Guidelines on Sex Education

So Board of Education member Angie Papadakis thinks that homosexuality “is not a topic for classroom discussion” and, therefore, should not be included in the sex education curriculum. “It is not a life style we should be promoting in the schools,” she states.

Since when is discussion and learning a “promotion?” By her logic, we should not discuss war, disease, apartheid, or a myriad of other subjects because we would not wish to promote them. Ignorance is bliss, and I suppose she can choose to remain blissfully ignorant, but I object to her wish to impose her beloved ignorance on the students.

Homosexuality is a reality in today’s world. Surely many teen-agers today have questions about this very different and increasingly openly expressed life style. What better place to deal with those questions than in a place of learning, in a class designed to deal with questions and misunderstandings of the human sexual being?

Maybe Papadakis should even attend a session or two. Maybe she’d learn something, but it would probably shake her bliss up a bit.

TASHA NATHANSON

Isla Vista