department of State for the Barack Obama administration, and his brother is Howard K. Koh.
Diane
S. Ravitch was a senior fellow at the Brookings
Institution (think tank), and the assistant secretary at the U.S. Department of Education.
Howard
K. Koh is Harold H. Koh’s brother,
and the assistant secretary at the U.S.
Department of Health and Human Services for the Barack Obama administration.
U.S.
Department of Health Education & Welfare was the predecessor agency for
the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Benjamin W.
Heineman Jr. was the assistant secretary for the U.S. Department of Health Education & Welfare, and is a trustee
at the Committee for Economic
Development.
Lee
C. Bollinger is a trustee at the Committee
for Economic Development, and a trustee at the Columbia University Teachers College.
Gene
R. Carter is a trustee at the Columbia
University Teachers College, and the executive director & CEO for the Association for Supervision and Curriculum
Development.
Donna
S. Morea was a trustee at the Committee
for Economic Development, and the EVP for the CGI Group Inc.
CGI Group Inc.
was the Obamacare contractor that
developed Healthcare.gov web site.
Obamacare
is Barack Obama’s signature policy
initiative.
Barack
Obama was an intern at Sidley Austin
LLP.
Dora
Hughes is a senior policy adviser for Sidley
Austin LLP, and was Kathleen
Sebelius’s counselor at HHS.
Kathleen Sebelius’s
counselor at HHS was Dora Hughes, the Kansas state government governor, and is the secretary
at the U.S. Department of Health and
Human Services (HHS) for the Barack
Obama administration.
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