School Employees Reprimanded for Encouraging Sex

                                                                                                            Vol. XX, No. 6, June/July 2007 

[Read this article for another indicator of the degrading influence of government schools.]

School employees in Boulder, CO, have been warned that their actions were unwise when they required students to attend an assembly where they were told to have sex and experiment with drugs.

"I'm going to encourage you to have sex, and I'm going to encourage you to use drugs appropriately," Joel Becker, a Los Angeles clinical psychologist and panelist at a Conference on World Affairs at Boulder High School, told students in April. "And why I am going to take that position is because you're going to do it anyway.

"... Now, what is healthy sexual behavior? Well, I don't care if it's men with men, women and women, men and women -- whatever combination you would like to put together," Becker continued.

At least one student and her mother were outraged enough to complain to the school board, saying the panel was too graphic and permissive in tone, according to The Denver Post.

"The panel discussion was a completely irresponsible and dangerous invitation to Boulder High students to have sex and take drugs," sophomore Daphne White told the board.

While White's mother, Priscilla, was reading excerpts from the panel, the school board president asked her to stop because the language was inappropriate for the meeting, The Post said.

"But it was at Boulder High School," Priscilla White said. "If they can listen to it, I think you can listen to it."

Board members opened an investigation, and employees who were involved in planning the assembly were verbally reprimanded, and the superintendent admitted that mistakes were made.

"Overall, the panel was appropriate for presentation to high school students. Its intent was to discuss with students the risks of engaging in certain behaviors before they are emotionally and psychologically mature enough to cope with their consequences," George Garcia wrote in a report. "This is not to state that certain comments were not, in any context, unnecessarily crude or that certain points were not in direct contradiction with district health and conduct standards. They were."

Garcia concluded that students should not have been required to attend the assembly, and as a result of the controversy, they will not be required to attend future events. Also, panel speakers will be more carefully vetted in the future, a district spokesman told The Post. [BP]