Because Magic, taught as fact, in the curriculum is AWESOME!

Because Magic, taught as fact, in the curriculum is AWESOME!

Further breaking news: The Edmonton Public School Board will also remove Soylent Green Recipe Book from the Foods curriculum.

How does feculence like this happen in my school system?

“An Edmonton teen and her mother have filed a complaint with the Human Rights Commission over a high school sex education class delivered by a religious-based group.  Last year, Emily Dawson, 18,  took part in a two-day class delivered as part of the Career and Life Management course at McNally High School.  The teenager says she was shocked by what she heard.

“Basically shaming the girls and making them gatekeepers and meanwhile making it sound like the boys had no impulse control,” she said.  

The Edmonton Public School Board used the Pregnancy Care Centre to conduct the course.  The centre is affiliated with Care-Net, an American based anti-abortion movement. Both groups focus on advocating abstinence from sex.

picardwtfHow many other little “whoopsies” does the EPSB have up its sleeve?  The NRA about the value of gun control and firearm safety?  Exxon on Environmental Stewardship?

What the crap?

First, lets establish what our Experts in Christian Misogyny are advocating.  From Care.net –

“Care Net promotes and supports sexual abstinence until marriage among youth through its LifeWise Program. LifeWise services are available free of charge to churches, schools, and any youth-serving organizations. Care Net will also partner with parents to provide neighborhood programs in homes or at Care Net’s facility on the east side of Madison.

  Care Net works to end abortion, not primarily through political action but by building a culture where every woman receives all the support she needs to welcome her child and create her own success story. By empowering women and men to make courageous, life-affirming choices, Care Net and our affiliate pregnancy centers end abortions every single day.”

Well, isn’t this just a “Grade-A” glistening block of bullshit on display. They also run Pregnancy centres to hoodwink traumatized women and baffle them with religious bullshit and obstruct them while they attempt to obtain a legal medical procedure.

What a charming bunch of folks, god bless their hearts, we are dealing with here.

So, let’s take a look at the facts of the matter just to show exactly how full of shit our christian care.net friends are and the poisonous message they brought into the Edmonton public school system.

From:

The Failure of Abstinence-only Education: minors have a right to honest talk about sex. – Published in: Sexuality and the Law Symposium, Columbia Journal of Gender and Law Vol. 15, No. 1, pp. 12-62, 2006.

“Abstinence-only sex education is anything but educational. At best, it deprives students of the knowledge necessary to manage their own sexual health. At worst, it is dangerous to minors and to the public health. As the Waxman Report concluded, “[s]erious and pervasive problems with the accuracy of abstinence-only curricula may help explain why these programs have not been shown to protect adolescents from sexually transmitted diseases and why youth who pledge abstinence are significantly less likely to make informed choices about precautions when they do have sex.”18 In a society that purports to value children, the state should foster healthy, informed minors who are equipped to manage their sexual health responsibly. At the very least, the state should not encourage or support educators and programs in misleading children and promoting false, dangerous, and potentially injurious practices.”

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“In light of the potential health risks associated with these curricula, abstinence-only education cannot be justified as intending to serve any significant state interest. While the government may have an interest in encouraging abstinence in unmarried youth, its current policy is being pursued at the expense both of truth and public health. Importantly, there is no evidence that providing comprehensive sex education promotes increased sexual behavior or dilutes the message that abstinence is a preferable choice, as proponents assert.250 Furthermore, the government’s singular focus on abstinence represents an educational policy that is inconsistent with the democratic educational objective of preparing adolescents to make responsible, informed choices.”

More on efficacy of Abstinence only versus comprehensive sex education.

“Using figures from 1995-2000, Advocates for Youth (www.advocatesforyouth.org) reports that the HIV rate for Americans 15-24 is five times that of German youth of the age. The U.S. teen syphilis rate is six times higher than the Dutch; the chlamydia rate is 20 times that of French teens; and our teen gonorrhea rate is a whopping 74 times higher than the Dutch.

European programs that provide uncensored sex education and promote condom use are the reasons for this success. Contrary to what one might expect, European youth have fewer sex partners than Americans do and begin sex slightly later than Americans. What is alarming, however, is that America has the largest percentage of girls who have sex by age 15.

The U.S. also has the highest teen birth rate among 28 developed countries. According to a UNICEF study, less than 10 per 100,000 teenage girls in Korea, Japan, Switzerland, the Netherlands, and Sweden gave birth in 2001, whereas 52 American teens per 100,000 did.”

More on the failure of Abstinence Only Education – Here, Here, Here, here…  Let us conclude then that our dear Christian Misogynists are the engineers of the fail-train; happily throwing more coal into the fire as they move full speed ahead and with Jesus and Ignorance at their side, they are unstoppable.

We should get back to Kelly and Emily and their experience with these professional dispensers of mendacity.

Kathy Dawson says she tried to pull her daughter Emily out of the class for the second day. But she says the school informed her that Emily had to take the class in order to pass her course.  So she joined her daughter in the classroom. A single mother, Dawson said she was shocked what students were told about families like hers.

“Well, that our children are prone to depression, suicide, juvenile delinquency,” she said.

The remarks also surprised her daughter.  “It’s not something that you hear every day where you’re getting bashed for being in a single-parent home.”

Kathy Dawson was also upset the class appeared to focus on values instead of science.”

See.  Seeeeeeeeee?!?  This is what happens when you let this sort of religious malevolent altiloquence into the secular classroom.  Shaming single parent families, fuck-ya god hates you – and lets not forget about the eternally burning homosexuals…

“I have a friend that is a lesbian and she was asking what would happen if she didn’t want to stay abstinent and then the educator said, ‘We’re not here to talk about that,’” Dawson said.

Yes, telling young children that they’ll burn seems a little out of place in Canada (and the norm for secular societies), so we’ll just ignore your question instead.  The nice people at Care Net are so full of love, tolerance, and compassion.

Full marks to Kathy Dawson for taking action to get these people out of the school system.

The Alberta Human Rights Commission has now accepted the Dawsons’ complaint. 

“I’m training up my kids to respect science and demand science in their education,” Kathy Dawson said. “So this is a long haul, and I’m fully prepared to take it all the way.”

This is pretty much a slam dunk.  Is religious bunk allowed in the classroom?  Yes/No  If the answer is yes, then the leaders of secular school board will have some explaining to do.

The EPSB took action –

the EPSB wrote that it had a registered nurse observe one of the presentations unannounced and found the information “met our standards and expectations on every level” but that it would still look for new presenters for the next year.

“Having said that, we’ve heard a lot of concerns expressed from the public over the last several days about guest speakers invited to present on the topic of sexual health education,” the board wrote.

“We are asking our schools in the fall to use different presenters so that we can continue this conversation, and focus on meeting the needs of students and parents.”

 

Well the school board doesn’t have its head entirely up its ass.  Woo!

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