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Ohio No-Sex Ed and a 13% pregnancy rate at local high school
In the wake of an ongoing conversation about the quality (or lack thereof) of education in various nearby school districts (particularly the abysmal reputation of the Canton city school district) came the news that 65 out of 490 girls are pregnant at one of the Canton city school district's two high schools. (Sorry, now I can't find the story in the newspaper.)
"The article reported that some would say that movies, TV, videogames, lazy parents and lax discipline may all be to blame," says the TV station re-reporting from the newspaper. No word on the mechanism involved in videogames et al getting girls pregnant.
All this caught the attention of Pandagon, who did some quick searching and discovered that Ohio Law basically requires that any sex education be of the abstinence-only-until-marriage type. Did you other Ohioans know this? I certainly didn't.
However, as far as I can tell that law is only about two years old, so I'm not sure how much of the blame it can take for Timken High's baby boom.
Update: Jeff found some more background on the Canton abstinence program.
"The article reported that some would say that movies, TV, videogames, lazy parents and lax discipline may all be to blame," says the TV station re-reporting from the newspaper. No word on the mechanism involved in videogames et al getting girls pregnant.
All this caught the attention of Pandagon, who did some quick searching and discovered that Ohio Law basically requires that any sex education be of the abstinence-only-until-marriage type. Did you other Ohioans know this? I certainly didn't.
However, as far as I can tell that law is only about two years old, so I'm not sure how much of the blame it can take for Timken High's baby boom.
Update: Jeff found some more background on the Canton abstinence program.