Sex & Society

A sixth-grader in Ramona, Calif., was not allowed to give her presentation on Harvey Milk. School administrators even demanded that students needed signed parental permission to listen to it. Why? Because a discussion about Milk would violate the school district's policy on "family life and sex education." 

The school caved in a little, allowing the girl to share her presentation at recess, but only to the students with their parents consent.

School officials stand by their policy of notifying parents whenever issues of "human reproductive organs and their functions, processes, or sexually transmitted diseases" as well as "family life, human sexuality, AIDS, or sexually transmitted diseases" will be discussed.

Bonnie Jones, the girl's mother, was shocked. "To say my daughter's presentation is 'sex education' because Harvey Milk happened to be gay is completely wrong,"she said.

"Schools that act as if any mention of the existence of gay people is something too controversial or 'sensitive' to discuss are doing a disservice to their students," the ACLU's Elizabeth Gill said in a statement. "This school completely overstepped its bounds in trying to silence Natalie Jones by shunting her presentation off to a lunch recess time and misusing a school policy to justify requiring parental permission to see it."

Homo milk has also been banned from the school's cafeteria.

Sixth-Grader's Milk Project Blocked [The Advocate]

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