From Gene Edward Veith @ http://cranach.worldmagblog.com/cranach/You know that story about that sex education class in a Maryland school, in which students had to chew a stick of gum, then pass it around so that everyone in the class chewed it? It was supposed to make some kind of point, never specified, about sexually-transmitted diseases? Well, this grossout classroom activity was not the brainchild of a progressive educational theorist. It was, in fact, an activity sponsored by a "faith-based group that was allowed to come into the classroom to teach about abstinence.
Indeed, the "gum game" has its origins in church youth groups! It is, in fact, one of the idiotic evangelical youth activities I lampooned back in 2002 in my WORLD column "Stupid Church Tricks." The sort that teaches kids (1) that they should overcome their natural inhibitions (2) that they should give in to peer pressure (3) that church is really, really stupid.
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