No Opting Out
Unwanted Sex Education
By Daniel Muniz

The students at Douglass Academy, which covers grades pre-K through sixth, are required to have sex education. And for the people who don’t want their young children exposed to it, there is absolutely no way to opt out. In fact, complaining to local officials hasn’t been all that ineffective.

But the sex education that these kids are getting isn’t part of any trendy program or fancy curriculum and it doesn’t come from a textbook or a lecture series.

It is just the harsh reality of living in a ghetto. Hookers sell cheap sex to eager customers right in front of the school. The presence of streetwalkers, pimps, and johns also means that the police will inevitably show up resulting in altercations and arrests just outside of classroom windows. Additionally, this criminal element also attracts narcotics since sex and drugs seem to go hand in hand in this kind of seedy environment.

Douglass Academy is situated near downtown San Antonio Texas and is aptly named after the famous anti-slavery orator and statesman. The campus has a rich history and a deep cultural heritage that traces its roots back to 1869 when it first opened as a school for the children of freed African-American slaves.

However, being located in a bad neighborhood tarnishes that profound legacy.

Unfortunately, change the name of the city and state and there are quite a number of places throughout the country that exist in identical circumstances.

Unsurprisingly, the parents and legal guardians of the children who have to attend Douglass Academy are furious. They will not allow their kids to ever walk alone even for a few blocks to the school. And for most, the brief drive is unbearable. For example, Jesus Campos explains the experience of just taking his granddaughter to school:

"I am propositioned daily. They will give me a signal. It's pretty disrespectful. I'm with an 8-year-old girl. I had to skip past the birds and the bees and go right to prostitution."

Source: San Antonio Express-News

At least when there is smut on television, parents have the option to turn it off. That choice doesn’t exist for these parents.

The hookers are brazenly blatant in their attempt to hawk their bodies in broad daylight. They will pull up their tops to flash their bras (provided that they are wearing one) or pull up their skirts to flash their panties in order to get the attention of anyone passing by as well as to outsell their competition. And they will solicit anybody of any age on the sidewalk or in car even if they have a little child that they are taking to school.

And their customers don’t seem to mind.

Parents and the faculty and staff say that sex acts take place in parked cars near the campus. And they have seen plenty of prostitutes emerging from the bushes along their johns who are pulling up their pants.

The pimps don’t care either. They won’t hesitate for one moment to enforce their sadistic discipline on their sex workers by savagely beating them even on the street of a school crossing with children scurrying around. After all, business is business to these human traffickers regardless of where it happens.

The police have tried to minimize the sale of sex with stepped up enforcement. The problem is that there is a bus stop at the street corner of the school which invariably attracts the prostitutes because they can simply claim that they are waiting for the bus. This ruse makes it increasingly difficult for the cops to run them off.

And even if the streetwalkers did move their business a few blocks away from the school, their presence still makes the entire neighborhood dangerously unsafe for anyone living there.

In all fairness, there would not be prostitution if demand didn’t exist. However, the customers in this incident are despicable perverts because they don’t care that they are buying sex and partaking in the act right beside an elementary school. The money they are spending for this illicit trade has destroyed a neighborhood and made the living conditions for its residents completely intolerable.

Years ago when I was in college, I was taking an ethics philosophy class. When we covered the section on prostitution, the professor rambled on about how it was a victimless crime involving consenting adults. It was the usual Utopian blather about how harmless it was to society. In retrospect, I would like to introduce that professor to the parents of the kids who go Douglass Academy and see how he would personally defend his assertions.

It is easy for elitist intellectuals to condone such criminal behavior because they don’t have to live anywhere near where it happens. I would like to see if they would still be so sanguine if they had to live in such neighborhoods and had their children exposed to these kinds of acts on a daily basis.

In summary, bad neighborhoods have to be cleaned up but more importantly, the community as a whole has to be made aware of how destructive this kind of behavior really is instead of just being thankful that it has been relegated to some other part of town. Nobody should ever have to live in this kind of environment and their children shouldn’t have to be subjected to this kind of explicit sex education. The birds and the bees need to be taught to children by their parents instead of having it vividly demonstrated by hookers.

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