Hunting for Sex

This’ll be a short one today – I’m away from my keyboard more nowadays than before and need to get back to it.

I was catching up on the news when I came across this article about a hunters program in West Virginia. Seems in West Virginia, public schools are required to offer hunter education programs to students in eighth through twelfth grades. These courses are not mandatory, no one is required to take one of these courses; they are electives.

As I was reading the article and was pleasantly surprised there’s an entire state getting on the right side of this issue, one of the arguments against such a program jumped off my screen and stank up my office.

The odiferous argument against a mandatory hunter training program is that hunting, hunting safety, and so on are all better taught by the student’s parents at home.

This argument may have some familiarity to it because parents have been saying for a couple decades that sex education is best left to them, not the school system. Hearing none of such an argument, school districts across the country have placed sex education (including the “alternative lifestyle” of the gays and lesbians) as a mandatory course; that is, they are not electives, they are required.

So why’s it ok for parents to teach their children about hunting and firearms at home, but not okay for them to teach their children about sex?