Funk Babblings

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.

(First I must note that despite the date stamp, this is not a joke. It's just an unfortunate coincidence that the announcements I've been awaiting for weeks arrived on this date. Or maybe both nicosomething and Ryan are playing a trick on me.)

In the past couple weeks there have been THREE new babies among my friends. All were late.

Very early on March 21, Ryan & Kaci had Rory, who was due March 17. (Since I hadn't talked to them in a while, I didn't even know Kaci was pregnant until a month ago.)

On March 24, Nikki & Dave had Isabelle, who was due on March 21. (I somehow managed not to see Nikki at all through the first eight months of her pregnancy.)

And finally, yesterday on March 31 nicosomething & Judith had Kate, who was due on March 23. (Actually I'm not sure when I last saw them or found out Judith was pregnant, though maybe nontacitare remembers.)

Congratulations to all!

Here's an antidote for all the scary shit happening these days......

"Your letter, DB, illustrates why there will never be a "Make a Wish Foundation" for adults."