Bikewer
Penultimate Amazing
A Nation article this morning:
http://www.thenation.com/blogs/actnow?pid=282431
comments on the suspension of two female students who protested the "abstinence only" curriculum by wearing T-shirts adorned with condoms and the message "Safe Sex Or No Sex".
The school found the student's behavior to be "distracting".
Likely they're right, and I doubt that the suspension was out of line, but it does illustrate that even students see the folly of this "sex education" policy. (Don't do it. That's all, you may leave now...)
There have been a number of rather scathing reports on abstinence-only, and to my knowledge nothing positive. However, it keeps plugging on.
Last year, there was an interesting segment on Diane Rehm about all this, with a number of educators taking part. What was interesting is the fact that many public schools still teach standard sex-education courses alongside the abstinence-only format. Government funding must go to abstinence-only, of course, but the educators said they fund the standard program from "other sources".
A number of high-school students called in, indicating that the definition of "sex" has been stretched considerably out of shape by the students themselves.
Evidently, practices which do not result in pregnancy are not considered to be "sex".
Thus oral, anal, manual, and other practices are increasing in popularity. This would seem to be rather diametrically opposed to the intent of abstinence-only......
http://www.thenation.com/blogs/actnow?pid=282431
comments on the suspension of two female students who protested the "abstinence only" curriculum by wearing T-shirts adorned with condoms and the message "Safe Sex Or No Sex".
The school found the student's behavior to be "distracting".
Likely they're right, and I doubt that the suspension was out of line, but it does illustrate that even students see the folly of this "sex education" policy. (Don't do it. That's all, you may leave now...)
There have been a number of rather scathing reports on abstinence-only, and to my knowledge nothing positive. However, it keeps plugging on.
Last year, there was an interesting segment on Diane Rehm about all this, with a number of educators taking part. What was interesting is the fact that many public schools still teach standard sex-education courses alongside the abstinence-only format. Government funding must go to abstinence-only, of course, but the educators said they fund the standard program from "other sources".
A number of high-school students called in, indicating that the definition of "sex" has been stretched considerably out of shape by the students themselves.
Evidently, practices which do not result in pregnancy are not considered to be "sex".
Thus oral, anal, manual, and other practices are increasing in popularity. This would seem to be rather diametrically opposed to the intent of abstinence-only......
