Statewide Chair Mary McLellan Heritage Community Services Regional Chairs Mariscia Cooper (Pee Dee) Charlie Lybrand (Lowcountry) Lenna Neill (Upstate) Rev. Randy Riddle (Grand Strand) Dr. Roger Rollins (CSRA) Charlotte Valentine-Green (Ace Basin)   Advisory Council Eugene Bacote Darlington School District Dr. Vera Bailey Hilton Head Preg. Care Center Pamela Berry Colleton Fire and Rescue Dr. Vonda Calcutt Lowcountry Ctr. Diabetes Sen. Chip Campsen Charleston/Berkeley Rev. Chuck Coward Charleston Outreach Robin Crosby Colleton County Ligure Ellington Ret.Capt. Charleston City Police Dr. Randy Goings Chiropractic Physician Faye Hill Lowcountry Pregnancy Center & SC Association Pregnancy Care Centers WC Hoecke Fatherhood Practioner Leroy Lewis Upward Bound at Cof C Norman L. Moore, Jr. Colonel, USAFR(Ret) Cyndi Mosteller Comm. for Higher Education Alexia Newman Carolina Pregnancy Center Fred Payne Marriage Savers of Upstate Jerry & Barbara Seymour R& R Marriage Min. Ronald Shoupe Colleton County Dr. A. V. Strong A Better Way, Inc. (Gang Out) Dr. Robert Thomas Pulmonary Medicine Pastor Phil Thrailkill St. Luke UMC Hartsville Kelly Walker Upstate Fatherhood Coalition	May 20, 2011 SC Healthy Family Formation Coalition E-News!   Nothing New, Just Dumb: National Education Standards   Is it too much to ask that our children be challenged in school to excel and beat the status quo? Whatever happened to setting high standards and goals and working hard to achieve them?   In his weekly column entitled No National Curriculum, Thanks, Bill Murchinson warns us about the National Core Education Standards for math and science that are passing state by state. He concludes with,      “American schools will become good the minute American culture finally decides it wants good schools, which isn't the same as deciding to commission a national curriculum. Instead, it's the same as forming a commitment at home and in the community and at the office and in the shop: first to expect and then to enforce a high level of student achievement.”   One only has to look at so-called Safe Sex Education, disguised as Comprehensive Health Education, to see how the adoption of any common National Standards would further dumb down the masses; I mean our children.   During the early 90’s, South Carolina was one of five pilot states selected by Planned Parenthood’s SIECUS and the CDC to implement Safe Sex for Teens in our public schools. Since then our money has paid for state agencies and school districts to teach Safe Sex/Condom Advocacy Programs to adolescents, 12 and older, regardless of whether their parents have signed consent or whether they even are at risk for sexual activity. One size fits all!   It is no surprise that after more than 40 years of Family Planning and Condoms-are-Great indoctrination, there are far more reasons to have sex-without-boundaries, than to thoughtfully form and maintain healthy families within marriage.      How’s that working - South Carolina?   Divorce and unwed births fuel entitlements and costs taxpayers more than $469 million every year!     Parents in Anderson and Oconee Counties are just now finding out about some really explicit sex education said to be in their schools, on our dime! Students at Crescent High, Seneca High, Starr-Iva Middle and Walhalla Middle are listed, as of May 20, 2011, on the IMPACT website as current locations for a program called Teen Outreach Program or TOP.   The Anderson-Oconee Council on Teen Pregnancy was trained by the SC Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy (Campaign) in 2004 to begin providing the Teen Outreach Program (TOP).   Forrest Alton, current Executive Director for the Campaign was the SC statewide trainer for TOP, as its Director of Youth Initiatives.    SC Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy not only trains teachers and promotes TOP and other Safe Sex curricula throughout our state, they receive $600,000 each year from the state taxpayers.  Just last fall, it was announced that the Campaign was going to be awarded more than $20 million in federal funding to further expand their services across our state.   Let me know if any of the following content is acceptable for your adolescent. TOP curricula for teachers and students includes:   ·      exploring gender identity, roles and stereotypes (Level 1 pg.63-65), ·      understanding that students in their classrooms will be heterosexual, bisexual, and homosexual (Level I pg. 72, Teacher’s guide), [what about sexually abstinent students?] ·      caution about not using the words girlfriend/boyfriend but rather partner, ·      examples of love and affection: massaging your partner’s body and talking in an erotic way on the phone (Level 1 Pg. 132-134), ·      how “Outer Course” is the safest kind of sex if a person wants to avoid Sexually Transmitted Infections (Level 1 Pg. 139-141) [this is not medically accurate since  Human Papillomavirus, an STD spread skin-to-skin s omitted], ·      explaining how gay and lesbian couples have sex with condoms and “dental dams”,  (Level II, pg. 23) ·      what Emergency Hormonal Contraception is, when to use it and how to get it (Level III, Pg 109), ·      observing and commenting on any discomfort across genders as boys/boys and girls/girls touch one another’s bodies (Level IV, Pg.3) ·      discussion about romantic relationships and “what turns you off and what turns you on.” (Level IV, Pg. 77), and ·      practicing with 10 students how to follow the 10 steps for using a condom and at the conclusion, “Now the two people are ready to have intercourse!” (Level IV, Pg. 109-111)     Do you think this can’t happen in your school district?   Last fall, at the request of Communities in Schools, the Health Advisory Committee for the Charleston County School District was set to adopt the Teen Outreach Program for our middle and high school students. TOP was touted to be age appropriate and approved by other school districts without restrictions.   If Vice-Chair, Al Schirduan, R.N. had not challenged this outrageous material by reading aloud some of the disturbing content and asking what this had to do with promoting abstinence and marriage as the Law requires, this offensive content would be in our Charleston schools today!  The motion to adopt TOP was defeated because no one dared second it. Way to go, Al!   But what about all the other questionable curricula used in our schools? Parents must find out what their children are learning in sex education and report to their elected officials if it is suspect.   School districts should comply with the SC Law and promote Risk Avoidance instruction, not simply Risk Reduction.   What happens when the masses (our children) are expected to learn the common standards as has happened with Safe Sex Education? The masses become socialized to perform at that same minimal standard.  No excellence in achievement, no exceptional students.    All mind-numbed, robots marching to the same drummer, with no escape.   (Supporting documents available upon request.)     Follow the SC-HFF Coalition on Twitter! Join the Heritage Keepers® Facebook Cause
	The South Carolina Healthy Family Formation Coalition (SC HFF Coalition) is organized and staffed by Heritage Community Services. The SC HFF Coalition promotes child and family well-being by providing opportunities for statewide communication about such issues as: adolescent pregnancy, unwed childbearing, fatherlessness, sexual exploitation of our youth, dating violence and domestic violence, child abuse and neglect, gang activity and youth violence.    Coalition members support healthy family formation initiatives that integrate character-based life skills, teen pregnancy prevention with an emphasis on abstinence-centered education, and the importance of fidelity-within-marriage.   Together we can impact our culture so that forming healthy families becomes a norm, rather than the exception, for South Carolina. Please, forward this E-News to interested friends, family and colleagues and ask them to consider joining the Coalition. Join/Subscribe Unsubscribe PRIVACY POLICY: Information you share will never be sold, rented, or given to any third party. Contact Mary McLellan , Statewide Chairman (843)654-7740 ext.122