Comments about ‘Jordan teacher investigated for alleged sexually explicit lesson’

I wish my 18 yr old had additional sex-education, she didnt listen to her mother or I.

It is as simple as this, who better to teach our youngsters than someone who dedicated her life to educating our children?

Please for tha sake of a reputation of a under paid, over worked none appreacieated person, use good judgement in exercising your power.

i go to fhms and i am in this class and i assure you that this is not at all what happened. people need to get there facts stright and stop blowing this way out of porpotion!!

Teaching health 30+ years and had the gall to teach "health".

The problem with education is not unions, voucher / non-voucher, but parents unwilling to lete teachers teach. The parents were not in the room. ...and maybe the teacher needs to be redirected, but why would the parents be asking for the teacher's dismissal?

You parents need to allow your millenium babies to grow.

Are you sure you're in middle school? With that spelling and grammar you can't be older than a 3rd grader.

If this happened as reported, I sure don't think it's appropriate sex education for middle school. I also think the perspective might be diametrically opposed to the teaching many of the parents give their children--which is why true sex education doesn't belong in a school setting (I am not talking about basic biology or a discussion of sexual reproduction).
I can still remember one of my sons standing up in a high school discussion of unwanted pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases and advocating abstinance and being told by the teacher that abstinance wasn't a viably alternative. My son had enough guts to reply, "I don't know why not--it works for me and my friends."

To Student:

Like anybody is going to believe you. You got to be some adult trying to yank everybody's chain. Besides most kids know all this stuff before they get to junior high anyway and frequently know more than the teachers do.

Maybe if the parents had done their job and had open, honest communication with their children and taught them appropriately and openly in the home, instead of treating sex as "dirty" and/or "hush hush" and/or "sinful", then this would not be an issue. I do believe that the home is best place for sex education, coupled with the underlying morality that needs to accompany those teachings. But we all know that far too many parents abdicate this responsibility. At least in a health class the real world consequences of teen age sex (yes, it does happen) can and should be explained.

Parents are responsible for educating students. The teachers and schools are available to assist the parents. Who better to educate kids? Parents. They give their whole life to their kids, not an hour a day for 1 year.

I'd rather teach my kids about responsible sexuality than the perverted teacher I had in 6th grade. He was the example of reckless, irresponsible behavior.

Are you kidding? I don't think the teacher went any further than they do on television and movies these days. That is what it is all about, SEX. The more you have the popular you are.
Ask any of those kids and I bet 6 out of 10 have been to a "R" movie. Heck T.V. has become "R" rated and what about the video games? That is where the kids get these ideas to try to pin on teachers.look around you and then find someone else to blame (look in the mirror).

I doubt this teacher did anything wrong. I bet a kid brought this up and the teacher had to diffuse it. Just parents causing trouble

I personally have a child in the class. i personally spoke with at least 11 different parents who have children in the class. You have no idea what this teacher taught. masturbation was the mild stuff. Did you know that 10% of all nature is gay. And if you need to give yourself an abortion, the kids learned how they could do that with a hanger. She's been teaching oral anal, sex toys, turning each other on, etc. for months

The liberal teachers posting their comments might want to get the facts straight. "just let her teach"

Pure Ignorance.

mr. Wrong, I's sure you were at the parents meeting this morning with the other 50 parents who provided explicit details as provided by their children. I'm sure your talking from first hand experience. If not, then why comment on things you know nothing about?

Good to know that liberal teachers follow the Deseret News!

The timing of this with the Sex and the City hitting the big screen couldn't have been more unintentionally odd. The school year is over in a week or so. If this has been going on for the whole year, how is it that this just now is getting out. After all she probably has taught the same subject matter to over a thousand kids and they only now are talking?

Thank you "Get the facts straight" for your posting. If as you say, and we have no reason to believe it isn't the case and that the teens were truthful with their parents (I know I would believe mine), then this "instructor" definitely needs to be called to account. Wonder what he/she taught for the other 30 plus years? Why did this never come to light earlier? Seldom do such tendencies exhibit themselves so suddenly. It is now more evident than before how critical the proper environment at home is and that parents need to diligently open and maintain honest, healthy and responsive communication with their children.

I feel bad about this situation.

First of all, the teacher is innocent until proven guilty. Teachers in this state are underpaid and unappreciated and for us to make assumptions about whether inappropriate behavior occurred or did not is just adding more insult to this profession that deserves more respect.

IF the teacher did wrong, the district should remove her from the courtroom. BUT those of us without kids in that classroom should not be condeming the teacher until she is found to have done wrong.

I work in a high school and I know how fast the rumor mill is and how quickly people jump on a bandwagon. Damage to reputations happens so fast and sometimes it is irrepairable. WAIT and let the facts come out. If the teacher is innocent, I hope this newspaper puts a headline about her innocence as big as this one on the front page!

Homeschooling is always the best option.

The public education system is out of the parent's hands! They are spending billions per year of our tax dollars and community handouts with little progress to show for it. I have seen reports like this and much, much worse from news outlets all over the country and in the EU about sexually predatory teachers. I find an average of 6 reports per week!!!

Time to pull the plug on this entire extortion, pedophile-prone, and corrupt institution called public education. That money the IRS steals from us each year for this scam can go to much better things that our kids want. And free up funds for other family's to independently support their own children better.

Think about this: without that money being taxed from both the family and employer; family's would have more income, and employers could afford the raises parent's work hard to earn. Mother's can stay home easier and children would be protected from these predatory teachers. Homeschooling is not hard; it's natural for a parent to teach. Kids learn from their parents far more than from school, anyway.

Self-reliance is how to ensure a future for children - not socialism!

If you live in a crime infested area, where the safety of child and their moral well-being is challenged then home schooling would certainly make sense. Otherwise, in my opinion, it is a huge mistake. Let's not assume that because a teacher messed up that the whole school system is corrupt.

My experience in the 27 years spent as a district guidance specialist proves at least one of your statements wrong. The average home schooled child that returns to elementary school in our district is 2 years behind their peers academically. There are some that are ahead, but most are lagging in even the most basic skills...particularly math and reading.
As per the teacher, I'd like to let the school and district investigate before I pass any judgement.

I keep seeing this comment on other blogs. You're naive to think home schooling would work for everyone. For the parents who do it, they do a good job- for the other 98% of us, I would hate to see a world where home school is the norm. The average parent can't teach Calculus, Trig, English, Biology, Chemistry, Debate, and heaven forbid PERSONAL FINANCE.

Believe me, kids have more to worry about from their peers, tv, music, mtv, and movies than public school teachers. While the ability to support schools is in a way socialism, it is these skills and education that allows everyone the CHOICE to live in a capitalistic society and follow their dream.

Without education, there is no capitalism?