This letter is in response to a recent letter by Alton School Committee Chairman Wayne Meserve (Readers Write, Aug. 13).

I was disgusted and troubled by the curriculum that has apparently been adopted for fourth graders at Union 90. The issues that were pointed out by Meserve concern me very much. I strongly oppose teaching fourth graders the details of how to have sex, especially when it refuses to state that a gay or lesbian lifestyle is wrong. Whether it is the parents, school administration, Maine Department of Human Services, or government lobbyists, it is our right to oppose this sort of curriculum for the sake of our children and our families. Children today have enough pressure on them for obvious reasons, most of them social problems that society has put upon them. Let’s not make it any worse for them. Let’s keep sex education within the family structure and let it be taught in a proper environment, at a proper age.

The Maine Department of Human Services, by its recommendation that this teaching of sex education and AIDS-HIV curriculum be taught in a non-sexist environment, with student interaction, speaks for itself. It does not have the well-being of my child, nor the communities’ youth, in mind. It is just one more example of government meddling in the affairs of people, helping create a problem, then telling us that they have the answer.

I am just old-fashioned enough, and happen to believe in God’s Word, The Bible, as the foundation upon which we are to build our lives. It has a lot of answers to today’s social problems, but man in this humanistic age does not want to go to God for guidance or direction. Mankind thinks we have all the answers, that we don’t need God. We should be very proud of ourselves. We are destroying our environment, killing our unborn children, and now trying to pollute the young minds and hearts of our precious children.

Meserve may be alone on his stand in Union 90, but as a recently elected school board member of the Medway School Committee, I see the issues raised in his letter as the main reason I ran for the office, to try in my own small way to buck the system whenever policies as stupid as this get out of control and try to prey upon my children or the community.

I will always try to represent the people who pay the bills, the grassroots people who seldom are represented properly. We need more commonsense people making decisions and fewer educated lawmakers.

I look to God for answers to a lot of today’s problems. Until our country, our schools, and government do the same, the problems will continue to snowball and things will only get worse. Barney J. York Medway