Text Education (Updated) 0
Outfits offering information about sex via text messages are proliferating:
Sex education in the classroom, say many epidemiologists and public health experts, is often ineffective or just insufficient. In many areas of the country, rates of teenage pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases remain constant or are even rising. North Carolina — where schools must teach an abstinence-only curriculum — has the country’s ninth-highest teenage pregnancy rate. Since 2003, when the state’s pregnancy rate declined to a low of 61 per 1,000 girls ages 15 to 19, the rates have slowly been climbing. In 2007, that rate rose to 63 per 1,000 girls — 19,615 pregnancies.
The article goes on to point out that those who advocate ignorance abstinence-only sex education are bent out of shape because their little darlings might actually learn something.
They persist in denying that hormones, not knowledge, causes kids to explore sex.
Addendum, the Next Day:
The Guardian has more.
