The Case for Banning Life Jackets - a graphic

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29. I'm teaching Health this year.

This poster will be going up in my classroom.

It's been a while since I've been at the front of a Health class, and Sex Ed is required. Our curriculum is abstinence based, but we will be covering effective means of birth control. When we had our Open House, I explained this to the parents. The way I covered the issue was like this. "Sex Education is not teaching your kids how to have sex; they already know how. But ask yourself this. We all know that teen-agers want to drive. They're going to learn about it somehow. Would you rather your kids learn how to drive from their 16 year old friends, or from you and me?" So far, I haven't had one parent tell me they don't want their kid getting this information.

Parents aren't the ones standing in the way of their kids' education in this subject. They know ideally they should be doing it, but most parents can't broach the subject comfortably, so they're pretty grateful their kids will get the right info. The RW crazies are the only ones who think the proper answer to this question is ignorance.