This brings new meaning to sex education doesn’t it?

The summary of the story is that in a shop class at Raymond Park Middle School, two 6th grade students engaged in sex.  The shocker was that they did it IN CLASS.

The teacher was reputedly there, but apparently they managed anyway.  The story has some inconsistencies depending on who you talk to, which is not helped by the fact that school officials refuse to comment on the story, which has outraged parents.

School officials refuse to comment on sex incident

Indianapolis - The Warren Township school district is gaining national attention after a 13 Investigates report confirmed young students engaging in sexual activity during class time.

School officials are refusing to comment publicly, prompting concern and outrage among township parents.

Two days after 13 Investigates uncovered hidden facts about two Raymond Park Middle School students engaging in sexual activity during shop class, Warren Township School administrators still aren’t talking. The report is raising questions nationwide. Nearly a half million viewers heard about the incident from the Drudge Report online.

Parents in the district are outraged.

And they should.  Whose kids were involved?  Was it consensual?  Is this habitual?  Shouldn’t parents know what their 12 year olds are doing?

“It just upsets me because it sounds like they’re trying to make excuses. It doesn’t matter to me how long it was, you know, 30 seconds, 30 minutes; it’s too long. I want to know where the teacher was and how this was able to happen,” said Laura Pliquett, who has a nine-year-old possibly headed to Raymond Park.

Troy Weber has a fifth grader and he’s also concerned. “How could it have been kept quiet for that long and still to us kind of being swept under the rug?” he questioned.

Associate School Superintendent Dr. Jeff Swennson confirmed the incident happened almost four months ago in an Industrial Arts lab with the teacher present. He told 13 Investigates another child acted as a “look-out,” disputing an insider’s claim that as many as ten children may have witnessed the act. More than two parents who called the district say they were told the incident only lasted 30 seconds.

“The 30 seconds, that’s not even a consideration - it’s the fact that something occurred,” said Kevin McDowell, the attorney for the Indiana Department of Education. He says districts often consult him on serious legal matters, but says this is the first he’s heard of the Raymond Park incident.

Something should have been said.  Did they think that the kids would remain silent?  That word would not get out?

Schools are NOT required to report such incidents to the state. McDowell won’t criticize Warren Township, but doesn’t agree with the district’s approach.

“I can’t imagine any administrator worth her salt or his salt that wouldn’t address a situation like this because it is a serious matter. I really can’t answer for them. I’m sure they have their reasons why. You know, is that the way I would address it? Well, my first blush reaction is, you know, I would have handled it differently,” he said.

Jackie Stevens says the issue was particularly bothersome because she has a sixth grade student that attends another Warren Township School. She wonders if there are any other secrets.

“I just want to be very confident that they’re not witnessing and they’re being protected - they’re not witnessing things that are harmful to them emotionally, physically - whatever.”

And that seems reasonable, but bafflingly, not to the Attorney McDowell:

McDowell agrees parents have legitimate issues about classroom supervision - but has a different take concerning students who may have witnessed the activity:

“This doesn’t pose any danger to the other students even if they did see it,” he said.

When asked for claification, McDowell repeated his stance.

“All right, so they may have witnessed this. While this is an activity you certainly don’t see in a school and it’s something that would be certainly unusual, I don’t feel - I don’t know where it posed any immediate danger to those children who saw it,” McDowell said.

And that bugs the hell out of me.  Once again the public school system has stepped in front of the families and decided what is and isn’t appropriate.  They have become the moral conscience of the families, not the parents.

And if there is any burning complaint I have with schools, it is that they have become the surrogate parents of our kids.  They decide what political bias they are indoctrinated in, what levels of exposure to controversial content they receive, and what constitutes proper morality.

And it’s our fault.  Too many parents have treated the schools as state run day care and essentially ceded over the control of their kids.

We let the schools have too much rope, and they are hanging our kids with it.

And all the while more and more kids come out of public school ill prepared and uneducated, but by God they know about sex, aids, political correctness, global warming and all manner of the modern liberal agenda.  

Wake up parents and fight back.  Before it’s too late.

Unless you like the fact that your kids can’t read, think, do basic math without a calculator or spell without spellcheck, but they are good at putting condoms on a cucumber and know how to reduce their carbon footprint.

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