And these are our teachers
How do these folks continue to dominate our classrooms? The ideology they’re pushing is one problem. But how about their intellectual honesty?
It’s a case of ‘I’ve made up my mind, don’t confuse me with the facts.’
The nation’s largest teacher’s group is attacking abstinence education programs in a new report it co-sponsored. The attack is designed to persuade Congressional lawmakers to cut funding for abstinence education, which studies have shown is achieving its intended results in reducing sex and teen pregnancies.
Never mind the success of abstinence programs, it interferes with….what? What is it that worries the teachers’ group? This is the fourth year they’ve joined with the anti-abstinence group SIECUS to study abstinence probrams, and the fourth year they’ve attacked them.
The NEA-SEICUS report slams the programs for encouraging students to have sex only after marriage, to be concerned about the failure rates of condoms and other forms of birth control to dress modestly, and to know about the basics of fetal development.
Aren’t those the things we want our children to learn?
Meanwhile, a June 2005 study by the US Department of Health and Human Services reveals that abstinence education works.
According to the interim report, teens who participated in abstinence programs had an increased awareness of the potential consequences of sexual activity before marriage, thought more highly of abstinent behaviors, and less favorable opinions about sexual activity before marriage than did students who were not in abstinence programs.
“Students who are in these [abstinence education] programs are recognizing that abstinence is a positive choice,” HHS Assistant Secretary Michael O’Grady said.
That word ‘choice’ keeps coming back to bite the movement that operates under its guise. If it really is all about choice, why are they so afraid of giving one?
