A message left on our Sedline voicemail expressed opposition to the move to teach sexual health education to seventh- and eighth-grade students at Smith-Cotton Junior High beginning in December. We believe it’s a stand others in our community share.
The caller said: “I was very upset about the school district wanting to teach the seventh- and eighth-graders sex education, as I’m sure a lot of other people were. These are just kids, why can’t we understand that and stop trying to make adults out of them? ... Sex education will do one thing: Listening to this each day will only make them curious, and make them want to go out and experiment and try it.”
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