8th-graders taught how to use strap-ons

This is too extremely strange and wrong to be real. But it is.

It is also amazing how things can appear in the media and not even register as a blip on the radar unless someone points it out.

This is from an NPR piece in September (8 months ago!!) on teaching about homosexuality in public schools. Read it and weep.

TOVIA SMITH: But many teachers say they're less afraid now since the high court decision legalizing gay marriage. Deb Allen teaches eighth-grade sex ed in Brookline. She keeps a picture of her lesbian partner and their kids on her desk and gay equality signs on the wall. Allen says she's already been teaching a gay-friendly curriculum for nearly a decade, but she says she does begin this year feeling a bit more emboldened.

DEB ALLEN (Eighth-Grade Teacher): In my mind, I know that, `OK, this is legal now.' If somebody wants to challenge me, I'll say, `Give me a break. It's legal now.'

TOVIA SMITH: And, Allen says, teaching about homosexuality is also more important now. She says the debate around gay marriage is prompting kids to ask a lot more questions, like what is gay sex, which Allen answers thoroughly and explicitly with a chart.

DEB ALLEN: And on the side, I'm going to draw some different activities, like kissing and hugging, and different kinds of intercourse. All right?

TOVIA SMITH: Allen asks her students to fill in the chart with yeses and nos.

DEB ALLEN: All right. So can a woman and a woman kiss and hug? Yes. Can a woman and a woman have vaginal intercourse, and they will all say no. And I'll say, `Hold it. Of course, they can. They can use a sex toy. They could use'--and we talk--and we discuss that. So the answer there is yes.

THIS IS FROM THE SAME SCHOOL THAT BROUGHT IN THE GAY, LESBIAN STRAIGHT EDUCATION NETWORK (GLSEN) TO PASS OUT GAY SEX INSTRUCTION PAMPHLETS TO YOUNG BOYS.