Pa. school district plagued with STDs

Times Herald-Record ^ | June 27, 2008 | Stephen Sacco

[driftdiver]

An estimated 10 percent of middle and high school students in the Delaware Valley School District are infected with a sexually transmitted disease. About two dozen teenage girls in the district have tested positive for pregnancy. And officials say there's one confirmed case of a student with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.

The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has stepped in to track down students at risk for HIV, since the infected student is reported to have had multiple sex partners in the district, officials say.

School officials released the alarming figures in a letter sent home June 15 to the parents of the more than 3,000 Delaware Valley middle and high school students. Maternal and Family Health Services in Milford — a nonprofit health clinic serving male and female patients — alerted the district to the figures. Clinic officials say they estimate that more than 300 Delaware Valley middle and high school students contracted a sexually transmitted disease in the past year; and 25 to 30 girls tested positive for pregnancy. Students as young as 12 years old reported being sexually active, officials say.

[driftdiver]

‘Are you referring to condoms don’t prevent many diseases and are not 100% at preventing pregnancy. I have taught that to my kids.

I believe you are in the minority.”

I don’t think so. I’ve met hundreds of parents through homeschooling that do a fantastic job of raising their kids.

Sure some dont (public and homeschool) but thats part of life. The stupid pass their stupidity on to the next generation. the schools certainly aren’t solving the problem.

[Don Corleone]

Who says that the “Great Society” programs don’t have their benefits? LBJ and the Dumbocrats legacy lives on.

[LearsFool]

The reason abstinence should be taught is because it is right and honorable. That ought to be where the emphasis is placed, not on avoiding venereal diseases.

Young men and women deserve to be shown this and other opportunities to be honorable and virtuous, rather than taught tricks and tools for avoiding the natural consequences of dishonorable conduct.

[Antoninus]

An estimated 10 percent of middle and high school students in the Delaware Valley School District are infected with a sexually transmitted disease. About two dozen teenage girls in the district have tested positive for pregnancy. And officials say there's one confirmed case of a student with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.

What's funny is that this percentage is probably low when compared with most inner city districts.

[Antoninus]

I agree, we are teaching our kids to be promiscuous. For the most part sex ed is encouraging the behavior. Like another poster said the information could be given in one session but the indoctrination takes a lot more time.

Exactly. When I endured sex ed in 7th grade, it was presented as a huge deal--assemblies, small group sessions, etc. But it just made the kids more eager to experiment with everything they had "learned." After this, about half the class became sexually active. A year later, at a kid's birthday party to which about 90% of the class was invited, there was a huge scandal because a bunch of them (13 years old) had engaged in sexual activity at the birthday boy's house.

You want proper sex ed? Forget this condoms and birth control cr@p. Show kids pathological photos of genitalia infected with STDs until they vomit.

[Sig Sauer P220]

In my high school days we were inundated with LTD’s. The Ford variety.

[Hyzenthlay]

There’s definitely a dilemma here... cause although teaching abstinence is the ideal right thing to do, it also obviously isn’t working in this case. So they either need to start teaching ‘safe sex’ to try to stop or at the very least slow down the spread of these STD’s, or else they need to take a good long look at their current abstinence program and see if they need to switch to another one. Either way, something’s obviously wrong with whatever passes for ‘sex-ed’ right now.

[Arthur McGowan]

A few months ago, I heard a PSA on the radio. A “mom” said, “We talk to our son about sex, and not drinking, and not doing drugs.”

[heartwood]

I suspect the rates are higher for girls in large part because the girls are more symptomatic and they more likely to seek treatment for other reasons and have the STD picked up. It could also be that there are a few infected male players infecting many girls.

[driftdiver]

Possibly, I’ve also heard that ‘modern’ girls are more aggressive than most guys ever were.

[metmom]

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