On Fri, 07 Feb 2014 20:21:00 -0500, Wayne.B wrote:

On Fri, 07 Feb 2014 16:59:47 -0500, Poco Loco
wrote:

See my response earlier. Oh hell, I'll post it again. This is what is taught in Fairfax County.

Family Life Education
Program Overview

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I'm OK with that as far as it goes but the emphasis on abstinence,
especially for older kids, is probably wishful thinking. Many of them
are already, or soon will be, in "committed" relationships and need
good solid birth control and disease prevention information more than
anything else. It's largely a waste of time to preach abstinence to a
bunch of raging hormones and it can cast the credibility of the whole
program into doubt.

We must be coming at it from different angles. I saw the abstinence being taught as the only
'foolproof' method of preventing pregnancies and STD's, which it is. There is a lot more emphasis on
STD's and substance abuse. By the junior and senior years the 'sex education' is pretty much over,
except for some more on STD's.

Yes, there could probably be lots of improvements. But for the most part those take classroom time.
We wouldn't want to take away any of the liberal arts classes. In any case, there *is* education
taking place, contrary to what some would believe.