Bulletin from Beelzebub

     "There is no fundamental right of parents to be the exclusive provider of information regarding sexual matters to their children. … Parents have no due process or privacy right to override the determinations of public schools as to the information to which their children will be exposed while enrolled as students."  -- Judge Asmodeus of the Fishy Fume, writing for the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, in denying the objections of parents to sex-questionnaires given to 1st, 3rd, and 5th graders.

     One hardly knows where to begin with this.  In a saner world, all those responsible for diddling the minds of the small children would be fired, and would consider themselves awfully lucky if they could get out of town without a black eye.

     Note that the mysteries of human sexuality -- of that tangled jungle of love and lust, of self-sacrifice and selfishness, of desire and fear and loneliness and triumph -- are all reduced to "information," exactly as if the schools were passing out railroad timetables, or listing the state capitals, or the principle rivers of Arkansas.  Of course, the word is used as a paltry cellophane cover for the corrupting of hearts and minds: and that is the case even if the schools, in an ignorant nod to what they think is traditional morality, exhort the children to delay (always for purely selfish reasons) the onset of sexual activity.

     I can only conclude that if you cannot decide what to tell your children about so intimate a matter, and when, then you are not free.  You are a tool of the state.  There really is no way around it.  The only remaining escape in the United States is to keep your children at home, or send them to one of the few private or church schools that can be trusted.  But even at that, you are like a rebel suffered to remain in peace, temporarily, because the tyrant understands that for now it would not be feasible for him (her; it is fast becoming a nanny tyranny -- a tyrannanny) to do anything about it.  But the totalitarian principle is in place.