65 or 490 female Students at a Canton High School are pregnant. Sex Ed must be working!

The Home of Uncommon Sense ^ | 08/24/2005 | Craig DeLuz

[hermgem]

What happens to the law in Ohio?
Is anybody under 18 involved, if yes where are those prosecuting involuntary rape?
Or are there mitigating circumstances as sex education has failed and needs to be revamped first since obviously students did not listen.
Never mind excuses, if left untreated things will turn worse.

[The Brush]

Or are there mitigating circumstances as sex education has failed

It failed because Bush and the Neocons cut spending after sex was explained to the children but before teachers could explain how to properly install a condom.

The article doesn't mention how many girls have had abortions this year. That may have taken the total closer to the 20% mark.

[VRWCmember]

I guess they don't know math either. They should know the percentage of 1 in 6 from doing random probability, and everyone knows that's how teen girls get pregnant: randomly.

Also, if all the female students were having sex and using condoms consistently, then about the same percentage of students would be expected (pardon the pun) to be expecting, since the failure rate of condoms is about 15%. (Notwithstanding that the actual percentage (65 out of 490) is closer to 13.27% or 1 in 7.5)

[Craig DeLuz]

I am simply quoteing the article: "The newspaper reports that the non-Canton rate was 7 percent. Canton was 15 percent. I can only assume that they rounded up. And I actually meant to say 1 in 6. I corrected it on my blog, but there was no way to correct my FR post. So while I may be guilty of bad typing, I am not guilty of bad reporting. But then again, I am sure you have never made a mistake in any of your posts.

[VRWCmember]

But then again, I am sure you have never made a mistake in any of your posts.

Of course not, because I use Preview to prufread all of my posts. :-)

[Tanniker Smith]

But then again, I am sure you have never made a mistake in any of your posts.

No, I have never made a mistake in any single oen of my posts.

TS

[Doohickey]

Okay, not to minimize the problem but in the interests of accuracy...

1 in 5 would be 20%, not 15%. 1 in 7 pregnant would be closer to the truth, at slightly over 14%.

[ndt]

" I wonder why education officials aren’t taking credit for the success of public school sex education programs?"

They were using an "abstinence based" program. I think these are the folks.

http://www.communityofcaring.org/

"This program is directed toward students at Timken Senior High School in Canton, with the intent of reaching 75% of the students. The Community of Caring (COC) program incorporates five separate elements into an abstinence-based educational program that helps students learn the importance of values. It includes the integration of values, a coordinator, teen forums, parental involvement, and community service programs."