School sex ed lacking in Illinois, study finds

Chicago Tribune ^ | January 31, 2008 | Stephanie Banchero

[Sopater]

Many Illinois teachers have neither training nor textbooks to do job

Doctors should begin teaching adolescent sex education, a new study argues, because schools in Illinois aren't doing a good enough job.

The study, to be published Thursday in the American journal Obstetrics & Gynecology, found that one-third of sex education teachers in Illinois public schools were not teaching comprehensive sex ed.

[Sopater]

Most of the respondents said they covered topics such as abstinence, prevention of sexually transmitted diseases and HIV/AIDS education. But only 68 percent said they discussed birth control with their students and about 34 percent talked about condom use.

Oh, for shame...

Federal funding of abstinence-only education programs under President Bush is partly to blame, the paper concludes. Under federal law, abstinence-only programs cannot include discussion about contraception, except to note failure rates.

Maybe they need to be tested a little harder to see if they really understand what a "failure" means... Not just what it means at that moment, but what it means for the long-term.

[rabscuttle385]

because schools in Illinois aren't doing a good enough job.

A good job at what: teaching children about the birds and the bees or acting in loco parentis?

[RSmithOpt]

Headline should read:

Parental Responsibly, Self Accountability, Governmental Common Sense, Found Lacking in Illinois, Study Finds.

[Sopater]

A good job at what: teaching children about the birds and the bees or acting in loco parentis?

I would imagine that since the study was commissioned by the Illinois Caucus for Adolescent Health and Planned Parenthood, the quality of the sexual education can be measured by the amount of free birth control that is being consumed by adolescents.

[Nextrush]

Considering all the sex scandals, it looks like some teachers know “too much” about sex.

Maybe molesting the students would be right if they carried condoms with them. LOL.

[Dixie Yooper]

Many Illinois teachers have neither training nor textbooks to do job

I was wondering why this list was getting so big;

http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=53859

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"Schools are an important place where young people get information about health, including sexuality, but we are seeing serious and troubling holes in that education," said senior author Stacy Tessler Lindau,...

Sounds like the real issue is the homosexual agenda.

[rabscuttle385]

measured by the amount of free birth control that is being consumed by adolescents.

You mean, like how universities give away free condoms to students?

[Delta 21]

Abortions are down. Gotta expose the kids to early sex so we can justify our jobs....

These folks want to be politicians when they grow up.

[metmom]

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[metmom]

Doctors should begin teaching adolescent sex education, a new study argues, because schools in Illinois aren't doing a good enough job.

Like doctors don't have enough to do?

How about the parents doing the job and leaving the teachers to actually teach and graduate literate citizens?

[KeyLargo]

Dr. Dobson Discusses Families Under Fire

“Bill Clinton appointed Joycelyn Elders as U.S. Surgeon General, one of the most outrageous individuals ever to serve in government. Remember her insulting comment that pro-lifers needed to “get over their love affair with the fetus”? She also said, “If I could be the `condom queen’ and get every young person who is engaged in sex to use a condom in the United States, I would wear a crown on my head with a condom on it! I would!”11 And, “I tell every girl that when she goes out on a date, put a condom in her purse.” And, “We taught them [teens] what to do in the front seat. Now it’s time to teach them what to do in the back seat.”

http://www.focusonthefamily.com/docstudy/newsletters/A000000280.cfm

[wintertime]

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[wintertime]

Sopater,

Did you find this article directly from the Chicago Times, or did you link to it from another site?

If you found it from another site, could you give me that information? I would like to add it to my education favorites list.

Thanks for posting this.

Wintertime.

[MrB]

Liberalism’s template:

A few people are making bad decision X resulting in bad consequence Y.

Liberals alleviate consequence Y for “free”.

More people make decision X because Y is not a consequence anymore.

Liberals claim that the problem must have been worse than anyone thought!

[Fractal Trader]

When was it decided that schools should get out of teaching their students educational fundamentals and, instead, reach something like sex which should really be the responsibility of parents?

[Sopater]

I got the story from EdNews.org (http://www.ednews.org/). I get a daily email from that website with news headlines. The website seems unbiased in the sense that they post news stories from both sides of the political isle.

[tpanther]

AMEN! Let schools concentrate on the 3 r’s. There’s no evidence that they’re competent at that, so why add more incompetence!?

It’s the responsibility of parents, not govt schools to socialize and indoctrinate!

Since when did we put schools in charge of raising our kids?

[wintertime]

Thanks!

[wintertime]

AMEN! Let schools concentrate on the 3 r’s.,,,, tpanther
teaching their students educational fundamentals..Fractal Trader

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It is **impossible** to teach merely the fundamentals.

Why?

Because not only must a child learn to read they must learn to interpret what is read. Also, they can not possibly read everything that was ever written, and the choices for what is read has highly moral, ethical, and values-ladden consequences.

These consequences are **never** religiously, ethically, or morally neutral.

There is only one possible solution: Get government OUT of the education business.