Education

It matters who wins elections, and here's another example... 

Reacting to a new state law that requires teaching of contraception and sexually transmitted diseases sponsored by Rep. Nancy Todd (D-Aurora) and signed by Gov. Ritter, the St. Vrain Valley School District is taking steps to implement a revised and considerably expanded sex education curriculum. According to a Channel 7 News report the first lesson was recently given to the school board and featured a "demonstration with male and female anatomical models and the proper use of birth control and contraceptives."  

I'll leave it to you to figure out precisely what they are demonstrating on the models. 

Todd defends her legislation that mandated this latest assault on parental rights and sexual responsibility by explaining, "we should make sure our students are well informed. We want that in every other subject, why wouldn't we want it in human sexuality?"  

Well, for one thing, our students are not being "well informed" in the basic core curriculum. Parents wish our schools could spend valuable time accomplishing the basics of what they send them to school for in the first place. Furthermore, sex education includes a lot more than biology and contraception. It involves moral responsibility, values, religious beliefs, and virtues that are and should be proprietary to parents. While some are willing to subordinate that responsibility to surrogates like the schools, it certainly isn't the masses of parents who suffer continual intrusion by the schools and the culture on their rights and ability to guide the moral development of their children. It's a war out there! 

Jim Pfaff of the Colorado Family Institute called the new legislation "wrong-headed" and said, "We are throwing our hands up and saying, 'Well, they're going to do it anyway, let's show them how.'" 

We elect representatives to make sure our roads are paved, neighborhoods are safe, and our freedom is protected. Some of them mistakenly believe they are elected to "represent" us as parents, too. They are not, and we need to let them know that at the ballot box.