The real agenda here is exposed with this sentence "Then, there's the health curriculum. "(The district) only teaches abstinence," McKean said. "They don't teach safer sex practices."
Also look at the graphs at the bottom, STD rates for female is significantly higher than for males.
These are “known” rates. Reality is likely higher, but it’s still below the rate reported in the recent “shocking” report.
BTW, teaching abstinence-only is wrong. These kids should be taught about condoms, too...about how the CDC notes that condoms are ineffective in preventing the spread of HPV, the number one STD noted in that study and killer of thousands of American women annually.
Why estimate 10%? Why not 25% (as the CDC did) or 45%, or whatever it takes to scare people into thinking the system needs more money to teach preteens to screw around?
I thought the headline was anti-semitic until I realized it said STD’s and not SDT’s.
I think the entire sex education debate is, and maybe always has been about far more than sex education. To hear the talk, it must take years and years of instruction (indoctrination) for kids to catch on to how pregnancy happens, how to prevent it, and about STDs.
You could cover pregnancy, contraception and STDs in one class session (including the banana or cucumber demo), give the kids a comprehensive (and short) pamphlet highlighting all the critical information, and then dismiss the class early.
Back before sex ed was even part of curricula, my 12 year-old friends and I knew all the basics, and our information was correct except we thought pregnancy was the automatic result of any sex without contraception.
This entire debate is about getting the kids in a classroom for hours and hours of indoctrination, year-after-year.
When you think about the 3 biggest problems of adolescence - sex, drugs & alcohol - we counsel abstinence with only 2 of them. With sex, the left argues that they’re just going to do it anyway so we should teach safe sex practices. By that logic, why aren’t we teaching how to do a flaming shooter; proper food selection with boilermakers; the correct use of a hypodermic needle; and what to look for in a good crack pipe? Something very, very wrong out there.
A 15 year old girl complaining that abstinence teaching is the cause of all this? Perhaps they ARE learning about STDs, etc, in health class? We did “back in the day”, but were not taught how to use condoms or any other type of “how to do it safely” instruction. Our parents taught us. We were not innundated by television’s constant scenes of teens having sex (just watch ‘The N’ network for teens). Even “The Suite Life of Zack and Cody”, a Disney program for pre-teens may not be talking about sex, but they are constantly talking about going on dates, etc. Perhaps the quote that they “get bored and have sex” should be a wake up call to parents to give them more chores? Never heard of washing dishes causing pregnancy - nor a job at the local burger joint.....
We had ONE girl the entire time I was in high school who got pregnant. Just one......... STDs and HIV were completely unheard of.
The cucumber teachers have been effective, it seems.
Who says that the “Great Society” programs don’t have their benefits? LBJ and the Dumbocrats legacy lives on.
In my high school days we were inundated with LTD’s. The Ford variety.
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.
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.