Sometimes all you can do is marvel.
A Hitchcock school board member’s discussion about sex with a class of middle-school girls led the district to issue an apology and on Monday to offer counseling for girls in the class, a district spokesman said.
The apology and counseling offer came after parents complained during a school board meeting last week about a Jan. 15 discussion school board member Shirley Price had with an assembly of sixth-, seventh- and eighth-grade girls at Crosby Middle School.
At least two parents complained that Price discussed sex, said Randy Dowdy, director of school sports services. “They said it was graphic,” Dowdy recalled. News reports said the discussion included descriptions of how to perform oral and anal sex. Price, speaking through her pastor, declined to comment, but Pastor S.D. Siverand of the Galilee Missionary Baptist Church denied that she told students how to perform sex acts.
More here. I get that some people would not appreciate Price doing what she is alleged to have said – if you read the whole story, it sounds like what she was mostly doing was answering questions and telling girls not to feel pressured to have sex, which last I checked was a pretty good message for them to hear – but counseling? Seriously? Whatever Price may or may not have said, it seems to me that the freakout about it is much more likely to be actually damaging to the kids.