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Are there really exemptions for exposing children to obscenity?

President Ronald Reagan formed a Commission to study the serious effects of obscenity and child pornography in our Nation. In 1984 he signed legislation isolating child pornography as a uniquely tragic and distinct criminal offense. Now, our children are being exposed to pornography in a very different way. Comprehensive Sexuality Education now taught in K-12 classrooms is a far cry from the “health’ classes of the 1980’s. Graphic descriptions of all forms of sexual activities are made available to students, not only via curriculum but recommended websites. Pornography is offered as a means of “safe sex.”

In other words, it is now legal for a teacher to display obscene materials to minors without parental knowledge or consent. This same legislation has been passed in 43 states giving educators free reign to peddle materials to students that would otherwise be illegal if an adult showed them to another’s minor child.

This would not be troubling if schools were forthcoming about exactly what they authorize teacher to show students, and parents had the right to OPT IN instead of opt out.
It's legal for teachers and parents to show obscene materials to minors, but illegal for others.
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Watch What Happens When One Parent Speaks Out at a School Board Meeting About a Controversial Book Assigned to His Daughter
A New Hampshire parent was arrested at a Monday night school board meeting after he voiced outrage his ninth grade daughter was assigned a book that contains a page detailing a graphic sexual encounter.

"Courts have decided that exposing obscene material to minors is harmful to their developing brains and emotions.  To the extent that materials shelved in libraries and in schools contain similar materials, then they too would be considered 'harmful to minors' but for their being labeled 'educational.'  This artificial labeling does not magically change the nature of the materials nor the harm they impose on our children." 

Mary E. McAllister, Esq. Liberty Counsel