Children as young as second graders at the Mary Hughes School in Piney Flats, Tennessee received a flyer promoting a three-day clinic to access free birth control and pre-pregnancy services:
Richard Penkoski, a Christian activist who runs the online ministry Warriors for Christ, is the father of a 7-year-old boy who attends the school. He asked the school board;
“why was this given to my 7 year old? Since when is it the school’s job to give information to my child about birth control? When did the public schools decide they can teach my child issues regarding morality and sex?”
Penkoski said he is upset because the flyer nearly forced him to explain sex to his son before he thought his son was ready.
“I know liberals on this council, specifically, will say something like, ‘Well, schools teach reproduction.’ You are right,” Penkoski said. “They do teach biological facts in regard to reproduction. This flyer is not talking about reproduction. It teaches birth control. I also can’t help but notice that abstinence is not on this list.”
As a Christian, Penkoski asserted that he teaches his children to abstain from sexual activity until marriage and that fornication is a sin. He told The Christian Post in an interview that he felt the distribution of the flyer was a “direct attack” on the beliefs he teaches his children.
“The public schools think they have the right to usurp my authority as their father,” Penkoski charged during the meeting. “This school does not have that right.”
It’s time for parents to pull their children out of public schools. It’s sad, but the academic subjects of Reading, Writing, Arithmetic, Science and History are no longer the primary focus of education for our children. Every subject now has social justice ideologies embedded within the curriculum. Here, here and here are just a few stories about the Windham, NH school district.
