June 20, 2005

Knocked Up and Turned Off

You might want to turn on PBS tomorrow night (while you still can) and check out a pretty extraordinary documentary called "The Education of Shelby Knox."

You see, there's this young gal in Lubbock, Texas named Shelby Knox and she's speaking up about how poorly the educational system in Texas deals with sex education. She's pissed, actually - and she's doing something about it, too...

There's also some interesting little tid-bits in the piece, like the fact that despite adopting an abstinence-only approach to sex education, Lubbock County, Texas has some of the highest birth rates in the state.

Just say no, as we all know, was such a great success...

Posted June 20, 2005 05:10 PM
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They need to brand this movement, like the wildly successful war on drugs and war on terrorism.

The war on fucking has begun.

Not to make light of this important issue. Fucking is serious fun.

-- posted by: John on June 23, 2005 10:25 AM

Thank you for posting this. I was for 3-4 years the president of the AIDS Awareness club in high school. Although I prudishly chose abstinence (as if I had a chance anyway - BIG DORK) But I spents years frustrated because I too was suposed to tell others abstinence which was bullshit. How do you tell kids to not have sex or "protect themselves" when you can't say condom for fear of expulsion. I wish I had more guts back then....expulsion would have definately been interesting...especially since my mom is a teacher...

-- posted by: Mindy on June 21, 2005 09:54 AM

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