Thu Apr 12, 2012, 12:34 PM

Tennessee Getting More Stupid Every Day On Sex Education.

Teacher can only talk about sex education only if it is in the state approved guidelines. Identified taboos are discussing hand holding and kissing. They are gateways to sex like marijuana is to drugs. I guess the legislature has identified a number of gateway taboos that are tempting gateways to sex. They cannot be discussed or demonstrated. And teachers will be fired if they stray from this assigned curriculum. What we see is the GOP religious wrong version of small government.

Maybe they should have separate schools for the sexes like Catholic schools did. Or have separate classes for girls and boys.

There is something drastically wrong with this nation if we do not put a STOP to this paranoid madness.

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Tennessee Getting More Stupid Every Day On Sex Education. (Original post)	TheMastersNemesis	Apr 2012	OP
Yet another WTF moment. It's pretty clear the asylum inmates have taken	RKP5637	Apr 2012	#1
Anyone else, beside a teacher, can tell them anything they want.	immoderate	Apr 2012	#2
here's the thing	d_r	Apr 2012	#3
Let us hope the women can still vote in TN.	jwirr	Apr 2012	#4
They are trying their best to keep us from voting....It is so sad...	Tippy	Apr 2012	#7
For now, we can. Who knows how long that will last? n/t	K Gardner	Apr 2012	#8
Next they need to identify the gateways to hand-holding.	Mister Ed	Apr 2012	#5
America, the gateway to stupidity! n/t	RKP5637	Apr 2012	#9
Is that all the TN STUPID you could find? You forgot teachers aren't allowed to	K Gardner	Apr 2012	#6
Tennessee	RKP5637	Apr 2012	#10
Makes me damn glad my kids are grown!	Bake	Apr 2012	#11

Response to TheMastersNemesis (Original post)

Thu Apr 12, 2012, 12:38 PM

RKP5637 (25,623 posts)

1. Yet another WTF moment. It's pretty clear the asylum inmates have taken

over Tennessee's gov. I know there are good people in Tennessee, but damn, there are a number of states I'm never setting foot in again.

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Thu Apr 12, 2012, 12:47 PM

immoderate (16,457 posts)

2. Anyone else, beside a teacher, can tell them anything they want.

It's only teachers that are forbidden, by law, to talk about sex.

Coincidentally, teachers have the best chance of being truthful. (Note: I only said "best chance" because 1) they would have to be trained, and 2) they would probably have to be informed, but differently than the gagging that is going on.

--imm

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Thu Apr 12, 2012, 01:19 PM

d_r (2,834 posts)

3. here's the thing

There is now a law protecting science teacher's who talk about creationism; this law would allow health teachers who talk about contraceptives to be sued by parents.

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Thu Apr 12, 2012, 01:20 PM

jwirr (20,914 posts)

4. Let us hope the women can still vote in TN.

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Thu Apr 12, 2012, 02:29 PM

Tippy (4,405 posts)

7. They are trying their best to keep us from voting....It is so sad...

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Thu Apr 12, 2012, 02:29 PM

K Gardner (14,805 posts)

8. For now, we can. Who knows how long that will last? n/t

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Thu Apr 12, 2012, 02:26 PM

Mister Ed (1,700 posts)

5. Next they need to identify the gateways to hand-holding.

If they don't find those gateways and quash them, then the kids could be holding hands before you know it. Which could lead to you-know-what.

'Course, once they've covered the gateways to hand-holding, they'll need to go after the gateways to the gateways to hand-holding...

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Thu Apr 12, 2012, 03:11 PM

RKP5637 (25,623 posts)

9. America, the gateway to stupidity! n/t

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Thu Apr 12, 2012, 02:28 PM

K Gardner (14,805 posts)

6. Is that all the TN STUPID you could find? You forgot teachers aren't allowed to

"SAY GAY" in class. And it is now against the LAW to teach evolution.

There's a bunch of other stuff, but I can't bear to think about it.

Yes, I live here and yes, it IS that stupid.

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Thu Apr 12, 2012, 03:18 PM

RKP5637 (25,623 posts)

10. Tennessee

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Thu Apr 12, 2012, 04:26 PM

Bake (21,707 posts)

11. Makes me damn glad my kids are grown!

Bake

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