Sex Education

* Re “Plan to Alter Rules on Sex Education Stirs Furor,” June 2: It’s not shocking that the right-wing approach to statewide sex education is woefully out of touch. And though it is refreshing to witness a GOP representative at the forefront of such a progressive bill, it’s disconcerting that the prevailing ideal of Republican education is instruction via propaganda: Omitting certain facts while embellishing others smacks of authoritarianism. By inveighing against Assemblyman Jim Cunneen’s (R-San Jose) bill, the far right would, in effect, be choosing ignorance over enlightenment.

BROCK D. COHEN

Sherman Oaks