this reminds me of a south park episode...i remember learning the differences in anatomy in preschool...so in kindergarten does it need to go any further than that? if one cannot come up with details of the proposed "age appropriate" sex education for kindergartners..then it becomes difficult to decide which side of the fence to be on.

oh the horror!! sex education!! bring back the abusive nuns who would lash our pupils hands into bloody pulps for even asking!! the more you lie to the youth about sex, they more they will explore and figure it out on their own, at younger and younger ages. GROW UP AMERICA, AND EDUCATE YOUR KIDS, NOT INDOCTRINATE THEM.

Am I the only one who thinks that sex education for kids in kindergarten is crazy? I respect Obama, but I have to disagree with him. Before puberty, what purpose could sex education serve? At what point does teaching sex education to pre-pubescent kids become absurd? Should we teach sex education to children who cannot walk or talk? There is nothing appropriate about this. The fact that he needs to re-explain himself on this issue, should have been a hint that this idea is half-baked. This is a dumb position for Obama to take. Good luck on formulating a curriculum. Let kindergarten kids be curious. Don't indoctrinate them.

Teaching sex education to Kindergarteners is totally inappropriate!

Just one more reason not to send your kids to public schools.

J...I think it's hard to lie about sex when children don't ask about it at that age. Of all the things that can be taught in a limited school day, sex ed in kindergarten doesn't seem that necessary...if this is Mr. Obama's solution to decreasing teen pregnancy rates (which are already at record lows) than I think his urban agenda may have some problems.

This is the case of another politician who think he knows how to teach your kids better than you...

Here's an idea- leave it completely up to parents.

Wouldn't it be more valuable to teach them the ABCs and how to add?

To J, it seems to me that there was less teen sexual activity decades ago and I don't think that it was due to additional instruction in the classroom at early ages.

...and why can't a teacher just tell a child who asks the where do babies come from question to talk to their parents??? Heaven forbid they have any say on how a child learns about sex.

Bwaaaaaaa! LOL!!! Ahhhh ha hah ha ha ha! This clown thinks children 4, 5 and 6 need to learn about sex?
Right, forget about being a child, playing with toys, learning to share and to interact and reading, writing and math we should get our children to be promiscuous “progressives”. What an idiot, I can’t believe there are enough delusional people in this country to give this fraud a chance.

I don’t recall ever hearing about sex education until high school but then my generation was not pregnant at 14 and sporting 4 different children from 4 different fathers, gotta love “progressives”.

Reminds me of Kindergarden Cop:
"Boys have a penis, girls have a vagina."
And THAT IS sex ed in kindergarden.

I simply can not understand how anyone could think that anything to do with sex would be relevant to a KINDERGARTNER. Unfortunately, there is an assumption out there that a "curriculum" can solve social ills. How much money has been poured into "educating" people about AIDS and everthing else? It does not work. The government can NOT be the answer. We don't even trust government with our money! Why would we trust it with a decision such as this?

You have to be kidding. Sex Ed for 5 and 6 year olds. This is a perfect example of what is wrong with this country. Why don't we give 5 year olds condoms?

Funny thing about all the opposition to abstinence based education- the most recent meta-study- which examined programs of abstinence and non-abstinence based sex ed programs in both suburban and inner city schools - found that the kids in ALL groups had the same rate of knowledge, condom use, STD diagnosis rate, pregnancy rate- and SO DID the kids who got NO SEX ED IN SCHOOL !
So when does THAT hit the headlines so we can stop wasting money on what parents should be doing, and start buying math books ???

don't be silly. like he said. age appropriate. It is VERY IMPORTANT that you LISTEN to words. That you READ them to understand what the person is actually SAYING. Age approproate means very vague, very general, not at all explicit or physically descriptive.

eg. "Babies come from mommy's tummy." Case closed. Job over. Kindergartener curiosity satisfied.

I send my kids to school so that they can learn how to read, write and do math ... not to learn how to multiply (pun intended).

Let me teach them about sexuality at home. Its my responsibility as a parent, not the state's.

This man will NEVER be president. He is very disturbed. Liberalism is a MENTAL DISORDER!!!

Schools have a hard enough time just teaching the basics let alone trying to teach 6 year olds about sex. I've never understood the concept of sex education in school in any grade level. I am sure it is a complete waste of time and for Obama to say kids who don't have this in school will grow up getting sick and pregnant and perhaps dying is pathetic and condescending.