Sex Ed

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Forget Sex Ed classes! Some students in an Indianapolis middle school have been taking the "birds and the bees" to all new places, namely the shop class.

This story is being reported by local radio talk shows and it gained national attention on Bill O'Reilly's "The Factor" on today's show.

Getting both the print version from the FOX News website, and after listening to the story on The Factor, I have got to officially declare that some of our schools have become basically the equivalent of multi-million dollar bunny hutches where our sixth-grade children can *breed*.

Before you hit that button and fire off a hate-filled email, let me fill you in on some of the details.

The local talk-show host covering this story stated that the shop classroom where this incident took place is an L-shaped room, where part of the room could be obscured from the view of the teacher. Add to that at least one student distracting the teacher, and with all of the clatter of the workshop, and you can see *how* this happened.

The problem then becomes the reaction of the school district, which has covered up the actions they may have taken against these students. We're talking covered up to the point that we're only hearing about this incident NOW.

Now, on the issue of the school district, apparently there is a board meeting of the school board here within a week or two, and The Factor is planning on being there. I can't wait to see the fur flying at that meeting, because I can also see a ton of parents descending on that building like a pack of frenzied alley cats. The idea that the school district has been mum on how this sort of thing could have been allowed to happen at the middle school, as well as actions taken against the students and perhaps even the teacher and administration of the school can only send the message that having sex in school is totally acceptable.

Those of you who think that sexual encounters in school are a rare thing, you must have been in an ice cave in Antartica for the last decade or so. On another Blogger blog, I counted the number of instances of women teachers having sex with male students. There were 16 articles, and all of them were instances of female teachers having sex with male students. I am certain that this was not a scientific survey of all instances of teacher/student sex, but one of the things that really caught me was the fact that so many of these stories seem to float under the radar.

The underlying issue is that parents are missing in action in the lives of their children. I am not saying that parents are the complete and only answer, nor am I saying that they are infallible...after all, some parents are totally WHACKED, and I can speak from expeience. However, once again speaking from experience, I can say that if parents aren't in the picture, and if other family members aren't there, people *will* learn about sex, and they'll get their education in ways that parents won't approve of.

While I think that the parents in East Indianapolis will have some very valid questions for the school board, the members of that board will have at least one equally biting question.

Where were you?

John B.
Blogger Guy