Yes, someone is thinking. :)

The bills, H 597 and S 288, would mandate a 14-part health curriculum that includes nutrition, mental health, substance abuse, ecological health and family life. It would also contain a provision that would allow parents to pull their kids from the health classes they oppose.

The bill's opponents uniformly objected to the proposal's inclusion of sex education, arguing instead that families are the primary instructors on all sex-related subjects and can better gauge their children's maturity.

“Each family has its own standard on ethical, moral and religious values," Rep. Elizabeth Poirier (R-North Attleboro) told members of the Committee on Education. "We should concentrate our educational effort on the academic areas that have been our historical mission" - such as math, science, literature and history.

Poirier offered her own proposal (H 521) that would require parents to opt their children in to sex education classes, as opposed to out of them, as H 597 and S 288 would allow. (This is very important guys. Remember how many schools simply fail to inform the parents sexual nature will be taught? You can't pull your child from a class you know nothing about.)

Other opponents of the measure held that it implemented a "one-size-fits-all" approach to sex education and failed to consider varying degrees of children's readiness for topics such as sexually transmitted diseases and abortion laws.

“The question at the heart of this is, Whose values will be taught?" said Marie Sturgis, executive director of Massachusetts Citizens for Life.

"The bottom line is parents are the best teachers.”