Halanna

I think some aspects of it are fair and some are not.

While I think parents should have knowledge about what is going on and what is being taught to their child during the day, on sex education it should be mandatory. It can be argued that sex education is really public health education and STD's, contraceptives and necessary information that children need to have. Back when I was in school, we had the whole sex ed complete with slide projections of the location of the organs, ovaries and whatnot and the cheesy little film about how a sperm fertilizes an egg and this is what leads to pregnancy etc. That information is important too. While kids are more mature and with the internet they know a lot more, some of them are suprisingly naive. Mandatory, no parental choice, sex ed gets my vote.

Sexual orientation I can't say because I don't know what is being taught. Is it lessons on tolerance or how to explore your inner lesbian kind of thing. That's a tough one because kids can be so cruel to one another. I can just envision the teacher telling the class that it's ok for a man to love a man or a women to love a women and having some bright bulb in the class turn to some poor unspecting kid that's rumored to be gay and saying "Yea, you can ask Mark all about that, he loooves other men"

Religion is easy. Religion has no place in a publicly funded classroom, ever. The only acceptable time is in the purely historical context while studying that topic.