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 In grade school, for health class, we got to watch the VD film.  It showed people with syphilitic sores, limbs falling off, and madness.  It was, I think, supposed to make young teens swear off sex forever.  It was followed up by the front-and-center childbirth film.  The camera was placed right where the action is.  The woman’s water broke (onto the camera lens) and three kids passed out.  Out of a class of 150 students, we had one teen pregnancy by high school graduation.  I’m giving credit to the curriculum on for this.

Why am I relating this? Because at a very tony prep school in New York, they got a seminar on porn.  Quite different from my school days back in the Gen X era. 

It was a Zoom seminar, so that’s why parents actually knew what was going on.  They were understandably concerned and some were quite angry.

“It’s outrageous that the school is introducing pornography into a mainstream classroom and starting to indoctrinate kids. The goal of this is to disrupt families,” one parent said, and asked, “Why is the school making porn a priority as opposed to physics, art, literature or poetry?”

 “…None of the parents knew this was planned. We were completely left in the dark. It makes us wonder what else the school is up to.”

The head of school said that they didn’t understand the content of a course that was titled “Pornography Literacy: An intersectional focus on mainstream porn”.

What’s actually kind of funny is the reaction of some of the kids:

“We were all like, ‘What?’” a female student told the Post. “Everyone was texting each other, ‘What the hell is this? It’s so stupid.’ Everyone knows about porn. The worst part of it was that it took place not long before the AP tests and I had to miss both my AP classes for this.”

I think that one of the unforeseen consequences of online learning was that parents are actually finding out what their kids are being taught.  Considering the status of the school and the students who attend, maybe if the parents started pulling their kids, then a lesson would actually be learned by the administration and faculty.