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Originally posted by Theory Man
As many high schoolers, and some younger, may already know Abstinence is taught at school. Why? because Bush and conservatives say this must be taught. They spend a billion dollars a year, but is it effective?
President Bush has enthusiastically backed the movement, proposing to spend $270 million on abstinence projects in 2005. Congress reduced that to about $168 million, bringing total abstinence funding to nearly $900 million over five years. It does not appear that the abstinence-only curricula are being taught in the Washington area.
www.washingtonpost.com...
Originally posted by Benevolent Heretic
But I think the best place to learn about it is in the home.
Originally posted by Benevolent Heretic
If schools are going to teach about sex, then it should be the truth. Duh.
Originally posted by Theory Man
How do I do external links?
Also GP I can't show you any because the Government forbids sex education. The Government makes schools teach abstinence only programs.
Originally posted by GradyPhilpott
Hmm. Shots, that link is about gender specific classrooms.
Sex education programs that are integrated into formal education
are scarce in the region. In the seven East Central European
countries analyzed herein, there are three in which sex
education programs are mandated by law.However, this statement
needs to be qualified. Since 1994 in Albania there has
been a program consisting of nine hours of sex education per
school year for children 14 years and older. In Hungary the
National Public Education Program requires that all 16-yearolds
have health education, which includes family planning.
But there seems to be little uniformity in what is taught.Until
1998 Poland had a law requiring sex education to be taught in
the schools.The legislature recently amended that provision of
the law, and amalgamated sex education into part of a “profamily”
curricula endorsed by the Catholic Church. For any
sex education course to be introduced into schools, local school
authorities must organize a meeting for all parents where
the goals and content of the course are reviewed, and parents
must approve.
In Lithuania there is no unified national program for sex
education, although some information is conveyed in biology
classes. A similar approach is taken in Croatia. A ministerial
order in Russia requires sex education to be taught in all
children’s health clinics to 17-year-olds; however, this is no
substitute for sex education in the schools. An experimental
program had been launched in 1995 and withdrawn two years
later as a result of parental objections. Romanian laws neither
restrict nor permit the teaching of sex education in schools;
generally the secondary school biology course is the only
exposure to reproduction and reproductive health information
adolescents receive. There appears to be overwhelming support
for the development of sex education in Romania, and a
number of NGOs have begun developing materials.
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