Sex Education in Schools— A Polemic

To the Editor:—  The last three paragraphs of the editorial are excellent and the six concepts as guiding principles for developing programs are well taken. To quote you, "Most responsible educators now agree that the schools must accept appropriate responsibility to reinforce the efforts of parents to transmit knowledge about the values inherent in our family system and about the social, moral, and physical consequences of sexual behavior." Again. I have much to agree with you in the last three paragraphs.You are very wrong in the first paragraph. You have responded, as if programmed by a computer, to the trigger words "extreme right wing," and "sincerely motivated but uninformed." I imagine that you included the last, just to be kind and in the event that you might find some friends led astray by the "extreme right wing."If you would thoroughly investigate many of the sex education programs that