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Official Calls For Mandatory STD Testing Of Teens Starting In 8th Grade
WFSB - Channel 3 (CBS Affiliate) ^ | March 9, 2010

Posted on 03/09/2010 12:10:28 PM PST by Fixit

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To: Fixit

My wife and I are empty nesters. We started saying 6 years ago that if we were starting out now with a family we would abso-frickin-lutely home school. With the support networks, computers, curriculum, etc. available today, public schools are obsolete. They are also very dangerous indoctrination centers for your children.


21 posted on 03/09/2010 12:21:07 PM PST by RobRoy (The US today: Revelation 18:4)
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To: Fixit

[proposing a 10-year plan to eradicate STDs, which included blunt health classes where teens hear real stories and see graphic pictures of infected teens.]

Are these the same liberals who have a fit if anyone dares show a teenager a picture of an aborted baby?


22 posted on 03/09/2010 12:22:04 PM PST by KansasGirl
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To: Fixit

will they have to wear a scarlet letter?


23 posted on 03/09/2010 12:22:06 PM PST by the invisib1e hand (let the rich eat the rich.)
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To: Grunthor

Sex ed hasn’t done this. Children being raised without fathers is one factor. A disregard for the culture and mores that made this country great is another. Sex ed is a symptom of a pervasive deterioration of our values and personal responsibility.


24 posted on 03/09/2010 12:22:13 PM PST by ladyjane
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To: a fool in paradise

Does universal health coverage require STD testing, or is that old hat?


25 posted on 03/09/2010 12:23:22 PM PST by equalitybeforethelaw
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To: Fixit

Since when is 0.1% infection rate an epidemic? They don’t even say what percentage of this small minority are in the target 12 to 18 age group.


26 posted on 03/09/2010 12:23:51 PM PST by BigBobber
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To: ladyjane

Sex ed has done this because it isn’t “biology” and “reproduction” that is being taught. It is the Sex Positive notion that “if it feels good, do it”. Exercise the pleasure principle and there should be NO moral judgements made over any sexual relations regardless of sex, number, age, relation, or speices of partner(s).

Condoms in schools wasn’t about ending STDs and teen pregnancies. It was about settling the argument over whether minors should be having sex. Now the question is how low the age of consent should go.


27 posted on 03/09/2010 12:28:25 PM PST by a fool in paradise
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To: bamahead; Politicalmom; 2Jedismom; 6amgelsmama; AAABEST; aberaussie; Aggie Mama; agrace; ...

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28 posted on 03/09/2010 12:28:32 PM PST by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: Fixit
and it's no surprise that it's happening in diverse, urban areas.

Whoa! someone is gonna catch holy heck for saying that out loud. :P savor the diversity, people!

Reed said she thinks parents would be receptive to the idea.

Then let them test their kids all they want, daily even.

29 posted on 03/09/2010 12:28:33 PM PST by NonValueAdded ("Shut it down" Rush Limbaugh, 3/3/10)
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To: GeronL

http://www.positive.org

“just say YES” campaign to teen sex and experimentation

This agenda is funded through numerous agencies and institutions with our tax dollars.


30 posted on 03/09/2010 12:29:53 PM PST by a fool in paradise
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To: Fixit
Vanessa Reed works for the school-based health clinic that operates inside New London High School. She said there's an epidemic of STDs infecting Connecticut teenagers, particularly teenage girls, and it's no surprise that it's happening in diverse, urban areas.

If they didn't encourage kids to have sex all the time, like they're a bunch of alley cats, there wouldn't be an epidemic.

And pity the poor teenaged boy who does it with an underage girl after being encouraged to. They'll turn around and stab him in the back and label him as a sex offender.

31 posted on 03/09/2010 12:30:34 PM PST by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: NonValueAdded

I was surprised to learn that there was any urban environment in Connecticut. What’s that, some 1940s two-story buildings along main street in some burg?


32 posted on 03/09/2010 12:30:58 PM PST by a fool in paradise
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To: gathersnomoss

JFK had STDs while in the White House.


33 posted on 03/09/2010 12:32:21 PM PST by a fool in paradise
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To: Fixit

Well, the government should only have business mandating testing/immunization for diseases that are a problem in public schools....

Are they trying to say that STD’s are being regularly transmitted during school hours?


34 posted on 03/09/2010 12:32:26 PM PST by Boogieman
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To: Fixit
The plan also includes a requirement that every student get involved in some sort of after-school program...

234 years is a long time to be free.

35 posted on 03/09/2010 12:34:09 PM PST by ConservaTexan (February 6, 1911)
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To: Fixit
STDs in the eighth grade? Geeze! Is this the wonderful “socialization” that homeschoolers are missing?

Are these STDs one of the “real world” experiences that government school defenders are constantly saying that homeschoolers are missing?

( Just wondering.)

36 posted on 03/09/2010 12:35:15 PM PST by wintertime (Good ideas win! Why? Because people are not stupid!)
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To: ladyjane; Grunthor
You were saying ...

Sex ed hasn’t done this. Children being raised without fathers is one factor. A disregard for the culture and mores that made this country great is another.

Yeah, I would agree with that; sex-ed hasn't done this at all. It's the highly promoted over-sexualization of way too many things in our society which is pushing teens into this mess. From this highly-sexualized culture we're in, you then get the teens' peer-group pressure (which is very effective) to carry this forward.

I've seen kids going to Christian schools and going to church, and still succumb to this pressure.

Until our society changes (which I don't think it's going to...), this situation will not change with the teens.

37 posted on 03/09/2010 12:35:23 PM PST by Star Traveler (Remember to keep the Messiah of Israel in the One-World Government that we look forward to coming)
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To: metmom

It says it’s mandatory for ages 8th grade through 12th, if they go this far then the fact you’re homeschooled won’t mean this doesn’t apply to you also.

Just watch, they will make it mandatory to get a drivers license or some such BS as an incentive, mark my words.


38 posted on 03/09/2010 12:36:16 PM PST by Abathar (Proudly posting without reading the article carefully since 2004)
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To: wintertime

In Detroit Public Schools a girl still a virgin in the 8th grade is cause for shame.


39 posted on 03/09/2010 12:37:50 PM PST by Abathar (Proudly posting without reading the article carefully since 2004)
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To: cricket

I hope parents rise up on this one; albeit; one more; after one more; after. . .
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

They won’t. Free babysitting is powerfully addictive.


40 posted on 03/09/2010 12:39:30 PM PST by wintertime (Good ideas win! Why? Because people are not stupid!)
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