Thank God, I am not the only liberal living in suburbia! Thanks for the article. This senator I know is way out of touch.

Great article, Jason! The idea of legislated "morality" is abhorrent, as is forcing one's own belief system on others. It would be far more appropriate for parents who actually wished to keep their children under-informed to provide a signed "opt out" letter.

If the recall is successful this should be the first piece of legislation overturned.

@Jason, Bren, and other liberals -

Congrats on using the infamous liberal tactics of misinformation and shifting the subject in some lamebrain attempt to smear the name of one of our best state legislators.

The crux of Lazich's bill isn't about denying anyone the right to an informed education, but rather returning control of the curriculum to the local level where it rightfully belongs instead of some centralized bureaucracy run out of Madison ala Doyle.

Using your logic though, I guess we should also make potty training a mandatory part of the pre-school / kindergarten ciriculum to stop the increased rate of embarrassing accidents from happening in such classrooms, right? Just tell me one thing though - where does substituting government for parenting stop exactly?

Also, isn't funny how a vast majority of teen pregnancies are occurring in households that tend to vote Democratic - I'm just saying!

Are you saying that school boards are not smart enough to determine the proper sex ed for their school districts? If they are, how does this bill change the sex ed they offer?

What is wrong with allowing the parents of a school district from determining the sex ed for their kids by electing board members that have their same beliefs?

I don't get the point of sex ed classes, considering that the kids usually don't listen to the teacher. I personally think that the government shouldn't be part of this, because this is the parents responsibility to teach their kid.

Teaching abstinence first is a great idea in the old system it did not have to be taught at all. Comparing this to guns is stupid coming from the left that wants all guns banned,we want all sex-ed taught.

So you object to legislated morality? Then I object to legislated support of their morals and the progeny that resulted.
Just so long as I don't have to pay for their children, I believe that the consequences of an unwanted child will be a object lesson for their peers in what not to do or how to behave. The parents of these children will have to bear the cost of their coupling, I certainly don't want to pay for them,
If their lives are ruined by their actions, and the parents of the children did not see fit to provide them with an education that explained the consequences of their actions, I see no reason for the rest of us to provide a solution to the problems they created for themselves. If you want to support them feel free to help all you want.

Every teen should be taught the basics of sex. They should know when sex is appropriate. They should learn what forms of birth control are available and ok for them.

The problem is that parents have put this in the hands of the schools. This is something each parents should teach in the home with the values of those parents attached to the instruction.

If you are the parent of a teen, do your job. That's how we will reduce the number of unintended pregnancies.

Just another misfire on the "war on women" meme. What is being forced on our children is the believe system in which sex is pervasive and premier in human urges and cannot be resisted. It is telling that just providing balance, telling the kids that it is ok not to be sexually active ignites this alarm on the left.

As for opt-out it seems like the schools like to keep the parents in the dark about the instruction that is going on. Even more certain ways to protect parent's belief systems from the value-less indoctrination of public schools (not to mention their constantly sinking academic achievement) are charter schools and home schooling.

As for the recall and education, as the taxpayers learn the dramatic turnaround in education that Act 10 has introduced (quantitative) the recall will sink into the west.

----Walker's office also pointed out that in past years, 62 percent to 70 percent of districts reported laying off teachers, compared with 31 percent this year.

Read more: http://host.madison.com/wsj/news/local/govt-and-politics/past-schools-surveys-shed-new-light-on---results/article_c15c9dde-7eb3-11e1-9c37-001a4bcf887a.html#ixzz1s1i9hG7u

Qualitatively, soon we will learn of the improvement in the teacher workforce as inadequate, unmotivated and destructive teachers are managed out of the system and motivated, inspiring teachers are elevated.

btw my home-schooled child graduated magnum cum laude, phi beta kappa from a medium sized, very respected university.

no thank you ,you and clinton need to stay out of our childrens lives as the home is where the issue needs to be addressed , I and my wife will educate our children on this matter ...our current school teachers have hard time teaching the basics much less sex ed...

I was taught a comprehensive sexual education course when I was in seventh grade in my Catholic grade school - and thank God! No, the nuns did not teach it, but professional educators did and we all learned medically and scientifically accurate facts that most of our parents were not willing to talk to us about at home.
Another sad fact is that the vast majority of parents STILL think comprehensive sex ed is taught in the school, so they do not talk to their kids about it, leaving these difficult subjects for someone else to cover.
This Bill from Senator Lazich allows radical right-wing school boards to deny the teaching of facts to our kids - my guess though is that almost NO school boards (besides in good ole' Waukesha) will go the route of not offering comprehensive sex ed - because they will use their common sense and do their duty of giving teens the tools they need to make intelligent, informed decisions; something Senator Lazich did NOT do!

I find it very strange and hypocritical that the right-wingers on this blog are telling me that the government should "bud out" of teaching the facts of sexual education . . . when the GOP is intervening and trying to bud into our bedrooms, our doctors' offices, our places of employment, and our marriages and tell us who we can and cannot marry and what we are allowed to do with our own adult bodies because it goes against the religious beliefs of a few up-tight, sheltered, regressive homophobes who are living in 1952. Say hello to Senator Joe McCarthy for me and let me know who is Ed Sullivan's guest tonight?

Jason, it's unfortunate you may have taught children. You and your liberal help the poor types are the reason for teen pregnancy. When you reward someone for having children out of wedlock or when they cannot financially provide for them by paying them money per child what do you expect? The mentality is we need more money lets have another baby! Even though there is no way they can properly raise them.

Jason, also nice cut and paste job from some liberal rag!

Ugh. The best argument for public education is that we need to break the cycle of scripture-based stupidity. Think about the children.

Jason, her bill doesn't condem the other type of teaching it just wants to make sure that Abstinence-first is part of the program. I don't think many conservatives would have a problem with a total program. But when you hype the topic to the extremes as both parties are guilty of what we get is a posting like yours.

If you are so discusted with suburbia why don't you move to the east side of Milw and be with people of like mind.