School nixes abstinence ed upon realizing 65 students are pregnant
I guess that would be a hint that your sex ed program is less than successful.
In Canton, Ohio, a school board decided to expand sex education to allow for discussion on contraception after realizing that 13 percent of one high school's female students were pregnant. Yeah.
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.
I guess better late than never?
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Sadly, abstinence-only-until-marriage curricula IS the national standard. The U.S. has spent a billion dollars since 1996 on putting abstinence programs in schools and have the highest teen pregnancy rates, the highest teen abortion rates, and the highest teen sexually transmitted infection rates in the industrialized world to show for it. In fact, the Bush administration put $204 million towards abstinence programs (which have to abide by strict regulations, such as only talking about condoms in terms of failure rates)in public schools just this fiscal year. That amount equals what was taken from the children's insurance program. I guess my "purity" as a young woman matters more than sick children...
That's the ONLY coverage condoms get?
Gee, and they wonder how the student body got preggers.
HA!! This is the same Canton, Ohio that is home to the Timken Company. This is the same company that is run by Bush "Pioneer" William Robert Timken. George Bush visited the company in 2003 to push his tax cuts for the rich. A year later the plant closed.
http://www.counterpunch.org/brauchli06192004.html
So the High School, named for Timken, followed the BushCo abstinence-only doctrine and this is the result. George W. Bush really does have the reverse-Midas touch!!