Here's a little story highlighting your tax dollars at work here in Wyoming.
My wife has a friend who has a daughter who is a senior in the local high school here in Green River. We'll call her daughter "Stacy." Stacy is attending a healthy lifestyles course as an elective to finish out her senior year. The final semester the teacher gives the students the opportunity to choose what they want to study. So, of course they choose......SEX.
Stacy comes home reporting that her teacher is showing videos of CAT scanned images of married couples having sex to demonstrate what happens during an orgasm. The married couples also discussed how they indulge in pornography to enhance their sexual experience. They are also discussing what a "G-spot" is, and how to stimulate it. Then the teacher had the students bring into the class pop music that contained lyrics that alluded to sexual intercourse. Everyone took turns listening to each others songs during classtime. Stacy expressed that she felt "dirty" after each class, and was being ridiculed by the rest of the class because she was too much of a "prude."
Of course Stacy's mother is upset. She goes to the principal, but is brushed off.
[opinion on] Now I don't have a problem with teachers in public schools teaching about sex as long as the curriculum is objective and academic. Teaching about STDs, contraception, and tolerance towards others with differing sexual orientations is all good by me. But showing videos of orgasms, teaching how to sexually stimulate a woman, glorifying pornography, and playing music containing explicit lyrics as a part of the curriculum is inappropriate and just plain ridiculous. All of that stuff kids do in their spare time when their parents are away on vacation -- it shouldn't be pushed through our public school system under the label of "education." [opinion off]
So what do you think? Am I way off base? What do you think is the best course of action here?