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Yes, folks: Yesterday began the final week of public school sex education for my sixth grader. Note: This is a continuation of my former post I started regarding a class my daughter is taking in their final two weeks of sixth grade. For the record, I asked my daughter (known in this blog as "Yellow") to be sure to let me know how week two of this "unit" went. She has. And so, as per her fine note taking skills from the second and final week of Middle School Family Life Unit here are her collection of both questions, comments and answers as relayed to me by a sixth grader, known here only as "Yellow." Yellow said that she and her girl friend ("Lavender") had submitted a question that their science teacher, (known here as "Mr. Blue") that Mr. Blue was absolutely convinced the boys in the back of the room wrote as a prank. Apparently, Mr. Blue was having none of it, and gave these guys a hard time about their submission of the follo

Here's how yesterday's Palin-style Abstinence Tour sounded to Gawker (link here.) And how it appeared to Keith Olbermann -- But, it got me thinking -- Is Bristol Palin a really a good role model? For what? Abstinence or more sex education? Wow. More mixed messages Palin style, this time they use Bristol to promote more useless conservative propaganda. I watched several of her interviews this week and here's how I heard her: "Sex is a blessing and a curse. No, I mean, the baby part. It's a curse not just a blessing." "No...Uh, the other way. " "Look, my Mom and Dad made me do this interview, I don't really even care what other teens do, I just know I have to say all this to you, so puh-leez, do not make me think on top of it all, okay? Because I'm a real mom now, and it's hard! And this baby isn't just an accessory on my hip. Okay?" Yeah, so yesterday Gawker posted a pretty great round-up of yesterday's really peculiar p