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City school officials stir controversy as they decide to start teaching sex education to child as young as kindergarten age
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Kindergarten that's right along -- snack time and nap time some variant children may soon be learning about anatomy and reproduction.
The Chicago public school system is considering starring sex and in kindergarten instead of fifth grade good idea or not the five and -- cast joins us now I see Andrea indices to -- -- so what's up with this -- think about this.
What in the world come to.
I I remember getting a health -- eighth grade and then eleventh grade but it was nothing like this Greta I mean these are five year old kids.
And how are you or just raising our kids too quickly but these are standards.
That any school -- -- Chicago just chose to adopt them so they could be coming to a school near you.
All right nag at you cannot you can opt out of them if -- -- -- for your children.
But you've got I mean I suppose there are a lot of parents for better for -- who are not necessarily -- attention what's going on in this classrooms and that means -- -- that he had every parent is attentive so let's say.
In this could slip through the cracks it's not it's not opting in -- opting out that's right parents have -- choice but a lot of parents might not know this is going on.
Look it's a larger problem there's a breakdown of the family.
You know we used to get this kind of education from our parents from our church is from our communities.
And now there's a lot of kids who don't have that and so the government is stepping in which I think this is not the government's role to do this.
And you know a credit it's not very good when the government tries to start teaching values they're not very good at -- now look I realize the technology it's hard.
Ten knots.
You know -- advocates -- kids abstain but I wonder -- abstinence part of -- I looked over the entire report and I didn't see any part of that.
-- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Right now only 60% of Chicago high school students graduate.
Only 6% graduate from college.
And reading and math levels for eighth graders.
Are at twenty and 21% respectively so I would argue this school district have a lot of other priorities besides teaching kids.
About condoms how to put on a condom.
Gender roles in society one of the things they are teaching is bullying I think that actually might be as Smart lesson for some kids.
But some of the other stuff I was reading a report -- It's being researched by the Kennedy school and PR.
The Kaiser institute a lot of lives getting their hands in your kids' education I think it's really scary particularly for five year old.
I called a friend of mine before the show his five year old -- up I think what's she talking about right now he said unicorn and dinosaurs.
So it's the last magical stage of your life I think were were.
Corrupting our kids a little bit too soon.
Did I hear another congratulations and the big success of the five at five saying he's so much --
