Disgrace! Texas Schools Won't Teach Medically Accurate Sex-Ed

[marmar]

Disgrace! Texas Schools Won't Teach Medically Accurate Sex-Ed
By Texas Freedom Network , A Voice to Counter the Religious Right - May 25, 2009


The Texas House failed last week to pass a measure that would require information in public school sex education classes be medically accurate.

Texas Freedom Network President Kathy Miller decried the failure by the Texas House to require that public schools teach only medically accurate information in sex education classes.

"An amendment requiring that information in sex ed classes be medically accurate was blocked by a point of order claiming that the measure was not germane to Senate Bill 283. Yet SB 283 sets meeting and reporting requirements for School Health Advisory Councils, which advise local school boards and administrators on health education instruction, including sex education. Moreover, the House had just unanimously passed an amendment to the same bill requiring that districts notify parents about the content of sex education instruction in their schools.

“It’s absurd for lawmakers to hide behind parliamentary tactics so they can avoid requiring that students get medically accurate information in their sex education classes,” Miller said. “No wonder a teenager gets pregnant every 10 minutes in Texas. Grownups in the Texas House are scared to even talk about how to prevent it.”

Texas ranks third in the nation in teen births and first in multiple births to teens. The Texas Department of State Health Services reports that a teen in Texas gets pregnant every 10 minutes. .............(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.opposingviews.com/articles/opinion-disgrace-texas-schools-won-t-teach-medically-accurate-sex-ed-r-1243268689

[upi402]

1. gack

It's hard to swallow the syrupy insanity sometimes

[HopeHoops]

2. So they can keep referring to parts as "The Tallywhacker" and "The Butterfly"?

Ignorance can be cured.

[Winterblues]

5. NO didn't you read it, NO medical terms allowed...

:silly:

[HopeHoops]

6. LOL! Right, my bad!

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[rateyes]

12. The call it a "tallywhacker," but they don't tell the students

how to whack a tally. Understand? :evilgrin:

[Towlie]

3. Just another creative new way of rejecting science.

[ensho]

4. Texas and Calif. must be first cousins

nt

[BolivarianHero]

7. And you're surprised?

Par for the course for Rick Perry and the Fundie Brigade.

[MineralMan]

8. They's jest teechin' it the way they larnt it...

A girl cain't get pregnant the first time.
Boys kin die from "blue balls."
A Coca Cola douche'll stop you getting knocked up.
Condoms ruin sex.
Boys'll respect girls who put out. Really.
If a boy tells you he loves you, it's OK to have sex.

[lpbk2713]

9. Sounds like a cause John Boner really ought to get behind.

:eyes:

[11 Bravo]

10. They can't teach sex-ed anyway, because the horse is being used in driver's ed.

[rateyes]

14. But, they still have mules and watermelons.

So, what's the big deal? :shrug:

[jberryhill]

11. "a teen in Texas gets pregnant every 10 minutes"

Somebody ought to have a talk with that kid.

[d_b]

13. lolz

[rateyes]

15. I wonder if it's with the same guy?

:evilgrin:

[nichomachus]

16. You SOB

you beat me to it . . . .

:rofl:

[nichomachus]

17. They're just trying to cover up for the fact they don't really know the accurate info

[seabeyond]

18. *sigh*. it doesn't mean the schools are not giving medically accurate information.

my kids have been getting sex education since 5th grade, and it is accurate, and shows the harsh realities of unprotected.

yes there is a problem with teen preg, not to mention 5 yr olds getting married. ok... that is an exaggeration. but it isn't cause these kids dont know. there is a whole lot of other mess for the reasons of the teen preg