Friday, January 16, 2009

Abstinence

Hats off to Katie Granju taking issue with the abstinence-only sex ed class offered at her daughter's middle school. Well done.

Which brings me to a question: Why on earth are schools involved in sex ed at all?

Please. Just let the parents handle it.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

I'm so glad my school was involved!!! The program through the guidence office when I was in 7th or 8th grade was very informative and science based (no religious overtones at all.) I never would have learned all of that from my parents who were too uncomfortable to mention anything.

500Jerk said...

You're absolutely right; sometimes a school can be very helpful. But that requires that the school provide students with useful sex ed information.

In my book, abstinence-only education isn't useful information; it's an opinion.