I have to write a letter to the school to get them not to teach my son about HIV and AIDS. How did we get to this immoral place?
The California Ed Code requires all schools to teach HIV/AIDS prevention at least once in junior high and at least once in high school. Ed Code also recognizes that parents have the right to excuse their children from this instruction. This is not a question of immorality, it is a question of making sure our children have all of the information and education we can give them to avoid this epidemic.
Centers for Disease Control (CDC) finds that half of the new HIV/AIDS cases each year are found in young people under the age of 25. California Ed Code demands HIV/AIDS education just as the CDC recommends.
If you choose to teach your children at home about the dangers and significance of HIV/AIDS, you are making a perfectly acceptable choice. Simply notify the school of your wishes, and they will abide by them.
Schools imparting this information to our youth are not acting immorally. They are acting responsibly.
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BTW, HIV/AIDS is no considered a sexually transmitted disease. Albeit the #1 way it is spread, tt is passed around other ways as well. You should not have to write a letter, but school should have send home a permission slip.
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