Class Isn’t a Place to Discuss Sex Lives

One can well imagine that Chuck Stewart is indeed “a very popular teacher.” Eighth-graders seldom have their sexual curiosity so willingly accommodated by a classroom teacher.

Adolescent curiosity notwithstanding, it is evident that Stewart has a personal agenda for educating his students that goes well beyond the physical science curriculum. What Stewart fails to recognize is that classroom discussion of personal sexual activities is highly inappropriate--whether the teacher is male or female, married or unmarried, homosexual or heterosexual--and would be so even if the class were sex education.

The function of the classroom is to educate, not to titillate. These teachers are guilty of exceedingly poor judgment, and the district has the right to respond to these issues accordingly.

LINDA S. HAMILTON, Woodland Hills