No Milk for sixth-graders

Banana Guide  May 21 09

A sixth-grader in Ramona, Calif., was not allowed to give her presentation on Harvey Milk. School administrators even demanded that students needed signed parental permission to listen to it. Why? Because a discussion about Milk would violate the school district's policy on "family life and sex education." 

The school caved in a little, allowing the girl to share her presentation at recess, but only to the students with parental permission.

The school stands by their policy of notifying parents whenever issues of "human reproductive organs and their functions, processes, or sexually transmitted diseases" as well as "family life, human sexuality, AIDS, or sexually transmitted diseases" will be discussed. Full story...

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