The Nova Scotia government is guilty of sexual exploitation of children or kiddie porn or something!!! Imagine if a priest showed this material to a child of 10 years! Here is my note to the government:
Below is a letter I wrote today to the minister of the health department and the minister of education.
Ms. Macdonald,
I object to the department of health involving itself an intimate discussions of a sexual nature with prepubescent children. It is doing so by providing the booklet “Growing Up Ok” to prepubescent children. This kind of discussion is only to be held between a child and its guardian or parents. It is a discussion that is not one simply of biology. As well you know, the nature by which this information is delivered to a child has a psychological imprinting effect. Most sexual predators report that they experienced some strange event coincident with their sexual coming of age. Many people regard sexual behavior as not simply a biological function rather, in many ways, it defines their spiritual framework as well. It is not possible for a teacher to independently treat the subject to each of the students such that is consistent with the beliefs and practices of each of the families respectively.
That is why the state should not participate in the formation of the sexual psyche of prepubescent children. It is a well established fact that the majority of sexual abuse of children occurs in our schools. One in 8 boys and 1 in 4 girls are abused at least once during the twelve years of public school. In other words, sixteen percent of schoolchildren are subject to abuse while they are inside the institution. These numbers seem stunning
but I have the academic references for them if you are curious. The school is not safest place. It is not the safest place for child to have his psyche imprinted particularly about the tender subject of their sexuality.
I raised my children through their elementary school years in the State of Massachusetts. I lived through this incremental effort to expose our children to horribly violent and explicit sexual activity in their prepubescent years. As an example, children from elementary schools were taken by bus two of private presentations where they were exposed to explicit descriptions of sexual activity including fisting, anal sexual intercourse, oral sex, and the means
to conceal that activity from their parents. This was all done through the auspices of the public school system. That activity is now a matter of the historic record, free to read by yourselves. Also, look up “fistgate” if you have any doubts.
The discussion in public school system in Massachusetts started off one of simple biology. Proponents of presenting information very similar to the “Growing up OK Booklet,” argued that they were simply talking about biology. Within a year it became secret bus rides to lecture centers where elementary school children were being told that fisting is acceptable and normal behavior. Elementary school children. None of these activities required parental consent. The reverberations of these events have shaken the Department of education of Massachusetts.
During the same time, Cardinal Law was excoriated in the press for his inept actions regarding sexual contact of religious people with children. I advocate the standard that developed from that debate. The standard is that children should not be exposed to sexual concepts and paraphernalia by an adult other than the child’s guardians, before the child has reached sexual maturity.
I object to prepubescent elementary schoolchildren being exposed to explicit sexual and arguably pornographic material before they have had an opportunity to reach sexual maturity. It is the state’s responsibility to protect our children. Before we allow our children to be exposed to sexually explicit materials in the school system, something needs to be done to remove the sexual predators from our schools.
I am speaking about what has happened historically. I’m not speaking about theory. The abuses that I am referring to have already happened.
Regards,
Paul Westhaver
