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Happy Monkey

08-25-2005 06:15 PM

Abstinence-Only Education at Work

Quote:

Originally Posted by cantonrep.com

Sixty-five — again, 65 — of Timken High School’s 490 girl students are pregnant.
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Whose fault is it that more than 13 percent of Timken’s girls are with child? Some would say fault-finding isn’t a fruitful exercise, but in this case, it’s critical. Suspects range from movies, TV and video games to lazy parents and lax discipline. Only one thing is sure: Schools don’t impregnate children.

How about abstinence-only education? See this pdf, bottom of page 12 (14 of 17 in the pdf), under Canton City in Stark County. via

wolf	08-26-2005 01:25 AM

According to what's written there, if less than 25% of the students became pregnant, the program is meeting it's target ... they only have an expectation of reaching 75% of the student population. (even if you take into account both the mothers and fathers of the bastard children, you still probably come up under the 25% rate, since some of the males may have fathered more than one child, and not all of the providers of sperm will be Timkin High students.)

*sigh*

I remember when it was a big scandal for ONE girl in the class to get knocked up.

Happy Monkey

08-26-2005 07:02 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by wolf

According to what's written there, if less than 25% of the students became pregnant, the program is meeting it's target ... they only have an expectation of reaching 75% of the student population.

Heh. I guess that works.

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