Teacher Urges Kids to Taste Condoms

Acceptable Sexual Education?

http://wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=39588
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Am I a prude because I find the following a little disturbing?

    The New Mexico Health Department is standing behind a sex-education teacher in Santa Fe who encouraged ninth-graders to taste flavored condoms.


Some parents are ascribing some fairly controversial statements to Tony Escudero, the teacher of this class.

When one girl hesitated to put a condom in her mouth, Escudero is reported to have said, “Come on, sweetie, have a little fun."

And when a male student expressed disgust over homosexual activity, Escudero supposedly stated, "Never say never, because you never know. Someday you might like it that way."

Dorothy Danfelser, deputy director for the public-health division of the state Health Department, says that Escudero has done nothing wrong. She told the New Mexican, “It had been investigated…There was no wrongdoing. I have no more comment.

"He tells them, if they're comfortable, they can open up the packages, they can touch them, they can stretch them out and those kind of things. And he has told them, if they're the flavored kind, they can go ahead and taste them if they want to. But it's generally to desensitize the whole stigma of 'Oh my God, it's a condom.'"

This has come down to a he-said/she-said situation. The mother of one of the 15-year-old girls in the class has issued a compliant. And the Health Department is supporting the teacher. Whether the teacher said the inappropriate statements to his students is apparently under debate.

I think sex ed is an important subject for young teens, but I have my concerns about the way this man is educating his students.
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Reply #1 from JoeUser Forums Top
Sex ed is important, and I agree this guy has some iffy ways of teaching it.

It always seemed like a hard subject to teach though. With the amount of PC crap we have in this country now, I'm surprised the teachers are allowed to teach anything and expect to get the message across (i.e. having to use innuendos and the like). You certainly couldn't use "volunteers" or examples in the classroom. Then you've got to deal with the kids, usually a bunch of giggly preteens who get red at the sound of "penis", "vagina", and "oral".

My respect to sex ed teachers, for they probably get laid a lot more than average.
Reply #2 from JoeUser Forums Top
My respect to sex ed teachers, for they probably get laid a lot more than average.

Why do you say that? And why is getting laid a lot more than average a reason for respect?
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Reply #3 from JoeUser Forums Top
The teachers I had in the late seventies would never DARE do such a thing in class. Then on Saturday night we fucked like rabbits at the drive in movies in ignorant bliss. Seems people despise blatently honest folk like this teacher. I think he's dead on.
Reply #4 from JoeUser Forums Top
I think he's dead on.

You think his alleged statements to those kids were appropriate?
Reply #5 from JoeUser Forums Top
You think his alleged statements to those kids were appropriate?


How did it hurt? They hear worse than that on T.V. and who knows what on the internet. "Come on sweetie, have a little fun" might-just might- save her from an unwanted pregnancy or HIV infection. If they are in 9th grade, don't you think they are old enough to start hearing about the world? I would sure hope so.

Sure, I agree, abstenince (hell, I can't do it, let alone spell it!) is the only 100% gaurantee, but it's just plain old not realistic. Maybe this man is trying to shock them into awarnesss, and awareness is to me, the best weapon there is.
Reply #6 from JoeUser Forums Top
How did it hurt? They hear worse than that on T.V. and who knows what on the internet.

There is a signficant difference between hearing things on TV or the Internet and having a teacher, a person of authority, tell them that putting a condom in their mouth is "fun" or that they should consider homosexuality. Televison and the Internet are impersonal. A teacher in your face, talking specifically to you, is inter-personal and fairly powerful.

Sure, I agree, abstenince (hell, I can't do it, let alone spell it!) is the only 100% gaurantee, but it's just plain old not realistic.

Strange, I don't recall anyone in the linked article nor in my article saying abstinence is the answer. This is not a question of whether Sexual Education should be taught, but rather in the manner in which it is taught.
Reply #7 from JoeUser Forums Top
Strange, I don't recall anyone in the linked article nor in my article saying abstinence is the answer.


You know as well as I it is inferred and would come up sooner or later. I guess what I'm trying to say is (forgive me, I'm not a master of the written word) that maybe this kind of shocking creativity is needed in these dangerous times. Maybe kids these days need, to wit:
A teacher in your face, talking specifically to you, is inter-personal and fairly powerful.


to get the point across.
Reply #8 from JoeUser Forums Top
Although sex ed is important to learn what that teacher has done is definitely inappropriate especially what he said to that girl.  It's one thing to describe the importance of safe sex, but to encourage them to taste the condoms in class even if the children find it objectionable is disturbing.
Reply #9 from JoeUser Forums Top
I think teachers should pressure children into having sex with them. After all, it'd be safer for a professional educator to teach children the proper way to have sex than to force them to dangerously experiment with other virgins. It'd also make a career in education much more attractive to indecisive college student. Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm going to head over to Roller King to do my part in pressuring teenage girls to taste condoms. Let's hope that my community has enough enlightened people to know that I'm actually doing them a valuable service.
Reply #10 from JoeUser Forums Top
I think teachers should pressure children into having sex with them


Sorry, the (so called) celibate clergy and Michael Jackson have that covered. But ,hey, you might be on the right track. At best, we can hope they continue to

dangerously experiment with other virgins


...and hope they really are virgins, at least as far as HIV transmission is concerned. Keep up your valuable service...
Reply #11 from JoeUser Forums Top
It seems we have failed to make a distinction between sexual education and sexual instruction. Educating kids about the basic facts, mechanics, risks and results of the sexual act is one thing, instructing them on various flavors of condoms is another thing entirely. What next, how to perform fellatio? Dildo show and tell?


Mr. Garrison on South Park was definitely ahead of his time.
Reply #12 from JoeUser Forums Top
"Am I a prude because I find the following a little disturbing?"

Yup.
Reply #13 from JoeUser Forums Top
Did you know that most people would object to me having sex with a junior high student on an elementary school playground during recess, even though I am providing the kids with an invaluable service by destigmatizing them to sex as well as showing the proper way to do it in a safe environment? Such prudes in the world.