Check back later for photos from my trip to Volcano on the Big Island!

Promise there’ll be FUUD pics.

Kaimuki-based Bess Press is having a warehouse book sale this weekend that benefits Ka Pa Hula O Kauanoe O Wa’ahila, a hula halau en route to the Merrie Monarch Festival.

The sale will run from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday and Sunday at Bess Press, 3565 Harding Ave.

Some of the titles on sale are “IZ: Voice of the People” ($5) and “Hawaiian Scrapbooking” ($5). There are many other books — adults and keiki — going for less than $3. (View the complete list of books here.) Proceeds support the halau.

Parking available at the city municipal lots across the street.

Shock and outrage by parents from two public high schools this month are raising that age-old debate about sex education in the classroom.

Last week some parents of students attending Kahuku High & Intermediate were upset about a graphic skit performed on campus that was intended to teach the students about teen pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases.

Then yesterday a Kalani High parent expressed shock at a similar program presented by the Life Foundation at the school. (Read more in today’s Advertiser here.)

In both cases the purpose wasn’t to promote sex — as some parents may fear — but to discuss openly sexual diversity, sexual health and responsibility, STDs and pregnancy.

According to the story in today’s paper, the Kalani High parent, John Iervolino, said part of the presentation promoted sexual promiscuity and, overall, it was inappropriate for the students:

“We sat there for five minutes listening to a young man tell us how he used his finger to have sex with his girlfriend,” Iervolino said. A female student had to read off a cue card about how to have hand sex with a person who has HIV and how to get his penis erect, Iervolino said. “They had a dildo stuck to the board,” he said. “There it hung, flaccid.”

Now, I don’t have a problem with sex education in the schools — as long as what’s being taught is balanced and appropriate. I mean, my experience was having to read from a textbook in fifth grade — OUT LOUD — with Sister Mary Ann ready to send us to the principal’s office if we giggled. (Yes, I ended up in the principal’s office that day.)

But who decides what’s appropriate and what’s not?

What do you think should be taught in the schools — and what shouldn’t?