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job, and a wide variety of people worked together. I think my feeling about family life education is different from some of the people who have testified here. My concerns are for strengthening the family. One of the things that struck me in the children I taught was how many were not from strong families. Even the ones from strong families, I was struck by how ignorant they were. The families had taught some things but had not taught other things they needed to know. Their idnorance was feeding each other; they were learning from each other instead of from knowlegable adults.
“I would say it’s very important to train family life education teachers well,” Mrs. Abell continued. “. . . It’s important to impress the teachers that they have an obligation to teach what’s in this guideline.”
Teachers: Some good, some bad
Paul Paratore of Amissville said he is a teacher in Fairfax County, “In our profession there are some good people and some bad people . . . The parent should be the primary family life educator. I don’t want my third grader learning that the baby can be cut out through the stomach or my fifth grader learning about pre-marital sex."
Craig Wilson said he agreed with Mr. Paratore. “I think you should let kids in fifth, sixth and seventh grades on down be kids. You’re trying to teach the cart something the horse needs to know to pull the cart. If parents don’t practice what they preach, it’s senseless to send them to school to teach them. If they come from broken homes you’re wasting your breath. I’m glad they did give us an option to exempt them out.”
Steve Young said the schools don’t have “enough time to teach
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