Father objects to sex ed by Planned Parenthood in Salem school
SALEM, Ore. – A parent in the Salem-Keizer school district has filed an objection with the district that has put a sex education program in jeopardy.
Douglas Muravez says the group, Planned Parenthood, which is teaching those sex education classes, shouldn't be teaching his children.
Marion County is among the top five counties statewide in teen pregnancy rates, and for the past two years Salem-Keizer High School students have had access to sex education classes proven to cut down on teen pregnancies.
"The curriculum itself is great because it does teach positive decisions that help kids make better decisions, which would help with our teen pregnancy issues that we have in this community," Jay Remy, spokesman for Salem-Keizer Public Schools, said.
A $4 million grant distributed through Planned Parenthood pays for the program that is taught by Planned Parenthood workers.
But Muravez, the father of two students at North Salem High School, wrote to the district last November, complaining specifically that Planned Parenthood workers were teaching those classes to his children there.
In his letter, Muravez noted his family is Catholic. He writes, "Planned Parenthood works against all of the values my wife and I are trying to instill in our children, and undermines our parental authority."
Liz Delapoer, with Planned Parenthood of the Columbia/Willamette said, "I do know that Planned Parenthood has long been a trusted provider of sex education not only in Salem, but throughout Oregon, and we are still working closely with the Salem-Keizer School District on plans for the fall."
Salem-Keizer schools are searching for a way to address one parent's concerns without losing money that pays for the program.
"If we can find some other way to deliver that instruction, then hopefully the grant goes on and the curriculum goes on. It's just taught by somebody else," Remy said.
The family that filed complaint declined to talk to KATU News Monday. The district still hopes to work things out before classes start in the fall.
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You left wing morons are so ignorant about this country's history, it defies description!!! You would permit anyone
and anything to be taught to our future Americans. YOU STAND FOR VERY LITTLE, AND ARE APT TO FALL
FOR ANYTHING. You enjoy the fruits of "what right wing nuts"  have fought and died for to keep you in the lifesyle
you have, but soon that's going to change radically for the worse, and YOU WILL BE THE FIRST TO SCREAM:
"WHAT HAPPENED, WHICH WAY DID THEY GO?"Â
And I bet ALL these oddball rightwingnutz on this comment board would be on the other side of the fence if this mans reasoning was because he was a muslim
 @sargerator Nope, abortion is murder, period!
I'm sorry - one parent does NOT get to decide the curriculum. You don't like what the schools are teaching - you're free to teach your kids different at home! Example: the schools teach the kids that Abraham Lincoln was a great man for "saving the union"; I disagree, and I would instead teach my kids that fighting a war, just to keep that bunch of illiterate, inbred crackers in the union was the greatest mistake in the history of the country!
You don't like your kids learning about sex at school, then teach them at home, and it won't be an issue.
Why is KATU and the Salem-Keizer School Board even giving this refugee from 1955 face time? This is news?
PLANNED PARENTHOOD IS A RELIGION!!!  THE "REAL" BIBLE WAS NOT "ASSEMBLED" BY THE catholic
church!!! The catholic church is a demonic non-Christian cult THAT HATES THE TRUE BIBLE AND THE TRUTH
IT HAS STOOD FOR FOR HUNDREDS OF YEARS!!! Planned Parenthood should not be permitted access to these
kids, unless you are going to permit a Billy Graham Protestant preacher also educated them to the truths about how
this Protestant nation was originally founded!!! Steve's erroneous characterization of the Bible is indicative of the
many charlatans leading poor unsuspecting souls off the cliff into hell through the many man-based religions and cults!!! True Christianity was not founded by any man or group of man and doesn't depend upon them for it's
existance and sufficiency. It was founded by the Lord Jesus Christ and HE is available to any soul who would
truthfully seek HIM out for salvation. HE's not in any of these churches, since HE would not be welcome!!!!!
 @FLATFOOT2810 The truth? What are you? A JW? You sure sound like it. The Catholic Church is not a cult by any means.Â
well, here's an idea!!!! Â If he objects to the curriculum then PULL YOUR KIDS OUT OF THAT CLASS! Â But no, here comes the right wing nuts yet again saying nobody should benefit from sex education because THEY don't believe in it. Â
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And I know I'm stereotyping here but judging by his name here we have another Mexican Catholic who believes that every time they drop their drawers a baby should be made.Â
 Keep in mind if you are relying on "The Bible" as source for credibility it was first assembled by the Catholic Church around the year 200 CE.  The "Boys Club" decided what to include and what not to include.  They edited and redacted the myths for structured outcomes that fit their purposes.  Based on generations of handed down oral stories, the bible is a historical book and history is written by the winners who have a myopic point of view that justifies their actions, in other words lies about the way it was.  This book is a fabrication created solely by scheming men, nothing more, citing God as the author is not accurate.  Â
 @Steve And the basis of some 33,000 Christian religions, each with their own take on what's in the Bible and what it means . . . providing plenty of choices for you to find one of them that fits with your particular point of view . . . nonsense is what it is . . .
He's dead right that dad is! Â It's better to have uneducated kids having teenage sex, getting pregnant and trying to raise kids while still in school, than it is to give them the tools to make an informed decision because HE doesn't agree with someone else's values! Â This dad should be nominated as father of the year!
I don't understand his thinking. As your kids are out and about in life they hear all kinds of things that may not agree with your values. Your job as a parent is to teach them your values and explain that there are lots of other views out there. A parents job is to teach them to think.
 @Kathi Kyes A parents job is to teach their children HOW to think, not WHAT to think. I agree.Â
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I agree, and to add that there is consequences for the decisions they make.
Planned Parenthood is a joke along with the Welfare system that breeds DEPENDENCY....
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 @Funky-Munky And HOW exactly does Planned Parenthood breed dependency???  Just curious.
Excuse his kids from the class so they can go and make babies . . .
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Personally, I think parents should have a choice. If they choose to NOT send their kids to a public, government school, they should either not have to pay into the school (taxes) or get a voucher equivalent to the amount it costs per child at the public school. You shouldn't have to pay twice for your child's education.
 @Owt_Raged Sorry, it don't work like that - you don't get to choose WHAT governmental services you fund! That'd be like somebody refusing to pay some of their property taxes, on the basis that they're illiterate and live in a concrete house, so since they don't have to use the library or the fire department, they shouldn't have to pay for them!
Parents DO have a choice. The choice to NOT to send their kids to this school. There are online public schools and charter schools, not to mention private schools or even better home schooling. This parent has many options and instead wants to complain and expects everyone else to cater to your opinons. It needs to stop!
Not all Parents have a choice. Some cant afford private schools, or have time/money to home school their kids! And most online schools you have to be accepted into.
I totally agree with chosing another school to participate in, but good for him for standing up for what he believes. Why is it ok for Planned Parenthood to "stand up" for their beliefs and not a parent?
"Planned Parenthood to "stand up" for their beliefs", beliefs ?? Â HUH ???
 @Owt_Raged Excellent points....
 I thought the Constitution of the United States of America guaranteed an absolute seperation of church and state. Schools are state run, using the word "state" to mean any branch of government from city up. Schools don't teach religious based subjects! They teach actual subjects that have been proven! If you are against this form of education then you have the right to home school your kids. Ah,but this would require some form of actual parenting and eliminate your ability to blame someone else for your inabilities to be a real parent. I am NOT an athiest in any way, shape or form! I just take responsibility for my actions and those of my kids of which I chose the have using proper birth control.....
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According to the article, a lack of parenting is causing a high pregnancy rate. I have to agree.
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The state is taking the burden to be the parent by using an organization whose doctrine encourages sexual independence by what they believe is safe. If by accident a baby is conceived, they will provide the service, with a cost of course, to destroy a human being. Said organization is using public funds to provide said abortions. That encroaches into the lives of believers and non believers. You pay for this regardless of your parenting.
"organization is using public funds to provide said abortions", That statement is completely untrue, cite where you read this b.s.
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Exactly! And try teaching kids abstinence. When kids see that there is a school-backed organization that will rescue them from their poor choices they will use that excuse to behave immaturely. Sex should be an adult activity - not for children who can't take care of the results except to kill their kid or get free (to them, not us taxpayers) treatment for their STDs. Â
What I'm saying is that instead of throwing birth control to CHILDREN (because it's easier than actually parenting them) maybe PP and parents should be teaching their kids abstinence until they're ready to deal with the consequences of sexuality; teenagers are not mature enough to make those decisions! All a parent needs to do is actually look back at their own teenage years and remember the mentality going on. Why a parent would want their child to even risk this stuff, I will never understand. And parents with the "they're going to do it anyway" mentality totally condone the behavior. Are we supposed to give up teaching morality because they might do the opposite?Â
If kids don't suffer the consequences of their behavior they're just going to run back to PP to get temporarily rescued, then go do it again. Kids have to learn from their mistakes - not be rescued by some tax-payer funded "permission slip" to act irresponsibly. Whatever - it's your future grandchildren (if allowed to live) and children who might  have a lifetime of misery with STDs. I can hear them now:  "but Planned Parenthood said it was ok!".Â
 @djljejm Ya, that explains why they are having MORE unplanned pregnancies before Planned Parenthood. Yep, your theory works perfect (ly horrible). We've tried your ways. Now we're going to do things the right way.
 @MickRoh Something about preserving freedom of choice for all and not having it restricted by an eccentric minority.
 @MickRoh Dead on target :)
How come none of the Planned Parenthood's clients PLAN?
 @August100 None is such a strong word, so let me prove you wrong:  Condoms handed out, a vasectomy...I think that's enough to show planning.  My 16yo son is a client of theirs:  he gets condoms from them, ergo they have a client who plans (and I suspect several MILLIONS more).
So will you be there when he has an STD because the condom broke, or when his girlfriend decides to keep their illegimate baby and he has to pay child support???? Or let me guess - you will mooch off tax-payers' money for his disease and leave the girlfriend (and YOUR GRANDCHILD!) in the dust because he wanted a good time.
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Who will parent your son when the condom breaks and he gets an STD or his girlfriend decides to kill his baby/. The emotional scars are never talked about.
 @brendan As a parent of the minor, if your child is sexually active, why aren't you providing his condoms?
Do illegals have standing to sue the school system?
 @hankhandsome At the rate the current administration is going they wont be illegal for long!!
I'm a lifelong Catholic. Just for the record...Catholicism is NOT a fundamentalist religion. As in evry religion, there are those that will want to take everything in the bible literally. We call those parishoners a "Catholic Fundamentalist". However, Catholicism views the bible as symbolism due to the wording of the Scriptures and not to be taken literally. That being said, I went to parochial schools all during my childhood. I learned so many things, and when we graduated from high school, we had the education of a freshman college student. We learned diversity, we learned how to use diplomacy in our everyday lives....it was a wonderful education that is still with me at my age...63.
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My forward thinking mom and grandma told me about sex (the romantic fun stuff lol), and the nuns explained the biological aspects of sex along with it's role in our Catholic lives...not so much fun). My parents weren't THAT great as Catholics since we questioned everything and ignored what didn't suit us as a family. I would MUCH rather have my child learn sex ed by Palnned Parenthood than from friends on the street. My Catholic high school girlfriends that learned that way were all pregnant by graduation. If this dad is such a great Catholic, than his children will benefit from the additional teaching that Planned Parenthood will give, without undermining the training they get from a Catholic home. That's how it worked with me....and successfully I might add :)
(Marion county) Mexicans have children at the drop of a hat and PP loves to do abortions with taxpayer money. One group desperately needs the other.
 @TimBurr But they will NEVER find each other... as the Mexicans know that the more babies you crank out, the more FREE money the state gives you!Â
 @MooseKnuckle Too true.
 I am a graduate of North Salem High, Jay Remy was my science teacher (he was great as a teacher and well liked). With that being said (written), I'll send my children to a private school regardless of the financial burden. Our public schools are a sham. If you want to give your child an "AVERAGE" education, send them to our public schools and hope for the best.
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I will not be told how to educate my child. As an Independent, it amazes me that Democrats rally so hard to tell other people how to live when they lament the Religious Right telling them how to live.
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If you don't like being preached to, don't preach to others.
If they parents dont like it they can home school. But since parents dont want to take responsability i doubt that will happen. Hence the reason there is so high of a rate  on teen pregnancy. Only in a liberal state would teaching safe and contrrolled sex would be obcene. At least Planned parenthood is trying to educate those that think breeding for the sake of breeding is stupid( unlike series like "Teen Mom" that glamorize the getting pregnant over and over again, thus adding to the welfare problem)
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Planned Parenthood is a misnomer when take the lives of unborn babies preventing parenting.
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That organization works like the pedophile. It lures its victims in with a common interest then without warning, abuses its victims with everlasting trauma.
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You really want them to teach your children?
OMG...REALLY? PP works like a pedophile??? Are you effin NUTS?!?!?! LOL THAT HAS GOT TO BE THE WORST COMPARISON EVER!
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 @3X07  @Civ Yes, I do!  Better a real organization than an imaginary friend teaching to my children.
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I wouldn't want an imaginary friend teaching my children either.
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Do you really know the people teaching yours? Or is it the lure someone else doing your job parenting that get you passionate about an organization that kills humans?