February 05, 2010
By Terence P. Jeffrey, Editor-in-Chief
Another liberal feel good idea funded with our tax dollars in an attempt to control the mind of our children. U.S. schools are woefully behind in math, hard science, and critical thinking skills. We need this to usurp the role of the family in this area? Teach sex, drug, alcohol refusal skills to nine year old children. This is just another example of a loony left idea, paid for with our tax dollars. The congressman that put this pork into a bill must be shown the door in a future election. A couple of observations, if this were such a worthwhile cause, what is wrong with Eunice Kennedy paying for it herself? Just an example of Kennedy style hypocrisy fund our bizarre ideas with other people’s money. Random thoughts while observing the passing parade, J.C.
(CNSNews.com) – The Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), a division of the National Institutes of Health, is giving Dr. Lynn Fiellin, an assistant professor at the Yale School of Medicine, $3.9 million over five years to develop a video game to teach “sex, drug and alcohol negotiation and refusal skills” to children 9-14 years of age.
The game will feature “virtual characters or avatars” that are guided by the children playing the game to make decisions about whether to engage in behaviors that put them at risk of being infected with HIV.
The game’s effectiveness in training children to avoid HIV-transmitting behaviors will be tested by having children as young as 9 play the game two days a week for a month—either after school or on weekends—at a New Haven, Conn., community center.
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