Texas abstinence-only high school struggling to deal with chlamydia epidemic

[eridani]

Another one for the No Shit Sherlock file.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/11/09/1447600/-Texas-abstinence-only-high-school-struggling-to-deal-with-chlamydia-epidemic

The superintendent of schools in Crane, Texas is rethinking the districts sexual education curriculum, after learning that 20 of the high schools 300 students have tested positive for chlamydia.

Jim Rummage told television station KFOR, "We do have an abstinence curriculum, and that evidently ain’t working. We need to do all we can, although it’s the parents’ responsibility to educate their kids on sexual education.”

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention isn't mincing any words, calling the outbreak a health issue of epidemic proportions.

Abstinence-only programs have been an enormous failure, despite heavy funding from the George W. Bush administration and conservative legislatures:

To date, 11 states have evaluated the impact of their abstinence-only-until-marriage programs. None has been shown to reduce teen sexual activity.

Virginity pledgers have found "loopholes" to keep their pledges intact—engaging in risky oral or anal sex—and neglecting to use condoms when they do begin to have vaginal intercourse, according to research from Peter Bearman at Columbia University.

A 2007 federally-funded evaluation of these programs found that youth in the control group were no more likely to have abstained from sex and, among those who reported having sex, had a similar number of partners and had initiated sex at the same age.

[DetlefK]

1. "the parents’ responsibility to educate their kids on sexual education.”

Then, what exactly is the abstinence-curriculum good for???

"Sex. Don't have it. If you want more information, ask your parents. Your school owes me $100 for this presentation."

[TexasTowelie]

2. I don't know why DailyKos is recycling

this story since I posted the news about it in the Texas Group six months ago:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/107825098

[DFW]

3. Republicans think they can outlaw hormones

Even though the God they all claim to worship dictated that all humans should have them, and that they should kick in while we are teenagers.

Such a dilemma........

[trusty elf]

4. "We do have an abstinence curriculum, and that evidently ain’t working. "

Yeah, and the English curriculum ain't workin' two good neither!

[ToxMarz]

5. It's not English, it's 'Murican.

[Feeling the Bern]

10. Please translate that. I don't speak fluent Redneck

[riversedge]

6. Republicans do not care. Simple as that.

[Zambero]

8. Bring in Bristol Palin for a little pep talk

Exemplary role model that Bristol is, she could also elaborate on how wonderfully abstinence has worked for her as a tried and true birth control method, to preclude those pesky out-of-wedlock pregnancies.

[Feeling the Bern]

9. From the desk of Ron Burgundy:

[eridani]

13. And babies, kittens and puppies are cute! n/t

[Jerry442]

11. What problem?

The sluts are being punished. That was the plan, wasn't it?

[mountain grammy]

12. Indeed!