Tonight the five-person committee, established by the Sioux Falls School District to determine whether the middle school sex education program should be scrapped, met at the District’s Instructional Planning Center to a standing room only crowd with attendance that was somewhere into the hundreds.
After the rules of the meeting was established, teacher Steve Cain introduced a motion that the ETR Health Smart Sex Education materials be removed and replaced. It was seconded and the committee opened the motion up for discussion. Most of the discussion was a debate between two committee members.
First Rhonda Kemmis, a Memorial Middle School health teacher, started out the discussion by enlightening the committee on how the Health Smart program was selected and argued that the programs was the best of several that they looked at.
Larry Hoover then stated that if this were the best, he would hate to see the worst. His analysis showed that the only time marriage was brought up, it was mocked.
Kemmis countered by pointing out that we are living in a changing world and many students, who are in one-parent homes, are offended by the issue of marriage.
Hoover then brought up concerns about the materials. He pointed to a resource guide that recommended the "Go ask Alice" web site. At that web site Hoover said there was discussions about the taste of semen. Kemmis countered with assurances that the teachers only had access to the resource guide and that the students were not allowed access to such material.
Then Hoover presented an article that was given out to students by Kemmis. He pointed out the article contained references to oral sex. Kemmis said they were whited out, but Hoover showed that it wasn’t on the second page. Kemmis stated that was a human mistake and that it would be corrected. The crowd became restless. Kemmis made a comment that showed she recognized the mood of the crowd. Hoover then made the point that the school district is asking the public to trust the teachers with their children, but argued that was not a good idea. He then brought forward statements he received from parents that talked of the school district using a mannequin named Woody that had an erection that allowed students to practice applying a condom. All three school representatives denied that ever happened and asked for Woody to be presented as proof.
Steve Cain then asked that we get back to the materials at hand. The committee then voted unanimously to approve the motion that recommended the removal of the Health Smart sex education materials. That ended the meeting with most of the crowd giving a standing ovation to the decision.
Chad Schuldt has been completely off base as usual. This was not the case of a few right wing extremists pushing their moral values onto rest of community. This is a case of the community standing up to the far-left extremists who are pushing their lifestyles onto people’s children. Tonight Larry Hoover provided proof of that with a survey that concluded that parents overwhelmingly oppose comprehensive sex education. The reaction of tonight’s standing room only crowd collaborated that survey.
UPDATE: Here is KELO-TV's coverage, and KSFY's.
Another Update: The Argus Leader’s coverage really sucked. No mention of the artilce containing oral sex, or the "Go Ask Alice" about the taste of semen, or the hundreds of attendees giving a standing ovation at the end.
