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Sex Ed Changes At School With 65 Pregnant Teens
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| August 15, 2006
| AP
Posted on 08/15/2006 5:54:24 AM PDT by ShadowDancer
Sex Ed Changes At School With 65 Pregnant Teens
POSTED: 8:17 am EDT August 15, 2006
UPDATED: 8:40 am EDT August 15, 2006
CANTON, Ohio -- An Ohio school board is expanding sex education following the revelation that 13 percent of one high school's female students were pregnant last year.
There were 490 female students at Timken High School in 2005, and 65 were pregnant, WEWS-TV in Cleveland reported.
The new Canton school board program promotes abstinence but also will teach students who decide to have sex how to do so responsibly, bringing the city school district's health curriculum in line with national standards.
The board made the changes in a vote at its regular meeting Monday.
The Rev. David Morgan served on a committee that developed the lesson plans. He said the new curriculum moves beyond the "Just Say No" approach.
Health textbooks, older than some students, will be replaced.
"If we had math books from 1988, reading books from 1988, as a parent, I would be furious," said Patty Rafailedes, a physical education teacher.
The Ohio Department of Education doesn't require schools to provide sex education, particularly when it comes to using contraceptives. The state curriculum calls for venereal disease education, which often is taught along with nutrition and the effects of drugs, alcohol and tobacco.
"Sex is more complex than the information about drugs and alcohol," said Bill Albert, a spokesman for the National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy. "It is not a not-now, not-ever message."
According to the Canton Health Department, statistics through July 2005 showed that 104 of the 586 babies born to Canton residents in Aultman Hospital and Mercy Medical Center had mothers between the ages of 11 and 19.
TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Ohio
KEYWORDS: chastityworks; moralabsolutes; promiscuity; sexeducation; teenpregnancy; unwedmothers
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To: ShadowDancer
What's the problem? Sounds like they learned their lessons well..........
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posted on
08/15/2006 5:58:05 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Is Castro dead yet?........)
To: ShadowDancer
"If we had math books from 1988, reading books from 1988, as a parent, I would be furious," said Patty Rafailedes, a physical education teacher. Patty, dear, math and reading have not changed since 1988, nor, to my knowledge, has how women become pregnant changed. Perhaps the problem is not with the books but elsewhere.
Jack
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posted on
08/15/2006 5:58:41 AM PDT
by
JackOfVA
To: ShadowDancer
"If we had math books from 1988, reading books from 1988, as a parent, I would be furious," said Patty Rafailedes, a physical education teacher. Has math, reading, or sex changed much in the past 20 years?
Personally, I'd be thrilled if schools around the country used textbooks from 1950.
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posted on
08/15/2006 5:59:10 AM PDT
by
ClearCase_guy
( “I'm the Emperor, and I want dumplings!” (German: Ich bin der Kaiser und will Knödel.))
To: ShadowDancer
Sex Ed Changes At School With 65 Pregnant Teens
Sounds to me like the teens were doing their "homework" for the class. What's to change?
(Do I really need a "/sarc" tag? REALLY!!??)
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posted on
08/15/2006 6:04:01 AM PDT
by
DustyMoment
(FloriDUH - proud inventors of pregnant/hanging chads and judicide!!)
To: JackOfVA
Jack,
But these were written before revisionist history, outcome based education, and "enlightened" books were in full swing in the 90s. I mean, in these books on say, social science, they don't even mention the stories like "Johnny has two daddies". And the math books actually state "2+2=4"!!! *Gasp* How can the left fill young heads with hate and indoctrinated socialism with logical statements floating around???!!!?
Though it seem to me, the usually permissive leftist views on teen pregnancy are getting the predicted "outcomes".
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posted on
08/15/2006 6:04:02 AM PDT
by
M1Tanker
(Proven Daily: Modern "progressive" liberalism is just National Socialism without the "twisted cross")
To: ShadowDancer
"If we had math books from 1988, reading books from 1988, as a parent, I would be furious," said Patty Rafailedes, a physical education teacher. Wow, I did not know English and Math has changed since 1988.
To: ShadowDancer
These cretins don't need sex education...they need to be taught responsibility.
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posted on
08/15/2006 6:05:47 AM PDT
by
stboz
To: Red Badger
Don't need lessons for breeding. Its the rearing and nurturing that really makes a program shine.
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posted on
08/15/2006 6:07:12 AM PDT
by
carumba
(The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made. Groucho)
To: ClearCase_guy
Personally, I'd be thrilled if schools around the country used textbooks from 1950.But these books are just filled with a bunch of words. There are no pretty photos, graphics, and inserts relating the material to minorities, women, and liberal bias. Surely, you not want these things to fall in the hands of our dear children!!
To: carumba
Some things just come natural. Like in the back seat of a Buick..............
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posted on
08/15/2006 6:09:18 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Is Castro dead yet?........)
To: JackOfVA
"Patty, dear, math and reading have not changed since 1988, nor, to my knowledge, has how women become pregnant changed. Perhaps the problem is not with the books but elsewhere."
I agree with you in the area of the information, but if the books are that old they have to be in shambles.
She may have a point in that area, but it sounds to me like she and the media are attempting to take the focus off of the problem and place blame on the tax payers.
We live in a godless society, so it's no surprise that so many young girls get pregnant these days.
In my opinion, kids have too much free time, and parents don't supervise them like they used to.
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posted on
08/15/2006 6:10:05 AM PDT
by
Preachin'
(Enoch's testimony was that he pleased God: Why are we still here?)
To: myprecious
...There are no pretty photos, graphics, and inserts relating the material... Pop-Up Books!..........
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posted on
08/15/2006 6:10:15 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Is Castro dead yet?........)
To: ShadowDancer
I've always wondered why they don't teach girls about their cycle, and the timing of sex and ovulation. Six days out of the month when a woman is fertile... at least wear a damn condom if you can't wait! Sheesh.
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posted on
08/15/2006 6:11:12 AM PDT
by
rintense
To: Red Badger
Oh, you are bad. Really bad. LOL.
To: ShadowDancer
I'm willing to bet that the new program will have no beneficial effect on the number of pregnancies. But it will reduce the number of babies allowed to live.
Modern liberal society thinks of its self as so advanced when in fact we've degraded our selves to a herd of animals to be culled.
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posted on
08/15/2006 6:11:33 AM PDT
by
avg_freeper
(Gunga galunga. Gunga, gunga galunga)
To: Always Right
English is now "Language Arts" and Math is now called "Numerical Arts"............
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posted on
08/15/2006 6:11:43 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Is Castro dead yet?........)
To: ShadowDancer
Yep, just throw some more money at the problem.
Our society has undergone a massive tectonic shift over the last 25 years. There was a time, when a girl fiercely guarded her "reputation" and considered it a great insult if a boy thought he could take liberties with her sexual favors. Being a virgin upon a marriage was the norm for a young woman. Today, girls are being told that they are "free" to experience their sexuality and that dressing like a slut is sign of their power.
There needs to be a massive society-wide refocus upon what it really means to be a woman. Until more girls learn how important it is to control themselves, to elevate themselves so that they inspire the level of respect from young men that a woman deserves, the numbers of unwed mothers will not come down and the misery that one sees among the women of Gen X, Y, Z, and whatever other strata follow will increase.
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posted on
08/15/2006 6:11:48 AM PDT
by
Bigg Red
(Never trust Democrats with national security.)
To: ShadowDancer
Blame, blame, blame.
Blame everything and everybody except the persons responsible.
Their babies will be born for free and then they'll get their own apartment, free food and a stipend every month.
And they really think it's old textbooks that cause pregnancies. Sure.
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posted on
08/15/2006 6:12:10 AM PDT
by
ladyjane
To: ShadowDancer
The Rev. David Morgan served on a committee that developed the lesson plans. He said the new curriculum moves beyond the "Just Say No" approach. Pastor, it strikes me that that was the one thing they weren't learning in the first place.
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posted on
08/15/2006 6:14:15 AM PDT
by
RichInOC
("I'm a family-oriented kind of guy. I've personally started four or five...already!"-David Lee Roth)
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