BY MALIA ZIMMERMAN – HONOLULU — State Rep. Bob McDermott, who enrolled his eight children in Hawaii’s public schools, doesn’t want his 11-year-old son exposed to a controversial taxpayer-funded sex education program.
That program is taught in 12 public schools across the state, and the Hawaii Department of Education is planning to expand the curriculum to others.
That’s spurred McDermott to renew his fight to get the program revised or pulled altogether. He’s releasing a 21-page report Monday entitled “The Pono Choices Curriculum: Sexualizing the Innocent” detailing his concerns. He also plans to make a plea to the Hawaii Board of Education at its Tuesday meeting, and hold a legislative briefing Wednesday evening for parents.
The 10-hour program, called Pono Choices (pono is a Hawaiian word that translates to “the right way”), is designed for youth aged 11 to 13. It has been taught to 1,700 Hawaii middle school children through an $800,000 pilot program.
McDermott said the program is “medically inaccurate” and not biology based, and that it teaches children about topics such as anal sex, sex with multiple partners and how to put on a condom — using a cucumber or wooden replica of a penis.
“The program normalizes a homosexual lifestyle and anal sex, while failing to warn students of the extreme dangers of anal sex; it references multiple sex partners, while failing to inform students about the health benefits of monogamy; it fails to warn students about the ineffectiveness of condoms against HPV, herpes, and anal sex; and fails to educate students on the stages of human reproduction,” McDermott said, providing Hawaii Reporter with an early copy of his report.
“Any talk of anal sex — which the curriculum does frequently — is instinctively repulsive for pre-pubescent children. Additionally, calling the anus a genital — as Pono Choices does — is just plain medically wrong,” McDermott said.
Among his other arguments: the curriculum’s definition of oral sex isn’t consistent with the definition commonly found in medical literature, data on condom use and effectiveness is inaccurate with regard to HPV, herpes, and HIV and the curriculum ignores the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s warning regarding the risks of condom use when engaging in anal sex.
The DOE maintains the program is medically accurate, and points out parents can opt their children out of the program.
Parents are invited to a Pono Choices Parent Night through a letter that’s sent home with their child informing them their child will study teen pregnancy and sexually transmitted infection prevention as part of health education, the DOE in a statement in mid-December. They also learn how to use a condom as part of the program.
“For any curriculum or lesson that addresses reproductive health, parents have the option of requesting that their child not receive the instruction,” the DOE statement said.
However, McDermott said what parents are told — and students are taught — are very different.
“The parental opt-out forms are woefully inadequate. They lack clarity and transparency by concealing some controversial aspects of the material,” McDermott said.
In November, McDermott requested a copy of the curriculum, which was developed by the University of Hawaii. The DOE and university denied his request for several weeks.
McDermott said DOE spokeswoman Donalyn Dela Cruz told him in an email that the course material wouldn’t be made public, but offered to have the lead researcher “address any questions.”
That researcher, Kelly Robert, told McDermott in a follow-up email: “We are not releasing the curriculum or associated materials to anyone who has not gone through the Pono Choices training.”
Once he obtained a copy and reviewed it with his staff attorney and others, McDermott felt the curriculum fails to inform children of the exponentially increased risks of male on male anal sex.
“Such omission renders the entire document questionable at best and agenda-driven social engineering at worst,” McDermott said.
The program is also contrary to state law and policies regarding abstinence-based sexual education, McDermott said.
“The curriculum treats sexual activity before the age of 14 as a viable choice, despite the state sexual assault law, which puts the age of consent at 16,” McDermott said.
The DOE maintained in a statement that abstinence is taught, but McDermott said “it is not the central message of the curriculum,” which he said gives a mixed message.
The DOE pulled the program in late November 2013 to review it after parents and some legislators complained, but reinstated the program after two weeks and announced its expansion to other schools.
Others share McDermott’s concerns. Senate Minority Leader Sam Slom, R-Hawaii Kai-Diamond Head, agrees that parts of the curriculum aren’t appropriate for middle school students.
Hawaii Republican Assembly, a local conservative organization, issued a statement Monday calling Pono Choices, “Porno Choices” and encouraged parents to attend both the BOE meeting Tuesday and the legislative briefing Wednesday.
“It’s time to fight back,” said organization spokesman Tito Montes.
Reach Malia Zimmerman at Malia@hawaiireporter.com
This is the kind of depravity that the left has wrought. This reminds me of when Obama placed Kevin “Fisting” Jennings (https://tinyurl.com/mvc3v8y) in the position of "Safe Schools Czar".
Here's "Common Core' (at it's core):
"more education increases the threat to sustainability"
From: 'Education For Sustainable Development Toolkit'
By Rosalyn McKeown, PHD
…Uh? 'who's' sustainability?
UN/UNESCO (very much related)
watch this one, connect the dots and share
'Common Core' is part of a bigger agenda:
youtube: Know Your Enemy (Part 65 – The World Core Curriculum)
https://youtu.be/Lqhf-BeADT4
youtube: Know Your Enemy (Part 67 – The War on Parents)
https://youtu.be/ChQd6YMBw4g
Check out the before and after videos about the UN and share
And 'Common Core' (as the name keeps changing) mentioned here:
youtube: Agenda 21 For Dummies
https://youtu.be/TzEEgtOFFlM
These ones is gooder Yo (pubic skool gradIt):_youtube:_ The Truth About Common Core _ _https://youtu.be/lX7ddVUuf-E_ .__Google: Activist Post: Shock Video: The New Common Core Obama Math … __Aug 18, 2013 … Shock Video: The New Common Core Obama Math Standard: "3 x 4 = 11". Mac Slavo …. Anonymous said… Mathematics by consensus.
Don't worry about your kids education, worry about your own job:
'Immigration' is about Obamacare:
If you're a US citizen student or a working class black, or gay or white or Asian or Latino 'US CITIZEN', any US citizen, you'd better read this:
Who are the CEO's that want illegal invaders to take US citizen's jobs, look for yourself below.
Elections 2014, throw out the progressives; RINOs and 'all' democrats:
Google: Obamacare Loophole Provides Incentive For Employers To Hire Illegal Aliens Over US Citizens.
This is why big corporations and Zuckerfacebook are lobbying so hard for 'immigration'.
The letter is available online and the names of the companies, their traitorous corporate CEO's are lobbying for 'illegal invasion to take your job':
Google: Cheesecake Factory, Hallmark, Disney, and Others Now Pushing … Sep 12, 2013
DO YOU OR ANYBODY YOU KNOW WORK AT ONE OF THESE COMPANIES?
Look what your company's CEO intends to do to your job.
Contact them, boycott them WHEN YOU CAN, share this list.
Show this list to your buyers and purchasing dept.
Show this list to your co-workers going out for lunch.
Put this list on your bulletin board at school and work.
… The participating companies mentioned in this article, must be put on notice for their treasonous intentions.
Illegal immigration is also about Obamacare.
Elections 2014, throw out the progressives; RINOs and 'all' democrats:
Si, se puede? Un ciudadano de EE.UU.? NADA para ti
Lord knows the Americans couldn't keep it, as Ben Franklin obviously had concern.
Can you name a country that starts with the letter 'U'?
Some answers: Europe (Urope) and Utopia:
youtube: Lunch Scholars
https://youtu.be/MHtDF-z77wk
…you'll understand how our liberal left progressive public school system had everything to do with the fall of the USA. That's what we get for having under achievers and low information voters charged with teaching our next generation.
'Common Core' will probably disappear from MSM until after the Nov. elections.
"Dice has now successfully managed to persuade Americans in his area to agree to repeal the First, Second, Third, Fourth , Fifth, Sixth and Seventh Amendments, as well as the entire Bill Of Rights."
"What's a FEMA Camp?"
Students Sign Petition To Have Gun Owners Executed In Concentration Camps. You can read it on : https://www.infowars.com/students-sign-petition-to…
…and you wonder why the US is in fast track decline?
'Common Core' is a strategy for eliminating critical thinking and dumbing down our next generation to facilitate compliance.
Our ignorant elected local officials are allowing it.
So students are learning that Christianity is bad, our bad founding fathers, sex toys, deviation, global warming lies, Saul Alinsky, math is consensus, Muslim tolerance, Multi-culturalism, Political Correctness, taught to think like a powerless victim but encouraged to leave school to protest with OWS Marxist, anarchist idiots?
No time for personal finance or the Federalist Papers? Of course not, the globalists forbid such information, it would expose the whole thing and that would lead to student riots.
'Common Core' will probably disappear from MSM until after the Nov. elections.
"Dice has now successfully managed to persuade Americans in his area to agree to repeal the First, Second, Third, Fourth , Fifth, Sixth and Seventh Amendments, as well as the entire Bill Of Rights."
"What's a FEMA Camp?"
Students Sign Petition To Have Gun Owners Executed In Concentration Camps. You can read it on : https://www.infowars.com/students-sign-petition-to…
…and you wonder why the US is in fast track decline?
'Common Core' is a strategy for eliminating critical thinking and dumbing down our next generation to facilitate compliance.
Our ignorant elected local officials are allowing it.
So students are learning that Christianity is bad, our bad founding fathers, sex toys, deviation, global warming lies, Saul Alinsky, math is consensus, Muslim tolerance, Multi-culturalism, Political Correctness, taught to think like a powerless victim but encouraged to leave school to protest with OWS Marxist, anarchist idiots?
No time for personal finance or the Federalist Papers? Of course not, the globalists forbid such information, it would expose the whole thing and that would lead to student riots.
Here is where it all originates (maybe useful idiot, progressive teachers out there can 'learn' something):
Know Your Enemy (Part 63 – The United Nations Background) https://youtu.be/vKj09VVfzik
Know Your Enemy (Part 64 – The Spiritual United Nations) https://youtu.be/H7BNbCc3sgU
Know Your Enemy (Part 65 – The World Core Curriculum)
https://youtu.be/Lqhf-BeADT4
Know Your Enemy Part 66 – Alice A Bailey – By The Fuel Project
https://youtu.be/N3mrGIHgNuE
youtube: Know Your Enemy (Part 67 – The War on Parents) https://youtu.be/ChQd6YMBw4g
Check out the other related videos and share
The UN and it's agencies, the IMF and World Bank, produce nothing, are not subject to the laws of any country it operates in, pays no tax, generates no revenues, is confiscating your wealth through taxes and complicit federal government agencies.
The UN is ramming 'Agenda 21' and 'Common Core' down the throats of the world, the UN's World Bank is complicit in forcing poor farmers off their own land in Africa and South America for corporate and university endowment 'tree farm/carbon credit' investments, is deeming sovereign resources off limits, trying to eliminate (citizen's only) the right to bear arms, our country’s sovereignty and our individual freedoms and now trying to force a 'world' climate change tax and 'world' wealth tax on us AND under the guise of saving us from asteroids, the UN is NOW trying co-opt our US space program, it's technology, resources and MORE OF OUR TAXES.
YOO HOO!
Lagarde’s (IMF) salary is over $800,000 + per year PLUS thousands in ‘stipends’. and she PAYS NO TAX.
“most UN employees pay no tax”.
The IMF and World Bank are UN agencies of now countless agencies, commissions and organizations, one big Trojan Horse and tool of a few dynastic families, sucking the wealth, sovereignty,freedoms and life out of the world.
We have to stop giving credibility and decision making powers to unelected foreign entities that we are forced taxed to fund while they supplant our own country’s laws and sovereignty and take control over our resources.
Time to take away the UN’s ‘supranational sovereignty’,
…time to take back control of our own country’s law making ability, waterways and national parks and de-fund the UN, kick them out of our country, claw back pensions and restitution of it’s assets, starting with the IMF’s gold hoard.
Listen to the last 3 minutes and ask why NOT A WORD FROM THE UN:
youtube: The Rothschilds Exposed 3/3
https://youtu.be/47WM2BhklmM
You have kids in the Hawaii schools who cannot spell, read a map, and have no knowledge of history, geography or culture. Yet they waste time on THIS?
This is nothing other than state sponsored child abuse!
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