Abstinence-Only Sex Education? Not in My Backyard!

[DeclinetoState]

Admins:

This might belong in Religion, Culture and Education. If so, feel free to move it there (not that you need my permission to do so, of course :D ).


by Nancy Hatch Woodward
04.28.05
Are kids who have sex before marriage six times more likely to kill themselves? Of course not, but an abstinence-only sex education curriculum called Choosing the Best presents this lie as fact to young people.

In DeKalb County, GA, one of five counties that make up metropolitan Atlanta, more than 50 parents are challenging Choosing the Best, the school district's new abstinence-only sex education curriculum.


Lynn Cherry Grant, a member of the DeKalb County School Board, says that about three years ago the state of Georgia took sex education out of the science curriculum and put it in the physical health and fitness curriculum. At the middle-school level, says Grant, the nine-day Choosing the Best program is not a major focus of the health curriculum.


Abstinence-only sex education hasn't always been the rule. Back in the 1960s and '70s, when I attended school in DeKalb County, we had age-appropriate, comprehensive sex education beginning in fifth grade and running through high school. We received information about birth control, sexually transmitted infections (STIs), and options for unintended pregnancy, including abortion — and this was before Roe v. Wade.

The only misinformation we received was when a substitute teacher told us that childbirth was so painful it was amazing that women lived through it.

Much more at http://plannedparenthood.com/pp2/portal/files/portal/webzine/newspoliticsactivism/fean-050428-georgia-ed.xml;jsessionid=68DAA79F9FC926A1F1E1A9073BFD5C4F

[HomeschoolrsRUs]

I got half-way through the article and then it hit me . . . this is from PLANNED PARENTHOOD.


:whatever:

[PrezLeefun]

The best in school sex-education is one that provides proper information about all sexual lifestyles and consequences without pushing or promoting any of those sexual lifestyles. Private schools however should listen and cater to the needs and wishes of parents whose children attend them.

[DoctorDoom]

Planned Abortionhood and the Without-A-CLU have united several times to sue school districts that use abstinence-based sex indoctrination. Obviously the baby-killers are concerned. Abstinence reduces the number of abortions, ergo cuts the profits of the "clinics", and the bottom line is dollars.

One wonders how America ever survived before the kids were taught the mechanics (but heaven forbid, not the morality) of sex. It's not a coincidence that teenage pregnancy increased concomitant to the government's decision that children need to be taught what to do with those things down there.

There is no rationale whatever for "teaching" Billy and Jenny what their genitalia are for when they should be playing with GI Joes and Barbies. This country would be far better off if sex indoctrination were terminated, period.

[Peachdiane]

Why am I not surprised? DeKalb county is very ahem.... liberal friendly. They have a huge lesbian population and there's Emory University which is of course, very liberal. Or, as the students like to sugarcoat, "We're progressive!" Decatur is the main city that welcomes homosexuals with open arms. :rolleyes:

[DoctorDoom]

Or other open bodily features. <img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v349/DocDoom777/evilgrin.gif" />

[SmellyFed]

The best in school sex-education is one that provides proper information about all sexual lifestyles and consequences without pushing or promoting any of those sexual lifestyles. Private schools however should listen and cater to the needs and wishes of parents whose children attend them.

In the 5000 years of recorded history, sex-education has only been in the schools over the last 30 years or so. But yet, here we are... amazing how that happened.

Kids don't need to be taught about sex - it's in their jeans already (and yes, I spelled jeans exactly how I meant to.)