One Reason for Homeschooling

I've been reading a lot of homeschooling blogs lately to learn other people's techniques and experiences. We all seem to be passionate about the same reason's for homeschooling. Courtney from My Ordinary, Happily Ever After posted this on her blog:

We’ve seen the news stories about these new “sex ed” programs that teach all sorts of things that we weren’t taught in school under the guise of “preventing bullying”. But this report shows the true purpose of why the radical “sexual agenda” is trying to infiltrate our schools.

This report was created by UN Special Rapporteur Vernor Munoz who was under mandate from the UN as an “expert” to issue an unbiased report on “the right to education”. Based on the content of his work, he is clearly not “unbiased” nor is he an “expert”.

Among other things, this report claims that existing international treaties create a “Right to Sexual Education” (which they don’t) and that they only way to enforce this fabricated “right” is by implementing a sexual education program that not only undermines parental authority, religious convictions and traditional values, but also releases our children (and society as a whole) from any form of self control and gives them carte blanche to nearly any and all sexual behavior (except abstinence and restraint, of course).

The report discusses what helps young people “have better sexual lives”, as if improving the sexual lives of youth is a valid goal of governments, and it strangely states that the “goal of education for sexuality” (which is significantly different from traditional sex education) is “to develop a transforming role for men by going beyond the …physical aspect,” whatever that means.

REALLY? Since when does ANYONE want the government in their bedroom? Regardless of your beliefs on sexual orientation, I doubt that many people agree that it is the governments job to teach about technique in our classrooms.

Specifically, in the report Munoz states that he “considers that pleasure in an enjoyment of sexuality . . . should be one of the goals of comprehensive sexual education, abolishing guilt feelings about eroticism that restrict sexuality to the mere reproductive function. ”With regard to HIV the report declares that “restricting sexual education to the issue of sexually transmitted diseases . . . may create an erroneous association between sexuality and disease, which is as harmful as associating it with sin.”

To read her entire post go HERE.

They want to teach this to five year olds. I know there is a lot to be debated about why we should or shouldn't homeschool, but this is a big reason for me. Not just because of how the government is getting involved with Sex Ed, but because of what is becoming socially acceptable in modern society. And then not just acceptable, but expected among kids.

I don't think less of people who put their kids in public education either. I'm still open to all ideas of education and am not sure what I'll end up doing yet. I just feel like the battle between good and evil is getting more challenging and I want to know that I TRIED to do all that I could for my kids. If you have more information on what is going on with Sexual Education in schools, please share.