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http://deadstate.org/texas-banned-sex-education-in-schools-now-theres-a-massive-chlamydia-outbreak/Officials from the Crane Independent School District have sent a letter to parents informing that at least 20 cases out of the 300 students at the high school had been reported.
From The Raw Story:
According to the Crane Independent School District Student Handbook for 2014-2015, the district does not offer a curriculum in human sexuality. In 2012, the districts School Health Advisory Committee had recommended Scott & Whites Worth the Wait Abstinence Plus curriculum if a sexual education policy was adopted.
In fact, Texas state law requires any sex-ed course to devote more attention to abstinence than any other behavior. And students must be taught that abstinence until marriage is the best way to prevent sexually transmitted diseases.
sharp_stick
(14,400 posts)it's the only rational explanation.
nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)God works in mysterious ways as it punishes the idiots.
I gave you the knowledge to prevent that, you idiots, and free will, and you still think that you have to think sex ed is icky... have some itching.
joeybee12
(56,177 posts)Nothing quite like it.
daredtowork
(3,732 posts)good luck getting that outbreak under control...
Trillo
(9,154 posts)Engineered ignorance.
SummerSnow
(12,608 posts)central scrutinizer
(11,648 posts)hyperbole much? I've told you a million times to stop exaggerating.
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)hatrack
(59,585 posts)Maybe not massive, but certainly significant.
MADem
(135,425 posts)A "million" times, if needs must!
hatrack
(59,585 posts)MADem
(135,425 posts)It was subtle....but funny!
underpants
(182,803 posts)Oh well as long as they has tartar sauce
gollygee
(22,336 posts)We have abstinence-only sex ed here in Michigan too and it's disturbing how little my daughter has learned there. And not everyone has parents who will give htem the info they need.
Binkie The Clown
(7,911 posts)Don't they realize that abstinence comes AFTER marriage, not before.
Between work, changing diapers, PTA meetings, soccer practice, yard work, doing the taxes, ... who has the time or energy for sex?