Obama Supports Sex Ed for Kindergarten Students

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Did you even read the article?  Obama wants to teach kindergarten students about inappropriate touching so they know the basics of protecting themselves from sexual predators.

But no, instead we get sound bytes like "Obama supports sex ed for kindergarten students, hurrrr".  Honestly.

I guess the two previous threads covering this topic started by folks that hadn't read what Obama said were not enough. A third thread of misleading BS - excellent!! Is there some kind of contest to see who can dumb down debate the most?

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Did you even read the article?  Obama wants to teach kindergarten students about inappropriate touching so they know the basics of protecting themselves from sexual predators.

But no, instead we get sound bytes like "Obama supports sex ed for kindergarten students, hurrrr".  Honestly.

I guess the two previous threads covering this topic started by folks that hadn't read what Obama said were not enough. A third thread of misleading BS - excellent!! Is there some kind of contest to see who can dumb down debate the most?

I think my favorite part was how the link posted here was a link to a direct refutation of the idea that Obama supports sex ed for kindergarten students.

Yep - kind of funny, but not really in a HA HA sort of way since it's a fairly regular occurence both on this board and in American politics in general. Are Canadian politics this stupid?

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Since it certainly appears that most folks responding here didn't actually read the 4 paragraph article linked at the start of the thread and simply accepted the misleading title of the thread as meaning something, I will save future posters the extreme effort of clicking on the link - and simply post the article.

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Well, we can safely say that this is a new topic in this presidential race... Yesterday's ABC report that Obama favors age-appropriate sex education for even kindergarten students has received a fair amount of play. Romney, in fact, used it to criticize Obama in a speech he gave yesterday. "I was shocked to hear that he thinks we need sex education in kindergarten," Romney said. "I don't think that's a problem. I don't think that's a need." Romney's campaign even put those remarks on YouTube.

But it seems Romney's criticism might be a bit overblown. The Obama campaign gave this statement to CBN's David Brody: "Barack Obama supports sensible, community-driven education for children because, among other things, he believes it could help protect them from pedophiles. A child's knowledge of the difference between appropriate and inappropriate touching is crucial to keeping them safe from predators."

Brody's analysis: "Obama doesn't want to hand out condoms to five year olds. He doesn't want cucumber demonstrations as part of show and tell. The legitimate reasonable discussion here is whether the federal government and/or local school boards should get involved in providing these five year olds information about inappropriate touching or should it be left up to families only."

Obama spokesman Bill Burton tells First Read: "You can teach a kid about what's appropriate and not appropriate to protect them from predators out there." In addition, he issued a document showing that the Oregon Department of Education has guidelines for sex education for children in grades K-3 (which includes understanding the difference between a good touch and a bad touch), and that the Sexuality Information And Education Council of the United States has curriculum for those in kindergarten.

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