Grooming by Proxy

What motivates someone to become a teacher? If you love history or math or biology, for example, I can understand why you might be motivated to pass that love onto the next generation. Is this the reason? What about those who teach sex education? What motivates them?

A few weeks ago at Edgewood Middle School in Highland Park a physical education teacher, who was assigned to teach “health” to the middle schoolers, got himself in trouble by going off script. Apparently, he asked questions that were not supposed to be part of the sex ed teaching for the day. Health class is where our children learn all about sex. Before starting the discussion, the teacher decided to have the students play “The Penis Game” as an icebreaker.

Reportedly, the teacher gave the students the opportunity to shout out words, including vulgarities, that described the human reproduction process. The teacher also showed a video of a penis entering the vagina. Discussions of anal sex also were part of the conversations. At least one child, a 13-year-old girl, found the whole experience, the video and the discussion, shocking and disturbing. She complained to the principal who initially rebuffed her complaint.

When the girl’s mother became involved, the principal conducted an investigation and later issued a letter to the parents of children in the class. He apologized for the incident. According to the principal:

“not all terms were appropriate and not part of our D112 curriculum or resources. It was reported to the administration, and the event was investigated. This activity is not part of the formal curriculum, is not district-sanctioned, and will not take place again.”

Ok. But do these children need to be educated in this way? Is it important for them to become desensitized, in mixed company, to discussion of sexual activity at all? Why?

One of the practices of child sexual predator is to desensitize children to sex talk, to make them comfortable talking about sex and to pique their interest in all things sexual. In other words, they desensitize them to sexual topics in order to lure them into sexual activity. I do not believe that most teachers who are assigned to teach sex ed, are predators. I certainly don’t know about this teacher. But I do know this. They all are helping predators to sexually exploit children. They all are grooming children by proxy, wittingly or unwittingly.

I don’t know what this teacher’s motives were. We should give him the benefit of the doubt. He played football at Trinity International University and played running back on the team coached by former Bear star Leslie Frazier. He’s married and has two boys. I hope he had good intentions. There doesn’t seem to be anything obvious in his background that might raise suspicions. It is curious, though, that he was placed on leave by the school. I’m not sure what that means.

The girl who complained is no longer at Edgebrook. Her mother pulled her out because she was being bullied by other students for blowing the whistle on the “cool teacher.” Evidently there were a lot of other students who enjoyed the teacher led sexual discussions.

Why are we forcing children to take on adult topics at such a young age? What is the objective? Are we trying to help children become skilled in the bedroom before they graduate from middle school? This is perverse. It is damaging our children and jeopardizing their future.

If you cannot pull your children out of public school, at least opt them out of all sex ed classes and instructional materials.