School nixes abstinence-only ed upon realizing 65 students are pregnant

[kpete]

August 16, 2006
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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[MercutioATC]

1. But teaching contraception will make girls more promiscuous!

...erhmmm...never mind....

[MrModerate]

2. That sounds like a REALLY high percentage . . .

Are we sure this isn't bushwah?

[lumpy]

22. Face it, teen agers are into sex these days

Sixty years ago, when I was a teenager, it simply was not cool to indulge in sex. Times have changed dramatically, sex before marriage is acceptable and peer pressure still has the upper hand. So many teenagers believe they are not in the mainstream and are uncool if they don't experience the sex act.
It is very important that kids are educated in the mechanics of sex and use of preventative measures to avoid pregnacy if they want to be 'in' with it. Also the urge to have offspring can be and is a natural instinct in young people. Survival of the species, you know. The realities of caring for kids as well as life itself is not of particular interest to teenagers, especially in this society where the complexity of living is not yet a reality. They should be taught everything there is to know about sexuality.

[MrModerate]

28. I have a soon-to-be 13-year-old daughter

I'm going have to get an open prescription for valium.

[EstimatedProphet]

31. Really, you'd have to see Canton

If you've been there, you could believe it.

[BlooInBloo]

3. To be truthful, you might wanna edit to "abstinence ONLY".

[darkmaestro019]

4. aa ha HA! woo hoo!

(head plus desktop)


I'm so proud to be in Canton right now. And so glad I have no kids and am not likely to come down with any.

Can we get a motion to have the school board review cause and effect so that maybe they can, yanno, avoid this kind of stupidity?

[Bozita]

5. This would be hilarious if you could ignore the consequences ...

... of this stupidity.

[demnan]

6. May they all be little Democrats . . .

n/t

[napi21]

7. I'm not sure about Canton, but Cleveland is a pretty blue area!

Was the school board all Pubs there? I'm glad they FINALLY saw the light of reality and are making a change to their rules. It would be GREAT if the rest of the school boards of the Country heard about these results and changed theier rules BEFORE they have such a BIG PROBLEM!

[YOY]

18. Um, I hate to tell you this

buuuuuuuut guess who's HQ is in Canton?

[elliswyatt]

8. that's it

mandatory abortions for all. I was forced to take out my eyebrow and nose ring every day. Now I think they should just take out the babies.

[Horse with no Name]

26. Kind of warped?

Mandatory abortions?
How about each girl is just given her own choice of what she wants to do.
I can hardly see the correlation between babies and jewelry.:shrug:

[TahitiNut]

9. It's a MIRACLE!! All those virgin births!

Alert the media. :eyes:

[Atman]

10. "I guess better late than never?"

Well...not when it comes to condoms or bc's. Sorry, kids. The grown-ups failed you again.

[Dragonbreathp9d]

11. Unless you're already late...

[jdadd]

12. The school mascot is...

The "Trojans".....:rofl:

[Bosso 63]

13. Don't talk about sex

Teenagers won't think about it if we don't talk about it.

[lumpy]

24. Amazing so many parents are timid about

discussing 'the facts of life' with their kids. Somebody has to do it. Schools seem the logical place to teach if those parents are too chicken to discuss the most popular subject in this TV/Hollywood obsessed country of ours.

[mopinko]

14. and how many pregnancies

were ended quietly?

[nashville_brook]

15. d'OH!

[KurtNYC]

16. New program: Chastity belts for everyone! eom

[countryjake]

17. Link to earlier discussion of this...

Sex Ed Changes At School With 65 Pregnant Teens - Ohio
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=1914513&mesg_id=1914513

[YOY]

19. What makes it so ironic is that Canton is Diebold's World HQ

but I have to say it would be funny if the father was all the same kid...

Oh, that Billy!

[BrightKnight]

20. A large class action suit would send a message.

Barefoot and pregnant is the fundie-freak agenda.

[GreenPartyVoter]

21. Hmmm teaching "thy rod and thy staff, they comfort me" mighta been

a mistake?

Crazy fundies.

[Horse with no Name]

27. ....

:spray::thumbsup:

[Poiuyt]

32. LOL!

[Joanne98]

23. The Timken Family owns Diebold.

[DarkTirade]

25. I would point and laugh... but the fact remains that the kids here are the

ones who got hurt because of this. Which would make pointing and laughing rather tasteless.

[Deja Q]

29. Maybe they've just eaten too many Whoppers (at Burger King)...

:yoiks:

[jazzjunkysue]

30. Thanks. I needed a laugh. Someone send this to the freepers.