The Florida School Law

If there were no government schools, it would be wrong to pass a law prohibiting school teachers from discussing sexual topics with kids in the third grade and below. Schools could set their policies on the matter, and parents could choose the schools for their kids accordingly. Since there are government schools, it is neither wrong nor surprising for governments to set rules and policies for them. Many rules are set by local school boards, but state and even federal rules for schools are common. (I don’t know if the law in Florida applies to private school. It shouldn’t.) A policy prohibiting discussing sex with kids that young is a proper and reasonable one, and it is puzzling that it is controversial. (An interesting question to ask is how creepy a person would have to be to want to discuss sex or his or her sex life with a bunch of second graders. The answer is very, very creepy indeed. And creepiness probably is the least bad explanation for such a desire. Every other hypothesis that comes to mind is worse.) 

Such discussions and presentations are simply inappropriate. The children do not know about sex and sexuality and are unable to understand what they mean. Kids that age are very impressionable and prone to flights of fancy. Their saying they want to be a member of the opposite sex no more means they are transsexuals or will become transsexuals in later life than their saying they want to marry their pets means they are into bestiality and will have sex with animals as adults. Claims from leftist activists to the contrary are special pleading and strange special pleading at that. This is one time when the social conservatives are right.