Since our blood supply is relatively safe now, I wonder if our school-aged children are taught that AIDS is preventable? Since the majority of teachers lean left, I'm sure the AIDS epidemic has been blamed on Bush.
" I wonder if our school-aged children are taught that AIDS is preventable?"
With all the caterwauling about abstinence education programs that is going on, I somehow doubt it. Condoms are not even an especially reliable contraceptive, but they're unassailable as THE means of preventing AIDS. Can't undermine four decades of work to create sexual liberation, by admitting that abstinence until monogamous marriage is the sane, healthy choice in life, now can we? There will continue to be every manner of rationalization and excuse under the sun put out there to avoid admitting that certain sexual behaviors inherently create a dangerous vector for disease. Children are just pawns to these people.