âIf kids are not having any sexual activity, they canât get this disease ⌠Thatâs not a bad program,â
1/15 != 15%
Thanks. Corrected.
I imagine 1/15 would be an underestimate. How many of these kids are actually getting tested?
Iâve worked in a few public health positions and on more than one occasion Iâve heard of schools being pulled aside and it shown the significantly higher rates of STI and pregnancy in these âprestigious religious schoolsâ when compared with the local state-school where the socially disadvantaged go. They USUALLY eventually get the hint. Itâs why itâs so good to collect the data. Itâs very disappointing to see this schoolâs response to these revelations.
I wonder if theyâll up the ante?
âThose kids should be getting STIs/pregnant as punishment for having sex.â
Itâs been a while since Iâve heard it phrased as boldly as that, but the sentiment is still alive and well.
And if your sex education program pretends that teenagers donât have the hormones that they havenât learned to cope with because your sex education program pretends that teenagers donât have hormones and should just say no to sexual urges the same way everyone should just say no to drugs, theyâre going to get their sex education from TV and movies and the internet and all those mediums have more interesting takes on the subject than your sex education curriculum ever will.
So, the headline says:
Abstinence based sex-ed programâŚ
whereas the article says:
The high school has three days of sex education in the fall semester for students, with the curriculum including abstinence.
Which is not the same thing.
There is some sloppy journalism going on, either here or in the linked paper.
The superintendent said âabstinence [is] a useful methodology for keeping kids away from sexual activityâ, which it is not. âIf kids are not having any sexual activity, they canât get this disease" is true, but irrelevant, because point #1.
âAbstinence-basedâ and âMentions abstinenceâ are not the same thing, but that doesnât matter in the slightest. The superintendent, who is in charge of recommending and implementing changes to an ineffective program, defends the ineffective part of the program, using faulty logic to explain why the ineffective portion should be effective.
Maybe Iâm old fashioned (N.B.: Iâm old fashioned) and Iâm perfectly fine with a sex education program that is prefaced says, âwaiting to have sex until youâre older is a perfectly sound idea because intimacy can overwhelm your emotions at your age. Now, since many of you wonât listen to that advice, letâs get down to particularsâŚâ
Well what else do you expect? He canât say condom - thatâs a dirty word!
Another old-fashioned parent who has said the same thing to my kids. âHooking upâ isnât entirely about hormonesâŚa large part of it is fitting into social expectations, which is NOT an appropriate reason to choose to have sex. I have used the phrase âquality over quantityâ with my kids in many subjects, so they arenât surprised when I talk about sex in the same way.
The school district announced today that the football team will henceforth be named the Crane Koalas.
And if contrafactual hypotheticals were worth a damn the entire universe would be unrecognizably different and economics would be a scienceâŚ
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